I see from my last post a couple of months ago i was writing three novels at once. Well i'm now writing eleven novels and a play. Also working full-time, learning two more languages and trying to remember to eat and sleep. If #StormAmy doesn't get me... please send help!
#booksky #spéirghorm

A version of the 'Is this a pigeon?' meme where the boy is labelled 'historians', the butterfly is labelled 'men writing each other love letters, living together and not showing any interest in women' and the text at the bottom reads, 'is this friendship?'

It's #Pridemonth so instead of being normal i've wrecked my head writing THREE queer historical novels. That and a f/t job means i jettisoned sleeping/eating, lol

Unlikely i'll publish as it looks an awful faff but just a minor rant before i collapse!

#booksky (& as they're set in NI) #spéirghorm

Do other would-be writers just go completely bonkers and obsessed and unable to eat/sleep properly when they're writing something or is that just me?

Curious to know if there are any other aspiring historical fiction writers out there on #booksky or, for that matter, sa #SpéirGhorm?

Íosa Críost, how did i just write an entire first draft of a 500-page novel in a week and immediately write another in two days?!

*Collapses from sleeplessness/hunger*

(I'm starting to think that second one might actually be quite good - or could be once i've had a proper go-through.)

#booksky

Cleas Bodhráin Mhóir? 🤔 Is foghlaimeoir mé fós.

(1 of 3) Alright lads, I need some help making sense of this because my brain is absolutely scrambled. I think I might have been catfished in the weirdest way possible, and I don’t even know what the end goal was. So, I match with this girl on a dating app – let’s call her Sarah. She’s gorgeous, like properly stunning, but also has that kind of quirky energy, very quirky. Our chat is great, full of banter, good vibes, all that. We decide to meet up, and I suggest something simple – a coffee or maybe a pint. But no, Sarah wants something different. She says she’s always wanted to learn how to play the bodhrán (very specific, but alright). She asks if I can play. I tell her no, obviously. Next thing I know, she’s found a bodhrán instructor and has booked us both a lesson. At this point, I’m kind of bewildered but also intrigued. It’s a weird first date, sure, but I like her, and maybe this is just one of those fun, spontaneous things you lean into. We text back and forth a bit over the next few days, and on the day of the lesson, she confirms it’s still happening. So I rock up to the... (continues)

(2 of 3) she confirms it’s still happening. So I rock up to the place, and just as I’m about to go in, she texts saying she’s running a few minutes late but to go inside, and she’ll meet me there. I go in, knock on the door, and a middle-aged man (the bodhrán instructor) greets me. He lets me in, sits me down, and we both just kind of… sit there, waiting for Sarah. It’s awkward. After about ten minutes, the instructor suggests we start without her, and I don’t know how to politely decline, so I just… do a bodhrán lesson. For an hour. And Sarah never shows up. I finish the lesson (because what else am I meant to do I got anxious idk?), leave, and try to get in contact with her. No response. Completely ghosted. Whatsapp is gone, number is blocked. At this point, I assume she’s either dead or this was some kind of mad prank. Either way, I try to move on, chalking it up as the weirdest dating app experience of my life. Then, about a week later, I’m walking past the bodhrán place, and my curiosity gets the better of me. I figure I’ll pop in, ask the instructor if he ever heard from her – just to make sure she’s not in a ditch somewhere. I open the door… and the instructor is in the middle of a lesson with another guy. (Continues)

(3 of 3) I start apologising for interrupting, but then I just say feck it and ask the instructor about Sarah. I explain that she never showed up, I can’t get in contact, and I’m a bit worried. Before the instructor can even respond, the other guy turns to me, looking confused, and tells me that he's waiting on a "Sarah" she's booked this lesson and also hasn't shown up. At this point, my brain fully short circuits. So now, I’m standing there, staring at this guy, realising we were both independently lured into taking bodhrán lessons by the same girl, who has now disappeared off the face of the earth. What the actual f*ck happened here? My friends are telling me to forget about it (probably because it's the only thing I've talked about for a week straight) but I feel like if you actually EXPERIENCED this you would feel exactly how I feel and would not be able to rest until you've got some sort of answer. Any theories? I'm almost afraid to ask if this has happened to anyone else. Please tell me I’m not losing my mind. (This was all in Cork btw)

An scéim cham is Éireannaigh ar domham 😅

Is ríléir gur cleas Bodhrán Mór atá ann, GOA

#SpéirGhorm #speirgorm #whathappensinCorkstaysinCork

Stadán ó scannán atá ann - bean ag doirteadh fíona ar aghaidh fear ceangailte. Is í an bhean "mise", an buidéal fíona "memes na Gaeilge" agus an fear ceangailte "daoine ag rá gur theanga mharbh í an Ghaeilge"

✨Seachtain na Gaeilge✨

#SpéirGhorm #Gaeilge #seachtainnagaeilge

A four-panel comic from THEJENKINSCOMIC In the first image a big person in a bright pink T shirt speaks to a smaller person in yellow who's sitting at a desk. Person-in-pink says, "Hey, can i get your opinion on this shirt?" In the next image person-in-yellow, holding a marker pen, says, "Sure". In the third panel that person is seen writing the following words on the pink T shirt: Farage is a twat In the last image they are both smiling as the person in pink says, "Thanks".

Can't argue with that.

