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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're so pleased to be hosting Tom Branfoot alongside friends Anthony V. Capildeo and Nat Raha next Thursday 8 October at 7pm. Expect an evening of beautiful poetry readings and discussions - you can get your tickets now on our website! lighthousebookshop.com/events/poetr...

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A purple background with images of birds. Text reads "Thursday 8th October, Volatile Poetry Launch, Branfoot, Raha, Capildeo". At the bottom is images of Tom, Nat and Anthony as well as images of their three books.

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The judges of the PEN Heaney Prize on Dwelling by Máighréad Medbh - www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It doesn't matter that Ireland only has miniscule fragments of native forests left, or that these are mostly in a dying state. When it comes to fixing that, everything takes forever and is piecemeal, if it even happens at all. It's always plenty of talk and written reports, but little or no action.

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eternal gratitude to whoever can help my out with this 🙏 Promise to use it for purposes of pure divilment

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/09/2026

"As a 49-year-old woman, I worry about a lot of issues: threats to our democracy, the changing climate, abortion rights. That’s why I can’t wait for my birthday when—like all women who reach the age of 50—I will naturally morph into an unfeeling, cold-blooded lizard being." buff.ly/F8vQT1N

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I Can’t Wait Until I Turn Fifty and Morph into a Lizard Person

“Ever wonder why women over fifty become invisible? It’s not because society no longer values them; it’s because they’ve changed into superior lizard beings ...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

few men’s courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If anyone has a copy of Dark Horse magazine issue 44, and can send me images of quote unquote "Edna Longley’s rigorous ‘pedantic argument’ on poetic line...written by a major critic at the height of her powers" I'll be forever in your debt www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/Issues/issue...

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Issue 44 | The Dark Horse Magazine

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Daniela Cascella will be sharing an evening with Ellen Dillon on Friday 9 October to discuss their latest work. >> Hundred Years Gallery, London. Admission free, register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/little-books-long-titles-daniela-cascella-ellen-dillon-tickets-1997833455646 @drnollid.bsky.social

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Little Books, Long Titles: Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon

In this celebration of the joys of little books, Daniela and Ellen will read from and discuss the writing of their latest publications.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've never seen Margaret Tait's film-poem based on a piece by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I suggest you take six minutes to treat yourself today. I wrote about why I think it works so well here.

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Latch or Catch or Key

On a beautiful film of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading over the final proofs (finally!) of my translation of Proust: A Family Affair by Laure Murat

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Writing.ie Online Writing Magazine @handle.invalid · 26/09/2026

Ceardlann Scríbhneoireacht Cruthaitheach trí Ghaeilge le Off The Scéal

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Ceardlann Scríbhneoireacht Cruthaitheach trí Ghaeilge le Off The Scéal

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the drops fell like bits of broken glass on the water

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In just over two weeks, I'll be at the Hundred Years Gallery in London with one of my favourite writers, Daniela Cascella. We'll be reading from and talking about our latest books. Tickets free from Eventbrite, link in comments Bígi linn ❤ hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/little-books...

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Little Books, Long Titles : Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon. Friday 9th October 19:00 | Hundred Years Gallery

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Drawing created by Paul Davidson c.1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where he was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of his surviving works & no biographical information is currently known to us

A crayon drawing of a white boy’s head with short brown hair and purple and orange rays emitting from his eyes, he is inside a square structure reminiscent of a window of theatre set with prance curtains, above a rectangle full of blue and green stars with red legs, and on either side are hands with their index fingers pointed

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a feature, not a bug. Continuing to run the country for the enrichment of the 100 year government and its cronies requires emptying it of energy, agitation and hope.

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(Mary Ann Caws on René Char) “. . . gradually the dust accumulates in clusters, pebbles, fragments and in an archipelago of stepping-stones, to become a constellation of texts . . .”

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For many, this is simply an accurate reflection of how things work in Ireland. We have a consistent agri policy that favours the most industrialised, richest farmers, but absolutely NOT the majority of farmers, rural communities, nature, the climate, or the wider society that pays for it all.

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wait till she hears about Jim O'Callaghan blocking visas for students from Gaza with scholarships to study in Ireland 🙄

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Heydon owns 245 acres of land in Kildare and Laois, estimated to be worth between €2.2 and 4.5 million." Big industrial ag has Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in its pocket, producing an ongoing catastrophe for Irish nature, less wealthy farmers, and the taxpayer. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Minister for Agriculture has largest farmlands among TDs and Senators

Irish Times investigation finds FG TD has largest landholding among Oireachtas members and is among highest EU Cap fund recipients

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thou art a full ship and homeward bound, thou sayst; well, then, call me an empty ship, and outward-bound.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Germany: Elections today in Berlin and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The former corporate lawyer's tack to the right on issues like immigration has failed to erode AfD support while also alienating people further to the left.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Another typical morning in town after Culture Night, sean-nós singers left strewn around the footpaths, poets carelessly stuffed under park benches, a lone interpretive dancer being gently blown around the square

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/

A dour looking elite woman is sitting side-saddle on a horse, followed by a ridiculous supercilious little dog. The title of the book, in hot pink, is KILLJOY COMEDY.

