Last year, I gave a talk to MA students that left them like 'your life is so exhausting, where is the reward for being a writer' and I was like 'no it's so worth it, it's so energising & amazing' & they were a bit like 'we don't believe you' and at the moment, am exhausted and I don't believe me 🦥
Poster calling for ban on chat gpt on tcd wifi
Delighted to see this student led campaign to remove chat gpt from College WiFi today on environmental and ethical grounds. Hope it succeeds
Statement by President Connolly on International Women’s Day 2026
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On International Women's Day we stand with our Palestinian sisters. We condemn the apartheid, incarceration and genocide that Israel subjects them to and respect their courage, resilience, dignity and resistance. Palestinian women deserve, and will have, freedom, justice and equality. #FreePalestine
Thinking of the Iranian schoolgirls this international women's day who were, brutally and worse than appallingly, robbed of their chance to become women by US and Israel.
*awkward haha here's me proving my awkwardness!
Headshots of Molly Twomey and Iain Haley Pollock, behind text saying 'Just to Say'
Cannot wait to be in conversation with Iain Haley Pollock to discuss his latest outstanding poetry collection 'All the Possible Bodies' published by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social for our next Just to Say at 7pm Irish time on April 1st ❤️
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the free zoom link 🌻
Hhahaha I'd love to see an award prize trophy!! 🏆
😂 you'd be driven moon mad thinking about the competition and ego side of poetry, Alison 🫠
ahaha might have to receive that lying down on your side
I've never had a poem nominated for the forward prize, I feel like if there were a backward prize I'd have a better shot at it. 💫
“Gender-critical feminism”—a movement built around trying to get a children’s author to like your tweets
Ahead of Spring Online Publishing Day on 7 March, meet the experts 👇
Lauren O’Donovan won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition, & Cúirt New Writing Prize. She is co-founder of @howlwriting.bsky.social.
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Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹
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Minister O’Donovan regularly gives impression that he despises soccer.
What happened in Dundalk was a disgrace & the days of pyros at matches must be over.
However O’Donovan seems almost gleeful at administering collective punishment.
Will the same happen after a GAA or rugby melee?
Had a young woman come up today and tell me I look really cool which is enough validation for the next 5 years tbh
Several people have asked me why Tyra Banks was wearing a trench coat during the documentary. And I’ll just say: when someone walks into a room but keeps their coat on, it’s a way of saying “I’m just popping in, won’t be here for a long.” I think she was communicating her lack of interest.
Thor and Dany patronisingly smile meme
Tyra Banks all through the ANTM doc while dodging any ounce of real accountability:
Molly holding her arms out 🤌
Gave my first presentation at a conference as part of my PhD today and clearly here I appear to be saying, 🤌 'money, where is the money' 🤌
Looking forward to this today 🥰🔥👏
Textile art of a figure with horns and curves
Textile art of eyes and lips and text saying 'speak your peace'
Textile art of two figures, one feeding a high heel to another. A fire in the background. Both figures have horns. Their legs are intertwined.
Art from Shirani Bolle, now on display in Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh. It's so worth a little trip on the train to see. There's also amazing work by Elinor O'Donovan about beatles 🪲10/10 recommend for anyone missing the Crawford which omg I am.
Only one more week to go! We're very excited for our contributors to present their work at the launch of our competition issue, and we hope you are too. All are welcome to the official launch at Waterstones in Cork City on 17th February at 6:30pm
This confirmed by the Taoiseach in the Dáil just now – a significant backtrack by the Government in the midst of an acute housing shortage, now allowing more properties to stay in use for short-term lettings without needing to register/amend their property designation as 'commercial'
My new 8-week course ‘writing as a reader / reading as a writer’ is offered through the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Academy (Spring 2026 programme). This is an online course, and it starts on 5 March. Limited spaces. Full details and booking link: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
Someone finally bought a dress from my vinted after doing a full on photo shoot yesterday which was really uncomfy aha but it paid off cause I will be a fiver richer 👑🕺
President Connolly with Greta Thunberg
Ireland: A stunning 71 per cent of respondents favour putting a guarantee about neutrality in the Constitution.
Latest Irish Times poll.
✨🐺✨ the coolest team in Cork ❤️
One week until submissions open.
HOWL New Irish Writing 26 opens on Feb 13th.
Poetry and prose in English and Irish.
We’re looking forward to reading what you’ve been working on.
📅 7 days
Thank God we're not polarised today folks. I know floods are bad, but polarisation would be very uncomfortable. #spéirgorm
I wonder if people in salaried jobs who create applications for arts opportunities ever think about how much time the applicant has to put into the application and if the potential and competitive reward is worth that much energy. I'm just so tired of applications. I just want to make things. 🔥