🚨 STAILC 🚨 26ú Feabhra 2025 Tá an stailc á heagrú le héilimh ar an dá Rialtas thuaidh ⁊ theas aisiompú a dhéanamh ar na ciorruithe is déanaí de €820,000 a d’fhógair Foras na Gaeilge ar na mallaibh tríd an maoiniú cuí a chur ar fáil don Fhoras anois agus le réiteach fadtéarmach do mhaoiniú na Gaeilge a fhorbairt ar bhonn práinne. #TógRAIC Réiteach Anois Infheistíocht Chothrom

🚨 STAILC 🚨

26ú Feabhra 2025

Físeán anseo:

www.instagram.com/reel/DGd-EJ6...

#Gaeilge #tógRAIC #spéirghorm

New York isn't real. Just saw two women kissing on a crowded train and a guy looked at them and said, "you can't do that at home?" He got some weird looks so he felt the need to clarify to everyone: "I'm not a homophobe, just a hater."

Ní raibh mé i Nua Earc riamh ach is féidir liom é seo a chreidiúint

Hatie Katie Hopkins brings her racist propaganda to Ireland from 13th June to 17th June 2025. These are the hotels that are hosting her. Feel free to politely remind them who and what she is. She's not wanted on this island at all.

You're Dead to Me - Legends of King Arthur: from medieval literature to modern myth - BBC Sounds Join Greg and his guests in medieval Europe to learn about the legends of King Arthur.

Más maith leat finscéal an Rí Arthur, seans go mbainfidh tú sult an podchraoladh seo. Ba bhreá liomsa é!

If you enjoy the legend of King Arthur you might enjoy this podcast as much as i did:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#kingarthur #kernow #cymru

#SpéirGhorm #Gaeilge
#Irish #India

Why can you only get coffee in the Gaeltacht? Because there's a bean an tí

Tá mé BEAGNACH ródhéanach do #NationalPunDay

(yeah yeah, giota beag conspóideach "national" a rá - tá mé sa tuisceart)

#spéirghorm #Gaeilge #tábrónorm #nílbrónorm

Hymns, beans and cricket!

Michelle from the sitcom Derry Girls shouting, "that's the english for you! Fucking savages!"

I suspect it's the engl*sh influence (as an engl*sh "person" i'm really sorry about that - plus, you know, everything else over the last 856 years)

Ha, i realised after posting my reply that it needed a séimhiú as well 😅 So that's 3-4 hashtags to catch them all dammit. I might just stick with #spéirghorm and hope to connect with other grammar nerds lol

Leagadh planda ar an urlár agus coinnítear cat dubh agus bán ar an urlár agus tá cuma chiontach air A plant has been knocked over and a black and white cat with a guilty look on him is being held down on the floor

Scaoil saor é! Tá sé neamhchiontach i ngach cúis! Cóir dár gcomrádaí clúmhach ✊🏽🐾

#spéirgorm #spéirghorm #gaeilge
#speirgorm #catsky

Trouble is not everyone puts the fada in it so you kind of have to put both #speirgorm AND #spéirgorm which... isn't the end of the world to be honest, it just looks messy 🙁

I'm not Irish myself but i've been here long enough to know that the issue over whether or not to include baked beans in a fry is the REAL reason the island remains divided.

A Specsavers van is improbably positioned with its back half raised above the ground on top of a metal bollard on a fairly deserted pedestrianised shopping street at night

Don't say it...
don't say it...
don't say it...

CAN'T PARK THERE M8

*thuaidh, fucksake

Mapa na hÉireann agus na Breataine Móir ach tá Éire suite amach ó chósta thuiadh an Alban.

Íosa Críost, a leithéid de ghaoth inné!

#StormÉowyn #stormeowyn #Gaeilge

Plaiceard ag rá "ná déanaigí dearmad at mhná na Palaistíne" sna dathanna an bhratach na Palaistíne.

Ná déanaigí dearmad ar mhná na Palaistíne 🖤💚♥️🤍

#palestine #leathbhádóirí #gaeilge

Ceann de na scéalta ab fhearr riamh 😅

A poster promoting the upcoming bookfair in Derry. At the top in red letters on a yellow background which, if you look closely, is actually a map of Derry City, are the words Derry Radical Bookfair. Beneath that in white it says Educate, Agitate, Organise. Followed by five symbols in red or red-and-black: a red star, the antifa symbol of red and black flags overlapping, the trans power/liberation symbol, the circle-A anarchist symbol denoting Anarchy is Order and the starry plough. An iconic black and white photo of women and children making petrol bombs follows this and then at the bottom on a black background it says: stalls, books pamphlets, magazines & much more. Sat. 1st Feb. Pilots Row Community Centre, Rossville St, Derry. 12 PM - 5 PM. More info. derryradicalbookfair.wordpress.com

Tá an uair beagnach linn - Derry's annual Radical Bookfair is nearly here!
Amharc tuilleadh anseo - find out more at - derryradicalbookfair.wordpress.com

#derryradicalbookfair #books #zines #derry #gaeilge

"Not every single woman has a scary story about a man" Yes they do. I promise you that they do.

Ha, both my WIPs literally start with an explosion. I may be doing something wrong.

Honestly speaking as someone from england who didn't learn it at school i really don't think it's complicated. There aren't multiple ways to pronounce a word like there are in english - there's usually only one and the exceptions come for a specific reason, e.g. dialect or broad/slender vowels.