Bernadette Fallon

Beautiful show

Great show as always

Was in early to get my seat at the opening lectures for @yeatssocietysligo.bsky.social #YeatsSummerSchool in Sligo, now in its 66th year - I’ve spent the last 50 wanting to attend! So excited. And two excellent talks kicked us off this morning

Love this

@bernibee.bsky.social

His Land of Heart’s Desire - how lucky are we all who get to spend time here…

Will do. Are you heading to all of the lectures?

And I’m soooo looking forward to attending - my first one

Though in a slightly weird turn of events, am being forced to eat butternut squash soup…

Staying at Iveagh Garden hotel for @ilfdublin.bsky.social - first time here - nice vibe, outdoor terrace, library entrance to dining room, tub chairs & the like

A moment’s silence for Paul Durcan RIP at the ceremony for the Dublin Literary Award, which has just been won by Michael Crummy’s The Adversary @ilfdublin.bsky.social

Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’ When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise

Happy 40th Birthday Cuirt Festival of Literature, kicking off today in Galway - I'm looking forward to getting over there on Friday, my first time back since 1999! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Two suns this morning on John Osbourne’s river @arvonfoundation.bsky.social #TheHurst #Shropshire

Bring an angry young man was clearly lucrative if John Osbourne’s former home is anything to go be - now an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social writing retreat

Woke up in John Osborne’s house, The Hurst in Shropshire, now an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social writing retreat #writing #nature

Really enjoyed the first @forthwrite.bsky.social festival (and my first trip to Crawley!). @kitdewaal.bsky.social kicked things off with an insightful, relatable & funny keynote address

Looking forward to it - nice treat when I get back home at Easter

Ordering @thedublinreview.bsky.social now - on the strength of the first few lines of this essay & the cover

Nice bit of blue sky placing @martindoyle.bsky.social @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social

Interesting conversation with a panel of very inspiring women at the inaugural @forthwrite.bsky.social festival @kitdewaal.bsky.social @abirfellows.bsky.social @britisharts.bsky.social

I love books’ events - from the huddles of conversations to the books on sale - with the possibility of having the authors sign them forthwrite.bsky.social

Loved this - am a big fan of the power of letters to instantly bring us back to the past in the way that a text or email can never do - and also have a stash of treasured letters from the '80s and '90s

Setting the clock! (Taking the extra hour into consideration)

Looking forward to this

Missing the blue skies of #Lahinch this week but they’ve been replaced with misty #Sligo webs

I can see he would have irked them by being self taught

The Singing Butler is one of my favourite prints - this one is lovely too, beautiful tribute

Lahinch hiding its blue skies this morning, always the same on the day I leave, it doesn’t want me to go away missing the sun

#Bluesky Friday #Lahinch

The situation in #Lahinch is just getting better & better #CoClare #Ireland