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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Block block block blockety block block block Dopamine!

Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For the first time in my life I have a bike with a kickstand and am learning that most people do not dismount from the right side like I somehow picked up in my stoopid Angela’s Ashes childhood

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“A person is not forgotten until his or her name is forgotten.” — Gunter Demnig, creator of the Stolpersteine project There are six Stolpersteine in Dublin in memory of the Irish victims of the Holocaust www.holocausteducationireland.org/stolpersteine

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Stolpersteine — Holocaust Education Ireland

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the many Stolpersteine I’ve stumbled upon or sought out during my travels around Europe this year. So many in Italy; the world’s largest decentralized memorial extends far beyond Germany and Heidenau.

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To mark 100 years of WB Yeats’ 'A Vision', the NLI has made almost 300 manuscript items from the W. B. Yeats Occult Papers available to explore online. 🔎 ow.ly/6OQg50ZQvbk 📖 See a selection on display in the Old Director’s Office, 7–8 Kildare Street, on your way to our Yeats exhibition.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My favourite👇🏻 So obvious in retrospect, right there in front of your nose, yet I’d never ever have thought of it. “Each of her meds had a generic name and a brand name, long and completely dissimilar to each other like characters in a Russian novel. Her whole condition was one big Anna Karenina.”

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In honour of our upcoming trip to Paris in November, let us start a thread of poems and quotes featuring Paris that we 🖤 Kicking off with Linda Pastan

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love it, can’t wait to bike around in October. I’m a nervous city cyclist and assumed Paris would be too chaotic for me auld nerves, but sounds like things have changed since my last visit (twenty years ago! 😳)

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh this hurts to think of. Utterly life-altering. Wishing him healing and a path back to making music. Not a week goes by when I don’t listen to him. Bittersweetly anticipating his new album (recorded last year but shelved due to his stroke). www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke

The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From a Texas prison, she built a menopause support network from scraps of paper. Please read the story of Kwaneta Harris and the women behind bars coming together to support each other, by the unparalleled @candicenorwood.bsky.social

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In a Texas prison, Kwaneta cultivated a menopause support network from scraps of paper

The incarcerated population is getting older, but correctional facilities lag in menopause care. Kwaneta Harris is working to fill the gaps in women's prisons.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cried today listening to a VM from a friend with Long Covid/ME whose life is now unrecognizable to me & to herself. The physical & cognitive cost of even watching a movie or reading a book is immense, all while working in an indifferent capitalist world & disbelieving society. Appreciate this piece.

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 21/09/2026

another project that used to take up space on the BBB blog now has its own domain, Art Manifesto, a space to collect all the art manifesto I can find, plus other art history writing #ArtSky #ArtHistory #ArtManifesto www.artmanifesto.co.uk/2026/09/21/t...

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The Futurist Manifesto Against English Art

I am an Italian Futurist poet and I love England passionately. I want to cure English Art of the worst of all maladies: traditionalism. I thus have every right to speak out loud, without mincing my…

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh, this is a useful set of statistics. You can use it to assess just what sort of numbers of JOBS the Government means when it says we need the data centres in Ireland for the JOBS. You’d create more employment running a small chain of centras.

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The remarkable @sarahmaintains.bsky.social 🤩 getting recognition for her work on Gaza Flotilla & her brilliant articles in @clarechampion.ie Some extra praise please this morning #spéirghorm for “…a writer who harnesses words, uses them with precision and makes them count”. #IrishPol #Local

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YOUR LOCAL NEWS | PRINT | ONLINE | MOBILE
MEDIA AWARDS 2025/26
Sponsored by
National Lottery
Coimisiún
na Meán
Columnist of the Year
WINNER
Sarah Clancy
The Clare Champion
Citation
The Gaza flotillas have made international news, and this first-hand piece is a powerful exercise in personal testimony - at once passionate and compassionate. Here is presented a knowledgeable and elegantly written article from a writer who harnesses words, uses them with precision and makes them count. Both this and the other column submitted
- The religious right haven't gone away - showcase someone with a distinctive voice and capacity to make the personal relatable. She is an eloquent advocate for her chosen subject matter.

Sarah Clancy with her awards from ‘ Local Ireland’.

A white woman, wearing a flowery shirt & velvet jacket, is smiling at the camera. She is holding a framed declaration of her award in her right hand and a fancy bit of silverware in her left.

On the framed award:

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LOCAL
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YOUR LOCAL NEWS | PRINT | ONLINE | MOBILE
MEDIA AWARDS 2025/26
Sponsored by
National Lottery
Coimisiún
na Meán
Columnist of the Year
WINNER
Sarah Clancy
The Clare Champion
Citation
The Gaza flotillas have made international news, and this first-hand piece is a powerful exercise in personal testimony - at once passionate and compassionate. Here is presented a knowledgeable and elegantly written article from a writer who harnesses words, uses them with precision and makes them count. Both this and the other column submitted
- The religious right haven't gone away - showcase someone with a distinctive voice and capacity to make the personal relatable. She is an eloquent advocate for her chosen subject matter.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

enough to carry me thru Lorine Niedecker, ‘Remember my little granite pail?’

