Eleanor Fitzsimons

On the show today: @allegra-chapman.bsky.social on swearing children; 5000km, barefoot; @johnarlidge.bsky.social on flying super-posh; @samblakebooks.bsky.social on audio books; Showbiz news; Low alcohol wine (boo); @toxicolly.bsky.social reviews 'The History Of Sound' & 'Mercy'...

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📣 Just Announced: OSCARS NOMINATIONS 2026

We’re thrilled to showcase so many Oscar-nominated titles in our Monday Night Cinema Spring 2026 programme, including Sentimental Value which has picked up an astounding nine noms!

Find all these & more at buff.ly/ZGtqmzo

"Claire Foy soars" Deadline

H IS FOR HAWK starring Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson screens at Light House from Friday 🦅

🎟 https://www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/h-is-for-hawk

Some exciting news to brighten up this rainy January ⛈️

We've just launched our Spring 🌸programme of courses, with a 30+ to choose from covering poetry, journalism, short fiction, the novel...and even dreams!

Find out more + book here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

A multi-coloured social graphic promoting the Dublin Book Festival spring series of literary events, DBF Spotlight

We’re delighted to announce that DBF Spotlight, our spring series, is back! Head to our website for full details of all events coming up in the next few weeks and to book your spot ➡️ bit.ly/49QQzvV

Comhghairdeas mór to all the Irish nominees at this year's Oscars! 🥳👏

Looking to catch up on any of the nominees? There's still time to see Hamnet, One Battle After Another, Sinners and many more, now showing or coming soon at the home of film in Ireland.

🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/whats-on/

Jeremy’s collection is amazing. Well worth taking a look at what’s included.

I’m looking into getting it too (I’ve had shingles ugh) & if you have health insurance there might be a rebate available.

Book cover and illustration by Catalina Ometita

Coming this April! 🎫

Colm Tóibín · Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941 Who​ was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T.S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around?...

‘Auden, like Yeats before him, had begun to feel guilt over lines he himself had written, lines that began to haunt him – what he called “false emotions, inflated rhetoric, empty sonorities”. He strove instead to trust his gift.’

Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

That’s fantastic. Congratulations!

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

“Tola logra sacar el arma entre el tercer y cuarto disparos de su contrincante”

A detail cropping of the previous image, focused more on the illustration itself of the couple embracing while sheets of rain or wind fall around them; they are ornately dressed in blues with yellow accents.

Today is the Eve of St Agnes 💙

How better to celebrate than revisiting one of Harry Clarke’s strikingly blue watercolour studies that he made in preparation for his The Eve of St. Agnes Window (1924), inspired by John Keats’ poem.

#CrawfordArtGallery #HarryClarke #EveofStAgnes

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Her novel The Narrow Land is great. I recently read her Our London Lives and enjoyed it too.

I like their style!

Clodagh Finn: Why Abbey playwright Teresa Deevy deserves to be a household name Teresa Deevy's plays about people on the margins looking for a voice were out of favour in the conservative Ireland of the 1930s, writes Clodagh Finn

Teresa Deevy, the playwright once described as 'the Irish Chekhov', died #otd in 1963. Teresa lost her hearing when she was 19 but learned to lip-read in the theatres of London. She returned home to write plays that gave voice to women in the margins.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Tomorrow: The first of two reports from women speaking out for the first time about having their images manipulated explicitly without their consent.

They've suffered years of trauma, panic attacks and unsolicited messages from men.

This is why the Grok issue matters.

@virginmedianews.bsky.social

New journals, soft and hardback, lined and dotted

HOWL opens for subs for New Irish Writing once every two years, and that window is quickly approaching! From Feb 13th - Feb 23rd you can submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to HOWL 26 at howlwriting.ie

We hope we are lucky enough to receive your work!

I loved this book. I couldn’t imagine it as a film but the trailer looks lovely.

🤣 Can’t imagine anything more irritating!

Graphic showing a glass bowl of granola with blueberries and eggs in the background. The text on the graphic reads 101 square meals, easy recipes for everyday life, and on the top are logos for Safefood, MABS, the HSE and HSC Public Health Agency

For anyone looking for some January recipe inspo, SafeFood has an eBook with 101 basic but nutritious recipes, available to download for free here:
www.healthpromotion.ie/media/docume...

It’s heartbreaking isn’t it. We know those trains well. Devastating for the community of Andalusia and beyond 😢

📆 Save the date! 📆
The International Literature Festival Dublin is returning from 15th to 24th May 2026, featuring events for readers of all ages and interest and celebrating the very best Irish and international fiction and non-fiction authors, poets, lyricists, playwrights and screenwriters.

Close-up of a terracotta horse on four wheels, a rider is sitting on its back.

Kids loved playing with toys in #Roman times too!

Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife.

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

🏺 #archaeology

Lovely idea. I hope there are events to mark this, like Greek food & culture events in Dublin etc.

Best of luck with it Bob!

James Joyce was born on 2nd February 1882. As a birthday gift, the James Joyce Centre will be open to the public FOR FREE on Monday, 2nd February. We will be running our popular walking tours. There might even be a cake 🎂

Visit our website for more information.

jamesjoyce.ie/events/happy...