Joy+self-respect that comes from a home of your own highlighted in new book celebrating Herbert Simms and public #housing strategy of Dublin Corporation in 30s+40s. Flats and Cottages by @EOBroin pics Mal McCann @MerrionPress
I hugely recommend Charlotte: A Novel by @DevlinMartina. 'The story of 2 marriages and 3 lives irrevocably intertwined, told by the woman who went on to wed Brontë’s widower. Theirs was a love triangle of devotion and heartache, friendship and deception, passion and obsession.'
📢 Call for Irish Writers!
The Belgrade Irish Festival and Literature Ireland are inviting applications from Irish writers for one month of Residence in Belgrade.
If you know writers from Ireland — share this with them! More details available here 👇 https://t.co/sOn5ZjO45B
Give the gift of love this Christmas with a Grá mug. Beautiful white bone china mug with a balloon in the shape of a red heart and the Gaelic Irish word grá (love) on the mug’s exterior.
https://t.co/NnG3OyERAp
£12
Applications for the Paul McVeigh West Cork Residency close MIDNIGHT THIS SUNDAY 30th NOVEMBER. From 25 Jan-1 Feb '26 nr Glengariff. For emerging writers of fiction/non-fiction 21 & over living in Ireland & UK. All applicants get 3 free industry workshops.
https://t.co/JZ0xKSijAc
Storytelling at its most elegant, storytelling at its most poignant. I read it after serving a judge with her on @DublinLitAward earlier this year. #books#reading @ScribnerBooks
My first big read for @thecurrency is about the crazy years when Ireland's local papers were being sold for massive money - and what happened next. It's mostly a story about people: the owners who sold, the ones who didn't and the people behind the deals. Part 1 (of 3) is below:
In 2020, @MaryLouMcDonald told the Irish Council Against Blood Sports: "Sinn Fein is opposed to foxhunting and we will vote in favour of a ban at the next opportunity". We are calling on @sinnfeinireland to support Ruth Coppinger TD's bill to ban fox hunting on 17th December 🦊
"Fox hunting is BARBARIC and long overdue a ban. Fox hunting is not pest control, as its defenders insist. It is a blood sport in which a wild animal is chased and killed in cruel circumstances" - Martina Devlin, Novelist/Columnist. #Ireland#BanFoxHunting
Martina Devlin: Fox hunting is a cruel ‘sport’ imported from Britain and it’s about time it was banned • No political party should apply the whip to obstruct progressive legislation on blood sports https://t.co/UImUl6Fnzo
#Puffins are back! “While a handful of puffins on a tiny island may seem small, this moment is huge - it proves that seabird restoration works.” - Andy Crory, @UlsterWildlife. Great initiative near #Islandmagee https://t.co/CZTXzfN3de
Next month legislation to ban fox hunting comes before the Dáil. TDs have an opportunity to ban this barbaric blood sport. Will the big parties allow their TDs to do the right thing? My column https://t.co/ZPizndHwbY