I wonder did Harry Clarke think of Vincent‘s flowers when Clarke made his stained glass anemones later

Pinguiní beaga gorma ag teacht i dtír le clapsholas.

Enrich your reading in 2026 - get ‘Consolamentum’ by James McConachie. Get to inland Spain without the hassle of travel! 💝 www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu... @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine People survive in each other's shelter. scáth also means shadow, adding another layer of meaning about living in each other's shared unconscious. www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

#PoemsAbout #Money from my collection ‘Consolamentum’ from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk at @thebrokenspine.co.uk

When we all get imprisoned for posting I’m definitely gonna be going around the yard asking what y’all said that got you locked up & it better be a banger because that’s how we’ll be establishing our hierarchy

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine People survive in each other's shelter. scáth also means shadow, adding another layer of meaning about living in each other's shared unconscious. www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

We had been hoping to move ashore for winter, this year, but no joy. The last third of 2025 has been dispiriting and hard but we're working towards a change for the better in 2026. Thank you, everyone, who has supported us — with funds. reposts, and personal notes. It has all helped a lot.

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine literally translates as: People survive in each other's shelter. scáth also means shadow, adding another layer of meaning about living in each other's shared unconscious. gofund.me/e6ef6add7

I only know C.C. through his posts here and links to other sites…but consider him a mentor. I look forward to him opening my mind and nudging it toward far flung destinations.

#Achill skies

Today's bake. A ginger cake for @ccohanlon.bsky.social probably a bit much for a diabetic but hopefully restraint will be used. CC has been a mentor to me in many respects. And not just me. I hope he's feeling able to mentor others in 2026 #Christmas #Gift. #ItalianPostalService relying on you 🤞🏼

💋 on a pint glass, lady pint 🤔

Booked today, my first event to look forward to in 2026. Amazing value for money at the beautiful Seamus Heaney Homeplace 💚

"...it turns out that not knowing much about politics is sometimes indistinguishable from knowing a lot. Which is not to say we should opt out of politics. It’s just that our understanding of it is invariably limited." A(nother) political perspective from Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social

A brilliant article by Irish writer Cauvery Madhavan. @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

First time in many years having a tree, not usually my best time of year. Giving it another go. 🎄💚🎄

The Ten Commandments for artists: I Thou shalt fight conformism yeah, and... IX Thou shalt not know exactly what thou dost, but thou shalt do it X Thou shalt give something back

We weren’t queen-and-crumpet Anglophiles of the sort who buy checkout magazines about royal weddings. We liked a certain idea of Englishness that was eccentric and knowing and understated: not high-posh, more like mid-posh.

!! Ireland has a unique opportunity to end foxhunting on Dec 17th when the Dail will vote on a proposed ban. Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban. #speirgorm Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings William Blake

"Ireland is sheltered. And we revere writers. It helps to settle their nerves." A line from @liznangel3.bsky.social during a whatsapp exchange this evening — cracked me up.

#Belfast #BéalFeirste Peace People hdqrs, NO WAR KNOW PEACE!

#Christmas #poetry 💚

On 3 December a century ago, the Irish border was set for major change. In this @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social piece, John Gibney, @difp-ria.bsky.social explores how the 1925 Boundary Commission cemented the partition we still live with today. Read the full piece: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

What someone you love needs for Christmas is obviously my ‘strong, masculine collection filled with brooding Spanish vistas and culture.’ Asi de claro. Ugh. Self-promo. @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

Overlooked by a distant Minaun, an fharraige, the sea, pounding out the shore at Dooagh, Dumha Acha. Calling out the rocks, churning up buried treasure below, a life force in full flow.... risking being drawn in by the froth.. i ngrá, in love with the green-glass sea #Achill #MaighEo 🇮🇪

Where Labour, Capital, and a National Institution Still Collide - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/26/w...

My last for @thearsonista.bsky.social: Bo Mandeville's Sketching Clouds, a moving account of a journey by road and sea to Northern Ireland, his open-hearted acceptance of a terminal point to his degenerative illness, and his joy.

Massive gratitude and thanks to November’s guest editor - the amazing @ccohanlon.bsky.social and to all the fantastic contributors to the JOURNEYS edition! 🖤🥳

Last days of November. Every evening the slow ebb of light brings this contrast. The heat of the hedgerows and leaf fall in the ditches with monochrome skies. 🧡 🤍🩶

The holidays are coming. Be of good cheer and generosity for my destitute, unwell, aging friends. Whenever you give, something good returns to you. Yes, America is hurting but fling some cash to CC and Given. It's worth it.

Sometimes I build Time Machines.…

Thinking about the approaching season, hoping this year I will participate. Christmas is not my best time of year. Sticking to my own colourscape 💙🩷🤍

We weren’t queen-and-crumpet Anglophiles of the sort who buy checkout magazines about royal weddings. We liked a certain idea of Englishness that was eccentric and knowing and understated: not high-posh, more like mid-posh.

Jimmy Cliff, Guns of Brixton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck1Z...

"Once you see past the cellophaned shop-window of tourism and into the infected stomach-wound of political history you begin a journey to the centre of dictatorship..." Jagged reflections by @linecaro.bsky.social's, via @thearsonista.bsky.social, on being an observer at Turkish writers' trials.

"The cost of the coast is the loss of honest sand, which was host to myriad lives we’ve failed to understand. Now there are daily sweeps of machines to scrape the bought sand smooth." The Long Game, a poem by another American, Kyla Houbolt, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.

We are between a rock and a hard place, pleading for help. An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update: www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

"I think of those landscapes now that we’re not there, the spaces where we used to be. Your presence as it shifts into abstraction and distant thought now the space between you and me and the lines that I draw." – @brianmchenry.bsky.social Words and drawings via @thearsonista.bsky.social.

Retreats to Iceland... "History burns as quickly as a cigarette paper. People don’t even buy art anymore. Whatever happened to art as sanctuary—art as the antithesis of meanness?" – Peter Bach, a.k.a. @lyst.bsky.social [via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social]