My mother likes miniatures. She’s 5 foot tall and believes nothing in the world should be any bigger than it needs to be. She is constantly trimming things - tote bags, sleeping bags, walking polls. She loves birds, but only the little ones #smallisbeautiful

Heads up. Any of ye Dubs who use the green line luas to get to work should check RTE now. There's problems with the line.

Calling bass-range choral singers based in Dublin 📣

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

This was great fun. Complete with fake moustaches and BYOB drinks and snacks. 👨🏻🎤🍿

A gorgeous morning in Stoneybatter! The cafes are open, wonderful coffee on every corner and equally wonderful comics here! We're open until 4pm today with @tinygreens.bsky.social at the desk😌 littledeercomics.ie

Just spotted you on the bill for tonight’s Vintage Room Sessions @sineadgriffin.bsky.social . I’m booked to go along with another poetry pal. See you there. Look forward to your reading. Eilín

Passed my PhD viva today. Minor corrections and the customary college red tape left, but the finish line is well in sight. Phew! (Never again😅)

Nearly two weeks ago, I performed some trilingual poems at Art & the Outdoors, hoping to connect us all. #poetry #trilingual #PoetryIreland #HughLaneGallery

Mortified it's taken me so long to visit @ansiopaleabhar.bsky.social in their new (temporary) location on Camden Street. Love that they're sharing the building with the School of English! Excellent window - puifín beag álainn😍 @gerrydalyart.bsky.social

It's interesting when white people say to POC Irish, "Just be Irish, don't bring colour into it" because it isn't as straightforward as that. Our experiences are different and that needs to be acknowledged but yet celebrated in all its complexities.

I had a really enjoyable visit to the Connections Arts Centre #ConnectingArtistsCollective exhibition at RCSI this week & left filled with infectious positive energy. More info in ALT. The exhibit moves to Belfast next @universityofatypical.org #InclusiveArts #Neurodiversity #IntellectualDisability

Mrs Barry’s daughter called to the door unexpectedly today 🥲💐

🖼️ Adolf Mackeprang

Betty on #newsnight …What an inspiring person - a legend!

Thank you to the perfect @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & Ana from #NorthBayPoetics who invited me to the States via zoom, my two sensational readers @edepaor.bsky.social & @sprestonduncan.bsky.social & the open mic’ers who stunned. You left me wanting more but time is never Enough! I’ll be back🙏❤️

My absolute favourite 💙 Mertensia maritima, Oysterplant Such a joy to see this gorgeous plant again this week! Caithness #WildflowerHour

Finding myself unexpectedly upset by #housewifeoftheyear @housewifeoftheyear.bsky.social . Born in 1975, I remember watching the competition. The restrictive ideal of womanhood depicted thankfully never seemed realistic to me. I just missed the most repressive times.I’m sad for those less fortunate.

Our choir has a concert coming up. It’s a very varied programme - all short unaccompanied pieces, with something for every taste - Monteverdi, Rheinberger, Tallis, Ukrainian & Irish folk songs, Sinéad O’Connor, Sam Ryder etc etc. Tickets: buytickets.at/cantoiri/171...

Our statement on Gaza, signed by almost 400 Irish writers. irishpen.com/2025/06/05/s... Please share widely.

Eid Al-Adha haircut day for the kids thanks to the volunteers with Dignity for Palestine. The SpiceBag Ireland logo on the wall. Yup, Adam. Yup the Shack. Yup Dignity for Palestine.

We are still accepting applications for The New Writing Prize. The prize is for previously unpublished writers. You can send in your applications via Submittable until 5.00pm (Irish Time) today. irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...

MacNeice’s drunkenness of things being various. (out of season).

Tonight 👇

Morning @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social - I tried to bleat about your launch last night, but tagged in the wrong Luke 🤦🏻‍♀️.

Looking forward to reading my newest poetry purchase @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin launch 14:00 Sunday next, 1st June at Books Upstairs. Congratulations Luke!

Really looking forward to this launch. @channel-lit.bsky.social is one of my favourite magazines and it’s a privilege to be included.

