📚 One park, ten days, a world of stories 📚 Earlier this week we announced the programme for our 29th edition, bringing together some of the most exciting international and Irish writers of our time in Merrion Square Dublin from 15-24 May. ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Welcome all, to the first day of #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 - I hope you enjoy taking part & that you find lots of great reading suggestions. Day 1 prompt - A book set in a workplace...what book would you choose? #RIWC26

No Kings is international! Hope to see U.S. citizens and allies abroad out protesting!

I'd like to announce the line up for this year's Read Irish Women Event on Friday 10th April @paviliontheatre.bsky.social in conjunction with @dubray-books.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing Jan Carson, Edel Coffey, Charlene Hurtubise & Louise Nealon in conversation with Nadine O'Regan. #RIWC26

I'd like to announce the line up for this year's Read Irish Women Event on Friday 10th April @paviliontheatre.bsky.social in conjunction with @dubray-books.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing Jan Carson, Edel Coffey, Charlene Hurtubise & Louise Nealon in conversation with Nadine O'Regan. #RIWC26

‘If a girl gets through childhood without experiencing sexual abuse, she will probably find out that some close friend or relation didn’t. Men could find this out too, if they listened to voices besides their own.’ Susan Pedersen on Epstein and entitlement. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Read Irish Women Challenge is back starting 1st April - here's the list of prompts so you can start combing your memory & shelves & get ready to join in! There are 30 prompts, one for each day in April, in order to encourage conversation & discovering new-to-you writers. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

My new book The Truth About Ruby Cooper will be published tomorrow Thurs 12th March in Uk and Ireland. Please buy it or borrow it from your library for free. 😊

My copies of the gorgeous No Alibis special edition of #FewAndFarBetween just arrived with their bespoke covers, sexy endpapers and additional essay about the history behind the novel. Only 500 available, all signed, numbered, with a Rory Jeffers map of the Ark. Preorder from the No Alibis website.

A box office smash in India, Ek Tha Tiger is a Bollywood romantic thriller partially set in Dublin. Sales of Kilkenny jersies hit an all time high in Mumbai after this.... youtu.be/7QF7z76ehyo?...

Fossil collector & self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning's discoveries revolutionized our understanding of prehistoric life. "The greatest fossilist the world ever knew," she made her finds in the Jurassic marine fossil beds along the cliffs of Lyme Regis (UK). She died #OTD in 1847. #WomenInSTEM

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

The Lore of Silver by Ruth Francis Long: Review by Liz Bourke locusmag.com/review/...

We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.

We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account. Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?

These remarkable women of early electronic music pushed the boundaries of technology and composition, turning circuits, sine waves, and tape loops into music. https://disc.gs/3ZWRk1U

📖 Next month Liz Nugent comes to Dún Laoghaire discuss her gripping new novel The Truth About Ruby Cooper in a live interview. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to hear the bestselling, award-winning writer! Wed 18 Mar, 8pm | Book now: buff.ly/37ES98n

What a line-up! Celebrate this International Women’s Day with Dublin Book Festival @dublinbookfest.bsky.social in the stunning Powerscourt Estate in Co. Wicklow. Oona Frawley and Julia Kelly will be in conversation with Edel Coffey, discussing their writing 🌟

Charlotte is a wonderful book, and I recommend it to everybody!

Just a quick post highlighting some very important KidsLit Award news, Ireland Reads & those all important World Book Day books! @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie #FallenStarStories #IrelandReads #HansChristianAndersenAwards fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/k...

It's Ireland Reads month! Throughout February, we're encouraging people to get lost in a good book to celebrate the joy and the benefits of reading, ahead of Ireland Reads Day Saturday, 28 February. #IrelandReads @nlireland.bsky.social

Love this @irishtimes.com piece on the power of reading & the books that inspire this year's #IrelandReads Ambassadors. Can't wait for Ireland Reads day this Saturday 28 February. Read whatever and wherever you like. Loads of fun events in local libraries 💚📚 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Celebrate the joy of reading with #IrelandReads! 📚 Get lost in a good book—adventure, romance, comedy, or whatever you love. Read for as long or as short as you like. Find out more at irelandreads.ie#IrelandReadsor visit your local library today. #GetLost

"So what are you reading for #IrelandReads day?" "Going for a classic: Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus" "Such a tale of woe." "Up there with Shakespeare's best. How 'bout you?" "Bit of dark comedy for me: Death And The Penguin." "Nice. And you, Beryl?" "Magpie Murders, hoping for a few good tips"

It's #IrelandReads day - what are you reading today? For me it's Home Economics by Caitriona Lally, a memoir due out this April, and Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, an old favourite. @newislandbooks.bsky.social

Totally this. The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.

Check out this whole thread. Minneapolis and Saint Paul are still hurting. Folks are cautiously coming out of shelter, but need food to get them through until paychecks start up again or new jobs are found. ZCC is my mutual aid! Laura and I have been working together! Please share widely!

worldbeesanctuary.org/donations/fu... or www.gofundme.com/f/g8vut-keep...

Imagine being like this. Maybe we actually were all once like this. Be more like this guy!

'Data centres will take a third of power by 2030' Ireland's government wants to make us a digital slop farm. And in the process, almost certainly miss climate targets. Very few jobs or tangible benefits, but easily wowed and awed by big tech. www.independent.ie/business/iri...

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

I also really like standwithminnesota.com -- they have a lot of direct aid links and that's DEEPLY needed. We still don't have an eviction moratorium and getting more formal rent assistance takes time that families don't have before they lose their homes.

I can do confidently to 1400. 1300 and 1200 just about navigable. Past that, hopeless.

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Stop the corporate grab of seaweed my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

Wonderful evening on Thursday last in the Sugar Club, listening to Dr Anthony Delaney read from his history book Queer Georgians, accompanied by The Irish Baroque Orchestra on harpsichord, cello & violin. A fabulous & special event! @hcor.bsky.social

Please sign the petition against the use of abuse victims counselling notes in trials

How to increase homelessness This Irish government could write the book Further evidence of where their priorities are, & surprise surprise its not keeping people in their homes

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

I’m not normally that person but…. It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

Coming to the UK this April, a signed, special edition, limited run hardback of THE ORB OF CAIRADO novella - @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's latest book from the world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR! To find a future, disgraced scholar Ulcetha must face his past. Preorder: https://geni.us/orbcairado

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

So in a week of catastrophic flooding the government have decided to move climate from its own section to a subsection under infrastructure and lift the Dublin airport passenger cap. Mighty

Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters "That the Irish Government still allows this form of destructive fishing throughout Irish coastal waters is an absolute disgrace" www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

The legislation would also deem the facility automatically compliant with Ireland’s Climate Law without undergoing a proper assessment. This is completely unacceptable! It creates a dangerous precedent that bypasses laws & democratic processes, and could affect much more than just this facility.

Minister for Environment Darragh O'Brien is attempting to rush through approval for a €900 million LNG reserve at the cost of the taxpayer & the planet. The proposed legislation would give the Minister full responsibility for the planning application & completely change the normal planning process.

Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.