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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 3h

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Why Seamus Heaney remains Ireland's greatest poet

It is little over 12 years since Ireland lost a man considered by many its greatest ever poet

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 4h

Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaney’s work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more – the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence.

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Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: ‘A process of finding echoes and associations’

This book contains Heaney’s unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published

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R.J. Breathnach @rjbreathnach.bsky.social · 3h

Thrilled to say that my poem “Who?” and my prose poem “A Letter to Forgotten Irish Miners” have both been published in this incredible issue! #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

RABBLE REVIEW (RR No.9 is Available Now!) @rabblereview.bsky.social · 4h

RABBLE REVIEW No.9 is NOW AVAILABLE! Thank you to our fantastic contributors, and thank you reader for reading! Enjoy and please let us know which works resonate with you the most.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 4h

My bed broke the week of my college graduation last year, have been sleeping on the other side and propping broken side with old encyclopaedias. It’s a beautiful wooden sleigh bed I bought with my first ever pay check. I need to get it repaired. But will have to buy a new bed in mean time. Could cry

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Haneen🍉 @habjjfjiu588.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian publishes me and my meaning on Blue Sky. Take a look, donate and support me.

Donation link 👇🏻👇🏻

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Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam

People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 5h

Thank you!

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 5h

Oh thank you!!! That’s so kind!

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Jean-Charles Geslot @jcgeslot.bsky.social · 16h

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monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 15h

laszlo krazsnahorkai w/ hari kunzru in the yale review

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 15h

This 👇

Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 15h

Almost midnight in Kyiv.
Calm.
We have power, water.
Drops of rain gently sing a lullaby
to those who didn’t sleep last night.

Please, don’t take for granted
the quiet treasures you have –
power, water, windows, a roof.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 15h

Congratulations!!! Was just reading the sample poems and 🤯✨⚡️

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 15h

DEAR GOD

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 15h

Please help this volunteer nurse if you can.

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 18h

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It's here at last, after 3 years (or 15, depending on how you're counting). Profound gratitude to all at Veer2, especially Rob Kiely, to Leda Scully for the cover artwork, and profoundest thanks of all to Harry Gilonis, my indefatigably scholarly and gentlemanly co-author

Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis - Book of Inversions — Veer2.org

Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis - Book of Inversions Veer2 Publication 050 [ISBN:...

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 15h

There may be a ceasefire but families in Gaza have lost almost everything and are having to rebuild. Mahmoud has a new baby arriving soon too ❤️

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mahmoud. Mahmoud was a computer engineer doing web development before this. He’s lost his job and home (and many coworkers) and is in a tent with his family including his children Zeina, 6 and Zane, 2. His wife Malak is 7 months pregnant.

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 2d

Patagonia truly is wilderness untamed. It is not just the awe inspiring mountains, but also the stormy, dramatic and rapidly changing weather which make it so very special!⁠

#bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature #mountains #sunset

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 15h

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Ryan Ruby, Post-American Blues — Sidecar

On Thomas Pynchon.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d

got beef?

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 16h

You can watch the entire panel on our YouTube channel!

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Irish Women Writers

YouTube video by Irish Studies at Boston College

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 1d

A discussion on Irish women writers, why to study Irish women writers, & how writing about Irish women writers changes the literary field!

Thanks to Paige Reynolds, Claire Bracken, & Kate Costello-Sullivan for joining Marjoire Howes for a fantastic evening at BC!

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 16h

magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/deep...

Deep Vellum partnership creates new literary translations - Arts & Sciences Magazine

Photo by Will Kirk In the 2019 novel Schattenfroh, as narrator Nobody contemplates history, philosophy, religion, and art, his thoughts are forcibly

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 16h

*every day now I am at college

The typos always get me

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 16h

I talk a lot about how older generations, especially women, never got a chance at university education and it’s something I think about really every now I am at college - I am studying a course in a dream place that my mother would have given her soul for!! I love sharing what I am learning with her

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 16h

Literally also her dream course! but I also can’t stop thinking about how the time she had her children, she had lost both her parents &was living far away from all her family and had nobody to support her through her pregnancies and our childhoods.The loneliness,isolation must have been unbearable

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 16h

I talk a lot about how older generations, especially women, never got a chance at university education and it’s something I think about really every now I am at college - I am studying a course in a dream place that my mother would have given her soul for!! I love sharing what I am learning with her

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 16h

Thank you so much!!!

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 16h

I talk a lot about how older generations, especially women, never got a chance at university education and it’s something I think about really every now I am at college - I am studying a course in a dream place that my mother would have given her soul for!! I love sharing what I am learning with her

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