Homecoming celebrations for #Limerick #hurling champions at the end of our street, 20,000 expected. Pic by @tomtdowling.bsky.social

Very sad news.

Today I'm catching up on replays for #DevelopYourPremise writing conference. Loved @jessicaberg.bsky.social of @roseclifflit.bsky.social very clear talk. Thank you @writingdaniel.bsky.social for putting this event on. I'm on the free pass and getting so much out of it 🙏 #booksky 📚 #amwriting

Loved #TheOdyssey... possibly the greatest story of all time beautifully told on screen. #christophernolan

New door wreath by the very talented Tara in White Dove. I love going to her gorgeous shop in Wickham Way. Pop in if you're around, you won't regret it. I particularly love the dried artichoke in the wreath 😍

Delighted and honoured to be nominated by @flarelitmag.bsky.social . Read the mag, it's excellent. 🙏📚 #booksky #BestoftheNet

Rock legend Patti Smith took a Palestinian flag from an audience member and held it up at her concert in Limerick, Ireland on Tuesday. The star went on to thank Ireland for its solidarity with the Palestinian people and its efforts to call out Israeli abuses of international law. ✊🇵🇸✊🇵🇸✊🇵🇸✊

Patti Smith was incredible in King Johns Castle. What a gig, total legend. Thank you @dolanslimerick.bsky.social for bringing the arts to the city. 🙏 #PattiSmith #Limerick

Saw the #WilliamBlake exhibition in @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social Would've enjoyed more Blake but what was there was stunning and the exhibiting is beautifully curated. Finished on 19 July, well worth catching. #Dublin #Art #loveart

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

on this day in 1799 the "Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign." This Stone was a key to translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, "unlocking 3,000 years of lost history and culture."

After Margaret Atwood on my Kindle I'm moving on to paper and my first Erica James. Gifted to me by a friend from a writers group I was part of, as the perfect summer read. #amreading #booksky 📚

#JamesTaylor with @tomtdowling.bsky.social at Iveagh Gardens tonight was epic. Shower the ones you love with love. ❤️

UK ceramics artist Sarah Saunders #WomensArt

MoonLit Getaway’s 2026 Short Fiction Contest is now open for submissions! Don’t miss this chance to win cash and get published by the #LitMag that #ChillSubs users called a hidden gem 💎 Follow @MGLiterary.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions #ShortStory #5amWritersClub

What a day for the #CzechRepublic, both Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova reached the #Wimbledon final and it was my mom's name day today 🥳🎉🎊

The Irish Coursing Club has refused to provide evidence for its claim, repeated by the junior minister for agriculture, that hare coursing contributes €70m to the Irish economy annually. It comes ahead of a Dáil vote to ban the blood sport tomorrow night. jrnl.ie/7094305t

ASP Library Sale ends THIS FRIDAY. Everything is $10, $5, or free (+shipping via media mail) Please save these books from being thrown in a bin!! (some will be donated, but likely not all will be accepted...) #BookSky 💙📚 #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭

On our weekend walk.

This looks sad. I don't know about trees, do they need to be cut right back like this? Or were the leaves, sap, twigs & droppings a nuisance to the cars in this council offices car park to the machines standing under it?

The Same Sky was my first foray into sci-fi, if you can call it that. Coming up with the world David and his wife live in was fun to write but also so hard! Chapeau to sci-fi writers, they've greater imagination than me 🤩. My niece thought the last word of the story was cool though. 😎

"When I turn back to David, he's multiplying. Not one husband but dozens, each one representing a different timeline, a different choice we might have made." Read "The Same Sky" by @marketadowling.bsky.social on MoonLit Getaway. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub #LitMag

Nice view from my morning train in South Dublin. The sun was just breaking through. I wish I lived closer to the sea 🌊 💙

I loved writing The Same Sky, and so delighted that the good folks at MoonLit Getaway @mgliterary.bsky.social enjoyed it enough to include it in the journal. It's an honour to be published in Canada! Thank you so much 🙏❤️😊

Solidarity, always, fair play to her.

Catching up on reading on the weekly office commute. The Blind Assassin. My first Margaret Atwood actually. Took me a while to orient myself in the story, a slow burner for me, but so so hot now, love it 🔥🔥🔥 #booksky 📚

Reflections on the Joint Committee on AI and my new working paper that shows how data centres could consume 55% of Ireland's electricity by 2040 and cause gas demand to rise. hannahdaly.ie/2026-06-11-J...

Happy Bloomsday 📚 “Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.” Stephen Dedalus #booksky #Bloomsday #SpeirGhorm #Ulysses #JamesJoyce #LeopoldBloom

Delighted to announce that my first book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is due for publication on September 4th next via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.

Afghanistan rarely generates headlines these days as international focus remains on war in the Middle East, but the crisis in the country of 45 million people remains profound, writes Yvonne Murray.

Reason 5: The Third Place Independent bookshops are the perfect place between home and work. No laundry. No inbox. No one asking you to action anything. Just books, browsing, conversation, and the noble lie of “I’m only having a quick look.” #IndieBookshopWeek @booksaremybag.bsky.social

It's a pinch me Monday - my short story The Beige Album is on the longlist for the @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social Short Story Prize 2026. 🥳🎊🎉 bricklanebookshop.org/brick-lane-b...

My first in a series of World Cup collages for @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

But now they drift on the still water, Mysterious, beautiful; Among what rushes will they build, By what lake's edge or pool Delight men's eyes when I awake some day To find they have flown away? (WB Yeats, from The Wild Swans At Coole) #poetry #wbyeats #swans #speirghorm

"Studies have shown that reading for fun is the single biggest predictor of a child’s future life chances – more than family circumstance, parents’ educational background or income. It improves academic results, mental health, wealth, communication skills, ambition and happiness." #booksky

Take an idea that is not yet fully developed and continue developing it, instead of prematurely finding fault with it and abandoning it. #wecontinue #selfcare #writingcommunity #booksky

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.

Finally some #bluesky in the west of Ireland.. Hopefully summer will be back soon. #speirghorm

The next round of EU sanctions on Russia is due to be approved on July 15. The Irish Government must conclude its investigation into Aughinish Alumina well in advance. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

'Symphony in blue' by contemporary painter Sarah Bowman #WomensArt

Reading sorted for the weekend. My copy of @mslexia.bsky.social arrived today. The Survey looks gorgeous in it. 💚

Not a lot of people know this very special record exists. The vinyl is not far off selling out now so it could become a pricey rarity in the not-too-distant future. stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/album/help-t...

Beyond proud that my short story The Survey is part of @mslexia.bsky.social issue 110! I wanted to write about female solidarity between generations and across boundaries that are more felt than firmly staked out. Hopefully that comes through. 🙏 #booksky #litfic

A southwest of Ireland #painting. "Caherdaniel Fort" - from a magical time in Kerry when I stayed in the clouds so everywhere I walked felt like I was inhaling the views. Indeed, with the back door always open the cloud was in the kitchen so even indoors I was. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #TidesOutTuesday

Our 2026 Poetry Contest is open for submissions. Send us your beautiful words ♥️ #Poetry #Contest #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #LitMag

re:verb 2026 Festival Pass sold out! Tickets for individual sessions still available separately 👇 yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/reverb.html

Congrats to Czech writer Dora Kaprálová on her winning the European Union Prize for Literature for her novel The Maribor Hypnosis. (On my Christmas wishlist) #booksky #litfic english.radio.cz/kapralova-wi...

Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak, Birds from the Sea (1960) #WomensArt