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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 17h

Excellent #BookPost from @theobrienpress.bsky.social today! Wonderful to revisit the world of Tom McCaughren with @erikamcgann.bsky.social and @shannonbergin.bsky.social, and it's a heartwarming tale of Flossie McFluff with Eoin O'Brien and Audrey Dowling. Out next week! #IrishKidsBooks

Cover of Run Home Little Fox by Tom McCaughren and Erika McGann, illustrated by Shannon Bergin. An illustrated baby fox runs through lush woodland.

Front cover of Flossie McFluff Saves Christmas, by Eoin O'Brien and Audrey Dowling. Fairy character appears inside a green wreath on a jolly red background.

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Children's Books Ireland @childrensbooksireland.ie · 3d

What a way to start the week!

Our CEO Elaina Ryan visited the Ireland AM studio this morning with a selection of brilliant children's books as featured in our latest reading guide The Best Irish Books of 2025 📚

Check out the books & watch the show back:
childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...

Three people (two men and a woman) sit around a table on set in the Ireland AM studio. They are sitting around a display of six children's books. They are all looking at the camera and smiling.

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 3d

Huge thanks to Easons of Gorey and Rathmines, as well as @dubraybooks.bsky.social Galway, for keeping Ellora McGee on your shelves and tables! It always lifts the heart to see such support for a new book. And thanks to shops everywhere for stocking our brave little Banshee!

@unawoods.bsky.social

Piles of books on a bookshop table, including Ellora McGee Trainee Banshee

A display of books on a bookshop wall, featuring Ellora McGee Trainee Banshee on the top shelf

Me, a fat, white woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing purple glasses, a blue coat, dark jeans, purple boots, a flower-patterned blouse and a black-and-white keffiyeh, holding two copies of my book Ellora McGee Trainee Banshee. Books on shelves are either side of me. Behind me is a wall painted blue with the light green letters of the word Dubray fixed on it. This photo was taken in Dubray Books in Galway.

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Professor Karen Sands-O’Connor @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social · 5d

shows.acast.com/storyshaped
Excited to see that the Storyshaped episode with @darrenchetty.bsky.social is available for everyone to hear now!

Storyshaped

A podcast about the power of stories to shape lives and change the world.

shows.acast.com

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 6d

The situation has caused serious traffic congestion in the surrounding area and the city centre.
http://jrnl.ie/6833557

Dublin's Port Tunnel closed due to pro-Palestine protest

The situation has caused serious traffic congestion in the surrounding area and the city centre.

jrnl.ie

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 11d

What book have you bought the most copies of in your life? I buy The Phantom Tollbooth by the case to give to children. I’ve done this for over 20 years.

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 14d

“At the start of the war in #Gaza, I visited a school in Rafah, hosting thousands of displaced people.

I am still haunted by the eyes of a little girl pleading for a piece of bread and a sip of water.”

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini’s remarks: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 13d

“Dima, my darling…” — A heartbreaking farewell from Gaza City, where a young man lost his children, his wife, and his mother in the Israeli genocide.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you so much for including Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School here, Pet! 📚

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Pet O'Connell @petoconnell.bsky.social · 13d

Irish Examiner children's book reviews: Magical urchins, a fearful fur ball, and a pubescent trainee banshee: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
@puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @sineadohart.bsky.social @unawoods.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 15d

More bookish goodness! The super-sweet Puffling and the Stormy Sea by @erikamcgann.bsky.social and @gerrydalyart.bsky.social; games and mystery are afoot in Blowing the Whistle by Gerard Siggins, and it's creepytimes at sea with Amy Clerkin and Where the Shadows Hide. #OBrienPress

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🎃Tamara what goes bump in the night deeay🎃 @moiness.bsky.social · 16d

Oi. BBC. Many experts are not skeptical. It is utter bullshit and you should call it out as such. This is the MMR bollocks x 1 million

BBC News App headline
Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical

22 Sep 2025, 12:33

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 19d

Can you help Soad today? Everything is so hard in Gaza right now, she's constantly on the move. She needs money for meds and food and survival in general.

@mommunism.bsky.social

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 19d

Decided not to stay open late for Culture Night cause we had no customers and no sales all afternoon. ACK

But hopefully tonight everyone will get so cultured up that tomorrow they’ll be running into the closest bookshop!

Back open 10:30-4 on Saturday and all night long at
littledeercomics.ie

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Finn Longman @finnlongman.com · 19d

I'm in the Bookseller being interviewed about disability and werewolves! ⤵️

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 19d

Being loved in your worst moments is something I write about a lot, says @finnlongman.com on their first foray into adult fantasy with The Wolf and His King ( @gollancz.bsky.social ) 👇 #BookSky

Finn Longman's adult fantasy debut is a story of love, yearning and grief

ebx.sh

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 19d

Me and @unawrites.bsky.social off on our signing tour of Dublin! Bookshops beware - we're coming at ya! 📚📚📚 #ElloraMcGeeTraineeBanshee

Thanks to Eason's and @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social for the warm welcome... Off to @gutterbookshop.bsky.social next!

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 20d

Massively grateful to @elainaryan.bsky.social, @childrensbooksireland.ie and @irishtimes.com for including Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School (by me and @unawoods.bsky.social) on this Best New Children's Books roundup!

#GillBooks

Screenshot of text from a newspaper article. Part of the text is highlighted in blue with two large dark blue arrows, hand-drawn, pointing to it. The text is: 'Fans of the Mirabelle and Emerald series will love Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School, by Sinéad O'Hart and Úna Woods.'

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H S Norup @hsnorup.bsky.social · 20d

Huge thanks to @sineadohart.bsky.social @evemcdonnell.bsky.social and @nicolapenfold.bsky.social for these AMAZING quotes for THE CHANGELING CHILD.
I love this graphic by @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social , featuring the despicable & deceitful pixies: Little Mother and Little Father.
💚🧚💙
#ukkidlit

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 21d

We've got a new Storyshaped podcast episode for you - and it's a banger! We recorded this chat with @kieranlarwood.bsky.social at @ilfdublin.bsky.social earlier this year, and now you can check it out wherever you get your podcasts! @susancahill.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/68Fz...

Getting Storyshaped with Kieran Larwood

open.spotify.com

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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 21d

Support to civil society in Israel must also stop, with tighter economic (#OTB bill, looking at you Irish government!) and cultural sanctions (no Israel at the #Eurovision, looking at you @ebu.ch).

Sanctions should also relate to the illegally occupied Palestinian Territories and the West Bank

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 21d

Today we are presenting our proposals to the Council to suspend trade concessions with Israel and to place sanctions on extremist ministers of the Israeli government and on violent settlers.

The horrific events taking place in Gaza on a daily basis must stop.

Press release: link.europa.eu/nx3DrG

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 21d

The Overton Window has moved so far to the right it has fallen off the house.

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Ben Cohen @yobencohen.bsky.social · 21d

After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben & Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by @magnumicecreamco.bsky.social #FreeBenAndJerrys

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 22d

Grateful to @dubraybooks.bsky.social Mary Street, Easons of Dun Laoghaire and Easons in Navan for these displays of Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School. Gorgeous to see my (and @unawoods.bsky.social's) little banshee out and about, rocking her hair (and vocals!) Grab your copy today!

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you! The gorgeousness is all down to @unawoods.bsky.social's artwork. And this little Banshee is a total cutie!

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