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New newsletter naoise.substack.com/p/poto-and-c...

06.03.2026 07:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Voice note: Writing as hobby vs job I decided to add a paywalled tier for more spontaneous thoughts via voicenotes, things where I’m truly just thinking aloud and don’t necessarily want it to be publicly accessible as a considered contr...

Huge day for anyone who doesn’t hate my voice: I’ve started doing paywalled voice notes for when I’m truly just thinking aloud and don’t want it to be seen as a publicly accessible quote-unquote contribution to discourse. Here’s one on writing as job vs hobby naoise.substack.com/p/voice-note...

28.02.2026 08:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is breá liom Eileen Gu, ach is fuath liom gur coincheap frithchultúrtha anois é an diansmaoineamh – mo nuachtlitir is deireanaí naoise2.substack.com/p/an-rud-ar-...

27.02.2026 19:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold Naoise Dolan, Anne Griffin and Ailbhe Malone in conversation

Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold

Join Naoise Dolan, Anne Griffin & Ailbhe Malone in conversation, in collaboration with @dublinbookfest.bsky.social.

Ancient Irish myth, retold — bold women reclaiming their stories.

📅 4 March at 6.30pm:
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19.02.2026 11:53 👍 20 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

Occam’s Razor, I know, but the impact of the BBC’s editorial choices has certainly been that the censorship of Free Palestine has gone relatively undiscussed. When an organisation’s blunders somehow miraculously only BENEFIT them, it starts to look like deliberate deflection

24.02.2026 14:43 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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One funny thing learning Arabic has made me realise is that when Israeli pundits go out of their way to say KHAMASSSSS to up the threat level to the Western ear, it just sounds like they’re mixing it up with the word for ‘five’

23.02.2026 17:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why autistic people are often BETTER at tolerating ambiguity + my thoughts on Assimil’s Arabic course that I’m halfway through naoise.substack.com/p/autistic-a...

21.02.2026 07:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tabhair dom an treo ceart Iarracht Sanremo a mhíniú

Tabhair dom an treo ceart - @naoisedolan.bsky.social

Sanremo, @realt.bsky.social agus Nuala Rua, i measc rudaí eile.

Grean séimh, léargas eile.

naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...

13.02.2026 00:29 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

There is still room for the UK government to win the appeal but the odds are against them now. Huge considering all the advantages they had going in

13.02.2026 11:20 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. There are few clearer examples of how no one is free until Palestine is free: if unchallenged this ban would have destroyed civil liberties across the board. Solidarity with everyone who risked years of incarceration to fight it

13.02.2026 11:07 👍 67 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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Tabhair dom an treo ceart Iarracht Sanremo a mhíniú

Rinne mé iarracht an fhéile fonnadóireachta Iodálach Sanremo a mhíniú trí Ghaeilge naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...

12.02.2026 20:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The jury has thus far refused to convict the Filton 24 for the majority of their charges. Keir Starmer will be remembered as a war criminal

04.02.2026 15:03 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
An image promoting a literary event around the new anthology, Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold. The event will feature editor Ailbhe Malone and contributors Naoise Dolan and Anne Griffin in conversation

An image promoting a literary event around the new anthology, Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold. The event will feature editor Ailbhe Malone and contributors Naoise Dolan and Anne Griffin in conversation

Join us as we explore some of the brilliant retellings and reimaginings in the new anthology Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold, with editor Ailbhe Malone and contributors Naoise Dolan and Anne Griffin ➡️ bit.ly/49X3fCN @nlireland.bsky.social

29.01.2026 17:35 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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New Substack newsletter: what I read in January, thoughts on tracking things, and my criteria for whether or not I enjoy people naoise.substack.com/p/to-track-o...

30.01.2026 21:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Umer Khalid’s water strike starts tonight if the UK government does not enter negotiations with Prisoners for Palestine. The human body can survive, on average, 3 days without water. The genocide in Gaza continues, solidarity with a comrade risking his own life to oppose it

23.01.2026 11:24 👍 32 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
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When ‘unfriend’ was a noun in English, my quest to learn 3,000 Arabic lemmas, and other language things naoise.substack.com/p/unfriend-n...

18.01.2026 16:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘Hands off Greenland because it belongs to Denmark’ is not the one. Denmark colonised Greenland, suppressed the language and culture, and forcibly sterilised indigenous Greenlanders for decades

18.01.2026 10:24 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Dialann léitheoireachta thar lear Tá léamh agam, de réir dealraimh

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Ní deir aon Ghearmánach ‘Tá an iomarca canúna Bheirlín in Berlin Alexanderplatz’; b’fhéidir nach n-aithneoidh duine as München gach téarma ann, ach ní bheadh aon fhadhb ag cainteoir dúchais Gearmáinise é a thuiscint ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social faoi Cré na Cille

16.01.2026 10:27 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Umer Khalid is the last remaining hunger striker. Solidarity with him, free Palestine

15.01.2026 07:55 👍 49 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

We don’t need to be naive about it, but we do need not to succumb to despair. That plays right into the hands of governments

15.01.2026 07:44 👍 42 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

15.01.2026 07:43 👍 555 🔁 211 💬 6 📌 4
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Dialann léitheoireachta thar lear Tá léamh agam, de réir dealraimh

Smaointe fánacha faoi na leabhair a bhí mé ag léamh le déanaí i bPáras, i mBeirlín agus i bPalermo naoise2.substack.com/p/dialann-le...

14.01.2026 20:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is Heba Muraisi’s 70th day on hunger strike. Bobby Sands died on his 66th day. I’m not privy to UK government meetings, I don’t have the pleasure of seeing inside their minds, but their behaviour is empirically indistinguishable from that of people who want her dead

11.01.2026 10:22 👍 59 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 1
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Just write 250 words On drafting a novel piece by piece

I wrote on Substack about how to draft a book piece by piece when you don’t have much time, like I’m currently doing for my first Irish-language novel naoise.substack.com/p/just-write...

04.01.2026 08:05 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

As the New Year rings in, Palestine Action prison hunger striker Heba Muraisi will cross over into her 60th day without food. This is often the threshold where sudden death becomes imminent. Her government knows and is wilfully proceeding, just as it has with the genocide in Gaza

31.12.2025 17:42 👍 55 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 3

grma! 🙏

29.12.2025 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An Gallantach Smaointe faoi Mavis Gallant

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cuireann sé frustrachas orm nach aistrítear sleachta Béarla go Gaeilge agus an Ghaeilge mar theanga oibre in aistí srl., mar sin déanfaidh mé mo sheacht ndícheall ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social

Rud inmholta!

29.12.2025 20:24 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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An Gallantach Smaointe faoi Mavis Gallant

Mo chuid smaointe faoin scríbhneoir Ceanadach Mavis Gallant, a bhí an-dian maidir le caighdeáin aistriúcháin (rud is annamh) naoise2.substack.com/p/an-gallant...

29.12.2025 20:02 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Assorted minor things I’m changing in 2026 If not sooner

My last Substack of 2025 naoise.substack.com/p/assorted-m...

23.12.2025 17:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

23.12.2025 14:28 👍 204 🔁 94 💬 4 📌 3