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🏆 The Adversary by Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award! 🏆 Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉 #DublinLitAward #DLA30yrs

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Karen, you absolute star!! And you managed to beat the tragic postal service between Ireland & the UK! I am SO excited about this! @orendabooks.bsky.social @dougjohnstone.bsky.social

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Consider that in Israel you may say “Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. The enemy is not Hamas... We need to conquer Gaza and colonize it and not leave a single Gazan child there,” on tv w/ impunity. In the US you may be deported for writing an oped saying Palestinians deserve human rights

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Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza. Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.

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Released 45 years ago today "Love Will Tear Us Apart," a song by English post-punk band Joy Division. Everyone knows the original video, but I chose a different one this time. Peter Hook & The Light - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' - Live at O2 Apollo, Manchester - 29/7/22. #joydivision #history #otd

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National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

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The Israeli regime is eliminating an entire population. However much attention Trump’s own brand of fascism attracts, that this is happening is the most shocking & sordid development of the C21. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Sometimes scrolling mindlessly unearths a great thread like this. Thanks to @kitdewaal.bsky.social for cheering me up!

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Thrilled with this review from the brilliant @annerandomthings.bsky.social!

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Rip Chief Pontiac, Odawa leader, died this day 1769. "They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, and crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved."

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Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for an exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving a glimpse of the daily lives of early medieval Irish monks. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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📚 Are you passionate about books and eager to share your love of literature with others? Goldsboro Books, the UK's leading independent retailer of signed first editions, is looking to add to our ever growing passionate and experienced team.

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Can’t wait to be a part of this! Come see me and the brilliant Jess Kidd interviewed by the also brilliant @edelcoffey.bsky.social on Friday 23rd May!

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The inaugural Kilkenny Law Festival, 16-18 May 2025. www.kilkennylawfestival.com

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Look at us with our fancy signed copies!! Huge thanks to @zoemillerauthor.bsky.social & Andrea Carter for coming in - it is such a treat for customers when they realise they have a signed copy! I have both The Girls Trip & There Came A-Tapping on my TBR piles - who needs sleep anyway?!

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Having a rant in the @thesundaytimes.bsky.social.

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It’s SO good!!!

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This happened 8 days ago and is horrific www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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On the telly chatting Tapping…

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Dublin humans with young people: I am doing some (free! Libraries are magic!) creative writing workshops for teenagers in different DLR libraries over the next couple of weeks. Booking is through the relevant branch. 🎉✒️

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Done.

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The schedule for @capitalcrime.bsky.social is up! Hugely looking forward to moderating this event on Friday 13th June but check out the rest of this incredible festival at capitalcrime.org

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Happy publication day to @andreacarter.bsky.social - THERE CAME A-TAPPING, the hauntingly atmospheric stand-alone thriller is out today! Are you escaping danger… Or running straight into it? tinyurl.com/bdhrbuby

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Two reviews at the weekend. Two days to publication! #ThereCameATapping

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Roses are red Violets are blue

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A wee interview I did for the gorgeous @goldsborobooks.bsky.social (with recommended upcoming books by @brianmcgilloway.bsky.social and @janecasey.bsky.social). goldsborobooks.com/blogs/crime-...

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