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Richard Balls @musicbiographer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today is the final day of Ipswich Book Festival and you can join me at St Stephen’s Church at 4pm to hear stories about Ian Dury, Shane MacGowan and the iconic Stiff Records label that signed them. I’ll be signing books too. Book your tickets here www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/richa... #ipswich

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Richard Balls - New Wolsey Theatre

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yesterday, bikers came to say goodbye to 14-year-old Illia Honcharov, who was killed by a Russian missile strike on his home in Vyshhorod, Kyiv region, on September 30. Illia loved motorcycles. His family asked bikers to join the farewell ceremony. Many answered the call.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Old joke: The Coca Cola executives decided to approach the pope and offer him a million dollars if he'd change the words of the Lord's Prayer to 'Give us this day our daily Coke'. No dice. When the emissaries returned to the chief exec he mused: 'I wonder how much the bakeries are paying.'

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alma Duncan (Canadian, 1917-2004)🖌️ "A prolific artist who worked with a variety of media—including charcoal, pastels, ink, watercolor, oil paint, puppets, and film—Duncan's style"

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Richard Balls @musicbiographer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ll be talking discussing my books about Ian Dury, Shane MacGowan and Stiff Records at Ipswich Book Festival on Sunday 4 October. Book your tickets here www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/richa... #stiffrecords #ipswich #iandury #shanemacgowan #stiffrecords

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Richard Balls @musicbiographer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My first night away from my rescue collie Sarah and there was this to remind me of her. Thanks Battersea. #rescuedog #collie #batterseadogshome #adoptdontshop

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

macdonnchada.substack.com/p/stay-or-go... One for election fans even if not especialy interested in Spain

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'[O]verlapping Parises that chime with one another like a ghostly carillon.' That's writin now. That's what I call writin.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'Unique brand of acerbic wit' is possibly uniquely understood in the better parts of south Dublin.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Always funny when people get pissy about, of all things, *work to rule*. They are still doing their jobs, to the letter of the law in fact. That is causing problems is a serious indictment of how much extra people are expected to do in their job.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brian St John Inglis, who in the 1930s had the privilege to work in the paper of record, wrote that journalists came in two varieties: reporters, who were beefy chaps who could put a foot in a door, and gentlemen (sub-editors), who knew things. It seems that now there is only one variety.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'When I look at the fungus / I think of the fun Gus is having with you.' Benny Hill, 'Garden of Love'

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A sharp copy of Donall MacAmhlaigh's An Irish Navvy (aka Dialann Deoraí (The Diary of an Exile). The best book on the Irish working experience in postwar Britain.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923, leading labour historian Emmet O’Connor delves into an intense local movement during a time of constitutional upheaval in Ireland. Between August 1921 and December 1923 boom yielded to slump and employers struggled to cut wages.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just called a fancy restaurant to ask whether they could accommodate a vegetarian tomorrow. "Certainly, sir," she replied. "We offer hay or silage," with only a touch of mirth. I hope the legendary receptionist of that particular equestrian centre has a very good weekend. (One wrong digit.) 🙄

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Albertine Books in New York. A worthy addition to my list of 'posh bookshops of the world'. Albertine, in the Payne Whitney building, specialises in French literature in the original and in translation. It is run by the cultural service of the French embassy. Ou la la is alll I can say.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Note to 'self': try *quirkier* expressions like 'Oh my giddy aunt!'

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A zero missing there perhaps. Careless subs. I remember the Evening Press reporting on a raid on a building society office in Fairview carried out by a man 'wielding what appeared to be a gnu'.

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Richard Balls @musicbiographer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Join me on Sunday 4 October at Ipswich Book Festival to hear about my biographies of Ian Dury and Shane MacGowan, as well as Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story. Venue - St Stephen’s Church Time - 4pm Tickets on sale here wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/richard… #ipswich #suffolk #punk #books

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gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With thanks to the editors of Anthropocene, Ice Floe Press, The Dark Horse, The London Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, who previously published some of the poems included in #Palomines

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It only got through because the first offering, featuring the slavering bewigged gentleman, carving knife and baby's fat arse, went straight into the bin. 'And you can tell him he's fired.'

