Jane Carkill

Illustration/ Textile/ Design • Contact/ Commissions- [email protected] • Instagram - lamblittle

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

#Otd 2025: Bought 'Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect'! By Jane Clarke / @lamblittle_. Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Yeats, Winifred M. Letts, John Montague, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt, Louis MacNeice, Eva Gore-Booth & more! Gorgeous!

[Limerick Literary Festival @kobweekend]

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 13: A book that is an anthology- Windfall Irish nature poems to inspire and connect.

#readirishwomen #read #irishwriter #femalewriters @lamblittle_

[Jane Carkill @lamblittle_]

Ecstatic to receive my own copy of ‘The Hare’s Corner’ in the postbox today. What an honour to have the foreward written by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland.
The Hare’s Corner was created in collaboration with @jane_janeclarke @BurrenbeoTrust @pocketforests

[Jane Carkill @lamblittle_]

Ladybirds 🐞

[Jane Carkill @lamblittle_]

The Hare & The Tortoise 🌾

[Jane Carkill @lamblittle_]

Welcome August 🌿

[Jane Carkill @lamblittle_]

Coming Soon; The Hare’s Corner. Available for preorder now 💛

I am so excited to reveal the cover for this special book, created In collaboration with @BurrenbeoTrust @jane_janeclarke @pocketforests & @NewIslandBooks 🌿

Publishing September 26th ❤️

[lucía ౨ৎ @eyretartt]

i finally met them ❤️‍🩹

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

Bought Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect! By @jane_janeclarke @lamblittle_. Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Yeats, Winifred M. Letts, John Montague, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt, Louis MacNeice, Eva Gore-Booth & more! @HachetteIre 10/10✨

[Jane Carkill @lamblittle_]

Pumpkins & Squash 🍂
Happy Halloween!

[The O'Brien Press @OBrienPress]

Happy publication day to ‘The Keeper of the Bees’ by Eimear Chaomhánach, Illustarted by Jane Carkill 🐝

Available in bookshops now!

@BeeFolklore
#thekeeperofthebees #new #irishpublishing #obrienpress

[KeeperOfTheBees_IrishFolklore @BeeFolklore]

I'm delighted to have a short article 'Bees & Beekeeping in Irish Folklore' in this month's @irelandsown1902 Magazine; their #Halloween edition, packed with wickedly good ghost stories!

#IrishBookWeek
#Folklore #Books #Literature
#Ireland
#TheKeeperOfTheBees 🐝

[KeeperOfTheBees_IrishFolklore @BeeFolklore]

A big thanks to @irishexaminer for featuring an extract from my book that describes the tradition of #TellingTheBees 🐝🐝

#TheKeeperOfTheBees
@OBrienPress
@IELifestyle_
#Folklore #Ireland

[Pusheen the cat @Pusheen]

Surround yourself with good friends 💖

[KeeperOfTheBees_IrishFolklore @BeeFolklore]

#StGobnait, patroness of bees, was visited by an apparition & told to travel until she reached her place of ‘resurrection’ where 9 white deer would be sleeping. Here, she was to erect her 1st church & devote herself to a pious way of life

#LegendaryWednesday
#31DaysOfHaunting

[KeeperOfTheBees_IrishFolklore @BeeFolklore]

I received hardcopies of my book from @OBrienPress in the post & I think (hope) the bees might approve 🐝

Launching 6pm, 22nd Oct '24 @Hodges_Figgis, Dublin.

All will bee welcome 🐝

#WritingCommunity #Published #books #Folklore #SaveTheBees #Beekeeping

[KeeperOfTheBees_IrishFolklore @BeeFolklore]

Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial symbol was the #honeybee. He had 300 golden bees embroidered onto is coronation #costume to represent 300 gold bees with garnet wings found inside the tomb of 5th century French King, Childeric
@MythologyMonday

[Jane Carkill @lamblittle_]

St. Gobnait; Patroness of the bees ❤️ Illustration for Chapter 4 : The keeper of the Bees, by Eimear Chaomhánach. @BeeFolklore , publishing in October 🐝

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

Lovely new @OBrienPress coming out in October! Would love a copy! Written by Eimear @BeeFolklore! She has just set up her twitter/X account, and has written some nice interesting #bee tweets. How about you bee friendly and give her a bee-autiful follow! #FollowFriday #FF 🐝🍯🐝

[The O'Brien Press @OBrienPress]

‘Keeper of the Bees’ by Eimear Chaomhánach, beautifully illustrated by Jane Carkill, weaves folktales about bees with memories of growing up in a beekeeping household, collecting swarms and learning how to harvest honey.

Out October 2024

Available to pre-order!

@BeeFolklore