Wisdom from Tolstoy ✨️
A man on a thousand-mile walk has to forget his ultimate goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.'
All sorted, and packpacks with correct owners now! Thanks, everyone. Buen Camino! 💙💛 ##SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
All sorted, and packpacks with correct owners now! Thanks, everyone. Buen Camino! 💙💛 ##SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm, I need your help. Does anyone know Damien Baxter who is flying to Biarritz from Dublin today to do the Camino Francés? He took my backpack by mistake at airport and I need to contact him urgently. Pls share this and help me find him!
📚 The Dublin Literary Award 2026 Longlist has been revealed!
This year’s longlist features 20 titles nominated by 26 libraries from around the world and includes novels by two Irish authors.
Explore the longlist here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/prize-years/...
#ebook version also available from Kobo (Rakuten) 😊
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Celtic pact 💚 #Traitors
I once shot a man for criticizing my text alignment.
It was justified.
Every time someone corrects my vocabulary it just makes me think fewer of them.
The Power of Poetry with things falling apart and anarchy let loose, it was only poetry, he found, which had any use, so he reached for his copy of The Complete Works of Yeats and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells. Seams Heaney
We demand better bait.
Níor chuala mé an focal 'óinseach' riamh - GRMA, focal ar fheabhas é!
I’d like to talk to some publishing people whose printing plans may be affected by Trump’s tariff plans (especially China). This is a big issue for me atm so DM me if you’d like to chat about it.
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The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are the brave peeps who sent plane, 'Kermit', into #StormEowyn 🌊😱
"These flights obtain measurements of the ocean surface in a variety of environmental conditions with a focus on extreme wind events".
Oh yeah, that could be it, alright! Hadn't thought of that 🙄
Thanks a million - l didn't solve it in the end. But my confusion was to do with 'April' not being a recognised word! Do they have another name for it in the US that l don't know about??? 🤔
