Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”

The reaction is hillarious🥝👦

Haigh Samhradh, an mbeidh tú ag teacht ar ais? 😟☔ Le meas, Aimsir TG4

Ali Smith on re-reading books. (Also, I agree.)

That’s fantastic. 👏👏💚🤍

To celebrate #Home🏚️ hitting the fabled ✨100 reviews✨ on the river site, I’m going to do a #giveaway! 👉🏻 RT and follow for a chance to win a signed copy (U.K. & Ireland only) 📚Bonus - extra entry if you pop your favourite gif in the replies below! amazon.co.uk/Home-Cailean-S…

'Anything you can do, I can do bleeding.' Meet the politician fighting to reduce period shaming in Kenya. Senator Gloria Orwoba is driving a campaign for free menstrual products in a country where period stigma still prevails. Read more: rte.ie/b/1398142

Sorry for my ignorance but does anyone know what this is? Is it a stoat? Like the scene of a crime outside our house!Large enough rabbit dead in driveway, magpies flying over head & this fellow roaming around perimeter of house. Looked as if limping. Finally loped off into hedge.

An Modh Coinníollach An Tuiseal Ginideach An Aimsir Fháistineach

'We Stand With Ukraine: An Anthology of Poetry, Prose and Protest'. Edited by John Farrelly, Helen Dwyer & Julian Vignoles. Available now in all good book stores. Mercier Press #WeStandWithUkraine mercierpress.ie/irish-books/we…

The ESRI has described as “eye-opening” survey findings that show Irish teens want to be educated in mixed schools. They say single sex schools need to listen to what their students are saying. rte.ie/news/education…

R.I.P. Paul Auster. "If nothing else, the years have taught me this: if there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it." In a piece from 1995, Auster answers the question "why write?" newyorker.com/magazine/1995/…

Memories from your school days did you put brown paper or wallpaper on your school books