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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wonderful launch this evening of Issue 64 of #Crannóg magazine in the Crane Bar in Galway. My thanks to editors Tony O’Dwyer, Geraldine Burke and Jarlath Fahy for publishing my poem ‘Elegy: for my mother’ #poetry

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My sister Mary & I attended the wonderful launch of Carlo Gèbler’s new book ‘No One Tells You: The Last Years of Edna O’Brien’ @newislandbooks at Hodges Figgis yesterday - Carlo has paid a huge part in my writing life, at Trinity College & PhD extern Huge thanks @newislandbooks for the invitation.

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

‘Ceasefire’ by Michael Longley, from his 1998 Selected Poems (Cape Poetry), reviewed by Peter McDonald in The Irish Times 24 October ‘98 #Poetry

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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This Friday night! 💫💫 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Terribly sad to hear of the death of Frank McDonald. His granular knowledge of planning, Dublin’s architectural heritage, and the built environment was second to none. His journalism was an act of hope for a better place, and his passion and fastidiousness made a real difference. A man who cared.

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Huge thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor at the Irish Times, for his shout-out today for the Edinburgh Writing Awards shortlists (and for listing details of the Thomas MacDonagh Hedge, for which I am Talks Curator). Loads of good news here👇 #Books www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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The Fallen by Louise Brangan on $75,000 Cundill History Prize shortlist

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A joy to judge the #ThreePillarsPress Poetry Pamphlet Award. #DromineerNenaghLiteraryFestival is hosting the launch of winner Niamh Twomey’s 'The Outside World', & runner-up Elaine Westnott-O’Brien’s 'M(other)ing' at 6pm Friday, 9 Oct. Hope to see you there! www.nenagharts.com/event/dnlf-p...

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DNLF: Prize presentation and launch with Three Pillars Press – Nenagh Arts Centre

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/09/2026

The writer and activist Gloria Steinem died Wednesday, at 92. “I raise money. I talk. I write. I tell stories. I want to do justice to the women I meet,” she said, in a 2015 New Yorker Profile: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nM3mol

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thrilled to be shortlisted #EdinburghEssayAward 2026 - a truly international shortlist with writers from Ireland, UK, Canada, US, New Zealand & Japan. Congrats to Lynda Marron, a fellow Irish writer Judges are Professor Camilla Toulmin and Sir Mark Jones. www.scottishartstrust.org/results-essays

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Edinburgh Essay Awards 2025 — Scottish Arts Trust

Links to all the prizewinning and shortlisted essays from the inaugural Edinburgh Essay Awards. The prizewinners were selected by Sir Mark Jones, former interim director of the British Mueum and Camil...

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A #painting "Portrush Harbour came after cycling from Derry around Binevenagh and on to north Antrim where after sleeping off a sickness for 24 hours in Portrush I walked to the harbour the next day. When I finished painting this scene I cycled off around the Causeway Coast. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in very loose painterly acrylics on unstretched canvas. Under a teal sky on a sunny day we look across a harbour back in at a town from a pier. The town is two rows of buildings running in a band across the painting, the far one virtually on top of the slightly nearer one. Buildings are narrow and three or four stories high in bright pastel colours of mainly orange, pink, yellow, white, cream and green, with window and door details in incomplete sketchy white lines around dark suggestive shapes. Roofs are slate rendered in dark blue, many with dormer windows. A band of a green grass bank drops from the street down to the harbour where a grey-blue harbour wall curves around the water of light blue rippling away from its centre with dark blue and, in the foreground, red strokes. About two dozen small boats are in the harbour, mostly in the centre. While white dominates they are in variations of white with dark blue, orange, light blue and red, with several suggestions of masts and ropes. Signed top left in dark blue: Liam Daly

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today was definitely the day I needed to stumble to the kitchen and pour myself a cup of ambition Thank you, Dolly, for giving the world words to express our daily selves 🙏

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...

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The Jason Arday Reckoning

The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Lovely family meal at Larkin’s pub in Garrykennedy last evening - Larkin’s was voted recently as the best pub in Ireland - great to catch up with Nenagh friends who were also supping there at the same time. #FamilyFirst www.nenaghguardian.ie/2026/06/26/l...

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Lovely review by Adam Wyeth of Shapechangers, edited by @nessao.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social in today’s @irishtimes.com #Anthology #Essays Delighted to have an essay in this book.

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A joy to judge the inaugural Three Pillars Press Pamphlet Award 2026 #ThreePillarsPress #poetry WINNER 'The Outside World' by Niamh Twomey RUNNER-UP 'M(other)ing' by Elaine Westnott-O’Brien My congratulations to the Highly Commended & Commended poets also. www.3pillarspress.com/post/the-res...

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The Results - 2026 Poetry Pamphlet Competition

We are delighted to announce the results of the Three Pillars Press 2026 Poetry Pamphlet competition. Our judge Eleanor Hooker wrote:It was a joy and an honour to read the entries for the inaugural Th...

