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This weekend’s reading!

Morrissey’s Pre Sale for Manchester has sold out.

Reading in Limerick on March 5th.

10 Parts Old Trafford, 10 Parts Crumlin

DO NOT MISS THIS HOMETOWN GIG by the sublime His Father’s Voice.

HONOURED to have been invited to write the narrative for this permanent display on the life and legacy of Jim Kemmy. On display, floor one, KBS, UL. www.ul.ie/business/new...

Launching DOLANS LIVE AT THE DOCKLANDS 2025.

Don’t miss this show

Delighted to speak at the launch of Dolans Live At The Docklands 2025 earlier this evening.

Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85. RIP. He was a great poet and a kind and generous man. I was very grateful for his permission to quote his beautiful poem The Linen Industry in full in Dirty Linen. Thinking of his wife Edna and his three children www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Poetry in Paralysis

One thing that really annoys me are those callers to LIVELINE who say “Joe…as I said to your researcher earlier…”

Coddle …that’s another thing that’s gone out …

Delighted to be reading at the 2025 UL Creative Writing Festival, I will also be in conversation with Kerry Neville. Tickets from UCH.

SOURDOUGH ….that’s where Aughrim was lost

Here we go.

All these TV “Chefs” praising their own food creations. Jimmy Flahive would never had done something like that … or Monica Sheridan. @aodhbc.bsky.social

2025 UL CREATIVE WRITING FESTIVAL

This just in …

Limerick Writers Centre announce new poetry competition in honour of my late Uncle, Seamus O’Cinneide.

The Snowperson: The Movie

Snowperson Saturday 11.00 hrs.

GAVEL

You lost me when you used the word “journey”…

How David Bowie's Irish links take in music, art, literature and Tipperary. @eoindevereuxwriter.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social on the Irish influences on the work of late singer & artist, who was born today in 1947 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

BREAKING …(quite literally) NEWS on the Snowperson front …

The Snowperson is on the way out …

Snowpersons of the World, Unite and Takeover

Have you built your Snowperson yet?

“It’s cool enough, John”

Of course some climate change denier will say “where’s the Global Warming? what with all the snow?”

And still no Snow…

And where is the Gulf Stream when you need it?

Owing to the Snow, Big Bake and Cook Off just done …96 scones, 18 loaves of soda bread, 7 Turkeys roasted, Homemade “Slaw”, Stews, Curries, Casseroles. Let me add that there’s no panic …there’s no panic…

Then there’s the crowd who announce on social media that they are taking a break from social media…

Where have all the Radicals gone?

My NUI Seanad Election Papers arrived.. one of the most lack lustre lists of candidates in a long while. Some of them clearly don’t understand the role of the Seanad.

A strange one you might be able to help me with. Amongst the many New Year’s Eve messages I received one which said “Happy 2025 from Brian, May, Meena and all the family at No.36” - I have no clue who the sender is. Answers on a postcard please…

Dopamine Fix …”Always Crashing In The Same Car”

“And …don’t be sending me any of those generic New Year’s Eve Round Robin messages …” he said.

Goodnight and Thank You. Manchester Night, December 2024 at Dolans.

MANCHESTER SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR …

Manchester Night is SOLD OUT

“You wouldn’t know what day you’d have”

My late Uncle Seamus O’Cinneide who died on St Stephen’s Day in 1992. He made a major contribution to the cultural life of Limerick as a journalist, local historian and poet.