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Róisín Ní Neachtain

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Artist, poet, editor 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💖🎨 https://www.roisinnineachtain.com/books I,bird - Broken Sleep Books 31/12/25 Poetry/Nature/Literature studies & Art

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 7d

This is excellent

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The Monad Unchained - DRB

The collapse of liberalism in the age of Trump and Netanyahu

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 10h

Went into Hodges Figges to ask about the new Seamus Heaney and they told me they wouldn’t have it in tomorrow and that it could be D-A-Y-S before they had it in stock.

Which felt apocalyptic.

Hoping Books Upstairs will have it.

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 19h

It has been wonderful to see this image of Seamus Heaney in his study circulating ahead of the launch of his new collection.

The books seen here are some of the many which will be housed in our new Seamus Heaney Poetry Library at No. 11 Parnell Square.

We can’t wait to share them with you all.📖

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 10h

Lovely to see a stack of my books on home turf in Ballymena library @librariesni.bsky.social

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 17d

Meet the Issue V Stormers

Mo Schoenfeld’s work appears in Irisi Magazine, Fevers of the Mind, Wombwell Rainbow, Haiku Crush’s Best Haiku 2021-2024, Sidhé Press’s Our Own Coordinates: Poems & A Thousand Shades of Green podcast

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 20h

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 13h

& in the small, rusting, rowan a spider spparently in open sky, a web so fine nothing can see it - work of balanced tension, infrastructure of autumn

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Blackstaff Press @blackstaffpress.bsky.social · 10h

Join Ruby Free and @seanronayne.bsky.social at this year’s @dublinbookfest.bsky.social to immerse yourself in nature through discussing the stories behind their best-selling books: Nature Boy and #Rathlin, A Wild Life. Tickets have nearly sold out:
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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 10h

For work, I am writing blogs posts on this - it’s so well-written, very easy to read and utterly fascinating

I’ve also started writing a series of poems inspired by the lives of some of the women mentioned in it

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 17h

you are a rare comet

Joseph Beuys, Comet, 1955-56

watercolour of a comet in paled hues of brown and cream

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john dummett @dummypublic.bsky.social · 18h

incognito under a cloud

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

This happened just now.

Pre-orders up!!! Deeply grateful to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and all my teachers at UCD and the kind writers who wrote the blurbs including @gagebybell.bsky.social and @martinadalton.bsky.social and so many others …

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Róisín Ní Neachtain - I, bird | Broken Sleep Books

Róisín Ní Neachtain's I, bird is a fragmented, lyrical reckoning with grief, trauma, and the porous boundary between body and voice. Structured in poetic prose and verse, the collection moves between ...

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 11h

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 12h

Write So! A call-out for disabled writers / writers with disabilities

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Write So! A call-out for disabled writers / writers with disabilities – The Stinging Fly

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 11h

Love your newsletter. It’s full of treasures. Also can’t wait to read the Kluge!!!

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 16h

October 2025

b/w + color newsprint analog collage on white Hahnemühle postcard paper (faceless long straight blonde hair atop a b/w image from a foreign century of people standing before an awning with the words "Anti-Krieg" [anti-war] peering back at us through the empty space three tiny flecks of red)

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 11h

Deep Vellum to publish Mircea Cărtărescu’s THEODOROS in October 2026

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Deep Vellum to publish Mircea Cărtărescu’s THEODOROS in October 2026 — Deep Vellum

Deep Vellum is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Theodoros , which will be published in English translation by Sean Cotter on October 27, 2026 . Originally published ...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 13h

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 11h

This male Snowcap #hummingbird was taking a break to preen a bit yesterday at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #nature #hummingbirds

A small hummingbird with deep magenta and violet plumage is perched on a branch, fluffing its feathers. Its head is turned to the side, showing a bright white forehead and a long, slender bill, set against a soft green background.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 11h

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 14h

Thank you so much Christina!

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 21h

Reading

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised

I was humbled to be invited to sign this letter as a strong ally of the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network and thank all colleagues here for their tireless commitment to peace
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...

Prominent Scottish Jews issue plea over reaction to Manchester attack

As Jews we absolutely reject the weaponisation of the Manchester attack to suppress protests against the genocide in Gaza

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

Also mine

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Current mood

A cartoon depicts a man and a woman walking side by side on a street. The woman wears a stylish dress and holds a purse, while the man is in a suit. The caption reads, "My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

Chaos rollercoaster of life. Mother just out of hospital. Life being upended on horizon.

Will definitely (not tonight though) x thanks! Hope you’re ok!!! would love to hear about book progress