Martin Conneely

Do join us this Sunday evening for the online launch of A Crumpled Swan by @davidcollard.bsky.social

Good time guaranteed – and yes, that's legally binding.

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Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

What better way to celebrate the immaculate Conception.

No idea, Rónán - @jacqbetula just wasn't there when I checked a while back. I hope it's just a break due to his work being so busy. (I initially thought you were referencing something in Belle and Sebastian's We Rule the School. :))

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Sorry to see Declan O'Driscoll has deactivated his account. That's a quarter of the people whose posts I always checked out gone.
Must remember to include restoration of good-Twitter on my Christmas present list.

Hope it all goes very well for you, Jackie.

We did Dublin-Holyhead-London-Paris-Venice by expensive sleeper a few years ago. Had to overnight in London.

The Pompidou Centre, the Crawford and now this. Looks like I'll see a lot less art in my final years! (Still, the RHA open exhibition is like finding a new gallery every year.)

You did a great job, Jackie.

"... a totally new type of satellite."

Day one of my 48 hour Hunger Strike in support of the Sameer Project. Please share and support if you can. More info on Insta.

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Moved to Dublin in 1985 and worked nearby. It was a great lunchtime haven, if no sun. Great prices and stock. Remaindered hardbacks on tables outside cheaper than their paperback versions within, total unpredictability as to treasures in top storey, etc. Much missed

It had won by the time it reached "won", but the next five lines brought it to another level.

Delighted to hear it. Things are improving considerably re. Irish.

Hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed taking part in it.

I've only read Inland yet, but he's the best new (for me) writer I've come across for many years.

Yes, it's priceless.

I love that story but, unfortunately, Big Tom had a fear of flying so it didn't happen.

And roads take "the" (the Galway Road), while streets don't (O'Connell Street).

In Ireland, creepy people refer to, "our friends in Arlington".

Succession for literary types.

Congrats, Rónán
- some work rate.

Beautiful calligraphy.

Makes me think of Irish Labour TDs in the 2011-2016 Government. And not in a good way.

Golf ⭐

Gold 🌟

Not so slim, I'm afraid:) And the print is very small.

A boatful of sky #sligo

EP?