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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2h

“He visited Dresden’s Zwinger Gallery nine times and during a day spent in the Alte Akademie was entranced by Caspar David Friedrich’s nocturnal landscape, Two Men Observing the Moon. Thus was planted the idea for a play that, years later, would make his name: Waiting for Godot.”

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Postcards from the Edge – Frank McNally on Samuel Beckett’s newly published German Diaries

Travelling around Nazi Germany, he wrote presciently about war and found inspiration for Waiting for Godot

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Sinéad Crowley @sineadcrowley.bsky.social · 1h

Thoroughly enjoyed this from @declynchwriter.bsky.social . Great memories

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 5h

It's an old classic from the corporate playbook – turn creativity into mass market baby food and deflect any criticism as snobbery/elitism. "Let us enjoy ourselves you old stick in the mud." So far it has killed movies and pop music. The culture of the consumer.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 5h

What I really don’t like is the implication that mass market fiction which gets placed in every bookshop is a smol bean that needs to be protected from mean literary bluenose types who intentionally read books they hate. That’s not the dilemma publishing is in right now.

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 4h

pre-publication order of this reissue of a 1958 novel (autofiction?) made MONTHS ago & it has just arrived dalkeyarchive.store/products/cad...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 6h

Just giving the more complete title here: Futures and Autonomous Systems Command Integrated Strategy & Technology

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Brian Guenther @brrrian.bsky.social · 7h

Land by Maggie O’Farrell

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Pipipohutukawa @pipipohutukawa.bsky.social · 6h

Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves.

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Rose Fortune @rosethingamajig.bsky.social · 8h

Said The Dead, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Seemed like a good choice for October!

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Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social · 9h

"We sit here, you and I, like Neanderthal troglodytes gathered round a fire, watching the flickering flames of the unfolding stories, filtered through the bent news media of biased billionaires, as they cast meaningless shadows on the cave wall of our consciousness" - Stewart Lee in The Nerve

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 10h

From "Estuary", Philip McDonagh a recent title from Dedalus Press At times, the birds act on one whim and migrate. The reindeer armies darken the altogether White tundra. And we humans make our moves At one go; which can turn to an extreme Event, a flash flood www.dedaluspress.com/product/estu...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 10h

People are up and about fierce early on Bluesky for a Saturday morning and all. It's no wonder the world is going to pieces.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 12h

Owls are all Marxists and do not attack their fellow travellers.

Sally Rooney in a forest with an owl, as you do.

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 10h

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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Saturday Sun

YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 22h

So great to be in Budapest to hear Colm Toibin give the 13th Heaney Lecture in this incredibly beautiful building

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

No. I just doom scrolled and drank too much coffee.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can't wait to go up and see it for myself! Fantastic addition to the community💙💚📚

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

God bless my dad for somehow persuading my mother to let him wake me up at 11 p.m. on Monday school nights for four or five weeks in a row to watch the Marx Brothers on our little black-and-white Bush TV when I was eight years old. The best education of its kind.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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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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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s

Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 01/10/2026

For me, the act of writing is how I learn what I’m writing about. I don’t know why people want to outsource that.*

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We can be slow to change. And I’m good with that.

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The O’Brien Press @theobrienpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'a great pick me up as the winter nights draw in' Thank you Irish Farmers Journal for featuring this small gem of a book from the author of 'A Hundred Words for Grand'! www.farmersjournal.ie/entertainmen...

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

President George Washington met Irish born architect, George Hoban in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1791 and was deeply impressed by his talent Washington summoned Hoban to Philadelphia (then the capital) in 1792, where Hoban officially won the national competition to design the White House

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just finished Frenchman's Creek, and I feel sad.

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mf’er is like Batman.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The soundtrack for the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show is now available. I loved the music in the show so I'm delighted this is out. By the hugely talented Oli Julian. open.spotify.com/album/4twL7m...

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Leonard and Hungry Paul (Music from the Programme) - Compilation by Oli Julian | Spotify

Oli Julian · compilation · 2026 · 14 songs

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sure wouldn't you stay there for the breakfast alone!

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of our greatest poets, who exposed the beauty and depth in the mundane and made the everyday remarkable, was remembered by two writers on Sunday 27 September - A.M. Cousins and Denis Tuohy. You can hear both their pieces on www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... and on RTÉ Listen @rteradio1.bsky.social

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Liz Nugent @liznugent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you happen to be in Hamburg, Berlin or Stuttgart next week, I will be there talking about my books. Hope you can make it! @gutkind_verlag @irlembberlin @thalia.berlin @thalia.stuttgart @harbourfrontLiteraturfestivalHamburg @samuel.Benke www.liznugent.com/upcoming-eve...

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General 2 — LIZ NUGENT

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For this month of birthdays, Leonard Cohens and U2s (both born with the gift of the golden voice): Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back They're movin' us tomorrow to the tower down the track But you'll be hearin' from me baby, long after I'm gone... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVYb...

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U2, Leonard Cohen - Tower Of Song /2006/

YouTube video by MofoU2Slovakia

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To mark 100 years of WB Yeats’ 'A Vision', the NLI has made almost 300 manuscript items from the W. B. Yeats Occult Papers available to explore online. 🔎 ow.ly/6OQg50ZQvbk 📖 See a selection on display in the Old Director’s Office, 7–8 Kildare Street, on your way to our Yeats exhibition.

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