Pesach sameach! Reading Exodus in Robert Alter's masterful translation. The real joy of these translations are of course the copious notes. Alter's 91st birthday is tomorrow.

Us: got our child's sleep routine down Daylight's savings: hold my beer....

There won't be a kamalelåså milked in Copenhagen tonight.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

Fear not, nothing bad has EVER happened to the Irish soccer team in extra time

I don't often watch football, but when I do, I do go at it and awful hard

A piece I wrote ten years ago on the Vrsovice derby: The Kings of Vršovice – Póg Mo Goal share.google/yNfJIuShDocs... Something for halftime for ye

Let’s do this Ireland… 🇮🇪⚽️ #COYBIG

Every time I click the cast button on RTE player, and it just pauses it????

Pre-match mood music: Dvorak and Smetana!

With Ireland playing in Slavia Prague's ground tonight, I am thinking fondly of the time I spent in that city and that neighbourhood about a decade ago, living there. I lived closer to Slavia's local rivals, Bohemians, but Vrsovice was a super neighbourhood to live in.

The unrelenting horror of having to come up with something for your child's lunchbox.

This is such a weird and compelling novel. Highly recommend!

Just used a phrase that I feel like must be out of fashion: he was doing x to beat the band. Where does that even come from?

The incredible realisation that this album is 20 years old. The soundtrack of the year I turned 18.

If you're replying to a post about torched ambulances in London with a point about Israel, you've crossed the line into antisemitism. And you're doing absolutely nothing to help any cause. Even if you consider yourself one of the good people. Maybe especially so. You've just caught racism.

Absolutely wild how with a kid you can be fine and energetic up to 9pm and then your entire body is just like nope.

When your writing group meets on St Patrick's Day

Happy St Patrick's Day.

Watching seminal Irish film Intermission. There's a casting Oscar for you.

Book design from the 70s just hits different.

I read an LRB article reviewing the new book about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and now Facebook thinks all I want is Hello! material about the former Duke and Duchess of York. Good jesus.

The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.

The winter 1680-81 comet above Beverwijk, attributed to Rochus van Veen (Rijksmuseum)

Hamnet, or Shakespeare: The Commuter.

gorse 12 (language) & 13 (taboo) are now available in @booksupstairs.bsky.social. We've also restocked NEW GREEN FOOL (as reviewed in the Irish Times): booksupstairs.ie/product/new-...

Very weird watching The Pitt and the reboot of Scrubs simultaneously. It says a lot about the state of American health insurance that they have Dr Robby and JD & their student doctors acting the same roles in terms of workarounds, despite one being a drama & the other a comedy. In this essay I will

'The Irish food for Irish babies'. Made in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. 1950s?

Fierce excited to bring this book to the world as it is. It's been through a lot of changes, and represents a huge amount of work over the past five years especially. I've so much to say about it, and will as I go along

Galleys of my new book of poems, coming soon from Veer2.

Kan noen forklarer hvorfor Posten aksepterer ikke Oppholdstillatelse kort som gyldig legitimasjon med henting fra Post i Butikk? Også er det noen som helst som fortsatt har Bankkort med bilde på baksiden lengre???

38 started with me learning that I can't fall with the same grace I once did on skis. My whole body hurts.

Isabeau is a tragedeigh name, sorry.

Tenet, easily. One of the most garbled, nonsensical things I've ever seen. It was annoying cos the sound was awful and because it thought it was so so clever. Go'way from me.

Absolutely devouring this. Exactly the kind of novel I love. The big stories of an absolute chancer that remind me of the tall tale telling of men in pubs I remember as a child.

Never knew I shared a birthday with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor until today 😂

My birthday read.

Turning 38 on Thursday. What a weird kind of non-age that is!

A figure skater 42 years of age being described as if she is one of the oldest relics in Milan.

Atle Lie McGrath providing one of the most compelling moments of the #winterolympics there. Bombed completely, and furious with himself, storms off for a lie down in the snow. The whole scene made more perfect by the unrestrained joy of the Swiss coach standing nearby who celebrates.

Been watching the figure skating all week and what an upset that was for the men's finale. Incredible. Kazakhstan gold!

Nothing makes me feel more like I'm in Norway than this sight outside my daughter's Montessori crèche.

Are review subs @minorliteratures.bsky.social closed?

I feel like you should not be allowed to use AI generated music as part of your figure skating routine at the Olympics. The thin end of the blade, as it were.

Forgot how daft snowboarding lingo is!

For anyone interested in #winterolympics - Irish alpine skier Cormac Comerford will be up in a few minutes to finish out the men's downhill race 🇮🇪

Sara Baume does it again - this is the book equivalent of a deep life affirming breath and it’s been a joy to read over the last few days. Out in July from @grantabooks.bsky.social

Will there be room for Gramsci at this opening ceremony? What it being the time of monsters and all

Day one of the winter games I've spent at home minding a sick child and loving every second of the figure skating pairs. God I love the Olympics, for all its faults.

New Bohs season starts on Sunday. Have missed live football in my life. There's nothing like shouting football advice to someone half your age, fifty yards away, who's more talented than you.