Denis Spillane

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

Aldi understand capitalism very well. Here I am flicking through their weekly SpecialBuys and am seriously tempted to buy their advertised Stable Rug. Only €29.99. Yet I don't own a horse.

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

3rd year to place a remembrance ribbon on the Cork Rotary Tree of Remembrance. Christmas and memory are very much intertwined, reflecting on times past. Grief persists, its shape changed, but ever present.
#CorkRotary #Grief #Christmas

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

First Christmas to place a ribbon, for my mother, on the Cork Rotary Tree of Remembrance. Moments of grief are unplanned, unpredictable, and unexpected.
#CorkRotary #Grief #Christmas

[Scoil na nAmadán @NaAmadan]

There’s people applying to be President like they’ve just seen it advertised as a Fás scheme on the notice board in SuperValu.

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

@VivienM72 Thank you, Vivien!

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

Today's morning walk.
#lindos

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

@einwod Correct. A beautiful place to live!

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

Out of office on. Day 1 of 14 in beautiful Rhodes.
#vacation

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

@Geokypan Thank you! Faultless hotel and setting, Brenda.

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

New household member*

*Overlord (though kitten sized!)
#CatsofTwittter

[Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore]

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

[Patsy McGarry @PatsyMcGarryIT]

....evening light...

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Class from Carlos Alcaraz, as always ❤️

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

COMEBACK COMPLETE.
TITLE DEFENSE COMPLETE.

#RolandGarros

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

@SkepticalHusky You too, Graham!

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

'In France, seduction is a form of politeness and means no more than any other courtesy.'

Edmund White 'Inside a Pearl - My Years In Paris'

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

@SkepticalHusky Agreed. Similar memories here - definitely an awakening.

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

@SkepticalHusky Nor I, until this evening, that is. Yes, a wonderful writer.

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

@SkepticalHusky Indeed, Graham!! 😉

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

Genuinely saddened to hear of Edmund White's death. 'A Boy's Own Story' (1982) helped many navigate their own story in adolescence. A groundbreaking author and a gay icon who leaves behind a cherished legacy.
#EdmundWhite

[Garth Greenwell @GarthGreenwell]

"Nobody talked like him; nobody was so erudite, so funny, so vulgar, so endearing; nobody had seen as much, lived as much, known as many people; nobody was so dear." I wrote about the great Edmund White. Free post; no paywall. Link in profile.

[Paul Rudnick @PaulRudnickNY]

RIP Edmund White, whose novels, memoirs and non-fiction changed and enhanced American literature. A great writer and a gay icon, he was the opposite of everything Trumpian: brave, funny, inspiring and deeply committed to books and love. A true artist with an amazing legacy

[Denis Spillane @spillaneda]

He had a very high voice, which sounded especially strange in a Latin country where most men spoke with 'une voix des couilles'
Edmund White