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LAI CDG @laicdgroup.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Thank you to our wonderful speakers this evening and also to our fabulous attendees!! 👏👏👏 Now we move on to our AGM - we hope to see many new faces in the 2026 committee 🤞

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LIR Asiera @lirheanet.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What a fantastic first day at the LIR Group’s Digital Skills Workshop! Early career librarians kicked off their podcasting journey at IADT, from concept to creation. We can’t wait for round two on October 18th! 🎙️✨ #LIRGroup #DigitalSkills #DigitalLiteracy

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

✨ New post on Substack! ✨ I’ve just shared my latest piece, stories of memory, resilience, and finding light in the dark. You can read for free, or support my writing for €5/month (aka one fancy coffee ☕ or two if it tastes of regret). 💛 joanne2ef.substack.com

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Looking for some powerful memoirs to read? 📚 I’ve put together a list of some of my favourite memoirs. Check out my Substack post where I share these recommendations, along with a little about why each one matters to me. 🔗 substack.com/@joannetouhe... 🔗 What is your favourite memoir? 💖

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Memoirs I Recommend (And Why)

• When the Truth Breaks Through: A Memoir Reading List

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

New on my Substack: a personal story about early pregnancy, loss, and the fragile hope that comes after. ✨ This was the first piece I ever had published (back in 2021), and I’ve reshaped it for this post. It’s shorter now, but its heart is the same. 💖 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/joanne2e...

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Fruit of Your Loins

Hope, grief, and the fragile in-between.

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Just shared a new post on Substack about the book that first made me want to wrote my own personal piece. Have a read if you’re curious 📚✨ substack.com/@joannetouhe... #substack #writingcommunity

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The Book That Inspired Me to Write

How a single reading prompt cracked something open.

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

First Substack post is up! I’m not really sure still how it works but worth a shot! Subscribe if you like writing, memoir and the occasional bit of randomness. 📚 open.substack.com/pub/joanne2e...

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TUS Library Archive and Special Collections @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Tune in now to Sally Ann Bennett on Saturday Focus on @midlands103.bsky.social coming from @tuslibrarymidlands.bsky.social and hear about the development of the new archive with special focus on the all Ireland drama festival collection

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TUS Library Archive and Special Collections @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Lovely cakes to mark our launch thanks to the sister of @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social for making them :)

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TUS Library Archive and Special Collections @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We're excited for our big launch tomorrow getting ready to welcome our guests and let them see our latest addition to our collections. @dri.ie @tuslibrarymidwest.bsky.social

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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 02/05/2025

DRI Director @lisagriffith.bsky.social is the keynote speaker at the launch of @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social on 15 May at 3pm at the Athlone campus. All are welcome to join on the day by RSVP'ing to library.archive@tus.ie Find out more: dri.ie/events/launc...

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Delighted that my piece was shortlisted for the “Perseverance Through Words”competition at Trinity College Dublin, celebrating the legacy of Christy Nolan. 🥳 It’s available to read here: marklkm.github.io/christy-nola...

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Christy Nolan Perserverance Through Words

The Perseverance Through Words competition celebrates Christy Nolan's legacy and empowers disabled students and staff at Trinity College Dublin to showcase their creativity.

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TUS Library Archive and Special Collections @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We got copies of #allirelanddramafestival programme today. Lots of great events and productions to look forward too. Including our launch! Happening on the 15th May at 3pm. Pick up a copy or click here for details online www.dramafestival.ie/event/launch...

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Finally! 🙏 Just 978 words to go. 🎉 Still can’t believe it was 137k words 😬 #phdlife #cutting

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Really enjoyed tonight’s event @cuirtfestival.bsky.social . My friend Brenda read beautifully from Conception in Tolka and a new personal piece. 💕 Declan Toohey also read from his Tolka piece and spoke about his novel Perpetual Comedown. #cuirtfestival

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TUS Library Midlands @tuslibrarymidlands.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

TUS is hosting Refugee Solidarity in Education Week All TUS libraries will promote a series of books & media that reflect stories of refugees & migration. We encourage everyone who wants to learn more to use @kanopy to access a range of documentaries and movies #pledgeofpeace #tuslibrary #refugees

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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 07/03/2025

We are delighted to announce that @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social has joined as the latest member of DRI! We look forward to assisting with the ingest of: the Brendan O'Brien Archive on the All-Ireland Drama Festival and the Shannon Estuary Project. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-dri...

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New DRI Member: Technological University of the Shannon - Digital Repository of Ireland

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) has joined as our latest member. The main collections TUS hope to ingest at pres...

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TUS Library Archive and Special Collections @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Delighted to announce that we have been accepted to join the @dri-ie.bsky.social. Looking forward to meeting the other members and working with DRI. We are excited to start uploading our collections!

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TUS Library Archive and Special Collections @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

One of the challenges of cataloguing the documents in the Brendan O'Brien collection is deciphering handwriting. This letter took me some time to decipher but eventually I was able to see who it was by and the gist of the letter

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TUS Library Archive and Special Collections @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Doing some work on our Brendan O’Brien Archive - material relating to the All-Ireland Drama Festival. Here is a sneak peak of preservation and cataloguing work! Slowly moving each letter from this yellow unsuitable folder into separate preservation covers.

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Super excited to be working on this! Give us a like and follow 🥰🙏🎉

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TUS Library Archive and Special Collections @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We have started archiving and digitising some of the Brendan O’Brien archive material relating to the All-Ireland Drama Festival 1953-1982. Below are photos of some of our team and an item we were working on today using @transkribus.bsky.social and a scan tent.

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Picture of Sean, Saoirse and Joanne some of the archive team in the TUS library midlands

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Galway calling! We'll be at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social on Saturday 12 April. Declan Toohey and Brenda Romero will be reading from and discussing their Tolka pieces at Charlie Byrne's. Hosted by the fabulous Molly Hennigan. Free to attend - all welcome! www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/tol...

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 06/02/2025

The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below. Please share :) www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

With the help of a glass of wine, this weekend I’ll be editing….editing…and some more editing… I have roughly 57k words to cut over the next few weeks 😑 #memoir #phdlife

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Joanne Touhey-Francis @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Organised my bookcase and finished setting up my writing space. I mostly arranged it by genre—memoir being my favourite. 📚✍️ Share your library/writing space.

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

One of my very favorite poems to share. I hope that some of you are reading this for the first time. #poetry

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A&SL @aslibraries.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Save The Date! We're delighted to announce that the Academic & Special Libraries Section Conference will take place on Thursday 27th March 2025 in @molimuseum.bsky.social in Dublin! The #ASL2025 conference theme and the call for submissions will be coming soon. #library #libraries

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here's hoping more Irish lit mags will join the great migration, but for now I've included all the ones I could find!! go.bsky.app/M7713mj

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