Carrie Griffin

I think you mean “panicking immigrants” Ms Oakshott?

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

A day in the life of the mobile library serving the people of the Beara Peninsula in Cork Librarian Zillah Ní Loideoin and driver Seán Crowley have been working together for 16 years, bringing books to schoolchildren, nursing homes, book clubs and individual homes around Co Cork

Ireland's libraries are the best! Love this @irishtimes.com piece by @rositaboland.bsky.social about the #CorkCountyCouncil mobile library on the Beara Peninsula ❤️📚🚌
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Statement by President Connolly following strikes on Iran

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The Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2026 Competition deadline: 31st May 2026 The Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2026 is open for entries until 31st May 2026. It may be the sprint of creative writing but that doesn’t mean you can rush the creative process. Take us somewhere fast then let your story marinate in the reader’s mind. Make every one of your 250 words count. There is no minimum number of words, just like there is no limit to your imagination.

The Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2026

Competition deadline: 31st May 2026 The Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2026 is open for entries until 31st May 2026. It may be the sprint of creative writing but that doesn’t mean you can rush the creative process. Take us somewhere fast then let your story…

Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) at University of Birmingham An academic position as a Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job ...

Job! A 21-month postdoc at Birmingham on French-language print publications in England to 1685 led by the marvellous team of Peter Auger and Suzanne Jones. International applicants are welcome and Birmingham can support a visa application where required. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

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I'd like to personally apologise to Nigel Farage for this post.

According to the Guardian he Farage reportedly travelled by private jet to the Maldives where he spent just over a day before heading back to the UK.

So no business class seats were bought.

So sorry.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

Banshee is of course co-founded and -edited by Eimear Ryan, a PhD researcher with us here in English and Creative Writing! Well done Eimear and colleagues! @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Date for your diaries! Our next lunchtime seminar will be on 4 March when our own David Coughlan will speak on "The Laws of the Locked Room Mystery". All welcome! @unioflimerick.bsky.social #ULEnglish #spéirgorm

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

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Matthew's getting #ottolenghi fluffy pancakes this morning. 'Tis far from that we were reared! #lent #máirtnahinde #pancaketuesday

Thinking of the families of Deirdre Jacob and Jo Jo Dullard today. I will never forget those horrible days in the 1990s. All of those missing women, all around the same age as me and my friends. All going about their business. It could have been any of us.

Pádraic Fogarty: Ecosystem collapse is real and is happening here now Ireland can breeze through the collapse of our own ecosystems because of the stabilising effect of much larger ecosystems elsewhere. Now those ecosystems too are at risk of collapse, due principally t...

Global ecosystem collapse is a real prospect. An appropriate response would be for us to restore our own ecosystems and diversify our food production.

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An hour to myself. 500 coffee-fuelled words and I have moved the plot along, though I did spend 10 minutes searching for the right word in one line 😂 #iamwriting

my husband is still not over Billy.

First they steal your history. Then they erase it.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

And I am sure the contents are more than worthy of such a cover. Looking forward to reading this.

Great to see a new tranche of records has been published on
on www.irishgenealogy.ie, so you can now access the following:
Birth records – 1864 to 1925
Marriage records – 1845 to 1950
Death records – 1864 to 1975

#IrishGenealogy #IrishFamilyHistory #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Babies among 53 dead or missing after migrant boat sinks off Libya, UN says The U.N. migration agency says a shipwreck off Libya's coast has left at least 53 Europe-bound migrants dead or missing

"Two babies are among at least 53 people dead or missing after an inflatable migrant boat sank off Libya, the U.N. migration agency said on Monday" abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

The Times (owned by Murdoch, always a friend of Mandelson & Blairs New Labour ) helping kick-start Peter's rehabilitation.
The Scottish National -rightly angry & not pals with Petey...

Congratulations! What a cover

Two of our terrific graduate students in UL English, Emma Barrett and Jack Reid, have established a new journal! _Early Modern Society_ has a #CFP out currently for its first issue -theme = gender & the supernatural! #ecr #graduate @ulresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social #research

PSA: English lunchtime research seminars! On 18th February we welcome Raphael Zähringer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; & on 4th March our own David Coughlan. All welcome to attend! @ulresearch.bsky.social @ullibrary.bsky.social #research #english @unioflimerick.bsky.social

I can post on the @fmrsi.bsky.social site for you, if you like?

Limerick History Research Seminar series, in association with CEMS: Tues 10 February, Dr David Brown (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Beyond the black box: critical AI pipelines for historical research.' 5.30pm in room G08 (Foundation Bdg) in MIC @ulresearch.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social