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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 5h

Update: two book sales in eighteen days. "The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few."

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

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Carole (Ducky) (IrPsych) @caroleducky.bsky.social · 6h

Bloody hell! It turns out that Jim Gavin’s former tenant is the Deputy Editor of the Sunday World.

To run as a candidate in a presidential election when you have a long outstanding debt owing to a journalist, is beyond stupid.

🤦🏻‍♀️

#Áras2025 #SpeirGorm

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 6h

A Japanese film based on stories written by an Irish-Greek man based on Japanese folktales, with music by Japanese and Irish artists. www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

Kwaidan, with Live Musical Score - presented by Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival | National Concert Hall

The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.

www.nch.ie

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 6h

And if you are a mature student you will be told to take a leap.

Edna Dowling @libertiesbelle.bsky.social · 11h

#SpéirGorm
“Please note that all 2025 Student Leap cards will expire on Tuesday 21 October 2025.
There is a new process for applying for a Student Leap card and you can no longer apply online and collect your student leap card on the same day”
www.dublinbus.ie/news/student...

Dublin Bus - Student Leap Card Update

www.dublinbus.ie

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 6h

It's so ridiculous that we have to do this!

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 11h

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 15h

Deir mo iníon: Cool!

Thérèse McIntyre (She/Her) @cailinrua1.bsky.social · 1d

Something to distract from the craziness…the Kabin Krew (of ‘The Spark’ fame) are back with an t-amhrán Gaeilge…bualadh bos mor!!! #SpeirGorm

youtu.be/whwQfPVOFjI

Meas Mór – Kabin Crew x Tinderbox

YouTube video by The Kabin Studio

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Jun 1

Someone just asked me about getting started as a literary translator and I realized I already have kind of a starter pack of content to help emerging translators.

First, how to get rights to a book you want to translate:

TikTok: vt.tiktok.com/ZSkN9B67w/

Reel: www.instagram.com/reel/CtYkiwh...

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 1d

The handwritten draft of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” on a San Pellegrino napkin. @slowberlin.bsky.social

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 1d

She was also hilarious. I wrote about her, and I promise it will make your day better if you take a minute to learn how driving a bus led to decades of activism and charity.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/we-needed-...

"We needed to do SOMETHING"

in memoriam, Lori Cannon

rebeccamakkai.substack.com

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 1d

I've sat eaten a sanger in TCD with it hidden under my bag and then taking little nibbles before hiding again. It wasn't this bad when we were younger, right?

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 1d

Brought the kiddo plus cousins to the food market in Merrion Square this summer and we sat huddled, protecting each other from the swooping seagulls, as we ate. An unlucky lady near us lost her lunch.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 1d

For defying the laws of everything...

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 2d

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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 2d

New OA book Narratives of Resilience edited by the wonderful @kateelizrigby.bsky.social & Evi Zemanek & with lots of cool contributions. My chapter "Doggerland Rising: Oil, Literature, and Resilience" is in & has maps! #EnvHum #Petroculture #Ecocriticism link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Narratives of Resilience / Narrative der Resilienz

This open access anthology examines how resilience narratives in literature and media contribute to cultural identity construction.

link.springer.com

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 1d

This is it!

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 2d

Hi friends. I'm writing an article about renting in Ireland! So please reply or DM with any renting stories you think would be interesting or reflective of modern life in Ireland.

This can be anonymous or not, up to you. And feel free to share this.

Thanks so much!

#journorequest #speirgorm

Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 2d

To mark the departure of Jim Gavin from the presidential election, please feel free to share a bad landlord experience you've had.

#speirgorm
#aras25

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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 2d

Join us this Thursday @booksupstairs.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of What Remains, our latest title in translation.

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 2d

Terrible. It looks like luckily it was caught in time so not too much damage.

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 2d

Such shocking news. A wonderful bookshop.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

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

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

www.irishtimes.com

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 2d

This week: Joe Strummer.

Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 9d

In last week's class I was the only person who had heard of Donald Rumsfeld, this week it was Showaddywaddy (and who had read David Copperfield) ... Life as the only mature student in class.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d

New Gist: Jim Bows Out

“For anyone who has ever had to deal with a landlord who took their cash this is the stuff of legend. You would let the monkey paw get you for it.

“Who needs a soul?“, Faust would have said as he traded for this outcome.”

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-jim...

The Gist: Jim Bows Out

Jim Gavin decided to drop a Sunday night bombshell. This is the Gist.

www.thegist.ie

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