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“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
The Crime of Witness | Fintan O’Toole
Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
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January 31, 2026 at 3:14 PM
“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
Loving this second-hand bookshop find, 'Ireland of the Proverb' by Liam Mac Con Iomaire, photos by Bill Doyle.
January 22, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Loving this second-hand bookshop find, 'Ireland of the Proverb' by Liam Mac Con Iomaire, photos by Bill Doyle.
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Who is that stunning lass
Set across liminal landscapes, Four Night Seas is a collection of stories from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe. The collection is due to be released on March 19th and is available for preorder now at lilliputpress.ie!
January 19, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Who is that stunning lass
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Somewhere by Jessamine O’Connor is available for pre-order now!
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January 20, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Somewhere by Jessamine O’Connor is available for pre-order now!
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The action we need in the White House
January 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The action we need in the White House
I shed a tear at the end of this one, something I wasn't sure I was capable of anymore. Yes, it's ok to live in memoryland, to bask in the joy of moments long past. And to now live the dreams you shared then.
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I shed a tear at the end of this one, something I wasn't sure I was capable of anymore. Yes, it's ok to live in memoryland, to bask in the joy of moments long past. And to now live the dreams you shared then.
Read this in one day - could not put it down. I try, on and off, to write about a sociopath I encountered, who, like Oliver, grew up in institutions. It's not easy to inspire a smidge of empathy for a killer, but @liznugent.bsky.social pulls it off beautifully here.
December 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Read this in one day - could not put it down. I try, on and off, to write about a sociopath I encountered, who, like Oliver, grew up in institutions. It's not easy to inspire a smidge of empathy for a killer, but @liznugent.bsky.social pulls it off beautifully here.
Bushby said he has learned a lot over the past nearly three decades, but one thing stands out: “99.99 percent of the people I’ve met have been the very best in humanity,” he said. “The world is a much kinder, nicer place than it often seems.”
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He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over.
Karl Bushby is expected to finish his globe-walking expedition by September 2026.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Bushby said he has learned a lot over the past nearly three decades, but one thing stands out: “99.99 percent of the people I’ve met have been the very best in humanity,” he said. “The world is a much kinder, nicer place than it often seems.”
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Mentally ill husband plans family murder-suicide, partly succeeding. A journey through love, searing loss, and beyond. Compassionate and completely absorbing.
@cmgleeson.bsky.social your Irish Book Award is richly deserved!
@cmgleeson.bsky.social your Irish Book Award is richly deserved!
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Mentally ill husband plans family murder-suicide, partly succeeding. A journey through love, searing loss, and beyond. Compassionate and completely absorbing.
@cmgleeson.bsky.social your Irish Book Award is richly deserved!
@cmgleeson.bsky.social your Irish Book Award is richly deserved!
So the Hamptons and NYC night scene haven't changed in 40 years. Great read, TY Rob Franklin.
This, along with much else, struck a chord:
'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'
This, along with much else, struck a chord:
'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So the Hamptons and NYC night scene haven't changed in 40 years. Great read, TY Rob Franklin.
This, along with much else, struck a chord:
'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'
This, along with much else, struck a chord:
'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'
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BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended
DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’
BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended
DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’
Dylan Moran: ‘You are coming to me, Barry, asking me for a chronology of my emotional history? Is that what you really want?’
Do people have a skewed idea of who Dylan Moran actually is?
www.independent.ie
October 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended
DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’
BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended
DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’
Thank you @jackielynam.bsky.social for your excellent chat with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and Donal Ryan at Write By The Sea today. The perfect light but firm, well-informed touch!
September 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Thank you @jackielynam.bsky.social for your excellent chat with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and Donal Ryan at Write By The Sea today. The perfect light but firm, well-informed touch!
The power of the novel... I'd read/heard plenty about Ireland's 'mother and baby home' genocides, but it took this book for me to really feel the enormity of it.
'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'
My aunt's child lived.
'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'
My aunt's child lived.
September 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The power of the novel... I'd read/heard plenty about Ireland's 'mother and baby home' genocides, but it took this book for me to really feel the enormity of it.
'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'
My aunt's child lived.
'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'
My aunt's child lived.
'We had more children ... so as not to have to spend so much time together. Had we liked each other less we'd have had four, five. There's nothing like love's dilution to keep things in proportion.'
September 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
'We had more children ... so as not to have to spend so much time together. Had we liked each other less we'd have had four, five. There's nothing like love's dilution to keep things in proportion.'
I couldn't put this down... I first heard about American nurses in the Vietnam War from a really sweet lady (a volunteer at my local library) who served there. In awe that she lived through such horror and somehow regained her lovely disposition in the years since.
September 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I couldn't put this down... I first heard about American nurses in the Vietnam War from a really sweet lady (a volunteer at my local library) who served there. In awe that she lived through such horror and somehow regained her lovely disposition in the years since.
I feel like I know this pub...
'Brendan drank in McCrink's every night where the clientele were already dead to themselves, their elegies long written in the heartbreak of their wives and children and their own brokenness.'
'Brendan drank in McCrink's every night where the clientele were already dead to themselves, their elegies long written in the heartbreak of their wives and children and their own brokenness.'
August 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I feel like I know this pub...
'Brendan drank in McCrink's every night where the clientele were already dead to themselves, their elegies long written in the heartbreak of their wives and children and their own brokenness.'
'Brendan drank in McCrink's every night where the clientele were already dead to themselves, their elegies long written in the heartbreak of their wives and children and their own brokenness.'
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Drone by Solmaz Sharif
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Drone by Solmaz Sharif
Drone : somewhere I did not learn mow down or mop up : somewhere I wouldn’t hear your father must come...
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August 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Drone by Solmaz Sharif
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I had a theory on who Liadan might be... less certain after reading this, they come across as much more polite than the writer I had in mind. Great stories, the gut-wrenching devastation, quietly told, stays with you.
If you're looking for some Sunday reading . . .
“What has happened in the past is still playing out now.”
New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
August 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I had a theory on who Liadan might be... less certain after reading this, they come across as much more polite than the writer I had in mind. Great stories, the gut-wrenching devastation, quietly told, stays with you.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
Unquestionably the most useful book for writers I’ve read in a long time.
Unquestionably the most useful book for writers I’ve read in a long time.
July 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
Unquestionably the most useful book for writers I’ve read in a long time.
Unquestionably the most useful book for writers I’ve read in a long time.
Taking a little break from Wimbledon
July 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Taking a little break from Wimbledon
But no session moths spotted??
July 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
But no session moths spotted??
'He took off his hat and hung it on a peg in her entrance-hall which was the shape and size of a small kitchen table, and from the ceiling of which hung a crystal chandelier.'
May 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
'He took off his hat and hung it on a peg in her entrance-hall which was the shape and size of a small kitchen table, and from the ceiling of which hung a crystal chandelier.'
Pulled this off my shelf a couple of nights ago. Lovely, sweet stories, set in Cumbria's becks and fells, perfect antidote to the daily news. Thank you Jane Gardam, may you rest in peace.
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Pulled this off my shelf a couple of nights ago. Lovely, sweet stories, set in Cumbria's becks and fells, perfect antidote to the daily news. Thank you Jane Gardam, may you rest in peace.