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Niamh Mac Cabe

@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
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Writer, artist, stylite. Fair to middling spinster. Magpie apologist. Good at everything. Northwestern Ireland. Also Instagram, and X. niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
www.corkshortstory.net/thursday.html Cork pals, am looking forward to reading and the chats with Laura Cassidy and Louise Hegarty, tomorrow, as part of the Cork International Short Story Festival @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.” Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who returned her borrowed stardust three years ago today, on the door at the end of your suffering www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
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The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering
“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.” ~ Seneca, ‘Moral Letters to Lucilius’ (c. 65 AD) ‘Vanitas Still Life,’ #painting (detail) by Carstian Luyckx, c. 1650.
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bookmarked!
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Я @gertiewentworth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Witch 1978 • Barry Windsor-Smith
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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Critic @davidcollard.bsky.social kicks off a series of conversations with authors and publishers on the state of criticism, small presses and the reception of a certain novel. First up is @cdrose.bsky.social, author of We Live Here Now, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize. youtu.be/EUbitLCUnqE?...
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In Conversation With David Collard: C. D. Rose
YouTube video by Sagging Meniscus
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Now up to 1,963 signatures (of 2,000). Please sign (if you haven't already) and please re-post (if you haven't already). Pothole Studio is a Small Good Thing in a Big Bad World and under imminent threat of permanent closure. Your support is appreciated: www.change.org/p/save-our-p... Thank you!
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Sign the Petition
Save Our Pottery Studio: Help Pothole stay at The Viaduct
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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(Rare) public appearance from me, and (quite frequent) one from @lukekennard.bsky.social talking about black bags, poems, novels, and maybe Strindberg and Slint. @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social - a week on Thursday. Come along!
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Frau Argueveur @argueveur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What if we are not the champions?
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Strong relate 🪃
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Morning. 🖼️ Joseph Austin
Painting of nine magpies in different poses, in threes, one set above the other.
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What if Bird is not The Word?
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
Grey cover, E A Poe, illustrated with tree.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026
Santa Margherita di Belice, Sicily Ferrante Ferranti, 1987
a black horse going up a rough track or road between crumbling houses after an earthquake
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘Long Stem.’ #Painting by Fred Calleri #art
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, but to the earth some special good doth give.” ~ Shakespeare, ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ #Painting by Peder Severin Krøyer (1883).
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes. Yes indeed I did.
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Essay writers, creative nonfiction people, my @saloneurope.bsky.social 3-part course, The Personal Essay: From Pitch To Publication, is almost sold out. Perfect if you want to discover essays, try out a book idea, hone your practice. Last few places available but hurry, hurry! Can't wait to see you.
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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is fascinating by @davidcollard.bsky.social on first published stories. Some were rewritten many times, others have gone missing. The opening line of M. John Harrison’s Marina, and discovering Ford Maddox Ford’s close analysis of the opening of a D H Lawrence are my favourite moments.
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looking forward to the chats with Louise Hegarty and moderator Laura Casssidy at Cork International Short Story Festival on 15th October, SO, about to dive into Louise's latest collection in anticipation of said chats 👁 @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.eventbrite.ie/e/little-boo...
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Little Books, Long Titles: Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon
In this celebration of the joys of little books, Daniela and Ellen will read from and discuss the writing of their latest publications.
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Beautiful
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SandeeOster @sandeeoster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New study finds that laser scans of a temple wall at Kition, Cyprus reveal 23 hidden ship carvings, one on a block added ~150 years after the rest, suggesting people kept carving ships for ~300 years, through the Bronze Age collapse archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/a-fl... #Archaeology #Science
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A Fleet Hiding in Plain Sight: Laser Scans Find 23 New Ships on a Cypriot Temple Wall — Archaeology Teahouse
New high-resolution laser scanning at Kition Kathari, Cyprus, reveals 23 previously unrecorded ship graffiti and indicates the carvings accumulated continuously from Late Cypriot IIIA into the Cypro-G...
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoshi-wajo standing wooden statue. 11th century, Japan. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction
Carved from a single block of timber, a monk standing in solemn monastic robes reveals a miraculous inner metamorphosis through a deep vertical cleft down the center of his head and face. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction, and his left hand, holding a slender ritual water vase (suibin), the figure exudes a quiet, poised presence. The aged surface of the sculpture is etched with deep vertical wood grain, tool marks, and age-worn fissures that catch dramatic, directional light, capturing the physical tension between the outer human countenance and the divine radiance hidden within.
Dating to 11th-century Heian-period Japan, this extraordinary wooden sculpture depicts Hōshō Wajō (the Chinese monk Baozhi, 418–514 CE), a renowned Buddhist master of the Southern Liang Dynasty celebrated for his eccentric wisdom and miraculous deeds. According to Japanese Buddhist folklore recorded in collections such as the Konjaku Monogatarishū, when Emperor Wu of Liang sent court painters to capture the monk's portrait, Baozhi used his fingers to rend open the skin of his face, revealing the Eleven-Headed Guanyin (Jūichimen Kannon) beneath to demonstrate that true Buddhahood cannot be captured by superficial physical likeness. Sculpted in the ichiboku-zukuri (single-block wood carving) technique, this work represents a pinnacle of Japanese religious monozukuri (artisanal mastery), translating a literary legend of spiritual transfiguration into a startling, physical masterpiece of sacred art.
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm excited to be taking part in the Cork International Short Story Festival, in among all these legends! My event is in Cork Arts Theatre, on Thursday 15th October, 19:30 pm @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Again the citizens of Cork continue to blur the lines between petty crime and performance art www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
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Man stole alcohol and steaks from the same Cork shop eight times in one week, court told
Alan Roche pleaded guilty to the eight thefts, a number of other shoplifting offences elsewhere and to public order offences where he was abusive to ...
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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Say—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.
Paris Review
Electric Literature
Quarterly West
Writers Space Africa
Reading Into Culture
Hoot Review
Petrichor
Encyclopedia Prismatica
128 Lit
Diamond Gazette
Brick
WayWords
The Gilded Weathervane
Shadowplay
Fiction
Amsterdam Review
Poet Lore
Room
Oakwood
Southern Quill
45th Paralelle
Apotheca Journal
MicroLit
Weird Lit
Gravity Of The Thing
Nimrod
Superpresent
Ink In Thirds
Beloit Poetry
Unbound Ink
New World Writing
Folio
Plume
The Shore
Banshee
Tractor Beam
SmokeLong Quarterly
Rome Review
Patrika Aranyak
Gyroscope Review
Letters
Forge
Two Hawks Quarterly
Seaside Gothic
The Rumpus
Westchester Review
Thieving Magpie
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Salamander
New Feathers Anthology
Shift
Portland Review
Barcelona Review
The Razor
Clockhouse
Tahoma Literary Review
Clackamas Literary
Gooseberry Pie
The Drift
Wigleaf
Craft
Pithead Chapel
Doric Literary
Reed Magazine
Harpur Palate
Trace Fossils Review
Ninth Letter
Black Fox
Redivider
The Meadow
Puerto Del Sol
Lolwe
Split Lip
Beaver Magazine
Lunch Ticket
Saw Palm
Bat City Review
Crab Creek Review
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📣 POETRY ALOUD 2026 | Entries now open To celebrate the joy of speaking and listening to poetry, the National Library of Ireland and @poetryireland.bsky.social, in partnership with @ucc.ie, are delighted to announce the POETRY ALOUD Poetry Speaking Competition 2026 for post-primary school students.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Heydon owns 245 acres of land in Kildare and Laois, estimated to be worth between €2.2 and 4.5 million." Big industrial ag has Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in its pocket, producing an ongoing catastrophe for Irish nature, less wealthy farmers, and the taxpayer. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Minister for Agriculture has largest farmlands among TDs and Senators
Irish Times investigation finds FG TD has largest landholding among Oireachtas members and is among highest EU Cap fund recipients
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hibernation Morris Graves, 1954
Expressionism 
Sumi ink on paper


