A couple embraces after the fall of the Czech government near the Jewish cemetery, Prague, 1989. Brian Harris. #photography

Mestiza Blood by V. Castro. A stunning collection of short stories. #horrorwriting

Catherine Connolly says she knows how Jacobs get the figs into the fig rolls. #SmearTheBejaysus

Catherine Connolly once made a phone call in the quiet compartment of the Galway train. #SmearTheBejaysus

There's a great interview with @michaelwehunt.bsky.social on @talkscaredpod.bsky.social . Michael discusses his new novel The October Film Hunt. I read Michaels first collection of short stories Green Pastures and can highly recommend it. #horrorwriting open.spotify.com/episode/4aIt...

Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween. Every day Conor Bryce recommends a movie to countdown to October 31st. The focus will be on hidden gems – under-seen or under-appreciated movies that deserve to be seen. #horror www.filmireland.net/film-ireland...

Vincent Price recites the poem The Harlot's House by Oscar Wilde youtu.be/_xYSCLddcVQ?...

"I am a camera with its shutters open, quite passive, recording, not thinking....Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed." Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. First published in 1939, reading this in our current political climate is frightening.

More on road bowling in Ireland. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Give me the ghost of the glass. Give me the phantom locked in fused silicon dioxide. The spectre who whispers to vandals about stones and freedom. The temporal shade who peers through windows is a friend of mine. – #CJosiffe 1982 #Ghosts

Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita

Symbolism. The city as character. Bruges-La-Morte by Georges Rodenbach.

Wonderful. Frightful. Compelling. Books of Blood by Clive Barker. ##horrorfiction

On my bus home this evening I saw three people walking through Rathmines while reading a book. It's the small things in life that matter. Keep on reading. #reading

Filipino artist Dengcoy Miel. The pictures here are in Dencoy's current exhibition in the BenCab Museum which runs until September 28th.

Well here it is everyone "Bartholomew Hoppinlilypond" by Bren Farrell. It's absolutely wonderful.

The tintype photographs of Joe Kayne

Infinite Lives, Infinite Deaths by Douglas Candano is a collection of horror/dark fantasy short stories set in The Philippines. I keep saying it Filipino literature is the great hidden gem. Candano sets these stories against the backdrop of the Chinoy (Chinese-Filipino) experience. #horrorfiction.

🧵 Carlo Crivelli (c1430-1495) was a fascinating Renaissance artist who painted strange visions that are both bizarre & entrancing. He was a bridge between the medieval Gothic & the modern world of the Renaissance. Let’s take a look at this strange artist!

I've just heard some terrific news. My old friend Bren Farrell has had a book published. The book is entitled "Bartholomew Hoppinlilypond." It can be purchased in Waterstones in England and will soon be available in bookshops in Ireland and hopefully worldwide. Proud of you Bren!

Artist Gertrude Abercrombie was the American Bohemian Queen #art

Thats it I'm going to buy Sally Rooneys latest novel.

The work of Mexican outsider artist Martín Ramirez.

This book gripped me right the way through to the end. Can't recommend it enough. My Heart is a Chainsaw by @sgj.bsky.social #horror #horrorfiction

🧵 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is considered one of the greatest genii in history. He was a key Renaissance artist, an inventor, architect, scientist & polymath. Some of his work is universally famous, even though he painted so few pictures [1]

A fascinating insight into the Basque people. The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky.

Here's something people outside of Ireland definitely haven't encountered previously. A short film on the Irish sport of road bowling. Forget ten pin bowling or lawn bowling. This is where it's all happening. youtu.be/goZ6agHlirM?...

Chilean photographer Sergio Larraín

Charlton Heston by Stump. Still putting his vest on. youtu.be/yWa3ouFWwJs?...

Fumio Kitaoka, from the series "The Face of Tokyo". #woodblockprints

Like me my edition of Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari is bruised, battered and all the worse for wear. Both of us however are still full of wonders. #art

Recorded just a few weeks ago in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris Lara Marlow interviews Irish author Paul Lynch. www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/cci-onlin...

An animation film: "How Wing are Attached to the Backs of Angels". youtu.be/NRHVzbJVx8I?...

Isn't growing old terrible. That last post should read: "that draws you in."

An utterly compelling read the draws you in. Hagstone by @sineadgleeson.bsky.social

There is so much I can relate to on buying books and reading. From @gabino.bsky.social substack.com/@gabinoigles...

Icy Sedgwick and the ghosts and spirits of Dublin. youtu.be/riU-QiA4YZk?...

From the series "One Hundred Views of Tokyo in the Shõwa Era" by printmaker Koizumi Kishio.

Srebrenica 1995, Gaza 2025. Nothing but the same old story. Genocide. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lankum - Go Dig My Grave youtu.be/qhqpQiXnFx0?...

On @talkscaredpod.bsky.social there's a great interview with Rose Keating author of Oddbody. Irish horror is currently having a moment. A certain emerging from the shadows. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

The Solidaridad Bookstore in Manila is up for sale. What happens next to the place known as the best little bookstore in Asia? #Philippines #books www.spot.ph/arts-culture...

Josef Sudek. Czech photographer known as the Poet of Prague.

A short film by Duncan Whitley entitled "Between the Orange Tree and the Lime". It features the late flamenco José Pérez Blanco. The film focus is on the saeta sung during Seville's Semana Santa. duncanwhitley.net/entre-naranj...

Augenblick - Xmal Deutschland Some 80's gothic for a Saturday. youtu.be/tJwJSphAh_g?...

With Tomorrow- Francis O'Toole #art #irishart

A fantastic collection of gothic uncanny short stories by Irish author Tracy Fahey. The Unheimlich Manoeuvre by Tracy Fahey. #horrorfiction

Girl with a Cat - Daniel O'Neill #art #irishart

A short documentary about the artist John "The Map" Callanan from Sligo. youtu.be/M0vpZgpZyt8?...