Edel Brosnan

Halloween nostalgia - remembering year my older sister turned the tartan Foxford picnic rug into a shawl, dug out the gas lamp we used for power cuts and told ghost stories as we huddled round the electric storage heater in the kitchen. (No real fires back then, we had to make our own fun etc)

Voting is cool. However you vote, go on out and vote. #Aras25 #speirgorm

I love his evocative slightly off key vocals. Autotune would have really diminished this if it had existed back then.

YouTube video by 4 The Drama Trespasses | Official Trailer | 4TheDrama

Trespasses by @louisekennedy.bsky.social is one of the best Irish novels of recent years. Here's the trailer for the four-part Channel 4 series which starts next month.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJF...

@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

The European Audiovisual Observatory examines the social and professional status of Europe’s artists and creative professionals 03/10/2025 - A new report analyses the working conditions, social rights and cross-border mobility of Europe’s cultural and creative workforce

A new report by the @euavobservatory.bsky.social highlights the precarious working conditions & lack of social rights creative industry workers are faced with in Europe. It also points out the difficulty of defining who counts as an artist or creative professional. 🇪🇺🎭
More: cineuropa.org/484419

Good luck!

I loved my time as a freelancer. Factor in pitching time, and admin time for invoicing, chasing payment etc.

There is no autism problem. There are autistic people. There have always been autistic people. You might be sitting next to one right now!

(What there is, in bucketloads, is ableism.)

I thought I’d heard it all, but mixing up autism and scurvy is an erm unusual take. #vitaminwhatnow #citationneeded

2025 Prize | Comedy Women in Print The UK's 2025 comedy literary prize for unpublished and published writers.

The Comedy Women in Print shortlists are out today - congratulations to all the nominated writers 👋🏆

Find out more here:

www.comedywomeninprint.co.uk/2025-prize

Around one in three hate incidents reported to gardaí are racially motivated Anti-race hate crimes and incidents have risen by almost a quarter in just three years, according to data analysed by The Journal Investigates.

Around one in three hate incidents reported to gardaí are racially motivated, analysis by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found.

http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/

Gen Z Only Watches TV Through Social Clips. Hollywood is Scrambling As millions of viewers scroll instead of stream, studios grapple with a new marketing dilemma: fight or join?

Interesting piece (partially behind a paywall) on the viral ‘clipping’ marketing campaigns for TV shows. Super low budget, but potentially huge reach theankler.com/p/gen-z-only...

Popped into a cafe to dodge the rain, had the best coffee I’ve had in a very long time, accompanied by the very worst scone. [Insert metaphor for 2025 here]

I’d love to read more about this - what works, what doesn’t, and why…

Meath Film Festival is this weekend & we are so excited, we've called them in for a podcast.

Listen here as shorts programmer & Film Ireland contributor Mick Jordan chats with director Steven Benedict about his film A Lady of Paris which screens at the festival.
www.filmireland.net/meath-film-f...

It’s never 4D chess. It’s just an unthinking and wilfully uninformed kicking over of the snakes and ladders board.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. (Are Ted Talks still a thing?)

Maithu!

Good Vibrations (2012) ⭐ 7.2 | Biography, Drama, Music 1h 43m | Not Rated

Just rewatched Good Vibrations for the first time since I saw it at the London Irish Fim Fest in Kilburn in 2012 or 2013. Was curious to see if its as good as I remember. If anything, it’s even better. 9.5/10, would recommend. m.imdb.com/title/tt1920...

Voyage to a New World | WritersMosaic Magazine Ming Ho on her experience of the WritersMosaic retreat at Villa Lugara, Italy and of her journey to Shanghai to explore her family history

My latest piece for @writersmosaic.bsky.social, exploring my 1st visit to Shanghai (at long last), in search of my family’s past, & time spent on the WritersMosaic retreat in Italy: writersmosaic.org.uk/close-up/voy... #migration #China #revolution #textileindustry #lilong #longtang #memoir

Champ is so well named. Comfort food of champions.

The Irish screen industry marked a historic moment with the official launch of the Queer Talent Database, the first of its kind in Ireland, designed to spotlight and connect LGBTQIA+ talent working across film and television. www.nationaltalentacademies.ie/news/queer-t...

I know!!

93 years old, refuses offers of help…sounds like my dad❤️. Happy birthday to her, from me.

Anam Arts Festival Tralee Discover Anam, Tralee’s community-led arts festival bringing together music, spoken word, and soul-stirring performances in unexpected spaces. Join us this July to experience the heartbeat of local cr...

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Next weekend! Anam Arts Festival, Tralee, 11-13 July. Music, literature and whatever you’re having yourself. #speirgorm

The cultural heritage field is moving!

The EU is building the Cultural Heritage Cloud that will hold our shared past & spark future innovations.

Want to contribute? Replay this week's webinar, explore the open call, apply by 16 Sept! 👇
research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-are...

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Anam: Tralee, 11-13 July. Music, book chat and all things arts.what more could you want?

Music, Literature And More As ANAM Festival Returns To Tralee In July - Tralee Today THIS year’s ANAM Tralee Festival returns from July 11th to 13th, building on the resounding success of last year’s three-day celebration of music, literature, and performance. Born out of a hunger for...

Anam arts fest is back! Literature and music and more, in Tralee from 11-13 July. traleetoday.ie/music-litera...

In Mr Corman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt finds hope on the other side of anxiety Creative risks pay off in writer-director Gordon-Levitt’s magical-realist portrait of a school teacher battling ennui

Late to the party as ever, but do you know what’s very good? Mr Corman. Cancelled after 1 season, nobody knows anything, OTOH, don’t put me in charge of acquisitions at your streaming conglomerate. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...