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Great reading coming up at Cúirt!

Jack "I come from the Lynches of Sligo" Nicholson.

I had the great pleasure of taking a poetry workshop with Louise Glück way back when. (A fabulous reading afterwards, but she didn’t show up at the party in her honour—oh, well.)

Excellent. Congrats to Sue. Enjoy.

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Congratulations!!

Student who applied for Braille books in transition year got them week before Leaving Cert Jen Cummins says treatment of pupil ‘heartbreaking’ and says planned special education forum is just another ‘talking shop’

Student who applied for Braille books in transition year got them week before Leaving Cert

Ah, fair dues.

All I know is that my Trinity College Dublin Math degree didn't prepare me sufficiently. I want 600% of my money back.

Hate dat!

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Alternative facts are a thing.

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.

Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Enjoyed @lilliputpress.bsky.social great launch for @irishtimes.com Books Editor @martindoyle.bsky.social latest book #AHosting Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026, @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social . Martin has supported so many Irish writers over the years. I’m honoured & delighted to be included.😊

Submission call

With the exciting news of the "bed in a shed" scam—sorry, scheme—the ILT is moving its offices to the pigsty out back. Our old office is now a "luxury apartment" (5-star: look through the hole in the roof and you'll see five stars). Luckily, the pig has agreed to stay on as Editor-in-Chief.

Desmond Morris obituary Zoologist, author and broadcaster who found fame with his groundbreaking 1967 book The Naked Ape

Desmond Morris obituary – zoologist, author and broadcaster who found fame with his groundbreaking 1967 book The Naked Ape

Congratulations everyone!

🎉 Congratulations to Richard Price on the publication of The Island – out today!

A father and daughter. A city turning strange. A remote island on every screen, pulling toward a childhood he can't outrun.

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The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 21: A book with elements of fantasy, mythology or fairytale - Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy

#readirishwomenchallenge #kateobrien #reading #irishwriter #femaleauthors @bookaneer808.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social

Congratulations

Photo of me speaking into microphone. Man (author Alan Nolan) to right holding up my book Being Autistic.

Delighted to have had my book "Being Autistic (and what that actually means)" ,illustrated by @theorah.bsky.social, nominated for the Great Reads Awards. What a gorgeous ceremony and event 💞

#Autistic
#ChildrensBooks

Standard dialogue at ILT job interviews.

Poetry Challenge: Memorize “The More Loving One” by W.H. Auden It’s about love, the cosmos and everything in between. And all week we’ll have games and readings by poets laureate, beloved authors and an Oscar winner to help you memorize it.

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Desmond Morris was very important to me because he wrote about gay people in his book The Naked Ape and it was the first time I'd ever read or heard a description of gay people that wasn't sneering or judgemental. It was thrilling.
About 40 years later I had a chance to tell him so.
RIP Mr Morris

Kincora Boys’ Home scandal hovers over Frank McGuinness’s searing new play To describe Frank McGuinness’s new monologue play as being inspired by the Kincora Boys’ Home scandal of the 1970s would be to locate it in a journalistic realm that feels alien. But the rhyming echo ...

Kincora Boys’ Home scandal hovers over Frank McGuinness’s searing new play
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