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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My debut poetry collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, will be published in May by @thegallerypress.bsky.social To have this beautiful Paul Henry painting, ‘Incoming Tide, Achill’, as the cover is beyond my wildest dreams! 🌕 🌊 Available to pre-order ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ gallerypress.com/product/midn...

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Painting by Bo Bartlett ‘Open Gate’ Oil on canvas. 2011. Size 48 x 66 cm.

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Elizabeth Klinck @eklinck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Thanks to Tom Hastings for sharing this great letter from John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 29/01/2026

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

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💀💀 Guy Le Mort 💀💀 @guylejeune.eurosky.social · 07/01/2026

At the ‘Giz a job’ stage of my career. I can sweep really good. I can paint shit. I can build shit. I can write shit. I can play shit. Must be a job where I can do all of that. Giz a job.

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Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Another Christmas card from the archives.

Drawing of Santa and the reindeer and sleigh crashed against the Samuel Beckett Bridge across the Liffey, Dublin.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Sorry to hear Martin Parr has left us. May he rest in peace. What a talent! I am obsessed with this photo of his - Liverpool 1983 #MartinParr

Martin Parr photo, “Liverpool 1983”. There are two cars parked to side of an old, boarded-up single-storey building beside a block of flats. One of the cars is parked (if that’s the right term) on its side. A little girl in white and pink with 2 high hair bunches is marching past, purposefully.

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Cantóirí Choir Ireland @cantoiri.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

We’re pleased to shared Cantóirí’s RTÉ LyricFM Choirs for Christmas 2025 entry: Suantraí na Maighdine, arranged by Anne-Marie O’Farrell, with harp accompaniment by Muirne Griffin. Recording Venue: St Bartholomew’s Church, Dublin. Sound & Recording: Donnadh Kennedy www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Choir of approx 35 people, in casual dress, standing on an ornate altar. Concert harp and harpist in the foreground.

Muirne Griffin, playing her concert harp.

Donnadh Kennedy sitting side-on, wearing headphones, mixing and recording sound.

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Cantóirí Choir Ireland @cantoiri.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

🎶🎄Free Christmas concert - all welcome - Wed 3rd Dec 19:00, Cantóirí Choir at Chester Beatty Library @chesterbeatty.bsky.social 🎄🎶

CANTÓIRÍ CHOIR DUBLIN
AT THE CHESTER BEATTY
Join Dublin-based choir Cantóirí, led by Musical Director Ben Barnes, as we sing a selection of Christmas songs, including some
of the most well-loved carols from around the world!
The performance has become a joyful tradition, perfect for ringing in the Christmas season!

CHESTER BEATTY
DUBLIN CASTLE
DUBLIN 2
D02 AD92

19:00 WEDNESDAY 3rd DECEMBER 2025
FREE OF CHARGE
& NO BOOKING REQUIRED

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This @manderleypress.bsky.social book is such a joy. Life-affirming escapism. I just spent 10 mins on Google Maps trying (& failing) to find a tiny alley off E 71st St that Hanff describes as a perfect English mews. Now I want to go to NYC to seek it out. There must/should be a map of Hanff spots🤔💡.

Shot of front cover of “Letters from New York” by Helene Hanff. It has a jaunty yellow spine and a line drawing of a woman with glasses walking a white scotty dog, with a backdrop of hedges/trees and NY skyscrapers.

Screenshot from the book, Page 2 of 2: …..“blossoms and there was nobody to open the snapdragons; but more than that, she missed him.
'He was a lovely bumble bee,' she told me sadly. "The two of us worked out there together, we never bothered each other; we
were companions.'
Well, last week I was on her terrace one afternoon, and I don't know what made me ask, 'Did your bumble bee ever come back?' And Nina's mouth set in a disapproving line.
'His son was here this morning, she said. 'He's an ado-lescent, he has no manners. He kept flying in my face. And he dashed all over the place, from this flower to that, and then back to the first one. He hasn't any idea what he's doing!'
'He'll learn, I said. 'One day he'll be grown up and sedate,
and you'll probably be sorry.
Last year Nina's son, Claudie, was an adolescent. Now he's finished college, he's grown up and independent, hes joined the Marines and you have to call him Chuck.”

Screenshot from the book, page 1 of 2: “This bafled me, because bird-watchers had persuaded me that birds are easily frightened. All year round when Im walking in the Park, singing or kicking leaves, I am shushed by bird-watchers who tiptoe up to a tree and stand looking up with out breathing, for fear of scaring the birds away. So I consulted Nina about this contradiction.
'Birds, said Nina judiciously, 'don't like bird-watchers. Birdwatchers stare at them, invading their privacy, so birds hide from them. Dogs pay no attention to the birds, so the birds like them.'
I gotta tell you about Nina's bumble bee. Last year a bee came every day to pollinate her terrace. The old wooden terrace door had a hole in the top, and when the bee got tired he crawled into the hole and took a nap. But last fall Nina had a new door installed. And the next day the bee came and worked, and then looked for his nap hole. He searched more and more frantically for it, before he gave up and flew off. And this spring he didn't come back. Nina was inconsolable. Her orange tree had no”….

