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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 · 2h
I had you down for at least one
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 5h
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 3h
'Watching the ships roll in And then I watch 'em roll away again' I'm not exactly sitting on The Dock of the Bay but Dublin Port is fairly hoppin' and it is great to see #DublinPort
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 23h
Loving 'East of Eden' on Netflix Always loved Steinbeck, it's great to have him back #EastofEden I'm feeling this may take down a #Steinbeck rabbit hole Salinas and Monterey here I come
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For those of you not from these parts there must be local versions of the phrase 'Going home with a big happy head on me' What a night enjoying Muldoons Picnic at the NCH Paul Muldoon, Horslips, Paul Brady, Anne Enright, Neil Jordan
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For those of you not from these parts there must be local versions of the phrase 'Going home with a big happy head on me' What a night enjoying Muldoons Picnic at the NCH Paul Muldoon, Horslips, Paul Brady, Anne Enright, Neil Jordan
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ask me if I'm a happy chappie I'm here at the National Concert hall just me and Paul Muldoon, and Paul Brady, Barry Devlin, Jim Lockhart, Neil Jordan, Anne Enright, Iarla o Lionáird etc, etc Roll on the oiche!
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Looking like we might have to dust this one off again Nick Interesting times eh!
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is it about a bicycle?
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 02/10/2026
This weekend marks 80 years since Patrick Kavanagh put Hilda Moriarty into verse in what would become one of Ireland’s best known songs. Her son, Daragh O’Malley has reflected on the woman behind it saying his mother was Kavanagh’s 'muse'
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‘My mother was certainly the muse’: Daragh O’Malley marks 80 years since ‘On Raglan Road’
Actor Daragh O’Malley reflects on his mother, who inspired Patrick Kavanagh’s famous poem as it marks 80 years since its first release
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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very sorry to hear this Izzy, worked with your mother at The Nationalist A real lady and a fine journo
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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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Angus Laverty @gusclaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ah Nick, it is bucketing rain here in Ireland and now you've just uncovered a rabbit hole for me to disappear down I may be some time :)
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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 · 09/09/2026
Brian, I love this pix of old Manchester My late Mother was a proud Mancunian and I would have loved using them to kid her 'Hey Ma do you remember these library people from Moss Side' and then watch her fume
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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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