Received my UK public lending right statement (writers receive a payment every time their books are borrowed from the library). Thanks so much to UK library users for your support for my writing 🙏 Libraries are so important to the fabric of our reading culture – let's keep supporting them.

Hey. Time on social media will not meaningfully increase your capacity to help combat the horrors. If all it's doing for you is making you feel the horrors more deeply and constantly, please know that you are under no obligation to do that to yourself.

Excellent and very enjoyable overview of Helen Hooker O'Malley's life and work by her son Cormac O'Malley, celebrating the acquisition of her photographic archive @ucc.ie @ucclibrary.bsky.social #photography #IrishHistory #archives

Open Access Pathways - celebrating #OpenAccessWeek @ucclibrary.bsky.social @hardyschwamm.bsky.social presenting an overview of the importance of Open Access

I guess working from home for 2 weeks is out of the question 😫

The nice people at @wikimediaireland.bsky.social are hiring an Irish Language Officer! Check out wikimedia.ie

How are people coping with working 5 days when they have tiny humans? How are you squeezing more of their joy into your life? Should I work at night while they sleep??

I very much enjoyed being invited on the @shushradio.bsky.social radio show (link to recording below) and being able to pick my own songs (great fun, but difficult choices had to be made!) and also having a great chat about libraries (they give us power you know), food science and much more.

Excel. Great for numbers. Shit for text.

Taispéantas deas i gcuimhne Manchán Magan sa leabharlann Blanchardstown 💙 Nice display in memory of Manchán Magan in Blanchardstown library. @darach.bsky.social

[God, about to create the giraffe] Now let's do a silly one

It's a beautiful time of year when the sun shines!

Fergal Keane reflects on the culture that shaped him in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social ahead of our symposium Cork University Press and Irish Intellectual Life this week: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Really enjoyed the ‘Words on Waves’ exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, with truly spectacular early Irish manuscripts loaned from the monastery of St Gall in Switzerland, paired with related artefacts from the NMI’s collection. Mobile art and ideas taking literal form! Unmissable.

Looking forward to seeing you at our Symposium next week. bit.ly/CUPSymposium 📘 Session 1: Paul McSweeney on Urban Milk Supply. Síle Ní Mhurchú on Dánta Gráda. Iarla Ó Lionáird on Irish Music. Cormac Ó Gráda on Cork’s Economic History Other session details to follow

I have to pay €2 extra for the carpark every time my kid won't cooperate about getting into school on time.

Two underappreciated things when working from home. Using up leftovers, and giving the face a little break from makeup.

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

Celebrate 100 years of Cork University Press, Ireland’s oldest university press Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.) Free & open to all www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...

This morning we bid farewell to our home of almost 10 years, @mulibrary.bsky.social, as we move to our new office! We would like to thank the MU Library team for hosting us, and for all of their support through the years. @maynoothuniversity.ie

It’s always lovely to have a piece in the Irish Arts Review, but particularly lovely when it is about the most recent graduates from art and design colleges around the country - so much talent to watch! #speirgorm

Couldn't possibly be true, aren't they leaving the market in droves?! Absolute LOLZ. Every house I've been outbid on thus far (bar one) has been bought by either a builder or a landlord. I've worked all my life, and will still likely never be able to afford a home of my own.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

7) Copenhagen is the answer to the question “what if you had as much money as Ireland and decided spent it on stuff that made the place better?”.

“It’s almost taboo among writers to say, ‘I am interested in finding out what a person could do with this technology.’” I spoke to @naomialderman.bsky.social, @richbeard.bsky.social and Sarah Hall about what AI means for novelists, in this week’s @ftweekend.com Books Essay:

🧵Spotted in a Library in Aotearoa New Zealand: A softly smiling man (20s?) is wandering around the shelves with a tiny new human snug against his chest in a sling. He's kissing the top of her head, tilting himself this way and that so she can see ALL the books she'll one day be able to read. (1)

Were you looking for these @darach.bsky.social ? Someone was talking about these Kilkenny caterpillars but not sure if I'm remembering correctly. We are wondering what butterfly or moth will come from them.

Momentarily blurred the lines between academic and public library duties last week with story time and crafts in the Boole.

Unbelievably, I have been back at work for 8 weeks, feels like about 3. This is the first week that I feel like I have some energy left over for my family.

Ok people, I am looking to crowdsource some social media platform knowledge. Who, in Ireland or other EU country has seen an age verification demand, and on what platform.

Why does he treat the number of homes being built now as the fixed number we must work around? Same logic that has people praising Paschal Donohue for being so fiscally responsible, even though his balanced sheets have resulted in 15,000 homeless

Donie O’Sullivan has brought us a heartbreaking, infuriating story of one remarkable woman & her long quest for truth & a decent burial for 796 of babies buried in the grounds of a ‘home’ for unwed women run by nuns in the west of Ireland. Thank you @donie.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/doni...

While we are all obviously focussed on Gaza, the EU (FG’s EPP crew) are rolling back on Environmental and Human Rights protections. It might even be too late to stop them! (Feat Senator Patricia Stephenson) Listen now please: open.spotify.com/episode/4vBW... or wherever you get your podcasts

I very rarely pre-order books, but I am beyond excited to have received this on publication day! Hope the kids will understand my "do not disturb" look.

Just how much did you want to let Epic Games collect a giant profile of your actions, attached to your Government ID? CnaM and Ofcom have delivered this with their Age Verification scheme. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age...

Sunshine wins out in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social ☀️ Pick up a copy today and find your next summer read 🗞️

Keeping us all safe. #vaccines

€95 for 1st dose of chicken pox vaccine!! For babies born since October it's included in childhood vaccine schedule. For those of us footing the bill ourselves, employers should be very grateful. Currently tearing through my older kid's childcare. Lucky not to be struck with 2 weeks home with it.

Children’s Books Ireland has published a research report “uncovering a worrying pattern of plummeting rates in reading enjoyment and book ownership in children and young people” 👇 #BookSky

Reading for pleasure is the right of every child. Proper funding for libraries and librarians essential

Thus evening in the library a woman asked for books about autism to explain it to her young son and also something for herself. I handed her a copy of Wired Our Own Way: Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices by @niamhgarvey.bsky.social and she said 'thank you, that's exactly what I'm looking for'

From the State that plans to regulate the internet from the end of this month:

Really enjoying hearing @ronanhession.bsky.social and Wendy Erskine talking about writing and their books at Siamsa Tire in Tralee. Lovely people, great writers.

📢 UCC Library is hiring a Learning Support Librarian Lead on study skills, digital tools & academic support and supporting student success. 📍 Permanent, full-time 🗓️ Apply by 05 Aug 2025 12pm 👉 www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... #LibraryJobs #UCC #AcademicLibrarian #Hiring

📚 Last night we celebrated the launch of Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhrán by Fintan Vallely. Huge thanks to @nmireland.bsky.social for hosting us in their majestic rotunda, to Kevin Conieff for launching and to everyone who joined us 🎶 🔗 www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205046...

People always joke/console "you can enjoy a hot cup of coffee", when you finish maternity leave. The coffee is good but 10 or 15 minutes of uninterrupted reading is the best.

We officially left Twitter this week after 16 years on the platform. For those of you who followed us there during the good times (or for anyone who likes a good meme), we've compiled a video of our favourite Twitter moments. We're looking forward to finding friends old and new on Bluesky.

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

🏳️‍🌈 Discover Non-Conformist Histories at the National Museum of Ireland 🏛️ Join us for a brand-new LGBTQIA+ guided tour & explore our collections through a fresh, inclusive lens🌈 🗓️ Saturday, 28th June 🕛 12:00 PM 📍 Collins Barracks, Dublin www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

For any book lovers in #Cork this Friday call into @ucclibrary.bsky.social Library Cork City Library or Cork County Library to pick up a copy of 'Listen to your MIcrobes' by Fergus Shanahan & Laura Gowers to celebrate World Microbiome Day @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie @teagasc.bsky.social