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Just spreading the word about a poetry competition closing soon (20th). I entered a previous @walklistencreate.org competition & it was a really positive experience. The organisers are thoroughly decent skins. #PoetryCommunity #Walkers write.walklistencreate.org/wr_instance/...

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Write About Walking – In the Dark

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

My mother likes miniatures. She’s 5 foot tall and believes nothing in the world should be any bigger than it needs to be. She is constantly trimming things - tote bags, sleeping bags, walking polls. She loves birds, but only the little ones #smallisbeautiful

2 garden bird feeders hooked on a poll, protected from large birds by an umbrella, attached to the poll with cable ties.

A garden feeder surrounded by a cage, to limit access for all but the smallest birds.

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BOO! @ronandusty.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Heads up. Any of ye Dubs who use the green line luas to get to work should check RTE now. There's problems with the line.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Calling bass-range choral singers based in Dublin 📣

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

A lichen-covered bench in Manaton, Devon.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This was great fun. Complete with fake moustaches and BYOB drinks and snacks. 👨🏻🎤🍿

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A gorgeous morning in Stoneybatter! The cafes are open, wonderful coffee on every corner and equally wonderful comics here! We're open until 4pm today with @tinygreens.bsky.social at the desk😌 littledeercomics.ie

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Just spotted you on the bill for tonight’s Vintage Room Sessions @sineadgriffin.bsky.social . I’m booked to go along with another poetry pal. See you there. Look forward to your reading. Eilín

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Passed my PhD viva today. Minor corrections and the customary college red tape left, but the finish line is well in sight. Phew! (Never again😅)

Photo of a draft thesis with dog-eared multi-coloured sticky tabs.

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Ola Majekodunmi @olamajekodunmi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Nearly two weeks ago, I performed some trilingual poems at Art & the Outdoors, hoping to connect us all. #poetry #trilingual #PoetryIreland #HughLaneGallery

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Mortified it's taken me so long to visit @ansiopaleabhar.bsky.social in their new (temporary) location on Camden Street. Love that they're sharing the building with the School of English! Excellent window - puifín beag álainn😍 @gerrydalyart.bsky.social

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Ola Majekodunmi @olamajekodunmi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It's interesting when white people say to POC Irish, "Just be Irish, don't bring colour into it" because it isn't as straightforward as that. Our experiences are different and that needs to be acknowledged but yet celebrated in all its complexities.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I had a really enjoyable visit to the Connections Arts Centre #ConnectingArtistsCollective exhibition at RCSI this week & left filled with infectious positive energy. More info in ALT. The exhibit moves to Belfast next @universityofatypical.org #InclusiveArts #Neurodiversity #IntellectualDisability

Picture of a painting by Peter Kehoe: "Double Trouble" (two foxes huddled together against a backdrop of lush green foliage and grass). For the artist’s bio, visit:
https://www.connectionsartscentre.ie/peter-kehoe

Picture is of 3 art cards and a flyer for the Connection Arts Centre. The art cards feature paintings by: Bearnard Durnin (a sea plane landing - white plane and light blue sea spray, navy sea and dark blue mountains tinged with golden light), Rachel Connell (a red plane against a blue sky with white clouds) and Pamela Kavanaugh (a cheerful brown pug dog against a white background with lots of multi-coloured spots).
For more information on the artists, visit: www.connectionartscentre.ie/collective

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Mrs Barry’s daughter called to the door unexpectedly today 🥲💐

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I never met you Mrs Barry
but the garden teemed as you intended,
that first summer.

A yellow rose in every bed––
a tester card from cream to corn. You were alive then still, I think, and not just in the flowers.

I found a Mother’s Day card
in the matted dust beneath the stairs,
and old sunglasses (yellow-framed, of course).
We posted them to your solicitor.

We watched the roses fade, wondering if deadheading was an option,
sending notes to companies
to take you off their listings.
NOT KNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS, we put.
That wasn’t true.
This address knew you to the bone.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

🖼️ Adolf Mackeprang

Two deer running in woodland setting, painting.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Betty on #newsnight …What an inspiring person - a legend!

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 18/06/2025

Thank you to the perfect @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & Ana from #NorthBayPoetics who invited me to the States via zoom, my two sensational readers @edepaor.bsky.social & @sprestonduncan.bsky.social & the open mic’ers who stunned. You left me wanting more but time is never Enough! I’ll be back🙏❤️

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

My absolute favourite 💙 Mertensia maritima, Oysterplant Such a joy to see this gorgeous plant again this week! Caithness #WildflowerHour

The Oysterplant is a very beautiful and rare member of the Borage Family. Like other members of this family such as Lungwort or Forget-me-not, the buds are pink before opening to five-petalled blue flowers. In the Uk it is a northern coastal plant and it’s a species on the edge. Much reduced in its former range, it dislikes rising sea levels and its seeds require a good winter chill in order to germinate.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Finding myself unexpectedly upset by #housewifeoftheyear @housewifeoftheyear.bsky.social . Born in 1975, I remember watching the competition. The restrictive ideal of womanhood depicted thankfully never seemed realistic to me. I just missed the most repressive times.I’m sad for those less fortunate.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Our choir has a concert coming up. It’s a very varied programme - all short unaccompanied pieces, with something for every taste - Monteverdi, Rheinberger, Tallis, Ukrainian & Irish folk songs, Sinéad O’Connor, Sam Ryder etc etc. Tickets: buytickets.at/cantoiri/171...

