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Delighted to be judging the Francis McManus Short Story competition again this year. Get your best stories submitted asap
It made it through the perils of the postal services unscathed @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social and opens on any page of one's choosing not just forty-three.
Looking forward to this!
Reducing women to victims of men's wars is a dishonest simplification at best. Women work in military factories, they work in chains of supply for armies, they take part in state militarisation of children as mothers and teachers. Some of them encourage men to volunteer to provide for the family.
Person crouching on the floor vacuuming and looking under the dresser. Cat on a dresser. Jesus hiding under it looking creepy AF. Caption: "And then one day, quite unexpectedly, Peter found Jesus."
Heeheehee!
Great, thank you.
Super stuff, look forward to it. We'll fire up the BBQ in our new place.
A postman from near the Uni,
Delivered Late Heaney with glee,
"Please do not bend!"
Meant nothing, my friend,
It now only opens at page forty-three.
Best wishes to all, hope you folks are keeping well.
I can confirm that nothing will strike fear into the heart of a Leitrimanderthal than someone, especially at work, announcing "I've met someone who knows you!"
See also; Today Tonight (probably) "No CommENT"
If you don’t already follow the wonderful Nigerian writer Adetokunbo Abiola, I’d strongly recommend him. My partly Nigerian-raised husband is in Ukraine making a film, “Climate in a Time of Conflict.” And I’ve watched war’s impacts on Nature in Angola and Namibia.
open.substack.com/pub/adetokun...
An image of the draft cover of "Migrant. A Libyan Storm." It shows lighting striking the horizon at sea in the Mediterranean, and the viewpoint is from over a general purpose machine gun sights. This is an action-adventure novel by Ruairí de Barra.
Nearly there with this rounds of edits.
I've had to compress a couple of Irish military characters into one character and it was a good choice.
Captain Casement RIP!
All the edits however have highlighted further work required to up the pace of the first third significantly.
Catching up with the US news tonight.
The paid talking heads on the news shows are a different species.
They lie as easily as we breathe.
No wonder half the country doesn't know up from down.
Propaganda² x Tribalism³
Jan feasted all weekend on cheese,
All cheddar and stilton and brie,
Now she says in dismay,
In a Tudor-esque way,
"Henry the Eighth I am thee."
This is an image of a juvenile Green Sea Turtle in the Grand Cayman Turtle sanctuary.
Meet this fella a couple of weeks ago, and I also got to swim with a fully wild relative of his a few days before that.
On #InternationalWomensDay remember Mary Harris Jones an extraordinary Cork woman whose tireless fight for the rights of the poor and the working class had her labelled as "the most dangerous woman in America."
#WomensHistory #IWD2026
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Congratulations to Michael Laskey, who's won the King's Gold Medal for Poetry. Here's a link to the essay I wrote on his work for The Friday Poem...
thefridaypoem.com/michael-lask...
"No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land
Remember that this is what the European Parliament, including the Fine Gael MEP’s, voted for. Horrible. Just horrible.
"The force that drives...out onto the waves,
must be stronger than the sickening worry in the pit of the mothers’ stomach,
as she places a toddler between her knees in the bilge,
the golden glow of Europe delivered via satellite,
must cloud again the eyes..."
paperneverrefusedink.com/2017/12/06/5...
Landed in the post today @stuhennigan.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this!
Thank you.
There are no less than 11 Herons in this photo. That's a record in the one spot (for me anyways!)
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Happy Birthday!
Not a care in the world with them.
Hope your having a wonderful Christmas break Bill.
👏 Happy Christmas.
I was out tonight with the dog. Its a fine a night as you could ask to follow Christmas Day, the clouds are flittering under a bright waxing crescent moon. I remembered the moon on old cranes and sleeping ships of the dockyard.
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Under the tree today on the Great Island @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
You get an honourable mention! Looking forward to Late Heaney!
So many wonderful poems fit for the Christmas season, when those that wander come home. He'd appreciate the crisp night we're having under a bright waxing crescent.
Snap!
I always watch it again on Christmas Eve!
Happy Christmas to you and yours @gavreilly.com
Thank you
Happy Christmas!
I have the great pleasure to say that this will be my first Christmas as Regional Technical Lead for the Ireland Region of the RNLI To all my friends and family may you have a very Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year. As we close out 2025, a year of significant change, I have…
