Reposted by Éabha WallSiobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis. 24622347
Reposted by Éabha WallSaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025People convince themselves that animals can’t feel or think but desperately believe that a computer program that spews out summaries is something magical and intelligent 351916424
Reposted by Éabha WallThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Chalk me up as another person who missed this piece when it came out in December. Stunning, luxurious writing on family, friends, and Seamus Heaney, by Caitlin Flanagan. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... H/T @deshocks.bsky.socialtheatlantic.comWalk on Air Against Your Better JudgmentWhat Seamus Heaney gave me 614025
Reposted by Éabha WallCethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 19/02/2025Or we could cut the cables ourselves and never hear about these people again. 48515
Reposted by Éabha WallGrace Spence Green @gracespencegreen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Every thought, every interaction, every reflection on this journey I would chronicle on scrap paper, iPhone notes, emails to myself- and slowly, painstakingly, that has turned into a book, TO EXIST AS I AM. 3/5 1133
Reposted by Éabha WallSinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 06/02/2025This is praise indeed. I was looking forward to sharing Blue Road with @sineadgleeson.bsky.social She has written more here: momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-edna-ob... Our next Q&A event is in @lighthousecinema.bsky.social Tickets here: 💙 www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/blue-ro...lighthousecinema.ieBlue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story + Q&AThis screening will be followed by an in person Q&A with director Sinead O'Shea.<br><Br> Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with her sexually provocative literature and eq... 0124
Reposted by Éabha Walltinytim @micarebear.bsky.social · 03/02/2025"Sir, a second pony has hit the club" 29416
Reposted by Éabha WallSeána @grantsana.bsky.social · 05/12/2024FF&FG Discuss how they’ll carve up power again while a homeless woman - Vanessa O’Callaghan, was attacked and killed on the streets of Cork on Sunday. Volunteers at the soup kitchen tried to save her, the government was nowhere to be seen at the cold face of homeless. Everyone deserves more 072
Reposted by Éabha WallCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Tough year for art sales and I depend solely on it for a living, so if you like anything I do, I'd appreciate if you'd keep me in mind when buying gifts for friends or family. If you hate what I do, I'd appreciate if you'd keep me in mind when buying gifts for enemies or nemeses. 6281165
Reposted by Éabha WallShamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 02/12/2024Stephen Donnelly showing up at Soc Dems headquarters pretending he never quit 417648
Reposted by Éabha WallDominic McGrath @mcgrathdominic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Joy for Padraig Rice from the Soc Dems as he claims the final seat in Cork South Central #GE24 0647
Reposted by Éabha WallJen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Baffling to me that anyone would try to push a "they're stealing the election" narrative here when we literally have people packed into counting centres watching other people count votes from like inches away. It's incredibly transparent. #ge24 55711
Reposted by Éabha WallJason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 30/11/2024🇮🇪 Best teller outfit ever. #irishelection #ge24 141138249
Reposted by Éabha WallCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Happy #GE2024 Election Eve! Don't forget to leave some raw milk and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories for your local right-wing independents beside the fireplace, and room under your tree for your family members in Australia that Simon Harris has kidnapped 730736
Reposted by Éabha WallKieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I, for one, am happy to be subsidising these data centres through sky-high residential electricity bills. Especially for all the wonderfully important AI garbage they produce. 091
Reposted by Éabha WallEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Only 1 in 5 Welsh rainforests are in good condition and NONE are in very good condition, due to invasive species + overgrazing. Sound familiar? What is it with people, and treating these precious surviving ecosystem fragments as worthless expendables? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...theguardian.comWelsh government urged to safeguard Celtic rainforestsConservation groups’ report warns remaining temperate rainforest sites and ‘vital habitats’ are in poor condition 419340
Reposted by Éabha WallBolu Babalola @beebabs.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Look out for an announcement RE: HONEY & SPICE sequel from me today... 3604
Éabha Wall @eabhawall.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Almost 20(!) years later and this movie still SLAPS. Strongest urge to telephoné le police when Juno is alone with Jason Bateman's character at any point in the film. Seriously worried that I did not pick up on the vibes when I watched this as a child... Allison Janney & J.K. Simmons are perfect.🎬 📽 000
Éabha Wall @eabhawall.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Guys, Ciara's newsletter is the only email newsletter to which I subscribe that I actually read. It's so good! 2195
Reposted by Éabha WallCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Not sure people realise how hard it's been recently for artists to survive, or how deeply appreciated every single order is. If you can't buy something, it makes a huge difference just to share our work. If you can't share our work, a little sacrifice to the Old Gods on our behalf means a lot, too 💜 2124621004
Reposted by Éabha WallCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024📌 Lil' note: ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, gift cards and value bundles - each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper is made in Ireland, shipped in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage available, and comes with free mini-treats for every customer 🎁 9390270
Reposted by Éabha WallCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024A huge number of us are or will be carers at some point in our lives and the lack of either respect or support by so many politicians, including the leader of the country, for the enormous work done and the emotional and physical toll it takes is infuriating. Completely out of touch. 1338160
