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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 17h

If I ever sat down one morning and wrote "some great Shakespearean scene / where a ghost and a prince meet / and everyone ends in mincemeat," I'd like to think I'd take the rest of the day off.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 17h

Damn it, just successfully wired a wireless printer in less than 15 minutes. Missed out on the Nobel Prize for Physics by 8 hours. Early prediction for next year.

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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 23h

My October review roundup early in the month. With added @j-tkelly.bsky.social @henryghenrik.bsky.social @unionherald.bsky.social

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Recent reading October 2025: A Review

Shady Library, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781300052364, £4.64 The Gate, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781257941216, £4.65 some presence, Charlie Ulyatt, self-published via Bandcamp, 2025, £3 More of How…

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 20h

Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents a generative Poetry Workshop.

Facilitated by David McLoghlin.

🕰️ Saturday 18th October
🗓️ 10.30am-12.30pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art, O’Connell Street, Waterford
🎟️Admission: €25

🔗 Book via www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/spe...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 18h

Leonard and Hungry Paul is such a magical book. I am delighted to be a tiny part of this novel becoming a television series.

— Julia Roberts, Leonard and Hungry Paul narrator

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 18h

Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life
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Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life -

The feel-good series stars Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, with Julia Roberts as narrator

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 18h

Kudos.

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 18h

Brilliant news - Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social is safely home after an epic journey.

Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · 1d

My sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Sumud Flotilla. I'm home safe & will be followed by the other Irish people today. I'm just catching up and have much more to share but for now I am so so grateful for everyone's attempts to free us. Remember that Gaza is the story not us.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

U2 company records €1.4m loss, accounts reveal www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

U2 company records €1.4m loss, accounts reveal

Band’s musical equipment, once valued at €266,000, now on books as worth €2,100

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d

What a fantastic pleasure to speak at the wonderful Iron Mountain Literature Festival in Carrick on Shannon on Saturday.

Leitrim is the Irish county most heavily blighted by deadzone sitka plantations, so much of the discussion centred on the total contrast with an actual native forest *ecosystem*.

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 6d

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 1d

We are thrilled to share that Vona Groarke has been shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize 2025 with her 2025 collection Infinity Pool.

Congratulations Vona and very best of luck ahead of the final award ceremony. 🎉

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah Clancy- currently on her way back to Ireland!

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 1d

We are supporting and standing with Sarah Clancy and all those who advocate for human rights in Palestine.✊

Listen to Sarah here reading her poem ‘Cherishing for Beginners’ from the Brinkerhoff poetry film series.

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Sarah Clancy - "Cherishing for Beginners"

YouTube video by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation

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Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry to hear about the death of Dame Jilly Cooper who was an absolute legend and brilliant writer #RIP

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

Well said. All the best to Louisa and everyone at the mighty @booksupstairs.bsky.social

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · 1d

Best wishes to @booksupstairs.bsky.social, staff and customers. Glad to hear that this isn't as bad as it might have been. Sincerely hope that it's just a stupid attack, rather than a stupid and sinister one.

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

www.rte.ie

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

I remember hearing Paul Heaton being interviewed one time, and he said he would like The Housemartins to be like The Platters or The Coasters where the band name stayed the same but the line-up of singers kept changing so they could go on and on.

Donald Teplyske- Fervor Coulee: Roots Music Opinion [he/him] @fervorcoulee.bsky.social · 2d

The Housemartins, #ArtistFave15
#10 "Coal Train to Hatfield Main"
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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 1d

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is now open for entries in both categories:
The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines
The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines
Deadline 31 January 2026
This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social
Good luck!
magmapoetry.com/competition/

Magma Poetry Competition - Magma Poetry

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is now open for entries in both categories The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines De...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy!

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1d

In the immortal words of Stephen Sondheim:

Tonight, tonight!

A Copy Editor’s Guide: Four Lessons on the Art, Craft, and Refinement of Prose, with Benjamin Dreyer - StoryStudio Chicago

Benjamin Dreyer, retired copy chief of Random House and the author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer’s English, will unpack his capacious bag of tricks, previously secret advice, and all-round b...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Via Sarah Clancy's partner Anne Mulhall:

"Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow.
Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Irish citizens released from detention at Israeli prison www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Irish citizens released from detention at Israeli prison

All Irish citizens who were detained last week after the flotilla they were on was intercepted by Israeli forces have been released and are on their way home to Ireland, the Department of Foreign Affa...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew O’Hagan:

I am really excited by Namanlagh, the first poetry collection in 10 years from the great Tom Paulin. A tone-perfect meditation on illness and recovery, partnership and writing, violence and historical neglect, it is an absolute cracker.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Forget the Brontë sisters, they could never match Jilly Cooper for glamorous escapism, and sex

Rosita Boland: At the heart of Cooper’s books lay an ineffable warmth and kindness, written with such joy, I could not stop laughing as I read

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