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that @news.rte.ie is still giving it 'hamas-run' this and 'israel has denied' that in an article about musicians taking a stand against zio propaganda and mealy-mouthed both-siderism says it all. Look to the political/media class for empty rhetoric. Look to the artists for action.

Sheeran said that he had "spent this week trying to build bridges, to find a solution and unfortunately was unable to do so".

Israel's bombardment of Gaza has left around 73,500 Palestinians dead and 174,500 wounded since October 2023, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures the United Nations deems reliable.

The bombing of Gaza followed an attack on Israel by Hamas militants on 7 October, 2023 that resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, according to an AFP calculation based on official figures.

Israel has denied all accusations of genocide in Gaza.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our 2026 WWB–Academy of American Poets #NationalTranslationMonth series continues with Jenny Tunedal’s mournful elegy “Older Electra,” translated from Swedish by Johannes Göransson. Read this poem of birdsong, grief, and illusory escape, here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ditto: "It is no less difficult to write sentences in a recipe than to write Moby-Dick. So you might as well write Moby-Dick."

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP Annie Dillard. A bit of "The Writing Life" I keep with me: One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This!! Every reading I've done in the UK + EU this year, people have asked about the BIA. And I've answered in more detail than anyone needed or wanted 🤷. The cynicism of harvesting positive headlines all over the world off this husk of a scheme, this 3-year bursary, is breathtaking.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We see young, financially insecure artists taking far greater risks than our homegrown business moguls or politicians ever will. It's not right and it needs to be pointed out that it's not right.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

By making this stand, Irish artists are saving the country's reputation as being ethical & progressive; meanwhile our goverment does craven, lucrative deals to allow financial services with Israel run unimpeded. Artists are the mudguards of Ireland right now.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lovely to see Ed Sheeran's support acts quitting. I think often liberals dislike solidarity as it shines a light on the utter hollowness of their politics. They do everything they can to shut it down, discredit, or silence it. But always remember that they do this because they recognise its power.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Vital to understand that this is part of a concerted push by the European (far) right and the (wolf-in-sheep's-clothing) centre-left) to strengthen the borders of Fortress Europe and make the existence of non-European migrants less secure.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Tear: an oil painting created c.midC20th, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us

A painting in blues and greens and purples of a female face with one huge blue cyclopean eye, crying tears made of smaller blue eyes, the figure seems to fix the viewer in her gaze and it is reminiscent of Rembrandt's girl with a pearl earring

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored marble tomb

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

First video by a French band i remember seeing as a youngster. Loved it/ them/ her 💔

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AMEN! Some of us don't know anything

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

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran’s music speaks to something universal and sacred: sucking at your job.

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'Publishing, in Theory,' featuring Joanna Walsh (@badaude.bsky.social ) and Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz This is Episode 6 of Books and Their Makers, with @molimuseum.bsky.social radio.moli.ie/r/publishing...

JUDITH BUTLER AND FILM: THE GOOD EGALITARIAN, THE BAD FEMINIST AND THE UGLY OTHERS by Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz

AMATEURS! HOW WE BUILT INTERNET CULTURE AND WHY IT MATTERS, by Joanna Walsh

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fintan not believing that there is any intent to divide people on racial grounds is a big, big, big part of the problem. O'Callaghan knows exactly what he is doing and who he is targeting, and it's part of a concerted European effort. This is a racist policy, and must be called out for what it is.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In awe at friends in their own difficult situations declining to step into my departed colleagues’ shoes to save management from the consequences of their own stupidity. That’s amazing solidarity. Thank you.

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RCP 🧿♾️⚫ @morelikethat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is incomprehensible

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us

Painting of snaking flowering brown tendrils of human hairs with blue human eyes stashed on the unfinished head of a figure with only the eyes and brows partially painted in, the rest of the face sketched out in pale pencil but almost invisible

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Irish officials flagged “high risk” before sign-off on dual-use exports to Israeli arms industry. State granted multiple licences for export during height of Israel's assault on Gaza and Lebanon, followed by a swift shift to restrict exports in late 2024. thecurrency.news/articles/236...

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