grey with circular centre, an abstract mink curled within
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which the body will one day return, they become a spell against despair and a consecration of all that is alive.”
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Roots and the Meaning of Life
They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which t…
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Big around Sligo town 'Dat's cat, dat is'
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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
inventor of the knife: "It is a triangle for cleaving food." onlooker: "In twain?" inventor of the knife: (chuckling) "twain is the very lowest setting."
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@tomwalkerisgood

KOKO: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag

RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.

KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla

RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.

KOKO: jealousy professor
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal" James Joyce speaking to his friend the writer and painter Arthur Power in the 1920s #BookwormSat
✍🏻 'Conversations with James Joyce' (Lilliput Press)
🎨 Marjorie FitzGibbon's 1990 statue of James Joyce, located just off O'Connell Street in Dublin city
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
‘Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey’ (1927-1989)... #Painting by Wondeuk Cho.
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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You can get it here: culturesack.bandcamp.com/album/words-...
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Words in Order, by Gerald Murnane
8 track album
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Doors Into the Dark is a fascinating day of weird fiction at the Seamus Heaney Centre 26/9 @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social that ends with an evening of new strange & speculative writing, hosted by @theactualemma.bsky.social & Niall McKenna inc a new story of mine. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/doors-into...
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Doors Into the Dark: A Day of Weird Fiction
Join us to explore Science-Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Myth and the Weird with the makers of fiction, film, comics and games.
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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dublin Book Festival is one of the best and brightest literary festivals on the island—and it's celebrating TWENTY YEARS this year! 🥳👏🍾 The 2026 programme has just been released, so you can snap up your tickets here🔥: dublinbookfestival.com/explore-the-... @dublinbookfest.bsky.social #dbf26
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🤠 Looking forward to this event at the Dublin Book Festival, where I'll be chatting with John O'Donnell and Niall McMonagle about the Short Story form #dbf26 @lilliputpress.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-ar...
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The Art of the Short Story - Dublin Book Festival
Hear authors Niamh Mac Cabe and John O'Donnell discussing their short story collections at Dublin Book Festival 2026
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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At 11am this morning it’s Tasmanian radio art duo Sisters Akousmatica with "Whips of sorrow". Sisters Akousmatica have been expanding radio projects to explore the radical possibilities of transmission since 2015 within collective and feminist radio practices.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Painting by Mary Bishop c.midC20th, created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where she was compelled to live for several decades. Much of her work explores distress, traumatic childhood experiences & dehumanising treatment within the psychiatric system which held power over her
A painting of two pink horses, face to to face, their heads intersecting with each other in an arc. Their rolling green eyes and open mouths give an atmosphere of torment or distress as they seem to rear up, melding into one another against a white background
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
👂💎 @radiophrenia.bsky.social 🙂 www.actionpyramid.com/A-Sound-Map-...
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A Sound Map of The River Clyde (2026-27) - Action Pyramid
A Sound Map of the River Clyde is an ongoing community-focussed music project initiated by composer Annea Lockwood in collaboration with Counterflows Music Festival, and led by myself Action Pyramid a...
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“It’s raining outside” suggests it could rain inside, and I love that.
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