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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For U2 in the Irish charts, it's a loud case of silencio.

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Saturday sun Came early one morning In a sky so clear and blue Saturday sun Came without warning So no one knew what to do www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwaq...

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YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.” — Ken Kesey

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Leonard Cohen's birthday: "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Me and my brother, it just used to be me and my brother. We used to do things together. We used to have fun. We used to roam the streets. There was people suffering of pain and hunger. Some people, their tongues were hanging out of their mouth. He used to juggle apples. He was,he used to amuse us."

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:

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We can never get up early enough to truly satisfy them

This week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Two John McGahern arrivals today: Frank Shovlin's landmark biography (out October 8th) Amongst Women (foreword by me, out now). The other reissues are That They May Face the Rising Sun (Kevin Barry), Memoir (Yiyun Li) and The Dark (Colin Walsh) @faberbooks.bsky.social www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thoroughly enjoying Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym—one of the first novels she wrote, circa 1940, but which was only published posthumously, in 1985. Such fun.

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I mean, if you have to get tied up by someone...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“It shows that translation – especially literary translation – is not just a matter of right or wrong, good or bad, but a continual exploratory process of interpretive reimagining and re-making.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratch

Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of Homer’s epic poem inspired Christopher Nolan’s box office hit, is revisiting it after criticising the film adaptation

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Starting the day off with Belle Baker. Would love to have heard her version of All of Me.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Lads in the alley giving it a fair shot, considering their state. @mickpuck.bsky.social's “The Whole of the Moon”: "You saw the whole of the moon. Whoh-hoh. Wooh-hoh. You saw the crescent. We saw Brigadoon. Too high, too [mumble], whole of the moon. Whoohoh. Wooh-hooooooooh. "Whole of the moon."

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

From my old stomping ground of New Brunswick, Canada, to boot. Had his contract with the Irvings’ Brunswick News terminated for drawing a cartoon criticising Donald Trump’s border policies. Demoted by The Washington Post and later let go by The Chronicle Herald—all for expressing his viewpoint.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Where we're at now:

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sorry to say (or happy to say—I can’t make up my mind), but this one is now fully booked!

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here I am! Two places available only. Six weeks. 12 great stories. And lots of writing and discussion.

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I do like this quote: “After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.” Dolly

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New tune! Wait Stop Don't

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Late Fragment” — Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@tomgauld.bsky.social knocking it out of the park as ever.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“If poetry is a wheel, the hub for that wheel is love poetry.” — Michael Longley

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Me at faculty board meetings:

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Chapter 101 down. Only 21 more to go. I am in bondage to Of Human Bondage. That Philip Carey. He would really need to smarten himself up and time is running out.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Yeats Building looking good tonight

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/08/2026

BTW, the play hinges on one of those things that people in publishing quickly learn and lots of other people find surprising: The publication rights for private correspondence are owned by the letter writer, not the letter recipient. The recipient owns the paper; that's it.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's not even a laughing matter, is it?

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

John Gardner: "Most of the books one finds in drugstores, supermarkets, & even small-town libraries are not well written at all; a smart chimp with a good creative-writing teacher and a real love of sitting around banging a typewriter could have written books vastly more interesting and elegant" 1/2

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Shane too of course.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's been a tough few years all the same:

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Such a great loss. Nance was an enormous influence upon me as a young writer during my MFA days at EWU. 🙏 May she rest in peace. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A couple of courses I will be facilitating through the Irish Writers Centre. Both are online. The short story course runs for 6 weeks and the publishing one is a one-day event. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/the-... irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/from...

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

David Mamet: “In the bad film the fellow says, “hello Jack, I’m coming over to your home this evening because I need to get the money you borrowed from me.” In the good film, he says, “Where the hell were you yesterday?”

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Poets, your time has come!

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Remembering Edna O'Brien who died two years ago today.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“The jersey I was wearing yesterday... My father passed away, just gone three years. He was a quiet man, but he always followed the GAA. ...I said: ‘Dad sign your name there [on the jersey]...The day will come when Mayo lift Sam Maguire, and you’ll be there.’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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‘The emotions broke’: Mayo fan on viral moment when he was overcome with Sam Maguire win

Shane Fitzgerald, aka ‘The Mayo Bandit’, calls county’s first All-Ireland win in 75 years ‘a weight off my shoulders’

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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