Martina Devlin 🌿🐝

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Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.

I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

Pencil portrait of President Jimmy Carter in a suit and tie with white shirt facing forward

Rest in peace Jimmy Carter 🕊️

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"

The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending

And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on

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Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

Certainly not 🙂 … Hill of the O’Neill territory here 👋

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Aging myself here but when chatting about the 11+ yesterday, my 30 year old didn’t understand the term “the qualifying”.

Much appreciated. Thank you.

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Your street interviews were enlightening

Jeffrey and Eleanor have some neck on them I’ll give them that.

presumably the arrests made during the recent riots in belfast

this is why it would take a lot for me to delete x .. the gift that keeps on giving .. comedy gold 🤷‍♀️

a woman says well i love it here in front of a body of water ALT: a woman says well i love it here in front of a body of water

I’ve worked out how to bookmark posts and now I’m 100% comfortable here, slippers are on and I’m helping myself to the contents of the fridge.

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You’re welcome

Kirsty Allsopp has a very odd place in the Great British Discourse Machine. A household name but not globally famous. Not a basic GB News grifter. AND YET. Absolutely top of the A-list when it comes to driving clicks to news sites with anything she says about how Brits should live their lives.

Many reasons to worry about this. One deeply felt: the sudden joy on the face of an LGBTQ+ young person when they see themselves reflected & acknowledged. In a book, a Pride display on a notice board, in a class. They walk a little taller. Being seen to exist can still be special.