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To celebrate 25th April a thread of 18 versions of "Bella Ciao", the Italian partisan song that has become a universal anthem of protest. Pick your favourite [Thread] >>

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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

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The Cannes Film Festival has said that the screening of a documentary about the Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna at the event next month would honour her work after she was killed in an Israeli air strike last week

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As Brendan Behan reputedly said when asked whether he or Dylan Thomas was the better writer: I didn't know it was a competition.

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Publised tomorrow 24th from Gill books is the first in a new series from @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social - Conn of the Dead, Illustrated throughout by @aeadraws.bsky.social , published by Gill Books. The first in the Tales of Darkisle !

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Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the death of Pope Francis president.ie/en/media-lib...

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Levity aside, stamps have historically been an important part of the state's patronage of artist. This outlet has taken a hammering since email, e-stamps etc so it's cool that An Post are staying committed. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Parents and educators - there are a lot of discussions in publishing about how to improve reading for pleasure. Is there anything you wish publishing would do more of? Or just understand about kids and reading? Any insights from teaching/parenting of what gets kids reading? #KidLitUK #Edusky #KidLit

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FLASH FRIDAY Ticket offer 1-2pm tomorrow, Fri 11 April. €10 tkts for any performance of Youth's The Season? by Mary Manning @abbeytheatre.bsky.social Use code 'YTSFLASH25' before selecting seats. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Irish Times “funny, dark and highly entertaining” www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/you...

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Israel admits ‘mistakenly’ killing 15 aid workers after video leak www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gaza...

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Bad news for us radio lovers outside UK 📻 @bbcsounds.bsky.social

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www.rte.ie/news/clarity...

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When Trump says these tariffs are “reciprocal” it’s important to know he’s counting stuff like VAT – which is charged on domestic products as well as imports – as tariffs, which no-one else does. Because they’re not. So the numbers he’s giving are all nonsense.

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'Birds of a feather' by contemporary UK artist Dee Nickerson who explores themes of living in the countryside #womensart #Monday

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We are so looking forward to welcoming our friend Shane Hegarty back to the shop to celebrate his gorgeous new picture book The One and Only You, illustrated by Ben Mantle, on Sat 29th March at 3pm. If you can’t make it you can order a signed dedicated copy here halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781...

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A small pop-up sale on some backlist titles from ( mostly) Irish publishers this weekend - better than half price off new books ( plus all the usual huge vaklue on used and secondhand books) Sure, where else would you get it... thebookshop.ie/better-than-...

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Continuing to unfollow lovely people who are screenshotting the world's worst people's tweets and bringing them over here. I left there so I'd never have to see that ranty nonsense ever again.

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New Ernest Hemingway story just dropped on eBay

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I won't pretend that Amazon's launch of a .ie site is not a threat to many small (and medium sized) businesses here. It is. But if I could ask Irish people to do one thing - don't assume that whatever you're buying will always be cheaper there. A monopoly is in no one's interest. #speirgorm

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St. Patrick’s weekend 2022 at the Rock of Cashel #spéirgorm

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In Rome today 50k people at the demonstration pro-Europe.

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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

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President Higgins has marked World Book Day by donating 250 of his own books to Cabra public library in Dublin 📚

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All Royalties to Ukrainian Action Ireland: www.mercierpress.ie/books/we-sta... #westandwithukraine #booksky

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Another thing that struck me about yesterday’s Oval Office disaster is the place of language. 🧵

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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

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