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Angus Laverty

@gusclaw.bsky.social
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Working in Public Affairs. Media and politics junkie but really lovin' literature, tunes…..and rugby! ‘Fail we may, Sail we must’. Board member Wexford Local Link

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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 47m
Welcome to Dublin ARC Gloria in all your three masted steel hulled magnificence This folks is the actual flagship of the Columbian navy #AgeofSail
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 22h
Delighted to be out and about at a Dublin Theatre Festival first night @druidtheatre.bsky.social 'A moon for the misbegotten' my pre show doom scrolling turned up this
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
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Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86
Her family paid tribute to her in a statement calling her the "most wonderful mother" and a "cherished grandmother".
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
John Coltrane's Olé (1961). Again and again. Lorca"s "Gypsy ballards", Langston Hughes' articles and poems from Spain, Malcolm X, NY flamenco clubs, Pete Seeger's rendition of El Quinto Regimiento and the memory of American brigaders which Coltrane must surely have known...
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/09/2026
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023
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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide
Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Philippe Janin (French Artist, born 1959) "Landscape with Ochre Lands", 2019. Oil on Canvas, 100 × 65 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026
Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist in full:

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026
‘This is writing at its best. There’s plenty to enjoy, some blissful escapism and prose to die for’ We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Loving these early morning skies almost makes it worthwhile to get up and out in the first place
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Remembering Middlesbrough-born football manager Brian Clough, who died on this day 2004. ‘Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.'
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/09/2026
The year the author Cormac McCarthy turned 40, he announced that it was time for a change, and he started driving west. The journey would transform his writing and American literature, Michael O’Donnell argues.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Midlife Crisis
Heading west at 40 transformed his writing—and American literature.
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nostalgia, tough politics and even tougher journalism Here in the hallowed halls of the the Mansion House at the launch of 'Fearless' @kevinrafter.bsky.social Looking like a great read The past is indeed a strange country and Kevin Rafter is a top notch guide and storyteller
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DrWeb @drweb2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Larry Belcher on Bullfights in The Sun Also Rises – The Hemingway Society – One True Podcast | DrWeb's Domain drwebdomain.blog/2026/09/10/l...
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Larry Belcher on Bullfights in The Sun Also Rises – The Hemingway Society – One True Podcast
Welcome to another installment of One True Podcast! A wonderful scholar, raconteur, and true devotee to the ritual of bullfighting, Larry Belcher guides us through the ways Hemingway presents bullf…
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trio of beautiful 3 masters moored Liffeyside today, wonderful echoes of the golden age of sail always remind me of the opening lines of Moby Dick '.....nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.' #Dublin #ageofsail
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LeaLyster @lealyster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Holly Farrell Paperbacks acrylic and oils on board 2022
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tá Bean an Tí Aoife Ní Thuairisg réidh le haghaidh clár na hoíche anocht! 💃🏼✨🎶 Gradam Ceoil TG4 2026 🏆 Anocht | Tonight 🕤 21:30 Ar an Aer, ar TG4.ie & ar YouTube Trad TG4 💻
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ah you can't beat a full Irish on on a bright Sunday morning
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How Homer's Odyssey Conquered the Ancient World! If you thought that Nolan took some liberties with Homer's poem, try what the slightly later Greeks and Romans did to it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ15...
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How Homer’s Odyssey Conquered the Ancient World
YouTube video by Instant Classics
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La Vuelta @lavuelta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🏆 Two years later Eddie has done it again! 👏 ¡Vaya victorión en Peñas Blancas de Eddie Dunbar! #LaVuelta26
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Eddie Dunbar You Beaut! Reign in Spain #LaVuelta2026
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you've enjoyed the Odyssey, don't stop too soon! you've got a fantastic opening to loads of other ancient literature (some of the most important and some of the funniest..inc a man turned into a pig who chooses to stay that way) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
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How Homer's Odyssey Conquered the Ancient World
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 10 September · 53min
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OMG now they're coming after our cinnamon rolls...
