Art from Shirani Bolle, now on display in Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh. It's so worth a little trip on the train to see. There's also amazing work by Elinor O'Donovan about beatles 🪲10/10 recommend for anyone missing the Crawford which omg I am.

Only one more week to go! We're very excited for our contributors to present their work at the launch of our competition issue, and we hope you are too. All are welcome to the official launch at Waterstones in Cork City on 17th February at 6:30pm

This confirmed by the Taoiseach in the Dáil just now – a significant backtrack by the Government in the midst of an acute housing shortage, now allowing more properties to stay in use for short-term lettings without needing to register/amend their property designation as 'commercial'

My new 8-week course ‘writing as a reader / reading as a writer’ is offered through the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Academy (Spring 2026 programme). This is an online course, and it starts on 5 March. Limited spaces. Full details and booking link: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

Someone finally bought a dress from my vinted after doing a full on photo shoot yesterday which was really uncomfy aha but it paid off cause I will be a fiver richer 👑🕺

Ireland: A stunning 71 per cent of respondents favour putting a guarantee about neutrality in the Constitution. Latest Irish Times poll.

✨🐺✨ the coolest team in Cork ❤️

One week until submissions open. HOWL New Irish Writing 26 opens on Feb 13th. Poetry and prose in English and Irish. We’re looking forward to reading what you’ve been working on. 📅 7 days

Thank God we're not polarised today folks. I know floods are bad, but polarisation would be very uncomfortable. #spéirgorm

I wonder if people in salaried jobs who create applications for arts opportunities ever think about how much time the applicant has to put into the application and if the potential and competitive reward is worth that much energy. I'm just so tired of applications. I just want to make things. 🔥

The more obvious it is he shouldn't go, the more condescending the insistence that he must. Also, if the "cautious" option is meeting with a fascist leader who stands by while citizens are executed on the street, what does that say about your politics?

Some people do not like me which is grand and I'm trying to train my brain to stop thinking 'why don't they like me' and instead think 'do I want to be someone they like?' because usually I don't 🤷‍♀️

Imagine if in 20 years time it was unthinkable to not pay artists for their work, wouldn't that be great. 🫠

I know I don't shut up about this but, fellow Irish people, if you see a racist sticker when you're out and about, then tear it off. It takes ten seconds. Even if you only manage to tear away a part of it, it shows that your neighborhood doesn't stand with the small, hateful people that put them up

Sunt lacrimae rerum. Justin Quinn poem in today’s Irish Times.

Once as a kid I made an album of photos of me as a younger kid and if that isn't the most middle child behaviour 📸

Officially at the age where I say something and teenagers laugh cause I don't realise I'm using the same language as a viral joke or something 💀💀💀💀

I didn't know she was a registered dietician! Surely she is! Why else would she get this platform??????

Niamh Twomey's poem "Moon's Phases" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Mícheál McCann. Read more about Niamh below, and follow her on Instagram: niamhmariatwomey and on Facebook: niamh.twomey.94

Here's something most of you don't know: You all know intersex people I used to think I didn't know any too, but when (by accident or design or circumstance) you become the kind of person people feel comfortable talking to about these things, some of them will tell you. And your world gets bigger

A huge honour to have the highly esteemed Medbh McGuckian as our featured poet kicking off our first Just to Say of 2026 on Wedneday, Feb 4th, at 7pm ❤️. Email [email protected] for the free Zoom link & join us in conversation about her work 🥰.

I'm judging the Maria Edgeworth Festival's poetry competition this year 🥳 and I would love to read your work! The deadline is the 27th of February 🌸 mariaedgeworthcenter.com/.../maria-ed...

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

Libraries were a sanctuary from a violent home when I was a kid; they saved my life in so many different ways. My mother was very young, and had a hard life, but she always made time to take me to the library. This gorgous poem by Alvy Carragher reminds me of her so strongly.

Sadly, maybe not sadly? The public library system has way more books I need for my academic studies then my academic one does. I think the public sphere is more interested in poetry than academia is. Our public library system is the best thing about us.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Lovely to kinda know a writer on this list not because of events and the small world of writing but because he works at the dentist place I go to 🦷🪥

This is complete madness. Ireland already has 90. Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have. And many more already have planning We do not have enough electricity We do not have enough water This will come at the cost of housing connections

Mike and his pals are playing D & D in the kitchen & I'm finishing a novel I love in bed with coffee and this is 100% us living our best lives as a couple xo

How is it not the Government's position - as put forward by Billy Kelleher - that the European Commission hits the immediate pause button on Grok while it's waiting for all these reviews and assessments? The power is there.

My word. (Again.) Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."

I would have thought condemning an company producing child abuse material on an industrial scale for profit would be an easy one. But here were are.

Congratulations to @ronanhession.bsky.social Leonard and Hungry Paul is the first Bluemoose book to be selected as a national set text in secondary schools. September this year it will be on the Irish Junior Certificate for English alongside Hemingway, Austen, Blackman. Marvelous.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

I'm on all social media but I intend to be my most real self here and substack so you can follow me there if you've not grown tired of me here 🌷💀🌷 substack.com/@mollytwomey...

Being in the arts is just having ur little dreams come true and then crushed and then come true and then crushed over and over 💀

All I want is new poetry books all the time 🙃

Is the term 'women writers' still relevant when we have more incredible, brilliant women writing then ever? It feels a bit silly and reductive now. Am going to a 'male mechanic' on Thursday.

I'm on all the pain killers because I think I have an abscess in my jaw but honestly the most powerful thing is a hot water bottle and thank goodness for the creator of hot water bottles! 🌸

Listen to One Final Storm for 2025 on most podcast platforms including Spotify & Apple. Featuring @mollytwomey.bsky.social Kevin Graham & Zita McGarry & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Happy New Year to you all & May you all Stay Bloody Poetic open.spotify.com/episode/5mG3...

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

This is because my little insecure brain is drawn to these posts and people profit from it. Bring back Bunty comics and the four Marys, I don't need any more lip filler content

The content Instagram feeds me is all weight loss and Botox and thank god for this lovely little bubble

Tune in on New Year’s Eve from 5pm on most podcast platforms for One Last Storm for 2025 Guests include @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Kevin Graham & @mollytwomey.bsky.social

My dad is so obsessed with turning the lights off at night that he always leaves one of his family members in the pitch dark downstairs before he goes to bed 🛏️

A watercolour painting I did from a watercolour teaching book. The Ponte Moro Bridge in Venice. #art #watercolour #painting

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 24 is 'Weather' from Kevin Graham's 'Time's Guest' 🌹✨ @thegallerypress.bsky.social

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 23 is an abstract from the sequence 'Crowd Work' in 'Crowd Work' by Sam Furlong 🌹✨