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Frank Wynne
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Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
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Reading the French, it is easy to imagine a punchier opening
The first page of « sueurs froides », previously published as« d’entre les morts ». The novel on which Hitchcock’s film “vertigo” was based.
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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A drawing of a Rickety Tower representing all literary achievements from 2600 BC to the present Day, at the bottom the whole Atticus is propped up by a fragile, single piece marked “Human Translators” "It was to Rabelais that Laurence Sterne was reacting, it was Sterne who set off Diderot, it was from Cervantes that Fielding drew constant inspiration, it was against Fielding that Stendhal measured himself, it was Flaubert's tradition living on in Joyce, it was through his reflection on Joyce that Hermann Broch developed his own poetics of the novel, and it was Kafka who showed García Márquez the possibility of departing from tradition to 'write another way'." -Milan Kundera (tr. Linda Asher)
December 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Thrilled to be shortlisted for both the Scott Moncrieff prize, and the Premio Valle Inclán - congratulations to all those shortlisted for the SoA translation prizes

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A pile of books showing the spines of the six titles shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclán A pile of books on a table in the library, shown spine out, being the six titles shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff prize
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Share a 90s movie you believe needs more love…
Poster image of the movie “Night Falls on Manhattan“, starring Andy Garcia. Photo shows Andy Garcia crouched behind a pillar.
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
A letter from the newly elected president of Ireland, Catherine Connolly to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance. While the greeting and the signoff are an Irish, the English text reads “I would like to extend my warmest wishes to all in the transgender community, your families and friends, as you gather this evening for this year's Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today we pause to honour those whose lives have been cut short by horrific acts of violence or hatred. Their memory calls on each of us to challenge prejudice wherever it arises and to build a society rooted in respect and understanding. This year's gathering carries particular significance too as we mark the tenth anniversary of Ireland's Gender Recognition Act. That milestone stands as a testament to the courage and perseverance of transgender people and their allies who worked tirelessly for recognition, equality, and the simple affirmation of identity. Yet it also reminds us that the work of safeguarding dignity and ensuring genuine inclusion remains ongoing.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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A fake mediaeval tapestry embroidered with the words “behold the field in which I grow my fucks, lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren”
October 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Spending this evening rewatching this, probably for the first time since it was broadcast in 1977 – since which time it has haunted me
Screen grab of the title sequence of a children’s television series from 1977 called “children of the stones”
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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“The Shipping Forecast” by Seamus Heaney Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea: Green, swift upsurges, North Atlantic flux Conjured by that strong gale-warning voice, Collapse into a sibilant penumbra. Midnight and closedown. Sirens of the tundra, Of eel-road, seal-road, keel-road, whale-road, raise Their wind-compounded keen behind the baize And drive the trawlers to the lee of Wicklow. L’Etoile, Le Guillemot, La Belle Hélène Nursed their bright names this morning in the bay That toiled like mortar. It was marvellous And actual, I said out loud, ‘A haven,’ The word deepening, clearing, like the sky Elsewhere on Minches, Cromarty, The Faroes.
October 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Felt doll of the author Thomas pension wearing a grey jacket and black trousers, carrying a copy of his novel gravity rainbow
September 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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A fond good night to Terrence Stamp
Still of Terence stamp from the film theorem, directed by Pasolini. Still from the film “Priscilla, Queen of the desert”, featuring Terence Stamp. Depicted here in full performance, Reid in black feathers, with a magnificent cockade against an orange polkadot background
August 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A fake mediaeval tapestry with the handstitched message “Behold! The field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren”
July 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Andrew Koji shirtless in “Warrior”
June 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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A black-and-white photograph of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom
June 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The final scene from “Planet of the Apes”, the Statue of Liberty half buried in sand on a deserted beach
June 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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“Mí an Bród sona duit” in Ogham
June 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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A parody of The Smiths album “meet is murder”, in which the soldier has been replaced by Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, and the title dobbed on the helmet changed to “Meat is murder she wrote”
June 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The repair patches are fibreglass and you cut them down to size, they then go over the hole and you can skim plaster over the top with pollyfilla. But they would never be strong enough for you to put a screw in it to hold a shelf.
Image of a plaster repair kit, a fibreglass mesh patch with spatula reapplying plaster over the top
April 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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1882 vintage Apothecary Bottle: with an image of a poppy and the words Lord room 1882 one dram each six fluid ounces tincture of opium
April 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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John & Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system.
John Lennon& Yoko Ono waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system, 1969
April 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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You seem to have forgotten that, per the brilliance of Russell Brand, Penelope Keith kills JFK
A post on Twitter by Russell Brand, retweeting a fake photograph of a type script alleging that the British actress Penelope Keith killed John F. Kennedy
April 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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She was, as she freely admitted, a difficult actress – and did a lot of schlock in the 70s. This isn’t remotely the worst - try “Escape from Witch Mountain/Watcher in the Woods/Wicked Stepmother. Thankfully, she got to end her career with Lindsay Anderson’s magisterial “The Whales of August”
Advertisement posted by Bette Davis that reads “MOTHER OF THREE - 10, 11 & 15-DIVORCEE. AMERICAN. THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE AS AN ACTRESS IN MOTION PICTURES. MOBILE STILL AND MORE AFFABLE THAN RUMOR WOULD HAVE IT. WANTS STEADY EMPLOYMENT IN HOLLYWOOD. (HAS HAD BROADWAY.) Bette Davis, c/o Martin Baum, G. A. C. REFERENCES UPON REQUEST.
April 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Black-and-white photograph of Marlene Dietrich as Shanghai Lil, in “the lady from Shanghai“.
March 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Black-and-white photograph, Close-up of a pair of eyes from the French movie « La Haine »
March 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM