Just finished Flesh the other day, thought it was excellent, but lol at this final line

A genuine embarrassment and national shame that this man is still platformed by our media and in the pro-Palestine movement

There should be wider coverage of these charges

Congrats to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social! The book is a banger & the translation is ingenious

Today's class is on translation, translators, and the labour of translation - reading this by @jencalleja.bsky.social

"What does it mean to be a young, working-class male writer in contemporary Ireland?" Free tickets for the closing event in our @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social programme (organised by @skeinpress.bsky.social and @poetryireland.bsky.social) are now available here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/young-bloo...

Journalism can be a thankless job but every now and then you get to ask the guy who threw his shoes at Bush what he thinks about Cheney's death and it's all worth it again

ok i think that's all of them

"What goes up but never comes down?" ..... "Money!! Like, the cost of stuff!" Topical riddle from the 7-year-old

"Pariah Carey" - good headline I saw in a tabloid today. Obvious in hindsight, perhaps, but then so are all the best headlines

it will happen

seeking contributors for an edited volume

Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

They're calling it the wholesomest Saturday morning they've ever seen

Politicians that spoke about "too much immigration" in the last few days are just as responsible #speirgorm some fucking neck on them

'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare. Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

just over a month from now! want to distribute postcards or hang flyers for the DSPF? Fill in this form! forms.gle/LePucX4D5Pym...

omg

We have postcards

this is a hugely helpful list of possible countermeasures against AI, but (yet more helpfully!) lists the counter-countermeasures students could take to cheat anyway. overall, an indication of how dark & exhausting things have become for those of us trying to get people to actually think & read

Excited and honoured to be part of the very first Dublin Small Press Fair 📚 Indie publishing all the way! 💖

Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

with apologies to Mr. Joyce, we think that even Gabriel would not be late for the #DublinSmallPressFair2025 November 28 (opening panel 5 p.m.; book sales 6-9) November 29 (book sales 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; closing panel 4-5) Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2 snow may or may not be general all over Ireland

An annual ritual: getting weirdly emotional watching the Dublin Marathon from outside my house

Taking some pointers from Muriel Spark about maintaining relationships with editors

This was unique circumstances for spoiled vote: no anti-gov candidate anywhere on the right, loud online campaign, week of riots. It’s still going to end up with less than half the vote Peter Casey got as a similar protest. The “political earthquake” here is the thumping victory for the united left

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A British soldier approaches From Liadan Ní Chuinn's "Daisy Hill"

Cool teaching experience: asking the class to wait a second while you display your slides, plugging in the hdmi cable, the laptop making a deafening horrific noise like R2D2 being strangled, the screen going dark

Stack for today's class on literary journals

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Every day in 2025

ahem

can't wait to see Longbarrow Press and Intergraphia at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025! November 28-29, Pearse St. Library, Dublin 2 (dublinsmallpressfair.com for information)

our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad.

Most relatable thing Humphreys has said all campaign tbh

Learning about Christy Kinahan Sr's fondness for açai bowls

The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November! 30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates

Some new ones

Looking forward to being part of this next month (and exploring options for making at least some of the journey on foot, even if it's just the last few miles from the ferry port)

This will be ace! Catch us all at Pearse st on 29th Nov!

We’ll be there! 👇

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

as i tired to suggest in my post last week, chatgpt's absurd growth and the culture/incentives of silicon valley have cursed the company (and investors) to chase facebook-type revenues--and, worse facebook-type revenue models maxread.substack.com/p/can-openai...

We'll have a table at the Dublin Small Press Fair at the Pearse Street Library. @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Friday, 28 November – Saturday, 29 November 2025 swanriverpress.ie/events/forth...

4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030. One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods. www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...

The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November! 30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates

TOMORROW: UCD Walk Out for Gaza, Thurs 16 Oct! UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM and help gear up for a renewed campaign for full boycott of Israeli universities and research partnerships #standoutforgaza1610