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We note a few provisional findings in the accompanying text (and we'll publish more about this soon). Overall, the number of translations per year has increased noticeably, with childrens books in Ireland a major category. Irish is comfortably the biggest target language...

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The French say 'de(accent)gueulasse'. Which has more than a suggestion of vomiting. People out there! Do not believe him! Try it for yourselves!

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I beg to diagree. De gustibus etc. Good sourdough in thick slices, good olive oil, press well down in the pan. The more cosmopolitan among us may choose to 'hand-strew' with a few Yotam-style condiments 'before serving'. But it's pretty good on its own. Crisp.

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The James Joyce Centre @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The James Joyce Centre cordially invites you to an evening celebrating the Irish translation of and art exhibition based on Joyce’s “The Dead” on Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 6.30pm. The event is free but booking is essential. www.eventbrite.ie/e/na-mairbh-...

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Na Mairbh: A Celebration of the Irish Translation of James Joyce's The Dead

The James Joyce Centre cordially invites you to a presentation of two works based on the Irish translation of Joyce's "The Dead."

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For International Translation Day, here's a dataset that me and Michaela Králová have put together on the publication of translated literature in Ireland over the past decade or so: zenodo.org/records/2304...

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Translated Literature Published in Ireland, 2016-2025

The Dataset This dataset collects titles of translated literature published by Irish publishers between the year 2016 and 2025. It includes any print edition of a literary title published by a publish...

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Twenty-eight years later, in 2006, the same team, Earls and O'Doherty, launched the pilot issue of a purely online review, then an absolutely unknown phenomenon on the Irish cultural scene. Twenty years later, the Dublin Review of Books is still going strong, as is Books Upstairs after forty-eight.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What kind of quixotic individuals would start a bookshop on an upper floor of a building shortly to be demolished? Our downstairs neighbour, Sidney Vard, said at the time: 'You're young men, starting off in business. And I don't want to discourage you. But you're bloody fools!'

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Books Upstairs is now in its fourth Dublin home, in its very elegant D'Olier Street premises. It was founded by Maurice Earls and Enda O'Doherty in 1978 and after 1984 run by Maurice alone. The D'Olier Street shop is now run by his daughter Louisa.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you look very carefully, behind the Renault 4 turning to drive down Grafton Street, above and slightly to the right of the lime green car, you will see the black signboard of Books Upstairs in its first home. Established 1978. The sign came a little later, so the photograph might be early 80s.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 30/09/2026

Mise Éire premiered at the #Cork Film Festival #Onthisday 1959. The 1st feature-length film in Irish, it depicts events in Ireland leading up to, during, & immediately after the 1916 #EasterRising, using unrivalled archive with music by Seán O Riada share.google/5Wy1sAZOwulH...

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Perhaps a 'merger' with some ambitious but not quite there EFL club (West Bromwich, why not?) could be an answer ... WBMA?

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In moments of extreme historical gravity, hiding behind the shield of “keeping politics out of sport” isn’t neutrality at all. It is a choice, and it’s usually the wrong one. dickpurdy.substack.com

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While the FAI ultimately decided to fulfil the fixture, prompting individual acts of conscience ... players wearing black armbands, bowing their heads during the anthem ... refusing handshakes, the entire ordeal laid bare the moral bankruptcy of administrative neutrality. dickpurdy.substack.com

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The best solution was mooted on here a couple of days ago. Amalgamate the two big city clubs. The new entity could be called Manchester United, satisfying everyone.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mansfield Park rehabilitated. So Fanny is not a prig? Mmm. Perhaps worth another go. It's been a long time.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Up our way it is related that a poor old woman reciting her prayers (not the Mass ones) very loudly disturbed a bourgeois lady (we had a few) in the pew in front. She listened to the complaint silently before resuming calmly: 'As I was saying, Our Lady, before that ignorant bitch interrupted me.'

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, #botd 1571. Medusa, c.1598; Uffizi Gallery, Florence #TondoTuesday [I just made that up.] #Mood 🎨

A severed head, grimacing in open-mouthed horror, with blood pouring from its neck and a mass of writhing snakes as hair. Caravaggio's Medusa, c. 1598, Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The old 'Times' headline: 'Fog in Channel, Continent cut off'.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Tube Station', Bank Station (c.1932) by Cyril Power

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