Fabulous evening at the Dundrum Library launch of Washing Windows V @arlenhouse.bsky.social & a special reading of Eavan Boland’s work by her daughter Eavan. So many great readings including Liz Houchin, Maureen Daly, Caitriona Lane @nessao.bsky.social @siobhanflynn.bsky.social @edepaor.bsky.social

My association with @eatthestorms.com has been an absolute pleasure - a life and poetry highlight. Congratulations and best wishes to Damien and the lucky subeditor of Issue 5. 🥂🌊

32 Poets 32 Poems 32 counties Our own May Storm has arrived, the podcast is celebrating Poetry Day Ireland, thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social by hosting a special episode (on most platforms) including Spotify, Podbean, PocketCasts, Amazon Music ☘️ Spotify link… open.spotify.com/episode/4U9R...

This was a lovely reading for an amazing book! There are more planned. I’ll skeet about them (I prefer the term bleat). The next few: 9 May 18:30 Dublin, Books Upstairs 10 May 14:00 Dún Laoghaire, Lexicon 10 May 14:00 Waterford, Gallery of Art To buy: Alan Hanna’s, Books Upstairs, Charlie Byrne’s.

Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House Forthcoming *Washing Windows V* First launch on Saturday 3 May at 14.15 Strokestown International Poetry Festival The most comprehensive anthology of contemporary Irish women poets ever published with over 300 contributors BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/wash...

2 metres apart… As I sit on 15.04.25 and wait to see the doctor at 11.31am, hopefully for the last time, at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, now aged 49, it feels like a good time to revisit this counting poem from my 2nd #poetry collection, Back from Away, published by the marvellous Turas Press

Hit a write-up wall after weeks full throttle, so took today off to read poetry, drink tea, and finish watching #DyingforSex. If you haven’t seen it, do! Just make sure you have tissues at the ready towards the end. Michelle Williams & Jenny Slate deserve all the awards.

SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH MAKING NEIGHBOURHOOD CONNECTIONS: EXPERIENCES OF OLDER ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES OF LOCAL VOLUNTEERING AND LEISURE, FACILITATED BY LOCAL CONNECTORS Boland, G. et al / British Journal of Learning Disabilities #openaccess #socialwork doi.org/10.1111/bld....

I got my artistic licence today, it’s really easy to get one. All you need is whatever tools you have on hand and your imagination. No monthly subscriptions, AI Slop generators, or credentials needed!

I just need everyone to watch this and understand I have been laughing about it for 24 hours

T minus 30 days to thesis submission. It’s been a full-on last 6 months. I won’t be sad to spend less time with this view from the boffice and more time getting actual light and fresh air 🤞💻☕️

Not only do 90% say they would not vote for Conor McGregor for president, but "69pc said they would be less likely to vote for their local TD or councillor if they backed McGregor in his bid for the Áras". 2/

Hi @everyone Delighted to announce that submissions are now open for this year’s edition of #14magazine and will stay open until 30th June. Please send us your finest 14-liners! Click and scroll down for details: richardskinner.weebly.com/14-magazine....

So pleased to have this poem in the latest edition of the Cormorant, amongst many other beautiful pieces in the issue. It’s great to have such an interesting publication coming out of the North West.

Happy St Patricks Day #Conor #Darragh #Carla 🥰🥰🥰 www.idonate.ie/event/Walkin...

Delighted to share a link to the 1st article from my PhD - a study conducted with wonderful teammates - my supervisor Suzanne Guerin and our co-authors Eilish King & Shona McGuinness. It’s a much-needed spur for the write-up, with just 7wks left to submit 😊✍️😅 www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

With thanks to Alan at @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for once again opening a Friday #poemsabout prompt..... this time #softlight

Writers, please help me spread the word about my 30/30/£30 Marjorie’s Table in April: 30 half-hour workshops for £30, live 7:30am weekdays (with recordings posted by 9am) & by email on weekends. Workshop = a warm up, a read of poems, craft notes + 3 prompts. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...

Pádraig Ó Tuama getting under the skin/fluff of us all, as he does. 🐥

Salon Rógaire Beidh cúpla dán te bruite ⁊ cúpla seancheann á reic agam aige seo. Líon teoranta ticéad. www.eventbrite.ie/e/salon-roga...

An Australian known as the "Man with the Golden Arm" for protecting 2.4 million babies with his rare, antibody-rich blood plasma, has died aged 88.

It’s publication day! My heart is very full. Am so thankful to so many people for helping me get here. There were so many moments I thought this would never happen! Thanks to anyone who has bought a copy, who has read it! Thanks to all the lovely messages of support, and for all the kind words.