Sharon Keely

Love the disco sequence, where the 38 year old women are dancing, seeing their 17 year old selves dancing beside them. Don't we all!

The Roaring Donkey pub is well worth the walk up past the Cathedral.

Say hello to Cobh for me JP!

The Crime of Witness | Fintan O’Toole Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.

“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

You're killer already Stu!

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Really enjoyed your reading Stu, looking forward to reading Keshed in full.

Loving this second-hand bookshop find, 'Ireland of the Proverb' by Liam Mac Con Iomaire, photos by Bill Doyle.

Who is that stunning lass

Congratulations Niamh! Looking forward to reading this!

I'm dying to read this! Huge congrats to Jessamine.

Somewhere by Jessamine O’Connor is available for pre-order now!
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The action we need in the White House

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haha - unfond memories of seeing the stuff in my bowl, soaked with hot milk and sugar. we’ll say nothing about dental needs in countries where it‘s popular, or the usage there of the wallpaper paste - very similar to the sludge in the bowl

I shed a tear at the end of this one, something I wasn't sure I was capable of anymore. Yes, it's ok to live in memoryland, to bask in the joy of moments long past. And to now live the dreams you shared then.

We'll both be happy in March, she has a new one coming out.

Read this in one day - could not put it down. I try, on and off, to write about a sociopath I encountered, who, like Oliver, grew up in institutions. It's not easy to inspire a smidge of empathy for a killer, but @liznugent.bsky.social pulls it off beautifully here.

He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over. Karl Bushby is expected to finish his globe-walking expedition by September 2026.

Bushby said he has learned a lot over the past nearly three decades, but one thing stands out: “99.99 percent of the people I’ve met have been the very best in humanity,” he said. “The world is a much kinder, nicer place than it often seems.”

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Mentally ill husband plans family murder-suicide, partly succeeding. A journey through love, searing loss, and beyond. Compassionate and completely absorbing.
@cmgleeson.bsky.social your Irish Book Award is richly deserved!

So the Hamptons and NYC night scene haven't changed in 40 years. Great read, TY Rob Franklin.

This, along with much else, struck a chord:

'But exuberant expressions of rage seemed to him mere admissions of one's vulnerability, the power the other still held. He'd withhold them.'

Dylan Moran: ‘You are coming to me, Barry, asking me for a chronology of my emotional history? Is that what you really want?’ Do people have a skewed idea of who Dylan Moran actually is?

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BE to DM: People want to see dog shit on the road and step in it, so they can be annoyed or offended

DM: ...People really, really wanting to say who they are by screaming at whatever shit they’ve stepped in and saying: ‘I’m not that.’

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I love the Paula Meehan portrait!

As were you Wendy!

I look forward to you doing more of it Jackie. Everyone around me yesterday agreed, you did a great job!

Thank you @jackielynam.bsky.social for your excellent chat with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and Donal Ryan at Write By The Sea today. The perfect light but firm, well-informed touch!

The power of the novel... I'd read/heard plenty about Ireland's 'mother and baby home' genocides, but it took this book for me to really feel the enormity of it.

'The further the girl was from poverty, the closer her child was to living. Death wasn't random.'

My aunt's child lived.

'We had more children ... so as not to have to spend so much time together. Had we liked each other less we'd have had four, five. There's nothing like love's dilution to keep things in proportion.'

I couldn't put this down... I first heard about American nurses in the Vietnam War from a really sweet lady (a volunteer at my local library) who served there. In awe that she lived through such horror and somehow regained her lovely disposition in the years since.