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/07/2026

Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent continues to dominate the Independent Bookshop Top 20 by taking a fifth week in the top slot 👇

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Pushing the envelope: Five weeks at the top of the Indie chart for Virginia Evans

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Time for a #painting "Howth Lighthouse and Dublin Bay" was one of the dozens of paintings I did the first time I did a 24-hour livestreamed video painting marathon thing. It's an evening view of the Baily Lighthouse and across the bay as seen from high up on the Howth Cliff Walk #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on mat board. A blue painting, of two halves looking from a distance down and across a bay. The horizon is a touch below the halfway mark. Bottom half is the sea rendered in a dark blue somewhere between ultramarine and royal blue. On the right edge a triangular of a headland juts out into the sea. It is a very dark red and green, appearing almost black. On its upper slope there is a step where a small white and grey lighthouse sits, the tower rising from a rectangular building. Above the horizon the sky is a smokey pale blue with a warm under-painting hinting at broad horizontal patches of very muted orange, appearing almost as a pale green. Along the horizon a narrow undulating strip of land reaches out from the right edge to three-quarters of the way across, tapering as it stretches out. It is dark so contrast with the sky, but not as dark as the headland in the right foreground. The sea closest to the land is a pale blue, almost the same as the sky, and has a smokey edge giving the effect of the land rising from mist and over at its left end disappearing into it. Inside that pale blue strip is a broken sliver of a dark line from the right edge which is a pier or breakwater. I took this photo of the painting before I added my signature.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 28/07/2026

‘We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone’ We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Wildfires still burning on our beautiful Sliabh na mBan. Hoping the fire and rescue teams keep safe. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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Through the Ears of a Fish

She says it’s impolite, says she doesn’t recognize the rude trout as anyone connected to her life.

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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Utterly delighted and grateful to be on this list.

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

💙💛 President Catherine Connolly hosted a reception at Áras an Uachtaráin for students from Gaza who have come to study at universities in Ireland, including University College Dublin. @president.ie

Group photo of students with President Catherine Connolly on the steps of Áras an Uachtaráin

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Prose poems! Prose poems! Get yer lovely contemporary prose poems here

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Pinks #45: Angels and Bandages

Seven prose poems from new books I'm enjoying

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

‘Why Gaza cannot be erased from the Mediterranean narrative: Maynooth University student @abdallaha.bsky.social reflects on identity, loss and the absence of Gaza from academic discourse’ Magnificent writing by Abdallah in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Abdallah Aljazzar: Why Gaza cannot be erased from the Mediterranean narrative

Maynooth University student Abdallah Aljazzar reflects on identity, loss and the absence of Gaza from academic discourse

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fabulous launch this evening of @leeannequinn.bsky.social new collection 'Landscape With Question' @carcanet.bsky.social - with a great introduction by poet @sashadugdale.bsky.social, and just incredible readings from Leeanne. Can't wait for my copy to arrive in the post. #poetry #launch

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Am so enjoying Billy Ramsell’s new collection ‘Render’ - congratulations to Billy and to @bansheepress.bsky.social on another gorgeous book. Read the whole world in the sum of ‘A Pocket Square’, a tiny poem, as economic and controlled as it expansive and expressive... #Poetry

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

and while I prefer to read from a book, to hold it and even dog-ear it, the advantage of ebooks is the search option, and the ease it provides to look up phrases, repeated phrases and passages in the text... #ABookThing #Reading #Books

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

...the third death is “that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time” Pleased to be Talks Curator for the #ThomasMacDonaghHedgeSchool 2026 (16-19 September) again this yr Thanks to Garry Cotter, Editor at the Nenagh Guardian, for publishing my article this week.

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New hardback forthcoming of Bowen's novels The Last September & The Death of the Heart. Intro by #tessahadley Published 30 July 2026 | Everyman’s Library | £17.99 | Hardback '...depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity and psychological complexity reminiscent of Henry James.'

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Researching the life of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter, pioneering #freshwater ecologist in Wales and North America. thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...

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Who was... Kathleen Carpenter?

A biography of Kathleen Carpenter, a pioneering freshwater ecologist.

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Last walk of the day and we hear a sedge warbler A little bird with a big voice Kicking up a fuss all night Serenades - Heaney the bird is considered a comforting spirit of the dead …believed to carry the souls of children returning to the waterside to sing and comfort their grieving mothers

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“...the steep rise of technology really does change so much culturally and socially, there’s this value of handwritten communication, which is kind of how we have history.” www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

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Women’s Prize winner Virginia Evans calls for letter-writing to make a comeback

The American author’s epistolary debut, about a witty, letter-loving woman in her seventies, has inspired readers across the world to pick up a pen

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The first translation of Dirty Linen, into Polish by Maciej Studencki, is published in August by Luneta. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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