Reposted by Éabha WallDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Tá sé fógartha go bhfuil an phictiúrlann aitheanta ar bhaile an Daingin, The Phoenix, ceannaithe ag an aisteoir Cillian Murphy agus a bhean, an t-ealaíontóir Yvonne McGuinness, agus go bhfuil sé i gceist é a athchóiriú agus a oscailt arís. tuairisc.ie/pictiurlann-...tuairisc.iePictiúrlann cháiliúil sa Daingean ceannaithe ag Cillian Murphy agus Yvonne McGuinnessDeirtear go bhfuil sé i gceist athchóiriú a dhéanamh ar phictiúrlann an Phoenix an bhliain seo chugainn agus í a oscailt arís mar phictiúrlann agus ionad ealaíon 3629
Éabha Wall @eabhawall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Rewatching #Scandal right now, on season 2.. Mellie Grant is an icon 💁🏻♀️ Remind me why I'm supposed to root for any other character?media.tenor.coma man and a woman are looking at each other and the woman is saying i want to run the world .ALT: a man and a woman are looking at each other and the woman is saying i want to run the world . 000
Reposted by Éabha WallCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024It's funny, the little differences between Hiberno-English and English. For example, in Ireland, to "get a land" means to be shocked, whereas in England it's a plan to colonise a country 1863673
Reposted by Éabha WallJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses *his own words* to describe his position. 2855102940
Reposted by Éabha WallKatherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024‘More than half of all people in severe hardship in the UK (54%) live in a family that includes a disabled person’. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...theguardian.comMore than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record highExclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century 0116
Reposted by Éabha WallCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content. 451025395
Reposted by Éabha WallDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 19/11/2024And BTW, I am one of the lucky ones who owns my apartment, but I believe that housing is the single most important issue, not only in and of itself, but because it is at the root of many other issues, e.g. far right fear mongering over immigration 1698
Reposted by Éabha WallDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Israel trying to ‘feminist wash’ its muderous campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon! Not a ‘historic’ first any right thinking feminist, historian or person would claim. 48615
Reposted by Éabha WallThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/11/2024Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humansdlvr.itBird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humansScientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks The teenager hospitalized with bird flu in British Columbia, Canada, may have a variation of the virus that has a mutation making it more… 35356154
Reposted by Éabha WallAnne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Socdems mandating consultation with DPOs. Should already be happening as a matter of course. Astounding that (a) it isn't and (b) that some counties don't even have one #GE24 084
Reposted by Éabha WallSeána @grantsana.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I can’t eat very much at the moment due to hyperemisis but I am obsessively thinking about food. The Off Menu podcast is helping. What’s the best thing you’ve ever eaten? 10122
Reposted by Éabha WallDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/11/2024Just because things are bad Does not mean we should let them get worse Just because things may get worse Does not mean we can not make things better But things will only get better If we don't resign ourselves to worse And fight for another tomorrow 161055248
Éabha Wall @eabhawall.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Pre ordered @cathyreay.bsky.social new children's book "How to Be Disabled & Proud" (or at least kinda sorta OK with it) You can too at the link below amzn.eu/d/0tGpPc5 #BookSky💙📚 #Disability #KidsBooks 040
Éabha Wall @eabhawall.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Copying my gal @gracespencegreen.bsky.social with a self introduction (we need to make bluespace happen guys). Missing: extremely cool picture of me in my wheelchair.. I'm 29, disabled & working as an engineer. Love reading, writing, tv & film. I am (let's face facts) chronically online. 230
Reposted by Éabha WallTara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 14/10/2024Nisreen's last fundraising account was hacked and the money stolen. 😔 We're starting from zero this time with me in charge of the account. Please donate if you can and share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisre...gofundme.comDonate to Help Nisreen's Family Rebuild Their Home in Gaza, organized by Tara ConnollyHi, my name is Tara and I'm Irish, living in Belgium. I'm fundrai… Tara Connolly needs your support for Help Nisreen's Family Rebuild Their Home in Gaza 052
Éabha Wall @eabhawall.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Get on this excellent kids book by @cathyreay.bsky.social The kind of disabled representation we need for kids! Cathy is a true gem and a real talent. #BookSky💙📚 062
Reposted by Éabha Wallcathyreay.bsky.social @cathyreay.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Really excited to announce my first book, How to be disabled and proud (or at least kinda sorta okay with it) published by Puffin and available for preorder now! www.penguin.co.uk/books/459258...penguin.co.ukHow To Be Disabled and ProudBrought to you by Puffin. A warm, funny and empowering guide to what you can expect growing up disabled, written by disabled journalist and mum Cathy Reay. Have you ever felt like you don’t fit in a... 5198
Reposted by Éabha WallCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024A week for a snooze in front of a warm range. 🥶 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/... 2135454
Éabha Wall @eabhawall.bsky.social · 18/11/2024End of year thread to chronical my reading towards the end of 2024. Just finished: Bleak House on Audible. I love these full cast Sam Mendes adaptations- my favourite is still David Copperfield ft Ncuti Gawta though! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BookSky 💙📚 000
Reposted by Éabha WallGrace Spence Green @gracespencegreen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Hi everyone! I thought I should introduce myself on here, I’m Grace, a junior doctor working in London 🧵 3122
Reposted by Éabha WallEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farmBedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaign 22865248
Reposted by Éabha WallDom Kelly @thetattooedjew.com · 17/11/2024I guess when he says “Make America Healthy Again” he means eradicate all disabled and chronically ill people. Eugenics 2025. 11911