That's quite the commitment.
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That's quite the commitment.
The first biography I ever read (in my mid-teens) was about them—a tad sad as I recall. (The next one was on Jack Benny and Bob Hope after that.)
It sure is.
Bok tour to watch for with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
Making the Poem Spring Programme 2026 continues with readings and interview with Patrick Chapman.
📆21st March
🕢2:00pm
📌Westside Library, Galway
🎫 Free
🔗More details www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/mak...
If, like me, you can put up with the constant verbal abuse and no salary or prospects, the job here could be yours.
The Paddy's Week junket to the US must be preserved at all costs.
If the Yanks reduced the planet to a smoking apocalyptic wasteland, there'd be an Irish politician crawling through the ashes to present a bowl of radioactive shamrock to the last remaining American mutant.
A sensible cost savings measure.
I think we need a tea trolley at the ILT offices. Maybe if I embraced AI, I could divert some of the staff from our Accounts department to operate it. I'm thinking about a tiered tray of cakes and pastries too, but the people from accounts might find that an unnecessary expense. They can be tight.
Happy Christmas!
Tomorrow the postman is bringing me my new book; this is basically Christmas Eve for a writer.
“I’m so happy. I love writing songs. I love Ireland. I love Dublin. Up the Dubs. Up Bohs. Up Dunboyne. Free, free Palestine.”
Okay. That "misspoke" was a misspoke.
Exactly!
I think they're trying to wake him up.
Very different styles.
Irish Independent front page #TomorrowsPapersToday
John Banville’s Christine Falls chosen as One Dublin One Book 2026
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Best Social Media at #GIBA26 tonight.
The only award where the acceptance speech is immediately followed by "Sorry, I have to post this.” 🏆📲
Cheering for everyone who makes brands feel human, keeps the comments kind & somehow finds time to eat canapés while uploading a reel & holding a glass!
Elvis is back in the building!
Not really. I was camping there a few years back when I was asked to give a reading to a group visiting from Wellesley College, Ma.
Do you know the full address
That's cool
AND we won't work either. Win-win-win.
I shipped 40 boxes of books from Canada to Ireland five years ago and put them into storage. Two weeks ago, I had to move them to a new storage space—the weight mattered. (I like to think a slim book of poetry weighs more than a sprawling novel, but the movers and shippers would strongly disagree.)
Many congratulations
So delighted to be on the longlist for the @womensprize.bsky.social.
Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling.
www.mklitfest.org/online-event...
@kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social
Many congratulations!!!
Richard Hell