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Buy tickets – Tutti i Fiori: An evening of choral colour – Sandford Church, Ranelagh

Cantóirí Choir Summer Concert. Tickets €15 each (€12 concession rate available). Children may attend free of charge, with a pay...

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Eid Al-Adha haircut day for the kids thanks to the volunteers with Dignity for Palestine. The SpiceBag Ireland logo on the wall. Yup, Adam. Yup the Shack. Yup Dignity for Palestine.

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We are still accepting applications for The New Writing Prize. The prize is for previously unpublished writers. You can send in your applications via Submittable until 5.00pm (Irish Time) today. irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

MacNeice’s drunkenness of things being various. (out of season).

Multi-coloured rose bush in a neighbour’s front garden. Red, pink, yellow and combinations of those colours.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Morning @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social - I tried to bleat about your launch last night, but tagged in the wrong Luke 🤦🏻‍♀️.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Looking forward to reading my newest poetry purchase @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin launch 14:00 Sunday next, 1st June at Books Upstairs. Congratulations Luke!

Cover of book.

Luke Morgan. Blood Atlas. Winner of The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Ward. Arlen House.

Colour drawing of a galleon ship in full sail.

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Really looking forward to this launch. @channel-lit.bsky.social is one of my favourite magazines and it’s a privilege to be included.

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Sinéad Griffin @sineadgriffin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Fabulous evening at the Dundrum Library launch of Washing Windows V @arlenhouse.bsky.social & a special reading of Eavan Boland’s work by her daughter Eavan. So many great readings including Liz Houchin, Maureen Daly, Caitriona Lane @nessao.bsky.social @siobhanflynn.bsky.social @edepaor.bsky.social

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

My association with @eatthestorms.com has been an absolute pleasure - a life and poetry highlight. Congratulations and best wishes to Damien and the lucky subeditor of Issue 5. 🥂🌊

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 01/05/2025

32 Poets 32 Poems 32 counties Our own May Storm has arrived, the podcast is celebrating Poetry Day Ireland, thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social by hosting a special episode (on most platforms) including Spotify, Podbean, PocketCasts, Amazon Music ☘️ Spotify link… open.spotify.com/episode/4U9R...

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May Storm, A Poetry Day Ireland 2025 celebration on Eat the Storms

Eat The Storms · Episode

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This was a lovely reading for an amazing book! There are more planned. I’ll skeet about them (I prefer the term bleat). The next few: 9 May 18:30 Dublin, Books Upstairs 10 May 14:00 Dún Laoghaire, Lexicon 10 May 14:00 Waterford, Gallery of Art To buy: Alan Hanna’s, Books Upstairs, Charlie Byrne’s.

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Arlen House @arlenhouse.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House Forthcoming *Washing Windows V* First launch on Saturday 3 May at 14.15 Strokestown International Poetry Festival The most comprehensive anthology of contemporary Irish women poets ever published with over 300 contributors BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/wash...

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 15/04/2025

2 metres apart… As I sit on 15.04.25 and wait to see the doctor at 11.31am, hopefully for the last time, at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, now aged 49, it feels like a good time to revisit this counting poem from my 2nd #poetry collection, Back from Away, published by the marvellous Turas Press

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Hit a write-up wall after weeks full throttle, so took today off to read poetry, drink tea, and finish watching #DyingforSex. If you haven’t seen it, do! Just make sure you have tissues at the ready towards the end. Michelle Williams & Jenny Slate deserve all the awards.

Hospital waiting room chairs - William Williams as Molly and Michelle Slate as Nikki, waiting for an appointment with a blue folder of medical records.

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Open Access Social Work @openaccess-sw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH MAKING NEIGHBOURHOOD CONNECTIONS: EXPERIENCES OF OLDER ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES OF LOCAL VOLUNTEERING AND LEISURE, FACILITATED BY LOCAL CONNECTORS Boland, G. et al / British Journal of Learning Disabilities #openaccess #socialwork doi.org/10.1111/bld....

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James Ashe @jamesashestudio.com · 08/04/2025

I got my artistic licence today, it’s really easy to get one. All you need is whatever tools you have on hand and your imagination. No monthly subscriptions, AI Slop generators, or credentials needed!

A photo of a hand drawn ‘artistic licence’. Features a black and white illustration of James and ‘Artistic Licence’ and ‘Licensed to Make Art’ written on it.

Back of the artistic licence card with two rules written on it. They are ‘Don’t be a dick’ and ‘There are no rules’.

Photo of James holding his artistic licence.

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