An image of the words of "Storm on the Island" written by Seamus Heaney.
#StormDave is forecast for this weekend.
This is Seamus Heaney's poem "Storm on the Island" from "Death of a Naturalist" published in 1969.
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The cover of Foster by Claire Keegan. It has a white farmhouse in a blue-dark landscape.
Definitely lives up to the hype. Tremendously moving. Lots of seemingly lived-in moments. I love how writers can pack so much into a small space. The ending had me in tears.
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Lives and Adventures 2 Irish Men and the Eighteenth-Century Novel DECLAN KAVANAGH If novels by and about women in the eighteenth century initiate a new literary form for the exploration of interiority, the opposite case might be made for many of the novels by and about Irish men. The long-held belief that the eighteenth century inaugurated a new language of interiority or subjectivity associated with the joint rise of empiricism and the novel has been challenged by scholars such as Jonathan Kramnick who argue that for many writers in the period, the 'ostensible privacy or interiority of mental states is often not at issue' in their writing.' More particularly, the precarity of the novel-reading (and -writing) classes in Ireland, and their awareness of living in a culture in which definitions of a 'gentleman' were dangerously unfixed, seemingly produce literary forms that are constantly veering towards the unstable and anti-mimetic territory of satire, allegory, and the picaresque. One of the best known such works by an Irish writer (if not actually set in Ireland) is Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759-67); unique as it might appear, it sits in a context of other works by Irish writers of the period.* Novels by Anglo-Irish men in the eighteenth century, more often than not, disrupted the very project of bourgeois masculinity that the new literary form of the English novel promulgated as the century progressed." Any survey of Irish men and the novel in eighteenth-century Ireland must thus begin by qualifying what is meant by Irish' and what is meant by 'the novel'. The designations of 'Irish' or "Anglo-Irish' have a contested history both in the historical context of eighteenth-century Ireland and in its ancillary scholarly field of Irish eighteenth-century studies. As James Ward articulates in his essay Irish and Anglo-Irish Writing' (2024):
Proofs! Forthcoming chapter in *The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel* amongst stellar company & excellently steered by Prof Chris Morash. I’ll be doing these with some Easter chocolate to power me through #IrishLiterature #Novels #speirgorm #GulliversTravels
Higher Purchase, Rita Ann Higgins
Kyo Iro - Soft snow of O'Hara
b6 52gsm TR
Montblanc Starwalker <M>
The title "Higher Purchase" reads like a child misunderstanding the term "hire purchase"
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The monsters in The Book of Lost Things are nightmares made real. How did you you interpret the different creatures David faces on his journey to meet the King?
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For all Irish studies scholars and short fiction lovers: Delaney’s new book is definitely worth your attention!
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Today we're highlighting some of our favorite reads from Irish literature! What else would you include on your list?
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On St. Patrick's Day we celebrate one of Ireland's most brilliant literary voices.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde crafted a haunting exploration of beauty, vanity, and the dangerous allure of a life without consequence.
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All of these people, Michael Longley
Midori Black
Leuchtturm a5 standard
Travelers Company <F> brass
Michael Longley (1939-2025) was a Northern Irish poet. Given that, this poem likely refers to "The Troubles"
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Looking through some trees to a river. The river is reflecting the brilliant blue sky above. On the far side of the river more trees are visible.
I really should be writing reviews of the last three books I've read. But it was a beautiful morning so I went for a walk before a busy, working afternoon.
#BlueSkyMonday #walk #river #sky #trees #Ireland #IrishLiterature #IrishWriting #IrishAuthors
Everything will be all right, Derek Mahon
KIP - Cloud Echo
Canopus Note
Visconti Van Gogh Maxi <23k PD B> turtle
Derek "combined an apocalyptic vision with a utopian sense of survival"
Everything will be all right, and if not we won't be here
#poem #derekmahon #irishliterature #fountainpensandink
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March is #ReadingIrelandMonth
I plan to read 5 novels & listen to 2 audiobooks that are set in Ireland. Are YOU participating this year? #IrishFiction #IrishLiterature #booklovers #bookbloggers #BookSky #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishAuthors
MARCH. It is Reading Ireland Month for 2026!
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A cluster of daffodils, with grass, bushes and grey sky in the background.
My reviews for #BlueBrewBooks are a bit delayed - and I've already moved on to reading "Milkman" by Anna Burns.
Anyway, here are some #daffodils for #StDavidsDay.
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We need a Beckett quote today:
“A little darkness, in itself, at the time, is nothing. You think no more about it and you go on. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”
Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett.
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Delicate white blossom - the flowers close to the camera are in focus, while the rest of the tree is out of focus.
#Spring #blossom
A hint of spring to keep things ticking over while I think about books.
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The cover of Roddy Doyle's book "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" shows a young boy about to let himself drop down from a wall, which he's still holding with one hand. Born in Dublin in 1958, Roddy Doyle has written a number of novels, books for children, plays and screenplays, and lots of short stories. "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" was the winner of the Booker Prize in 1993. The story, told by a ten year old boy, doesn't follow the usual rules of a novel as there are no chapters, just a series of Paddy's thoughts which don't follow in chronological order. In spite of this, you do sense the passage of time as the book progresses. Like any ten year old, Paddy's thoughts jump quickly from one subject to another, with the subjects seemingly unrelated. The book describes a lost world where children roam freely around the area where they live, constantly getting into mischief. The early part of the book focuses on this fun and mischief before real life begins to intrude. I won't give any more detail as I don't want to spoil the story for any potential reader.
"Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" by Roddy Doyle is a story told by a ten year old boy living in Barry Town, North Dublin, in 1968.
It's a wonderful read - and I highly recommend it!
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Delighted to have renowned Irish Children's Author Ann Murtagh @annmurtagh.bsky.social answering the Jabugo Book Club's questions today. www.patrick-doherty.net/jabugo-book-... #irishwriters #irishliterature #kilkenny
📣 New Podcast! "Elizabeth Bowen - Hand in Glove" on @Spreaker #auntandnieces #bookdiscussion #bookrecommendations #classicnovels #elizabethbowen #familydynamics #fictionalfamilies #gothicelements #handinglove #intriguingtales #irishauthors #irishliterature #jasminelodge #literaryanalysis
A colourised photograph of Brendan Behan in sunglasses and holding a cigar.
The cover of the book "Poems and a Play in Irish". The play was "An Giall" which was later translated to become “The Hostage” and achieved worldwide fame for Behan.
Brendan Behan was born in Dublin on 9 February 1923 in Dublin. He wrote plays and poems in English and Irish including "An Giall", later translated into English as “The Hostage”. 1/2
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I’m amazed at this process, how a story about #ThunderBay I told to friends turned into a story I wrote down, and now is published in Ireland by a magazine in #Derry #HonestUlsterman, just 5 km from my grandparents’ home.
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Love the below comment about my column this week, from a man over on X😂
"A Cavan lad, reading a Monaghan man's words in a Manchester accent: Gerard Smith embracing his 'soundings'.
A tale of identity, acceptance - and 'gorgeous underpants'!"
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This week's #WordSmith column is for all of us who found a solace in Soundings at school...
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