Thank you for buying The Long Gaze Back - this is the 2026 reprint, 11 (!) years after publication. Featuring @anakanaschofield.bsky.social, Maeve Brennan @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Mary Lavin @junec.bsky.social Norah Hoult @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @eimearryan.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social
Join us to celebrate the publication of FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut collection of poetry by Tim MacGabhann! We're launching in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 12 February and in No Alibis in Belfast on 19 February. All are welcome!
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Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"
Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"
Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."
Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Front cover of Filly by Rosamund Taylor, with pink lettering against a black & white replicated photograph of fingers gently pulling at the corner of a closed eye.
Starting the New Year in the company of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social’s compelling novel in verse ‘Filly’ from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🤩
Finally, a subscription to Banshee was recommended as a great Christmas present for literature lovers in @irishtimes.com 🎁
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... (3/3)
@jackflag.bsky.social's cover for Claire-Lise Kieffer's Tenterhooks was also cited by Jack's fellow designers as one of the best covers of the year in @literaryhub.bsky.social 🫴
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Some lovely press this week – first up, @jackflag.bsky.social's cover for @bebeashley.bsky.social's Harbour Doubts was listed as a best book cover of 2025 by @nytimes.com 🧡
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b... (1/3)
Now available for pre-order: FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut poetry collection by acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann, out in February 2026. Cover design by @jackflag.bsky.social 🪨
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'There were no amulets for protection, just some books and a framed photo of my dad, a veteran of the operating theatre. This was my armoury, the layer between me and the medical team.'
From issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018) – non-fiction by Elizabeth O'Neill ✨
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Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄
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A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
UCC researchers receive €1.1m to address national and global societal challenges
UCC has been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in @researchireland.ie's COALESCE 2025 programme.
For more, see:
www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...
@uccresearch.bsky.social
Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with:
🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com
🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social
🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show
🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
Beautiful!
Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writer’s block!
Such a gorgeous poem
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
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Tonight - please join us to celebrate this brilliant book ✨️
A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Thinking of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social and the other Irish citizens who are part of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social, and have been detained by the IDF who illegally intercepted them in international waters.
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
The bees have discovered Brutalism
Latest jewel in the crown of Marina Park; the Elevated Tree Walkway leading to Barrington’s folly, woodland walks and picnic areas. Access from the Cork Harbour Greenway beside the playground and slides. Spin out also onto the Marina Prominade and (shortly) the Atlantic Pond. #Cork
We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨
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Our Secondhand Superstar David took Aoife Barry’s article (@sweetoblivion.bsky.social) & Sinéad Gleeson’s anthology (@SineadGleeson.bsky.social) & went searching through the shelves to find …
"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it."
From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1777:
Everything you experience informs your work. In summer, write about the heat; the vegetation; the scent of the sea. In winter, write about the cold; the darkening sky; the onset of snow. Use everything you feel: grief, anxiety, joy, love, pain. It's all good.
