#Irishliterature
January 9, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Beckett quote of the day:
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
Samuel Beckett
Artists, get to work. It’s a really big mess.
#beckett #literature #irishliterature #art
January 7, 2026 at 12:07 PM
When asked by The Times in 1983 to set out his hopes for the coming year, Beckett replied by telegram with an economy worthy of his aesthetic:

RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP BECKETT
#happynewyear #samuelbeckett
#irishliterature
December 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Book 52 in 2025 🥳🎊📚 For the first time ever I gave myself an annual target & managed to do to better than expected 😄 Of Darkness & Light is the 2nd in the series by Ryan Cahill who's clearly a big Sanderson fan. An improvement on the 1st book though. 3.5 ⭐📚 #booksky #fantasy #irishliterature
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
"Seekers of Wonder" by @elenasottilotta.bsky.social pioneers the comparison of women's roles in Italian & #IrishFolklore & #FairyTales 1870-1920 collected / written by #WomenWriters Laura Gonzenbach, Grazia Deledda #JaneWilde & #AugustaGregory

#IrishLiterature #IrishStudies #Folklore
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Afternoon. One of us has a small (but growing!) online archive. Follow the project at @oldzinescene.bsky.social and you'll see pieces of Irish (and occasionally other) literary history! #Irishmagazines #irishpoetry #irishliterature
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“There’s no lack of void.”
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
#SamuelBeckett #Irishliterature #waitingforgodot #thevoid
December 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Beckett Quote Today:
“Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.”
Molloy, Samuel Beckett
#SamuelBeckett #Literature #IrishLiterature #Molloy.
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Beannacht", John O'Donoghue
Pelikan Edelstein Smoky Quartz
Leuchtturm standard
Benu Euphoria Earl Grey (Goulet Pens Exclusive)

I purchased this pen before the Goulet Pens anti-lgbtqa+ info.

"Beannacht is "blessing" in Irish.

#poem #johnodonoghue #irishliterature #fountainpensandinks
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Beckett quote of the day:

I pause to record
that l feel in
extraordinary form.
Delirium perhaps.
-SAMUEL BECKETT
#Beckett #Irish #Irishliterature
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
'James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures' repositions Joyce among his Irish contemporaries, showing his narrative experiments as a renegotiation—not a rejection—of earlier conventions.

📗Out now: https://bit.ly/4qU2voc

#irishliterature #jamesjoyce #modernism
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann is pleased to announce the appointment of Claire Power as the new Director of the organisation.

Read more on our website at www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-....
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Dublin’s literary heart beats in every pub, park bench, and cobbled lane. Wander through bookshops, visit writers’ museums, and feel the city’s creative spirit in the places that inspired Ireland’s greatest storytellers.

#Dublin #IrishLiterature #JamesJoyce #OscarWilde #WBYeats #Travel
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The first mag is on the new Archive. It is a copy of Ireland Today from 1937. Read it at oldzinescene.com for free! #Irishliterature #poetry #art #Ireland #history
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬: "𝘼 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙖𝙣" 𝙗𝙮 𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙅𝙤𝙮𝙘𝙚 -

Allow the novel to work on its own terms, quit asking it to meet our expectations of a common coming-of-age story, & find that it reveals itself.

waywordsstudio.com/general/revi...

#bookreviews #books irishliterature #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Mad about Literature? Not mad about literature? Shopping for something for the Bluestocking in your life? Looky here!
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#IrishLiterature #IrishWriters #ChristmasGifts #Christmas #ActualArt
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#SolasNua #IrishAuthorSeries #RoddyDoyle #IrishLiterature #DCArts #BookDiscussion
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
As leftists & as poets, I don’t think we talk about “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” by Oscar Wilde enough.

#leftist #poetry #oscarwilde #communism #socialism #poet #poets #writers #VictorianLiterature #gay #queer #queerhistory #BritishLiterature #IrishLiterature
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Becket quote of the day:

“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
Samuel Beckett, (from an abandoned work)
#samuelbeckett #literature #irishliterature
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Beckett Quote of the day:

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
Murphy, Samuel Beckett
#beckett #irishliterature #literature #samuelbeckett
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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