This is what they've done.
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This is what they've done.
Happy International Women's Day - here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them linked below:
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Prints are also available here:
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Two adults, presenting female, standing in a bookshop with shelves behind them filled with books. The person on the right of the photo is fat, white, with brown hair, wearing glasses and a blue swirling patterned top over dark trousers. The person on the left is dark haired and wearing a bright coral cardigan over a patterned light blue dress and purple tights. They also wear a large rainbow necklace. The person on the left holds a doll about 12 inches long designed to look like the character Ellora McGee from the children's book Ellora McGee Trainee Banshee. The person on the right holds a copy of the book. Both of the adults are looking at the doll. In the foreground are some children, barely visible, seen from the back.
Two adults standing in a bookshop with shelves and books all around. Both are female presenting. The person on the right is fat, white, dark-haired, wearing glasses and a top with a swirling blue pattern, over dark trousers. They hold an A4 sized image showing a character from book Ellora McGee Trainee Banshee. The other adult is wearing a bright coral cardigan, a light-blue patterned dress, and a large rainbow necklace. They are dark-haired. Both adults are listening to a child in their audience speaking; the child's face is not visible.
Always an absolute joy to do events with the brilliant @unawoods.bsky.social. Here we are yesterday at a @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social event in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social, having lots of banshee fun! Pictures by the excellent Mary Brigid. Thanks to all our Trainee Banshees for making it so much fun!
We reiterate our demands, we uphold the Palestinian boycott call, UEFA must expel Israel for its crimes against Palestinians, until then the FAI should refuse to play these fixtures. No-one should play the apartheid state, anywhere. #BanIsrael #FreePalestine
A copy of Mimi the Dancing Bee by Eoin O'Brien and Estrela Lourenço, Heroes of Light and Shadow by Conor Forrest, and Looking for Aurora by Zainab Boladale, all published by O'Brien Press
Some of the gorgeous #BookPost I've had recently! First up, this fab bundle from @theobrienpress.bsky.social - we adored learning about dancing bees, and I'm excited for new work from @zainabboladale.bsky.social and Conor Forrest. @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social
Can you imagine what it must be like to know that the Holy See, the Vicar of Jesus Christ, the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church himself, absolutely hates your fucking guts
The same goes for Irish complicity. #SaoirseDonPhalaistín
It's horrific and inhumane. The Irish government unfortunately has a long history of treating its most vulnerable citizens deplorably. It is to our shame that we've collectively voted in people with so little empathy.
In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
I hope you enjoy it!
I can't see anything surpassing it, my friend. 💜🧜♀️💜
Thrilled to finally have @rurooie.bsky.social's beautiful SHORELINES! Published last week with @littleislandbooks.bsky.social, this mesmerising and moving tale is my absolute Book of 2026. I love it so much. Thanks to @gutterbookshop.bsky.social for their prompt service! Don't miss this one.
Have you hearde the joke about a catte who doth lyve with a witch? Ich kan tell thee the punch lyne ys familiar.
I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
The cover of 'writing for young people' by Elen Caldecott. A blue background, with illustrated stationery flying out of a box.
It is a NEW BOOK DAY! 'Writing for Young People', by me, is an accessible look at how fiction for children and young adults is crafted. In eight chapters, we take a DEEP DIVE into picturebooks, MG and YA with AUTHOR INTERVIEWS and WRITING EXERCISES #kidlit #ukkidlit uk.bookshop.org/p/books/writ...
Tall ship sailing under clear blue sky. Text: "Global Sumud Flotilla," "March 29," "We Are Sailing" in English and Arabic. Emphasizes adventure and unity.
"On March 29, 2026, a unified maritime flotilla and overland humanitarian convoy will depart simultaneously, mobilizing thousands from over 100 countries in a coordinated, nonviolent response to genocide, siege, mass starvation, and the destruction of civilian life in #Gaza." (Global Sumud Flotilla)
Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis earlier today. Please share and let this ring out from sea to shining sea. ICE out now!
“NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL”
Some facts below on the “problem” of immigration. #abolishice
The general strike today, and the Whipple building blockade, and the march downtown - all amazing and incredible turnouts, but nothing is hitting me so hard as the masses of clergy who showed up to the airport to protest this morning. And I'm not even religious.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez declines the invitation to join the so-called Board Of Peace in Gaza citing that the future of Palestinians must be led by the Palestinians themselves.
Copenhagen rally organiser says 'world must wake up' as Donald Trump threatens to seize self-governing Danish island.
Illustrated book cover for a children's book titled Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The Pooka Plant. Illustration is of a white child with long dark hair in two plaits or braids sitting in a window, looking out. The child is watching a strange plant which is growing outside the window - tall stems, bunches of flowers that look like ears. 'Magic' flows around the lettering of the title over her head, depicted with swirling lines and stars. On the 'ground' in front of the window (at the bottom of the image) appears 'Sinéad O'Hart', and beneath that 'Illustrated by Úna Woods'. The colour palette is purple and white.
I'm thrilled to be able to share the cover for ELLORA MCGEE, TRAINEE BANSHEE: THE POOKA PLANT! Written by me, illustrated by @unawoods.bsky.social and published by Gill Books, it's coming your way on March 19th. Check my Linktree for more info and order links!
I'll let this video I have saved to my hard drive speak for itself.
Keep going and don't be afraid to fail.
Three UK activists from Palestine Action are on a life-threatening hunger strike to demand bail and fair trials.
Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed and Lewie Chiaramello are pushing their bodies to the limits of survival, risking organ failure and death.
🔗: aje.io/89fro4 | #Infograph
The thing about all these people they hate — the Somalis, the Haitians — are some of the most generous people you’ve ever met. Whose cultures are predicated on hospitality, whose kindness is entirely unmatched.
Renee Nicole Good was not the first person to be murdered by ICE under Trump.
Keith Porter was a Black man killed by ICE on New Years Eve.
Silverio Gonzalez was an undocumented immigrant killed in Franklin Park.
Marimar Martinez was shot 5 times in Chicago & survived.
No one is safe.
And finally (for now), the brilliant Asif Khan is fundraising for a number of families in Gaza. Donate to his fundraiser and help save multiple lives.
click.chuffed.org/click?ZTJFBj...
