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Eva

@evaduffy.bsky.social
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UK-based Dubliner 🇮🇪 Bookworm Head of communications- chartered CIPR communicator - former journalist

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Fantastic afternoon hearing from two of my favourite contemporary writers, Eimear McBride and Kevin Barry, at the Cambridge Literary Festival, lead expertly in conversation by @newstatesman.com’s Tom Gatti 📚
Eimear is sitting in a chair wearing a black and gold trouser suit, black shirt and emerald green tie with a thick knot. She is speaking and appears animated. Kevin is sitting in a chair. He is dressed casually in a light green shirt. In front of him is a low table with a water jug and glasses and a copy of his book The Heart in Winter. He is talking and gesticulating. Tom and Eimear sit on either side of a low table with a red tablecloth in which sits a jug of water and glasses. Tom and Eimear are laughing.
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
But available in public libraries, it seems - New Yorkers can borrow it!
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
@ronanhession.bsky.social well done - New York Public Library’s book of the day!
Email screenshot: “Today’s Book of the Day is quiet yet thought provoking” Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
First exhibition of 2025 - Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour. Superbly-curated but Bell’s work felt hugely derivative - her style veering erratically between Rembrandt, Cézanne, Matisse, even a nod to Kandinsky - without mastering any. Textbook class privilege. 📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Loving the 25% increase on the cost of a bus trip into town. Happy Back To Work Day to all who are participating - and a shout out to all the bus drivers explaining government price caps to disgruntled passengers.
Bus ticket showing £2.50 fare to Northampton town centre
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Really love the NHS text message updates telling me where my donated blood has gone. Genius idea. #GiveBlood
Text message advising that donates blood has been issued to Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A pint of plain is yer only man #GiveBlood 🩸
A needle is inserted into a bare arm. A tube of blood leading from the needle is visible in the background
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A work colleague, who drew my name in our team Secret Santa, heard me raving about the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Irish Writers Weekend so he researched which writers took part to help his book buying for my present 📚 What wonderful choices!
Three books side by side: I Don’t Want to Talk About Home by Suad Aldarra, Trespass by Louise Kennedy and Without Warning by @kitdewaal.bsky.social
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ah, you’d miss the subeditors all the same …
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Oooooooooooh look what was in today’s post 💕 @stingingfly.bsky.social
A copy of the latest edition of the Stinging Fly literary magazine
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A poignant coincidence to have been reading Caoilinn Hughes’ The Wild Laughter as UK politicians voted in favour of assisted dying. Gorgeously written, as you’d expect from a poet-turned-writer, with deliciously dislikeable characters and laugh-out-loud dark humour.
Screenshot of the audiobook cover of The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Oh. Foe-cal Not Fuh-cal. Disappointing. 🇮🇪
Screen shot of a BlueSky account which on first glance looks like the Irish word “focal” which means word followed by the word data.
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thanks for the recommendation! Btw I think you accidentally photobombed my photo of Eimear McBride on Saturday 😁
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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A wonderful day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for its Irish Writers Weekend in the company of some of my favourite living writers, including Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride and Lisa McInerney. Discovered exciting new writers and poets to check out too.
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