Thank you to our wonderful speakers this evening and also to our fabulous attendees!! 👏👏👏 Now we move on to our AGM - we hope to see many new faces in the 2026 committee 🤞

What a fantastic first day at the LIR Group’s Digital Skills Workshop! Early career librarians kicked off their podcasting journey at IADT, from concept to creation. We can’t wait for round two on October 18th! 🎙️✨ #LIRGroup #DigitalSkills #DigitalLiteracy

✨ New post on Substack! ✨ I’ve just shared my latest piece, stories of memory, resilience, and finding light in the dark. You can read for free, or support my writing for €5/month (aka one fancy coffee ☕ or two if it tastes of regret). 💛 joanne2ef.substack.com

Looking for some powerful memoirs to read? 📚 I’ve put together a list of some of my favourite memoirs. Check out my Substack post where I share these recommendations, along with a little about why each one matters to me. 🔗 substack.com/@joannetouhe... 🔗 What is your favourite memoir? 💖

New on my Substack: a personal story about early pregnancy, loss, and the fragile hope that comes after. ✨ This was the first piece I ever had published (back in 2021), and I’ve reshaped it for this post. It’s shorter now, but its heart is the same. 💖 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/joanne2e...

Just shared a new post on Substack about the book that first made me want to wrote my own personal piece. Have a read if you’re curious 📚✨ substack.com/@joannetouhe... #substack #writingcommunity

First Substack post is up! I’m not really sure still how it works but worth a shot! Subscribe if you like writing, memoir and the occasional bit of randomness. 📚 open.substack.com/pub/joanne2e...

Tune in now to Sally Ann Bennett on Saturday Focus on @midlands103.bsky.social coming from @tuslibrarymidlands.bsky.social and hear about the development of the new archive with special focus on the all Ireland drama festival collection

Lovely cakes to mark our launch thanks to the sister of @joanne2efrancis.bsky.social for making them :)

We're excited for our big launch tomorrow getting ready to welcome our guests and let them see our latest addition to our collections. @dri.ie @tuslibrarymidwest.bsky.social

DRI Director @lisagriffith.bsky.social is the keynote speaker at the launch of @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social on 15 May at 3pm at the Athlone campus. All are welcome to join on the day by RSVP'ing to [email protected] Find out more: dri.ie/events/launc...

Delighted that my piece was shortlisted for the “Perseverance Through Words”competition at Trinity College Dublin, celebrating the legacy of Christy Nolan. 🥳 It’s available to read here: marklkm.github.io/christy-nola...

We got copies of #allirelanddramafestival programme today. Lots of great events and productions to look forward too. Including our launch! Happening on the 15th May at 3pm. Pick up a copy or click here for details online www.dramafestival.ie/event/launch...

Finally! 🙏 Just 978 words to go. 🎉 Still can’t believe it was 137k words 😬 #phdlife #cutting

Really enjoyed tonight’s event @cuirtfestival.bsky.social . My friend Brenda read beautifully from Conception in Tolka and a new personal piece. 💕 Declan Toohey also read from his Tolka piece and spoke about his novel Perpetual Comedown. #cuirtfestival

TUS is hosting Refugee Solidarity in Education Week All TUS libraries will promote a series of books & media that reflect stories of refugees & migration. We encourage everyone who wants to learn more to use @kanopy to access a range of documentaries and movies #pledgeofpeace #tuslibrary #refugees

Have a good weekend! 🌅

We are delighted to announce that @tusarchive-and-sc.bsky.social has joined as the latest member of DRI! We look forward to assisting with the ingest of: the Brendan O'Brien Archive on the All-Ireland Drama Festival and the Shannon Estuary Project. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-dri...

Delighted to announce that we have been accepted to join the @dri-ie.bsky.social. Looking forward to meeting the other members and working with DRI. We are excited to start uploading our collections!

One of the challenges of cataloguing the documents in the Brendan O'Brien collection is deciphering handwriting. This letter took me some time to decipher but eventually I was able to see who it was by and the gist of the letter

Doing some work on our Brendan O’Brien Archive - material relating to the All-Ireland Drama Festival. Here is a sneak peak of preservation and cataloguing work! Slowly moving each letter from this yellow unsuitable folder into separate preservation covers.

My son has designed a book cover for me 😄 #worldbookday

Super excited to be working on this! Give us a like and follow 🥰🙏🎉

We have started archiving and digitising some of the Brendan O’Brien archive material relating to the All-Ireland Drama Festival 1953-1982. Below are photos of some of our team and an item we were working on today using @transkribus.bsky.social and a scan tent.

Galway calling! We'll be at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social on Saturday 12 April. Declan Toohey and Brenda Romero will be reading from and discussing their Tolka pieces at Charlie Byrne's. Hosted by the fabulous Molly Hennigan. Free to attend - all welcome! www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/tol...

The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below. Please share :) www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...

With the help of a glass of wine, this weekend I’ll be editing….editing…and some more editing… I have roughly 57k words to cut over the next few weeks 😑 #memoir #phdlife

Organised my bookcase and finished setting up my writing space. I mostly arranged it by genre—memoir being my favourite. 📚✍️ Share your library/writing space.

One of my very favorite poems to share. I hope that some of you are reading this for the first time. #poetry

Save The Date! We're delighted to announce that the Academic & Special Libraries Section Conference will take place on Thursday 27th March 2025 in @molimuseum.bsky.social in Dublin! The #ASL2025 conference theme and the call for submissions will be coming soon. #library #libraries

Here's hoping more Irish lit mags will join the great migration, but for now I've included all the ones I could find!! go.bsky.app/M7713mj