Iris Murdoch Dublin

Local commemorative events to celebrate the birth of Iris Murdoch at 59 Blessington Street

[Iris Murdoch Dublin @iris_dublin]

@JamesMarsh79 I don’t know your background but I lost my mum earlier this year. I was in so much pain / sleepless the first few days. The parallels are awfully bittersweet and poignant. She celebrated her own 50th wedding ann. with my dad in early Feb, only to pass away on 24/2. Stay strong.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I just published The World in Which We Live https://t.co/wNWwFJsIIn

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

LATEST PODCAST:

Historian Colum Kenny joins me to discuss his book on Arthur Griffith and the real story behind Griffith’s Irish economics.

https://t.co/fEwA3UFhZs

[Gemma Kennedy @gemmaration]

@DubCityCouncil The state of this!! AI slop!! Why not pay real artists to create something like this???

[Iris Murdoch Dublin @iris_dublin]

@oldbooksguy Was that not from GK Chesterton?

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'Murdoch has more to offer on the subject of politics than the woolly Platonism often projected onto her.'

Nikhil Krishnan on Iris Murdoch’s political progress
https://t.co/UlJtCPb6B1

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“When you begin a novel you are in a state of unlimited freedom, and this is alarming.” —Iris Murdoch https://t.co/xjGd9bX9Zr

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Everyone who does not NEED to be a writer ought to do something else.” —George Simenon https://t.co/24OVXNR0MP

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Although there were many literary groups and cliques in Dublin, he was not part of any of them.”

Colm Tóibín on John Broderick. https://t.co/nmu0xfzT6T

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I saw John Broderick once. It must have been about 1980 … He was wearing a beautifully cut three-piece suit with elaborate stripes. He was alone and he looked desolate.”

Colm Tóibín on John Broderick. https://t.co/nmu0xfzT6T

[Iris Murdoch Dublin @iris_dublin]

@cusackandrew @frankmcdonald60 ?!

[Iris Murdoch @IrisMurdoch]

'Impossible to read Plato without seeing that the whole of religion is there as well as the whole of philosophy & that they are one.'

Iris Murdoch's Journal, 30th May 1975

[Iris Murdoch Dublin @iris_dublin]

@davidmcw @AmazonUK @nntaleb healthy competition!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@InvisibleColege As Iris Murdoch said, never get married until you can't believe your luck.

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'At Christmas Murdoch became more poetic, more vulnerable, more loving and more spiritually needy than perhaps even she understood.'

Anne Rowe on what Christmas meant to Iris Murdoch
https://t.co/uTjvbLe6aP

[Dublin Civic Trust @dubcivictrust]

There’s no doubt that Dublin’s restoration award of the year 2024 goes to @coffeeangel’s resurrection of the J. O’Grady & Co. shopfront at 1-2 Lower Mount Street just off Merrion Square, that languished for years under a heap of roller shutters, signage panels and beauty board 🧵

[Iris Murdoch Dublin @iris_dublin]

@IrisMurdoch Yes and it was about an escapade by a couple around the suburbs and pubs of Dublin.

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Speaking at @kilkenomics

Great chats with fellow speakers and audience!

[Kilkenomics @kilkenomics]

Day 3 in full swing!

📷: @allenkielyphotography

#Kilkenomics

[Julia Hobsbawm @juliahobsbawm]

We're in a Kilkenny theatre about to watch a session on -what else - money. I'm deep in intellectual bro-ville with @nntaleb @rorysutherland at @kilkenomics and it's jolly late. No fun is being had at all, I promise you.