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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/09/2026

‘It is essential to the image of the English as a mild, unobtrusive race that the British Empire should be thought of as a kind of accident.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pardon, Monsieur, I’m the first to admit that Ireland benefits from the global tax avoidance system (as does France, btw). So I think we should talk tax justice immediately after you pay reparations to your former colonies? Deal?

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/mind-body-84972760

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Data centres should pay ten times the consumer rate for energy. They should subsidise us, and not the other way around.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There will be a lengthy piece about John Healy's extraordinary life by Sean O'Hagan in tomorrow's Observer, I believe.

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🇺🇦 Edelweißpirat 🇱🇹 @edelweisspirat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Unpopular opinion: The world would be better off if we all took professional sports far less seriously.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This Day in Labor History: July 25, 1973. The Irish Minister of Finance, Richie Ryan, introduced the Civil Service (Employment of Married Women) Act, which ended the nation’s long-standing ban on married women working for the government. Let's talk about this important moment!

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm teaching (for the third time!) my 10-week course on how to work on your ideas BEFORE you start the grind of writing, it's been a huge amount of fun the last 2 times we did it, with all kinds of surprising & amazing stories coming out of people. Starts Sept. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...

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Growing Your Idea from Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre

10-week in-person course for screenwriters with writer and director Paul Duane. Starts Wednesday 23 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...

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FROM THE VAULTS: BARBARIC GENIUS + Q&A - Irish Film Institute

SCREENING MONDAY 17th AUGUST Paul Duane’s intimate portrait charts the unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagra...

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Silver Locust Press @silverlocustpress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One month ago! It’s lovely to see how warmly received our first chapbooks have been. Thanks to all who’ve supported our writers @geoffreygatza.bsky.social, @sarapoetry.bsky.social, @lindsaysedgwick.bsky.social and Kara Penn. There are still some copies left at www.silverlocust.press #poetry #flash

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Irish state is doing all it can to ensure vacant buildings go unused in a housing crisis. I wrote for the LRB about the Revolutionary Housing League getting evicted www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

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Naoise Dolan | Evicted

The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/06/2026

‘No other Latin writer in antiquity surpasses Augustine in the breadth of his interests and the originality of his thought.’ Christopher Kelly on a new account of St Augustine. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Christopher Kelly · Unpleasant Medicine: Augustine in Africa

In Milan, Augustine, like colonial Australians or New Zealanders returning ‘home’ to London, experienced a social...

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

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Silver Locust Press @silverlocustpress.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

TONIGHT at the United Arts Club, 3 Fitzwilliam St, Dublin, 6.30 p.m. we launch Silver Locust Press with our first series of chapbooks. Join us for readings and wine and lovely design! #poetry #flashfiction

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Silver Locust Press @silverlocustpress.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join SILVER LOCUST PRESS to launch our first series of four chapbooks at the United Arts Club, 6.30, 15 June. New work by: @geoffreygatza.bsky.social @lindsayjsedgwick.bsky.social @sarapoetry.bsky.social and Kara Penn. Cover art and book design by @padhraig.bsky.social

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Would be good if performers, musicians, writers, and other creative workers insisted on organisers not using genAI for advertising festivals, shows and events they're taking part in, in solidarity with visual artists, because it's absolutely everywhere at the moment. We need to stick together!

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

#speirgorm Opens at 6 PM this evening, will be open 10-6 all week at the corner of the Coombe and Meath Street.

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Silver Locust Press @silverlocustpress.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Cover reveals! Coming soon, the first four chapbooks from Silver Locust Press. Kara Penn, @sarapoetry.bsky.social, @geoffreygatza.bsky.social and @lindsayjsedgwick.bsky.social Art direction, design and paintings by the wonderful @padhraig.bsky.social #poetry #chapbooks #art

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I have one spare ticket for the long sold-out premiere of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest at the Dublin International Film Festival next week. Like and repost this if you'd be interested in the chance of coming along for free!

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