Clíodhna Bhreatnach

Delighted to get this one across the line and into #DIFF2026. It's been a mad scramble over the past month! This is the story of a city fighting for itself as a broken property market ruthlessly chews up its citizens for profit, treats homes as assets and people as obstacles to be moved out.

New place seems alright 🙂

She says having started a new job… give me something to read on the bus!

Any recent poetry reviews or essays worth reading??

Una Mullally: Remembering Kate Millett and her Irish Loony-Bin Trip The late American feminist was committed to an Irish mental hospital and rescued by friends

Back in 2017, I wrote about how Kate Millett was rescued by a bunch of friends from an institution in Ennis; Margaretta D'Arcy, Sylvia Meehan, Nell McCafferty, Ivor Browne, Deirdre McCarten, Maere Rountree amongst them.

Millett wrote about this in her 1990 book The Loony-Bin Trip.

Michael Magee has often cited his main influence as Annie Ernaux, which is refreshing.

You do know that this phenomenon is mostly due to the colonial history, partition of the island and the fracturing of the left? For the very first time all left parties of the southern state united behind one single hard left candidate. This is historic and no socialist in Ireland is sneering.

Plus some far right will Vote for Gavin as a protest vote. Of course you should definitely just vote the way you want to vote.

High chance your no 2 may not be counted. Conversely turnout may be low and Connolly will need your number one (if you want her to.) if she does win, great emphasis still be put on low turnout, “lack of democracy”, so a clear pref for her expressed by number ones is important.

She was on a fact-finding mission to an autocratic country, then she came back and denounced those very war criminals. I find it hard to understand what the Irish Times is trying to assert - that Catherine Connolly supports the slaughter of Palestinians?

Aw Róisín you’re too good 🥹

Aw thank you! I’m looking forward to reading Amateurs myself 😀

Sam Furlong Tighe will be launching Shakeema’s excellent pamphlet.

All welcome 🩷💚

Launched by Ellen Dillon with guest reader Lauren Lawler.

And a double pamphlet launch alongside Shakeema Edwards!

Great to see IPSC are going ahead with this demo!

It's important to mark our victories, clarify why we fought, and celebrate together.

This morale boost is essential; we can use the energy to push the OTB over the line.

When we mobilise together, we can win big victories!

Congratulations Martina, so well deserved. You will have a great time.

Can you be arrested for an anagram? How to hide Palestine Action, useful for placards at demos

no elite captains
I alone, pittances
a polite instance
penalties action
set national epic
a spleen citation
inpatient solace
antiseptic alone
a social penitent
pain at elections
Atlantic peonies

Always helps to remember that the initial essay criticising The Poetry Review for “speaking only to itself” was a review of the issue that included this poem, which was read and shared by tens of thousands. x.com/PoetrySociet...

The ONLY pamphlet with poems about Findlaters pub, cló Gaelach sex dreams, floating penises, reports about pension inequality, Elon Musk office arguments, hippy ol Dublin fellas

Delighted to say that my pamphlet is now available to buy online, alongside a whole rake of excellent debuts!

greenbottlepress.com/product/pink...

Not to be a pain but would you mind sending me a link to the registration if you could? The website page seems to not be working for me!

I absolutely love this. Socialism should be as popular as the hurling!

I was blown away by your poems in Poetry Review - really looking forward to this.

Wow. Not surprised by him but extremely disappointing by the LRB.

Thank you so much Róisín!!!! ❤️❤️

Big congrats to @cliodhnabhreatnach.bsky.social on this gorgeous debut pamphlet! Very excited for it to be out in the world finding its readers.

Thank you so much, Jess - I really appreciate it 🙂

Finola is the best