Remember my little granite pail?
The handle of it was blue.
Think what's got away in my life-Was enough to carry me thru.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your feel-good story of the day: This 12-year-old kid who went viral at the 2021 Tour of Britain has signed for a Dutch grassroots club and development team that's a feeder partner of Team Visma-Lease a Bike (the team of the rider who gave him the bidon). www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To bring back into the light those a country has tried to erase and still keeps trying to pretend is now dealt with, is among the noblest things anyone can do. We owe Catherine Corless so much for her untiring historical work and decency.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Getting inspired as I prepare my @saloneurope.bsky.social 3-part course, The Personal Essay: From Pitch To Publication'. Join us thinking, reading, writing & pitching essays, which as Carlos Williams wrote ‘establish any number of opposed centres of stillness.’ www.saloneurope.org/event-detail...

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is lovely. “And so what anyway, I think, if he were never the type of cat to want to sit always on my lap, make eye contact, knead endlessly on my bed? Would that be wrong? Would his way of being be lesser; unacceptable; noteworthy? Who decides what the ‘correct’ shape of intimacy should be?”

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Click on video to fully appreciate the splendor of his robes 💅🏻

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

April, San Gimignano, Tuscany. Was delighted by this lovely man reciting Dante’s Divine Comedy in the early Tuscan dialect it was written in. #BookWormSat

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Omar went on to establish the Phoenix Library in Gaza with the writer Ibrahim Massri who returned to the ruins of his home & rescued his books from the rubble one by one. They’re currently fundraising for a podcast room for the library if you’re able to donate #BookSky chuffed.org/project/1895...

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Establishing a podcast room inside the Phoenix Library in Gaza

We are Omar and Ibrahim, the founders of the Phoenix Library (Maktabat Al-Anqa) in Gaza—the first library to be built during the genocide. Our mission has not ended; this is only the beginning.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The video of Abu Bilal knocking through the walls to uncover the library he hid from Assad’s regime is so powerful. I’m reminded of Omar Hamad who carried his personal library with him as he was repeatedly displaced and fighting to survive the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How I entered there I cannot truly say, I had become so sleepy at the moment when I first strayed, leaving the path of truth Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy #BookWormSat

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ✍️ Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince #BookWormSat 🎨Kiss of Judas (1304–06), fresco by Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy

Kiss of Judas (1304–06), fresco by Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#BookWormSat is celebrating #RenaissanceLiterature today. Here are some lovely pages from a recent afternoon viewing celestial renaissance manuscripts in La Capitolare di Verona - 1,509 years old & the oldest library in the world still in operation today ✨

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy #Caturday to all who celebrate! Mingus and Liath welcome blanket & hot water bottle season after a hot ass summer on the road.

Two cats - one grey and white, the other a chonky tuxedo - stretch out in front of two electric fans placed near them on the floor of a motorhome.

Two cats - one grey and white, the other a tuxedo - stretch out all snuggly and warm on a wooly black and white blanket.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happened upon a baby dormouse who appeared to have a broken leg while hiking near the Logar Valley. Luckily Slovenia is teeny tiny so it only took 45 minutes to drive them to a wildlife rehab place in Ljubljana. They’ll warm ‘em up and give them replacement milk. Good luck little dude! ❤️‍🩹

A grey baby dormouse clings to a dark grey beanie.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You mean the kind of smart people who read like one page of Baudrillard after watching The Matrix?

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning. How could one not wish for that with all one's heart? How could one not lend one's feeble resources to bringing it about?

Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t live in Portland anymore but as a former PDXer it’s in my contract to amplify this message every year. Lights out #PDX 🪶🪶🪶

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A laugh, deconstructed, in "I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home" by Lorrie Moore She does this a lot; two more examples here: stancarey.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/t...

"Y'okay?"
"Fine as dust," she said. "Ha-ha." All her laughs contained actual "ha-has" but not all her "ha-has" contained actual laughter. This one was an admixture in the second "ha."

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today the universe seems set on tilting me towards Spark ⚡️

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good. Will they also refuse to broadcast the upcoming football game between Ireland & Israel? If the game goes fwd (which it shouldn’t), will RTE maintain a consistent position? #StopTheGame

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just learned that Spinster (laudatory) September is a thing and I am into it! Immediately placed a hold on ‘Quartet in Autumn’ (Barbara Pym), and I’ve already read and would recommend Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’ & Tokarczuk’s ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Ireland owes this country nothing.” Bonnie Greer schooling a British audience in a pre-Brexit debate will never ever ever ever get old. May her memory be a blessing 🕯️

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All that said, I do think the question "can an AI vomit?" is potentially more interesting than "can an AI reason?"

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"What leads an artist dedicated to an ideal of artistic autonomy to repudiate that ideal, committing themselves to solidarity with the perpetrators of genocide?" Michael G. Cronin on John Banville and the politics of literature under neoliberalism: 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 d...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don't miss today's ep with China Miéville about his new novel, 21 years in the making, THE ROUSE. We explore everything from Marxism to monsters, apophatic theology to the nature of consciousness to the failure of language before all that goes bump in the night. Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

April 2025, I took some pics at a protest in Galway. Until she announced her candidacy for President later that year, I had no idea who Catherine Connolly was, but she stood out to me in some way even then. She’s always been a real one. Ireland elected the right person.

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