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Little treat for myself the mighty Andy Irvine 'Devoted, Songs of Woody Guthrie' Inspire, rally and belt out a tune
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And the return to work begins, only been a week but the morning sky seemed excited by the prospect
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....
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The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism
People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just look what landed today, lovely piece of work from Sean Cooney with Eliza Carthy, Sam Carter and Jennifer Reid Great sounds and a big chunk of history
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not a bad way to wrap up Gorey's Cuisle Cheoil weekend with a hopping session in Browne's
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Very sad to hear this What a storm of energy and creativity silenced Remember him at Wexford Arts Centre and later at Smock Alley Lovely man World a less colourful and less interesting place now www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Theatre director Patrick Sutton dies
Sutton was founder and ‘driving force’ behind restoration of Smock Alley Theatre
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Peterloo Massacre happened on this day 1819, est 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation.
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Whaaaat Three week of Gideon Sounds way too biblical to me But I'm not complaining @bbc6music.bsky.social @gidcoe.bsky.social
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bonn cré-umha buaite ag Andrew Coscoran s'againne 🥉
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bonn óir buaite ag Kate O'Connor i gCraobhchomórtais Lúthchleasaíochta na hEorpa in Birmingham 🥇
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I must admit that i have never actually seen the Danube but @mrkocnnll.bsky.social delivers the Danube as a bracing river as metaphor Do yourself a favour and pick up a copy of todays @irishtimes.com
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Mark O’Connell (@mrkocnnll.bsky.social)
Writer and so forth
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pick up a copy of todays Irish Times, take a few minutes to read this powerful piece, not to give fresh air to a new controversy but as a reminder of where and how far we have come And as a spur to keep moving forward
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orlabarry.bsky.social @orlabarry.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is just like the movie "Air Force One"! Oh, wait -- in that scenario, President Harrison Ford stayed on the plane, protected everyone else, and fought off the bad guys. I guess he didn't know about the catering cart option - comment below article www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...
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With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy (Gift Article)
In response to a threat against the jet last month, the president was clandestinely removed in a catering container. But the plane was sent into the skies anyway with government employees and reporter...
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sparse, gritty, always reminds me of the first time I read Hemingway's short stories Have loved Willy Vlautin's 'The Left and the Lucky' another winning tale to add to the canon #WillyVlautin
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Ah Stephen Rea and Neil Martin 'The given note' and 'Port Na bPúcai' Beautiful #Fleadh26
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is lovely…. #BookSky
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Guilty Secret time Beautiful Summer evening Home and garden alone Gipsy Kings 'Historia' album on and loud Which may followed by some Paco de Lucia And the weekend awaits
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
THREAD/ORIGINAL ART GIVEAWAY This hare linoprint is by my mum, Jo. I'll be sending an original of this to one randomly chosen person who reposts this link to my recently updated website & pops a reply below. www.tom-cox.com The offer is open worldwide. I also have some more art to give away...
A meadow hare, filled with flowers, cut from lino by my mum, Jo.
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If this is even a patch on his 'Write Around the World' then Richard E Grant tackling The Odyssey will not just be a feast but fun and just a bit inspiring too #RichardEGrant #TheOdyssey #MustWatchTVTreat
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 01/08/2026
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The walled town of Wexford: ‘Some people said to us that it must be like living in a prison’
In the first of a four-part series on Ireland’s walled towns, we visit Wexford, where history is quite literally in people’s back gardens
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Oh for a few leaked tallies #GMMayor2026
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you had any lingering excitement about the Great Manchester mayoral by- election Then waiting for this result would sap what was left Oh for a good old Irish STV count
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I had been playing this track a lot over the last couple of weeks, will be playing it a helluva lot more now #GlenHansard
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Leave a Light On
YouTube video by Dervish - Topic
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Glen Hansard was Ireland’s band leader, something Bono or Geldof couldn’t be www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
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Glen Hansard was Ireland’s band leader, something Bono or Geldof couldn’t be
The Frames’ frontman was the still-yet-chaotic centre of an indie-folk storm, whose job was to hold it all together
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