crredwards
@crredwards.bsky.social
Almost absolutely reliable. In Ireland since 2017. Parent to LGBTQ+. Writer of history, studier of literature, creator of cosy magical realism. Just a whole mess.
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@crredwards.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I want to share with you the single funniest thing I have ever read in my life. I first read this around 1993 in a copy of the Oxford Book of Humorous Prose that I picked up in a bookshop in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Dublin lights under a sky out of an 18th century gothic novel
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Dublin lights under a sky out of an 18th century gothic novel
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“You will have your own view on the state of Irish food and the spice bag’s place within it, the state of it. Far be it for me to yuck anybody’s yum, I’m just not wholly convinced it’s definitively Irish, a state of being I concede is slippery at the best of times” open.substack.com/pub/omos/p/o...
Ómós Digest #204: A Reflection on Spice Bags.
Made from my daughter’s leftovers. By Gerry Godley.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“You will have your own view on the state of Irish food and the spice bag’s place within it, the state of it. Far be it for me to yuck anybody’s yum, I’m just not wholly convinced it’s definitively Irish, a state of being I concede is slippery at the best of times” open.substack.com/pub/omos/p/o...
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Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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📢Out now on #firstview!
Daithí Ó Corráin (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) on 'The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion'
#Compensation #Civilian #Casualties #Injury 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Daithí Ó Corráin (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) on 'The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion'
#Compensation #Civilian #Casualties #Injury 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📢Out now on #firstview!
Daithí Ó Corráin (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) on 'The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion'
#Compensation #Civilian #Casualties #Injury 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Daithí Ó Corráin (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) on 'The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion'
#Compensation #Civilian #Casualties #Injury 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Yes, let's cannibalise the energy of our youth during their prime learning years to give cover to poor political management of a well-predicted crisis.
"Anything is worth a try." Most things should die at the idea board.
"Anything is worth a try." Most things should die at the idea board.
‘All school leavers should be required to work in the building industry for a period after Leaving Cert’
‘All school leavers should be required to work in the building industry for a period after Leaving Cert’
In a housing crisis, anything is worth a try
www.irishtimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yes, let's cannibalise the energy of our youth during their prime learning years to give cover to poor political management of a well-predicted crisis.
"Anything is worth a try." Most things should die at the idea board.
"Anything is worth a try." Most things should die at the idea board.
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🇮🇪🏴🦌 🎄 ❄️ Irish language TV channel @TG4 @Cula4_TG4 has co-produced a new animated Christmas film in collaboration with @BBCNI and Welsh language station @S4C in a first-of-its-kind collaboration.
https://bit.ly/48nft5y
https://bit.ly/48nft5y
First ever multilingual animated Christmas film to be aired in Irish and Welsh
Irish language TV channel TG4 has co-produced a new animated Christmas film in collaboration with BBC Northern Ireland and Welsh language station S4C in a first-of-its-kind collaboration.
www.independent.ie
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🇮🇪🏴🦌 🎄 ❄️ Irish language TV channel @TG4 @Cula4_TG4 has co-produced a new animated Christmas film in collaboration with @BBCNI and Welsh language station @S4C in a first-of-its-kind collaboration.
https://bit.ly/48nft5y
https://bit.ly/48nft5y
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I haven't seen a post like this going around yet, so I'll make it myself! EU-based artists, tell us what you sell and drop a link to your shop in the replies ❤️
Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟
#shopsmall
Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟
#shopsmall
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I haven't seen a post like this going around yet, so I'll make it myself! EU-based artists, tell us what you sell and drop a link to your shop in the replies ❤️
Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟
#shopsmall
Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟
#shopsmall
Oh my gosh, there's the baby owlbear!
Hi! I’m Kaddi and I sell cute animal and fantasy inspired art 🧡 in my shop you find sticker sheets (my biggest passion), stickers, wooden pins, postcards and more! 🌱
exozetart.etsy.com
exozetart.etsy.com
exozetart.etsy.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Oh my gosh, there's the baby owlbear!
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Every summer, a lady of a certain age would arrive in Paris and stay in the hotel right across the street from my bookshop. Once she settled in, she'd fling open her windows and call out my name punctuated by a YOO HOO! I'd go to my front step, wave, and welcome her to town.
Check out the trailer for Nathan Silver’s touching short documentary CAROL & JOY. Coming to Criterion Channel on 12/1!
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Every summer, a lady of a certain age would arrive in Paris and stay in the hotel right across the street from my bookshop. Once she settled in, she'd fling open her windows and call out my name punctuated by a YOO HOO! I'd go to my front step, wave, and welcome her to town.
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This Wexford bookshop has captured the true spirit of Christmas!
Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This Wexford bookshop has captured the true spirit of Christmas!
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Marinades are great! I’m tired of doing all the work of cooking. You ingredients just sit together and think about how you ought to taste
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Marinades are great! I’m tired of doing all the work of cooking. You ingredients just sit together and think about how you ought to taste
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Has something happened that I am seeing lots of Twitter screenshots on Bluesky lately?
You're not supposed to use the bucket to pour water *into* the lifeboat.
You're not supposed to use the bucket to pour water *into* the lifeboat.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Has something happened that I am seeing lots of Twitter screenshots on Bluesky lately?
You're not supposed to use the bucket to pour water *into* the lifeboat.
You're not supposed to use the bucket to pour water *into* the lifeboat.
Hey. Wanna feel old?
Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hey. Wanna feel old?
I'll add academics, writers, and anyone else who relies on their local files. I've had laptops self-destruct the evening before leaving on an international flight for fieldwork in a low-tech area. A quick laptop purchase, then my backed-up files on thumb drives (expensive at the time) saved me.
Unsolicited artist advice of the day: if you're a freelancer with no back up devices or storage, remember to pick a few things up in the black Friday sales. Even a pen drive to back up your projects so if you have a catastrophic hard drive failure you wont lose everything..learn from my mistakes. 😅
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'll add academics, writers, and anyone else who relies on their local files. I've had laptops self-destruct the evening before leaving on an international flight for fieldwork in a low-tech area. A quick laptop purchase, then my backed-up files on thumb drives (expensive at the time) saved me.
oh, is there another protest scheduled?
Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
oh, is there another protest scheduled?
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Let me (again) put this in the simplest possible terms:
If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.
I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.
If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.
I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let me (again) put this in the simplest possible terms:
If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.
I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.
If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.
I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.
Ugh, it's twilight out there at 4:21 p.m., and I am not okay any longer.
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ugh, it's twilight out there at 4:21 p.m., and I am not okay any longer.
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The @nlireland.bsky.social is inviting people to step back into the #kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old #winter #recipes for food lovers and amateur cooks to recreate at home: www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Recreate 18th and 19th-century warming winter recipes at home
The National Library of Ireland (NLI ) is inviting people to step back into the kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old winter recipes for food l...
www.advertiser.ie
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The @nlireland.bsky.social is inviting people to step back into the #kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old #winter #recipes for food lovers and amateur cooks to recreate at home: www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
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One of the coolest days in NPR-land is here! Books We Love, the gigantic compendium of bite-size book reviews publishes today. Under staff picks, you'll see my take on books about Desi Arnaz and Lorne Michaels. But there's much more to love here. READ: https://loom.ly/DqKKH90
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
One of the coolest days in NPR-land is here! Books We Love, the gigantic compendium of bite-size book reviews publishes today. Under staff picks, you'll see my take on books about Desi Arnaz and Lorne Michaels. But there's much more to love here. READ: https://loom.ly/DqKKH90
