October Bank Holiday Hours 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Saturday 26th 10am – 6pm Sunday 27th 12-5pm Monday 28th 12-5pm

decided that this week’s column for Culture on RTÉ was going to be all about ireland’s literary journal infrastructure. big props to The Stinging Fly Banshee Press The Pig's Back Tolka & others for their continued support of the arts here! rte.ie/culture/2024/1…

Publishing in Poland tomorrow. x.com/sallyhayd/stat…

In case you need a costume idea for tomorrow...

Remember: Samhain means November. Oíche Shamhna is November's Eve, the night before November, Hallowe'en.

Hoy día festivo en España y el pueblo de Valencia se ha volcado con los damnificados del temporal. Es conmovedor la riada de personas. Han tomado su pala o su escoba y se ha tirado a la calle. Llevamos andando casi una hora y no paramos de ver voluntarios. Espectacular!

The State is to buy Clawinch Island, a 50-acre hotspot for wading birds located about 500 metres from the north shore of Lough Ree rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

Today the explosions started at 5.00 a.m and the drones are still flying at Kyiv. Meanwhile,near my house,workers are repairing pipes on the street. It’s an old problem. Whether there are explosions or not, people come to work #Ukraine

Lessie Benningfield Randle, a 109 year old survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, voted for Kamala Harris on Friday. She was born when women didn't have the right to vote. theblackwallsttimes.com/2024/11/01/tul…

Es conmovedor ver por segundo día consecutivo al pueblo de Valencia volcándose con los más afectados. Ayer en Alfafar era impresionante

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

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Day 985 🇺🇦👊 #Ukraine

Splurging on our Blind-Date-with-a-Book bundles!😍

Warm congratulations to Suad Aldarra who has won the 2024 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her her memoir 'I Don’t Want to Talk About Home'. 📚📚📚 Read more here: tcd.ie/news_events/ar…

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn. The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’ Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

This still feels like a hallucination. Thanks for each and every message. Grateful for the love 🫶🏻

Flooding in Valencia, Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024

😊💚 We kept our TY work experience student busy!

Day 1000 🇺🇦👊 #Ukraine