Bernadette Kearns │Fiction editor

“The Yearning for Adventure” giclée art print Hark! What was that?! Our feline friend has heard mysterious noises emanating from out in the garden. Were the sounds an ‘it’ or a ‘them’? She thinks she sees shadowy shapes dart across the lawn and slither vthrough the shrubbery. The poor cat is trapped indoors. All she wants is to leap through that window into a moonlit landscape of wild curiosity filled with unknown and unseen excitements - and perhaps an exploit or two of good old mischief.

“The Yearning for Adventure”

Available as a giclée art print in my Etsy shop!

You can find it here:
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The loveliest coin designs. The detail on them was incredible.

people often ask me about my approach to impact and change. there’s also a common — though rarely stated —assumption that ai auditors or critics should work with developers/vendors to drive concrete changes... product retraction, guardrails, mitigations, etc...

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🗣️ “As an Irishman, he should be absolutely ashamed.”

Kneecap rapper Mo Chara has criticised the Taoiseach’s planned St Patrick’s Day visit to the White House to meet Donald Trump.

It comes after judges ruled Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh will not face a new terror trial.

#VMNews

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Sarah Hall, author of Helm, is absolutely right; we must protect the integrity and cultural value of creators.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

‘As a couple, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met.’

Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in the next issue.

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission. About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tuesday, a week before the UK government is due to issue an assessment on the economic cost of proposed changes in copyright law. Continue reading...

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

The one thing they do get upended about, rather than literally anything else at all whatsoever that they're meant to be overseeing: trivial matters like housing, healthcare, infrastructure, etc

#spéirghorm #ireland

If he does cancel, I doubt anyone will be upset other than Micheál himself. He shouldn't be going in the first place to get himself cancelled.

It’s hard to rise up when some asshole has made the air outside unbreathable and keeps dropping bombs everywhere.

Once again, another example for the “fascists unable to imagine what it is like to be Another Person”

#mypresident

Middle East conflict is 'assault on international law' President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".

"What we have witnessed...are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for 80 years. We must name them as such, without euphemism and without equivocation."

www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...

Some people are responding to this saying this doesn't extend to the more horrific things a child might experience, but I think that's incorrect and misguided. Yes, how you depict it and talk about it matters deeply, but things like abuse, neglect, self-harm, can all absolutely be tackled in kidlit.

Thankfully our President has more courage, honesty and empathy than our government and is willing to stand up for international law. This is exactly why the Irish people elected her.

People gathered in a square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 7, 2026, to protest U.S. and Israeli military attacks on Iran and call for an immediate end to the war.

Femmes combattantes en France, Grande-Bretagne et Irlande dans la première moitié du XX° siècle

Mary MCAULIFFE (University College Dublin, Ireland): 'It changed the course of my life and left me drifting penniless and broken in spirit'; the afterlives of female anti-treaty militants imprisoned during the Irish civil war, 1922-1923. Leeann LANE (Dublin City University, Ireland): Cork Afterlives: Single Women and the New Irish State. Caitríona BEAUMONT (London South Bank University, GB). A fury and a 'die-hard' or an active citizen? Claiming citizenship in the wake of the Irish revolution and civil war.

Enroute back from an excellent conference on ‘Women in War in Britain, France and Ireland ’ at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, in Boulonge Sur Mer’. Really excellent, thought provoking papers and great camarderie hanging with my sister historians - a lovely way to spend #IWD2026

What I would like are governments that are so keen to act in the interests of their people and the global community that they will listen carefully to criticism rather than ridicule or try to suppress it. Yes, I know I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one.

Sophie Magdalena Scholl, a German heroine against the Nazi regime This International Women’s Day, we remember the sacrifices made by Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, as a statement against fascism

Sophie Magdalena Scholl, a German heroine against the Nazi regime.
This International Women’s Day, we remember the sacrifices made by Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, as a statement against fascism.
#IWD #History #WWII
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"Sánchez has consistently sought to defend sovereignty, multilateral action and the rule of international law. Whether in relation to Venezuela, Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine or now Iran, Spain’s position has been steady."

It matters. 🇪🇦🇺🇳

All Women Must Stand Together on International Women’s Day As the forces that seek to restrict our rights gain strength, we reflect on the fact that trans or cis, as women, we are stronger together.

All Women Must Stand Together on International Women’s Day

“If we turn against our trans siblings – and against each other – we only end up deepening the divisions that others are so keen to sow amongst us.”

notinourname.org.uk/all-women-mu...

🧵I keep reading that men go to war or that one island because of their desire. But in order to desire, you have to accept that you lack. These men think they (should) have everything, but feel it’s not enough. Having to have possession over humans and wielding objects to destroy them is jouissance.

I dont like the way this video read my entire life like this lol

this made me cackle all the way through

Analysis suggests US was responsible for deadly strike on Iranian elementary school | CNN The United States military was likely responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Is...

Set aside for a minute the stupidity of starting this whole war (we'll come back to it)

This strike on a school shows why war is serious business for serious people.

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Old English vs. Ancient Greek - a chat with Colin Gorrie & Luke Ranieri YouTube video by ScorpioMartianus

This might be the only conversation ever recorded in both Old English and Ancient Greek

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This is a more balanced, thoughtful and critical discussion. Fry uses genAI, but emphasises the importance of being clear about what it is and what it isn’t.

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I love the exchange about forklifts. So true.

Totally agree with that assessment. No actual interest in being a leader or the wellbeing of the country. Just happy to be at the top of the pile to keep an eye on his own interests, imo.