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🇨🇦 Fictionophile - #Booksky 💙📚

1 week ago

Looking through some trees to a river. The river is reflecting the brilliant blue sky above. On the far side of the river more trees are visible.

I really should be writing reviews of the last three books I've read. But it was a beautiful morning so I went for a walk before a busy, working afternoon.
#BlueSkyMonday #walk #river #sky #trees #Ireland #IrishLiterature #IrishWriting #IrishAuthors

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Poetry in Ink

@jestabrick.bsky.social

1 week ago

Everything will be all right, Derek Mahon
KIP - Cloud Echo
Canopus Note
Visconti Van Gogh Maxi <23k PD B> turtle

Derek "combined an apocalyptic vision with a utopian sense of survival"

Everything will be all right, and if not we won't be here

#poem #derekmahon #irishliterature #fountainpensandink

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@fictionophile.bsky.social

1 week ago

Hosted by Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social
March is #ReadingIrelandMonth
I plan to read 5 novels & listen to 2 audiobooks that are set in Ireland. Are YOU participating this year? #IrishFiction #IrishLiterature #booklovers #bookbloggers #BookSky #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishAuthors

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🇨🇦 Fictionophile - #Booksky 💙📚

@fictionophile.bsky.social

1 week ago

It’s Reading Ireland Month 2026! It’s 1 March so time to join me for this, the TWELFTH annual Reading Ireland Month as I celebrate all that is good about Irish books and culture. It won’t be any fun without you, so grab …

MARCH. It is Reading Ireland Month for 2026!
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#ReadingIrelandMonth #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #IrishFiction #IrishLiterature

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1 week ago

A cluster of daffodils, with grass, bushes and grey sky in the background.

My reviews for #BlueBrewBooks are a bit delayed - and I've already moved on to reading "Milkman" by Anna Burns.
Anyway, here are some #daffodils for #StDavidsDay.
#books #IrishLiterature #IrishAuthors #IrishWriting #Ireland

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Brooke Bert

@brookebert.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

We need a Beckett quote today:
“A little darkness, in itself, at the time, is nothing. You think no more about it and you go on. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”
Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett.
#beckett #irishliterature #malonedies

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2 weeks ago

Delicate white blossom - the flowers close to the camera are in focus, while the rest of the tree is out of focus.

#Spring #blossom

A hint of spring to keep things ticking over while I think about books.

#BloomScrolling #books #IrishLiterature #Ireland

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@jabugobookclub.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

The cover of Roddy Doyle's book "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" shows a young boy about to let himself drop down from a wall, which he's still holding with one hand. Born in Dublin in 1958, Roddy Doyle has written a number of novels, books for children, plays and screenplays, and lots of short stories. "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" was the winner of the Booker Prize in 1993. The story, told by a ten year old boy, doesn't follow the usual rules of a novel as there are no chapters, just a series of Paddy's thoughts which don't follow in chronological order. In spite of this, you do sense the passage of time as the book progresses. Like any ten year old, Paddy's thoughts jump quickly from one subject to another, with the subjects seemingly unrelated. The book describes a lost world where children roam freely around the area where they live, constantly getting into mischief. The early part of the book focuses on this fun and mischief before real life begins to intrude. I won't give any more detail as I don't want to spoil the story for any potential reader.

"Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" by Roddy Doyle is a story told by a ten year old boy living in Barry Town, North Dublin, in 1968.
It's a wonderful read - and I highly recommend it!
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#books #booksky #IrishAuthors #IrishWriting #IrishLiterature

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Jabugo Book Club

3 weeks ago

Interview with Irish Author Ann Murtagh — patrick-doherty.net Children's author Ann Murtagh answers questions about her favourite books.

Delighted to have renowned Irish Children's Author Ann Murtagh @annmurtagh.bsky.social answering the Jabugo Book Club's questions today. www.patrick-doherty.net/jabugo-book-... #irishwriters #irishliterature #kilkenny

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1 month ago

A Double-Bill of #WordSmith for all of us who resonate❣️
#IrishLiterature

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Elizabeth Bowen - Hand in Glove A story of love, impatience and loss. And gloves.

1 month ago

This week's #WordSmith column – it's all about lies, and more LIES?
#IrishLiterature #IrishLife

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Ed Parnell

@edparnell.bsky.social

1 month ago

📣 New Podcast! "Elizabeth Bowen - Hand in Glove" on @Spreaker #auntandnieces #bookdiscussion #bookrecommendations #classicnovels #elizabethbowen #familydynamics #fictionalfamilies #gothicelements #handinglove #intriguingtales #irishauthors #irishliterature #jasminelodge #literaryanalysis

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Bullivant

@bullivant.bsky.social

1 month ago

A colourised photograph of Brendan Behan in sunglasses and holding a cigar.

The cover of the book "Poems and a Play in Irish". The play was "An Giall" which was later translated to become “The Hostage” and achieved worldwide fame for Behan.

Brendan Behan was born in Dublin on 9 February 1923 in Dublin. He wrote plays and poems in English and Irish including "An Giall", later translated into English as “The Hostage”. 1/2

#BrendanBehan #IrishLiterature

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JW Roulston, MSW, JD

@ottawakiwi.bsky.social

1 month ago

I’m amazed at this process, how a story about #ThunderBay I told to friends turned into a story I wrote down, and now is published in Ireland by a magazine in #Derry #HonestUlsterman, just 5 km from my grandparents’ home.
#Diaspora #IrishLiterature #CanadianLiterature #speirgorm

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1 month ago

Love the below comment about my column this week, from a man over on X😂

"A Cavan lad, reading a Monaghan man's words in a Manchester accent: Gerard Smith embracing his 'soundings'.

A tale of identity, acceptance - and 'gorgeous underpants'!"
#WordSmith #Soundings #Poetry #IrishLiterature

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