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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Currently having my mind blown. Hell yes! "[R]equiring fiction to prove its usefulness by facilitating transmission of such knowledge is another manifestation of the creative economy’s instrumentalisation of literature." www.anclogan.ie/art-for-the-...

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Art for the Market's Sake: John Banville's False Autonomy

"It's nice to see a work of art win", John Banville said on winning the Booker Prize. Michael G Cronin traces a line from that remark to the neoliberal creative economy, and from there to Banville's defence of Israel's brutality against Palestine.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Meanwhile a big thank you to the two people who bought prints from my trial shop while I was away on holiday. It bought much appreciated pints and pizza, and has me considering adding to the 50 paintings that are currently there - here even: fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-l...

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I was thinking with pen & paper about the serenity prayer [Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference] and the Viking Battles meme and to make my doodlings clearer I made a chart. Should it be of use:

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It wouldn't be a true celebration of W. B. Yeats's birthday without listening to the great man himself recite his classic poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree": I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLlc...

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W.B. Yeats reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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Susan G @susangriff.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

#otd On this day in 1912, Hannah Sheehy Skeffington smashed some windows in Dublin Castle "as an act of suffrage". I love this plaque at the castle for its Irish translation; "a rinne smidirini de na fuinneoga seo". One of my favourite Irish words, #speirgorm * #smidiríní *

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Currently rereading To the Lighthouse 20 years after reading it (and teaching it) at the age of 28. Radically different experience, especially how I now see Mrs Ramsay. I now find Woolf’s insights into motherhood and middle aged gender roles remarkable. And far more moving.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 01/06/2026

After years of finding US publishers uninterested in Dorothy Richardson's modernist masterpiece, Pilgrimage, I decided to reissue it myself. Here are some reflections on why I feel so passionate about Pilgrimage and becoming its first US publisher in 50 years. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The feel good stat of the day from @bookshop.org... "In 1995, a year after Amazon opened, there were 5,500 stores in the American Bookseller Association. By 2019, there were only 1,887. Today there are over 3,200.” That’s advocacy. Thank you for supporting independent bookstores. You rock!

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

eliot looks a bit angry, woolf suspicious

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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It's really worth watching the moment when Jeremy Hansen suggests that a crater on the moon - a "bright spot" we'll be able to see from earth - be named Carroll for Carroll Taylor Wiseman, the late wife of commander Reid Wiseman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Cw...

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Crew of Artemis II share an emotional moment after naming new crater after a lost loved one

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Now THIS is what the discourse on St Patrick’s Day in America should look and sound like. #stpatricksday

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Now reading. It’s as good as all the good people say it is. #BookSky

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

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quaybooks.bsky.social @quaybooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Discover Quay Books at quaybooksstore.com with our current 21 favourite titles featured on our home page.

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Oh Lucy Mangan…I adored Bookish right up to the point where you admit you have never read Agatha Christie, due in part to your hatred of David Suchet’s Poirot. I’m aghast!!! Poirot is, in both the books and the Suchet TV adapations, one of my favourite characters in fiction #BookSky 💙📚

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The Dud Avocado is the most gloriously quotable book I have ever read. Here’s one, out of so many other possibilities. ‘To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit’. Truly words to live by. #BookSky

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Remembering Michael Longley, who sadly passed away a year ago today.

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Listening to The Secret Life of Books’ Oscar Wilde episodes and am reminded that when I studied The Importance of Being Earnest as an undergrad in Ireland 25 years ago, not once was homosexuality mentioned by our lecturer. Remarkable how far we have come in relatively short span of time. #BookSky

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

If only there was a recent book that had some really untold stories about Seven Dials in the 1920s and 1930s to tell. Oh, hang on... manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/

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Manchester University Press - Songs of Seven Dials

Songs of Seven Dials - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Songs of Seven Dials by Matt Houlbrook

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Rosamond Lehmann’s The Weather in the Streets’: ‘London in the scorched irritable airless end of day was an extension of the mind’s loathing and oppression. Petrol fumes were nausea; the traffic a fatuous, reluctant, laborious progress towards a pointless destination’. #BookSky

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

You know when people have a couple of kids together and then another kid many years later. They should call the last one Kinder Surprise.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌 Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

My "I Will Trust In The Darkness" print against a starry photograph background - the print shows a painting of small wooden sail boat with a red Celtic cross on a white sail travelling into the horizon on a starry night.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #BlueskyArt #Art #Ireland #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Art can change the world. This is powerful.

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This put a lump in my throat. Love your libraries.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Hello our International Readers👋🏼 Do you have people in Ireland you'd like to send a book (or three) to but are hesitating because of the price of postage and/or a concern about the parcel getting caught in Customs? We can help! >> 1/3 (🎨Anna Shuttleworth whose cards we stock)

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Michael D Higgins leaving office this evening to make way for his successor, Michael E Higgins

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Finished The Towers of Trebizond, thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social recent Rose McCaulay rankings and I just loved it! A wonderfully clever parodic take on colonial travel writing. So many quotable laugh-out-loud passages. Can’t wait to read more of her work! #📚💙 #BookSky

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

thebookshop.ie/james-joyce-... Copies in stock now, ahead of release date next week! A VERY handsome edition of Joyce's The Dead, from @newislandbooks.bsky.social , and introduced by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social . Get one!

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

‘There’s no Ringo in the Brontës and that is why the Beatles are better than the Brontës’. This glorious episode of @backlisted.bsky.social is all a Beatles-Brontës fangirl could want in a niche books podcast (said no one ever before now)

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Great episode from @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social on reading slumps and how to get out of them. Lovely to hear all the love for @iammilliam.bsky.social too - I recommend The Year of Reading Dangerously whenever I can!

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Brilliant to see this. I get so weary from the massive waste and cost to the environment that is caused by purchase of cheap Halloween costumes that are only worn once. Would be great to see this take off in other areas, kudos to @marthafanning.bsky.social

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Mark O’Brien @obrienpmark.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

“The bogs, rivers, mountains, and shorelines are more than preservers of old myths, bones, and memories. They are energy banks and time sponges, and what is held within them seeks release.” As were you Manchán. As were you. Tá mo croí briste. Go dté tú slán, a chara.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2025

Manchán’s sustainable lifestyle was more than idealism it was committed practice. His legacy asks: What sustainable act will you plant today? In his memory, I’ll plant these native flowers this weekend. I invite you to share one small biodiversity action you’ll take? #speirgorm

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Was so looking forward to #HouseOfGuinness and I absolutely hated it. Interesting that the critical reviews widely vary and I’m wondering about the experience of watching this as an Irish vs non-Irish person. It felt stagey, clichèd and depicting Fenians as leprechauns was unforgivable.

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Can’t recommend this training highly enough to anyone in Ireland working in the area of singing and health, especially those working with people with Parkinson’s disease. It’s been transformative for my Parkinsongs choir. @singtobeat.bsky.social

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Words to live by here from Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women on spaghetti’s threat to romance. #SpinsterSeptember

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

At least when they tried to nab Kneecap the supposed offence was “committed” in the UK. But Irish Sally Rooney can do whatever the fuck she wants with her Irish Euros in the independent Republic of Ireland, so what is he on about?

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Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Building my collection of 1930s compliments - this again from Dorothy L Sayers: ‘She thinks I’m the world’s eighth wonder. Absolutely the lobster’s dress-shirt’. (Side note: Murder Must Advertise focuses a bit on Bright Young Things shenanigans and I am in heaven) #BookSky 💙📚

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2)

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

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