📽 Beautiful cinematography by Alberto Etchebehere from Argentine #FilmNoir La bestia debe morir (The Beast Must Die) 1952 Based on the 1938 novel The Beast Must Die by Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) part of his series featuring private detective Nigel Strangeways

This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention: A veteran, Trump-voting spouse 9 US descendants Letter signed by 18 Senators 30 character witnesses www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...

Hoh boy!

I could happily live with this one on a desert island.

Carmen Sternwood: "You're not very tall, are you?" Philip Marlowe: "Well, I, uh, I tried to be." Martha Vickers with Bogart - #BOTD - in "The Big Sleep" (1946).

Remembering Thomas Kinsella, who died on December 22, 2021, aged 93.

Mrs Brown’s Boys review: The studio audience sound as if they are being held hostage

Brendan Kennelly

I win Christmas.

The lads

Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight

'It was Christmas Eve, babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me "Won't see another one"' www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jb...

Christmas Eve - Máire Mhac an tSaoi www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...

Dennis at Christmas, by Declan O’Driscoll Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social A tribute to the much-missed poet from his brother, 10 years on. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Watch Bono and Imelda May busking earlier this evening Bono & Imelda May | Baby please come home @ The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 24.12.2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxH...

giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost

From me to you, a serene, relaxing and Happy Christmas 🤶🎄

ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTIONS How to Gift Wrap a Book from @tomgauld.bsky.social

Happy 100th birthday Winnie. If you need a little heartening listen this week you could do worse that listen to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Who Are You In Winnie the Pooh? on Radio 4. It’s been great company this week.

Learn How to Make a Folded Book Christmas Tree justthatperfectpiece.com/how-to-make-...

Imelda May and Bono taking part in the annual Christmas Eve busk on Grafton Street in Dublin on Wednesday, in aid of homeless charity the Simon Community. Photograph: Conor Ó Mearáin/PA Wire

Dennis O’Driscoll, who died on Christmas Eve in 2012, was the author of nine volumes of poetry and also wrote a book of interviews with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.

Drive the Cold Winter Away - Horslips youtu.be/PILIfANRDY0?...

Happy Christmas from Abridged! We have lots of groovy things for you in 2026!

My kind of company.

Take a few minutes of peace: Sinéad O’Connor (born December 8, 1966) sings Silent Night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpX...

Discovering this book on my dad's bookshelf in the mid-seventies was instrumental in my development as a writer.

Me too! 🌲

This will keep you busy. Add in the Diffney Christmas Cracker Quiz, and you're set. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/05...

Nobody is getting presents this year, because I can't find the end of the sellotape

Chris Rea was embraced by Irish audiences from the very start. Tonight we are saddened but still playing his songs and sending love to Middlesbrough and Chris's family. youtube.com/watch?v=FT6G...

Clannad - Christmas Angels youtu.be/bCRzVP1tJI8?...

Went to the matinee today. It’s a very good production, strong cast. Not perfect, but what is. The G’s review is odd. Complaining about a play set in Mayo being spoken in Mayo accents. Really?

Mick Lally recites three poems with a Christmas theme by Máirtín Ó Direáin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uary...

After 10 years at the top, Holly is no longer the most popular girls’ name for babies born in December www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

In remembrance of Dennis O'Driscoll via @jacqbetula.bsky.social

A young girl dressed up as Father Christmas with outfit, mask, sack and staff. Christmas 1912. Source: National Library of Ireland

Another Christmas party ruined #WBYeats #YeatsinLove

Really sad about Chris Rea. Driving Home for Christmas is one of my small seasonal pleasures as we point the car northwest for Holyhead.