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Polly K

@pollyka.bsky.social
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🎶🎶Retired Principal and Primary school teacher. Enjoying being busy, doing the things I love. A bit of volunteering, singing, reading, a mum, wife, sister, daughter.💟

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Martina Devlin @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Plenty of Bronte chat with biographer Claire Harman (right) at Seamus Heaney HomePlace. Great readings including from Jane Eyre from actor Ruby Campbell (left).
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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
As you probably heard, Amazon is coming for Ireland. It’ll come for our small shops, it’ll come for our department stores, and it’ll come for our media, our journalism, and our democracy.
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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.
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The Irish News @irishnews.com · 16/02/2025
During her political awakening in the early 1970s, Bríd Rodgers wrote to John Hume asking what he was doing about widespread discrimination against Catholics in Lurgan, Co Armagh. The response was short and to the point: “Dear Bríd, what are YOU doing about it?” www.irishnews.com/news/politic...
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Bríd Rodgers at 90: On her personal journey and political transformation
The Donegal-born former Stormont minister reflects on her political career and the transformation of Northern Ireland society
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 15/02/2025
Ahead of her 90th birthday, former SDLP deputy leader Bríd Rodgers chats to Suzanne Breen about her political career, death threats during the Troubles, sexism in her party, and why she believes Irish unity is inevitable
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Bríd Rodgers: ‘I suppose we should be flattered that Sinn Fein is wearing our clothes, but I can’t forget how viciously we were attacked’
Some say Bríd Rodgers is the best leader the SDLP never had. For decades, she operated in the shadow of the party’s big beasts. Even now, when they are gone and she is still very much here, she doesn’...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Polly K @pollyka.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
@britishbakeoff.bsky.social the 24 scones was an ideal Signature challenge for the final. Difficult to perfect.
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