Denyse Woods

Book Club: Let’s Talk About Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’

Alan Hollinghurst's 'Our Evenings' a "sweeping novel about the lives, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor" was featured in @nytimes.com Book Club. Alan joins us at WCLF Friday 11 July @picadorbooks.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

Sarah Maria Griffin: ‘I will be trying to figure out what the internet means to me for the rest of my life’ The author on her new novel, Eat the Ones You Love; the importance of libraries; and her love of video games

Sarah Maria Griffin @griffski.bsky.social is coming to WCLF next month. She'll be chatting about her new novel Eat The Ones You Love alongside debut author @rosekeating.bsky.social & will launch Cork Co Council's Rainbow Library anthology
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @titanbooks.bsky.social

The CO2 increase is accelerating. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

I grew up in Catholic Ireland hearing endless stories of Stalin's Gulags, every library had a copy of Solzhenitsyn and its Koestler books about the horrors of Communism. The stuff coming out of the US right now, these innocent people being incarcerated in hell forever, needs to never be forgotten.

Come along on Thursday 10th April for our fundraiser pub quiz The Teacher’s Club/Club na Múinteoirí.
Cost of entry is €10 per person, with teams of 4 maximum. Great prizes and raffle on the night!
Join us for a night of craic and a friendly battle of wits! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine

#lovehoopoes

Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams “Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

Our critic Jen Szalai reviews the explosive new Facebook memoir by Sarah Wynn Williams: "Not only does she have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods."

Trinity to mark renaming of library after Eavan Boland Events are being held to mark the first time a building at Trinity College Dublin has been named after a woman in the university's 433-year history.

Eavan Boland honoured. About time! Thanks, TCD.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...

I am having a warcoffee now.
Workouts are back.
I feel better.

Kyiv stands.
Kyiv stands
on the right side of history.
I hope you do, too.

Irish literature is taking over the world.

Sorry I missed this, frances! We were lucky - didn't lose power, unusually, and the worst winds hit further north. Phew.

Airports have to play a part too. Two years ago, at 5.30 a.m. in Dublin Airport Departures I saw a guy downing a pint - with three more pints lined up beside him. He was travelling with young children. Perhaps a restriction on booze pre-flight - or breathalyzers? @ryanairofficial.bsky.social

Oh, how we laughed and joked about how he wanted Greenland during his first presidency. Not laughing now...

Israeli strike kills two children - Palestinian official A Palestinian official said three people including two children were killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank which the military said targeted militants.

A Palestinian official said three people including two children were killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank which the military said targeted militants

Frances - I'm back! Thanks for nudging me. Seems I've been here all along😐.

I should come out with my hands up and admit that I haven't posted on here for over a year, because, uhm, I forgot I'd signed up. #MustdoBetter

A friend of mine was just yesterday tagged in a bad review of her book. Baffling. How would this reader like it if someone gave her a public dressing down for her work?

I spoke to the Irish parents of Hisham Arwatani, the Palestinian-Irish-American student who was paralysed last month in Vermont in an unprovoked gun attack his mother, Dún Laoghaire-born Elizabeth Price, believes was caused by hate speech in the US.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

You're ahead of me - I haven't got to Prophet Song yet. We're very proud!

And for those of us who don't drink, just send chocolate.

Words To Live by Number 29

OMG - sooo weird. I literally just came on here to say the same thing to you! will email. xxx

tks

Cant find only posts option ...

Ah. I was wondering about that. Seeing all the threads is ... trying. tks.

“For many the truce is worse, because Palestinians get to die slowly and in silence.” Dr Refaat Alareer - RIP, my friend

Ceasefire? Yes. We need an immediate ceasefire right now in Gaza. But the blockade must be lifted. Refaat knew that being alive was not the same as living.

That's what I thougth a few weeks ago. It's long gone.

Ditto. I'm effectively gone, and miss Twitter,. Not X.

Dead right.

I need chocolate.