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Cork County Council Library & Arts Services funding opportunities for the Arts sector. Proposals are invited for arts projects, activities & events taking place in Cork County in 2026. Deadline 9 Jan. Info sessions in local libraries and online in Nov/Dec www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/appl...

'I am that bitch. / I am dogged. I am so damned / not even Death wanted me.' Paul Tran on a dull Friday morning 🌧️

As a current weekend bartender who has bartended everywhere from swanky clubs to Irish pubs, my advice to young women in bars & clubs is this: Treat it like you're in the faerie realm: Never accept drinks from strange men and never give them anything in return, especially your true name.

happy trans awareness week here is my top surgery fund if you have a penny to spare!! 🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏻

Am on the Duolingo learning Irish so much that I just read a runner's post on Facebook and was like why are they saying míle

I wear all black and in college I bleached my hair white. I walked into a class and the lecturer said I looked like a pint of guinness 💀

This reply was my favorite

Went to the dentist wearing a red and white striped jumper. When I got up to leave, a little girl loudly whispered to her mother "Found him!"

In my second venture on vinted, I've bought a fancy slow cooker cause I broke ours cause I'm very very rough as a person and knock things over all the time but our new one is red!!! And it's 70 euro elsewhere but I got it for 40!!! Obsessed 🍲

👨‍🎓🏛️ Warmest congratulations to UCD College of Arts & Humanities graduate Ferdia Lennon, who has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic: "I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"

Somehow I've chosen the train carriage with about 40 screaming kids on it and I'm totally fine I swear ☠️💀⚰️ also how are parents ever sane, this is exhausting 🫩

Friends, I'm grateful to have a poem from my forthcoming book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, in this week's New Yorker. 🤍

Two events for me on Saturday Nov 8th Allingham Arts in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal *Literary Lunch, 11.30am, Dorrian's Hotel* Public announcement of the winners of the flash (which I judged) and poetry comps. *Dónal Ryan Interview, 3.30pm Abbey Arts Centre* I'm interviewing Dónal.

Joining this knockout panel as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social are Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong and Sophie White in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social. Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...

Setting fire to a building when people, children, are inside should be investigated like it's an attempted murder because that's what it fucking is.

“Are you wearing the-“ “The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”

Have only had two little groups of trick or treaters so far so absolutely avalanched them with sweets.

Woman with a Green Parasol on a Balcony, 1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16408

Aw god that rain is absolutely going to kill some trick or treaters dreams this eve 🫠

Gary Gannon TD: “What he could have also said was their numbers this year have also decreased by 40 per cent on last year. He could have talked about the absolute failures in the system that he’s presided over for 10 years and how he was going to address them. /.. @garygannontd.bsky.social

On Samhain, the line between this world and the otherworld grows thin. These stories invite the listener to step across the breach and discover what magic awaits... In celebration of Samhain, we are releasing not one, but two, audiobooks by renowned folklorist Oein DeBhairduin 🍂

Seen-Unseen is an art project led by artist Clare McLaughlin for and with people who are visually impaired. On Friday 7 November at 2.30pm, we are delighted to collaborate with Clare to host an online meet-up to explore artwork in our collection by artist Harry Clarke. (1/3)

Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, “received what he called a ‘rather curious love letter’ from the American authorities, that he read from in Lagos on Tuesday.”

Calling all young poets: free writing workshop alert! To help inspire your entries to the Layered Landscapes workshop with the National Trust, we're running a free online writing workshop on Saturday 8 November. Head to bit.ly/YPN-workshop to book your free space.

Booked a massage for myself instead of thinking about it for months and months and obsessing about the right time so fair play to me anyway

Definite date for the diary tomorrow Banshee issue 20 launch Date: Thursday 30 October at 6pm Location: Staff Common Room, the Quad, UCC

Only recently learned that Ireland has the highest prevalence of loneliness of all European countries and interesting to see referenced here our 'low government expenditure on recreation, culture, sport, and healthcare' publicpolicy.ie/health/the-l...

I hear Roisín Murphy’s English now

Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.

If you are thinking of voting for Jim Gavin tomorrow, just a PSA that the most likely effect of that vote would be increasing the odds of Gavin meeting the threshold so that Fianna Fáil can claim a load of their expenses back from the campaign. Just so you know. #Aras25

I can't get my head around his inclusion in this category. Library employees across the country have been harassed by transphobes, filming them while provoking them to get a reaction. And this guy lends respectability to their prejudice.

New Red C poll for Biz Post C 44 H 25 G 10 Und. 21 #Áras25

Waterford Writers Weekend starts tomorrow! Catch @mollytwomey.bsky.social , @jessicatraynor.bsky.social , The Waxed Lemon and more… Full details here: waterfordarts.com/writersweeke... #speirgorm #writesky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrysky

Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman in a hotel. At the time, I didn't see gangs of angry people trying to burn down boxing rings or ban MMA fighters from entering the country. Maybe because the riots last night in Dublin weren't about the victim but about racism and right-wing nationalism.

This RTÉ article about the riot in Citywest manages to avoid mentioning what they were rioting for even once Whereas The Journal calls a spade a spade in the subheading: "Anti-immigration groups and fringe far-right political parties" www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

Tonight people are going to push a narrative of "why are immigrants taking our homes/healthcare/stuff" instead of the actual narrative which should be "why don't we have what we need, why have our governments failed us?". And it's convenient for the govt to have this be the message. #citywest

Drinking cans in a field. #RuralPursuits #Áras25 #SpéirGorm

Not one word about who the mob were, their motives or politics, or their targets. I'll say it again - Irish politicians, law enforcement and media have absolutely no idea what they are doing when it comes to the far right, and they will reap a bitter harvest from their ignorance.

Heather seems to think there are two categories of immigrant, those who work in hospitals etc or people here illegally. Nothing in between. #rtept #aras25

I'd be afraid Heather's young people's council would be Young Fine Gael in the aras. #aras25 #rtept

A LOT of people I met canvassing are determined to vote for Catherine because she employed an ex-prisoner and believes in giving people a second chance #rtept

Catherine Connolly is way more prepared for the question on Fox hunting as opposed to Heather Humphries who absolutely should have so so so much prepared to say on it other than 'it's a rural pursuit' #áras25

The media are just as much to blame as anyone else, even now it's "protesting"

In Saggart tonight there's a large group of masked men who just want to protect women and children who also happened to be determined to murder a hotel full of women and children

I can't get over how excited I am for this debate on prime time. Full on thinking about it all day. Catherine Connolly must be some fisher because she has me hooked

"The most desperate times call for the most desperate measures and Fine Gael have reached a new level of desperation. A level only known by men on Tinder who lie about their age." 😂

A formidable trio are in conversation at the Dublin Book Festival for what promises to be a provocative, challenging, and zesty bilingual event! 📕Ní chuireann sí fiacail ann | She tells it straight📕 @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/ni-chuireann...

"The election will be over on Saturday. Perhaps then Fine Gael will see the only ones covered in mud are themselves." - Holly Cairns TD, Leader, Social Democrats. #Áras25