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USA Today Bestselling #Irish author. New novel #TheBooksellersGift out from Hachette Books Irl Oct 2024 Lives London, UK/Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland (Gaeilge agus fáilte). Rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
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Spring is coming to cheer us up

Who else loves crows. #Crows #birds #ukbirds #birdphotography #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

I’m not exaggerating when I say that @altyellonatpark.org’s timeline is helping my mental health.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Such a lovely event superbly chaired by Harriet Tyce. Thank you all so much for coming! You can watch it back on the #GraniteNoir livestream ☺️

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

This guy is out of control. Imagine how he’d behave if there was an actual crisis or civil unrest.

#3goodthings 1. Moving On has moved up to number 3 in the charts. Thanks as ever to all who helped put it there. Celebrating with hot and cold chocolate. 2. Daffodils on Main Street. 3. A horse enjoying the sunshine.

There was a real sense of spring in the air today. #bees 🌱💚 #greenheart #cotswolds #SignsOfSpring

The latest dress I made for the granddaughter. Her dresses look so grown-up now. It's... not right. #sewing She's loving dragons right now.

My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

Sending love and thanks on #IrelandReadsDay to all the brilliant #booksellers (and #librarians) whose lives inspired my recent #Finfarran novel #TheBooksellersGift, and whose energy, hard work and charm are bringing it to readers. xx 💞 #Spéirgorm #booksky #Irish #writing @gaiabanks.bsky.social

It's #IrelandReads Day! Go forth and read something comforting, fun, exciting, educational, interesting, useful, hilarious, heartbreaking, or whatever you fancy, today. And - if you haven't already - join your local library! It's the best gift you can give yourself. 📚🎊📚🎊

It’s #IrelandReads Day and we shared stories with young readers in Blackrock & Gorey libraries, made Wishprint poems, went book whispering, found golden hares, played chess with pirates, ate stone donuts with diamond teeth… Clearly, we got lost in a book or two - hope you do too!

I LOVE Round Towers of Ireland by Christiaan Corlett @nationalmons.bsky.social. Accessible intro. Great map locator! 46 towers covered! Gorgeous photos taken by Christiaan. Interesting info on each monastic site; saint, local king etc. Out 24 Feb! @theobrienpress.bsky.social #GetLost #IrelandReads ✨

Popped into Castlebar Library this morning on #IrelandReads day - sorry to miss #ChildrensBooksIreland & #PatriciaForde but lovely to see @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social front & centre in their display!

For #IrelandReads day, I highly recommend this one! It’s in all good Irish bookshops or you can buy direct from the publisher here www.orpenpress.com/books/irish-... And it’s written and illustrated by me!

Whoop! Won a free book, notebook and tote bag at my local @dublincitylibs.bsky.social library for #IrelandReads day! Appropriately, this book is about reading! ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ by Anthony Doerr. #MyDublinLibrary @jackielynam.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/BsT67P7 Thank you @travistheriot.bsky.social

Get up, dress up, show up.

The nice man in Timpsons fixed my watch for free! What a lovely kindness!

An modh coinníollach (7rl, 'ar ndóigh) abú.🥂 #Spéirgorm

A blue sky spring day in Ireland at last 🌿#speirgorm

At the entrance to Nordstroms in ATX. Thank you.

With 10,000+ fashion businesses generating £32bn, London is an international powerhouse of creativity and entrepreneurship. My message to Londoners this London Fashion Week: get involved, support our fashion industry and help build a better, more stylish and sustainable London.

There are many disturbing clips from Musk's CPAC event. But the DUMBEST thing he said is actually this. He demeans Ukrainians' sacrifice because "the line of enagagement hasn't moved". This 'genius' doesn't even get what a heroic feat it is to HOLD THE LINE against the immense Russian war machine.

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Bought over the last two days in London and Buckinghamshire… From: @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social @lrbbookshop.bsky.social @dauntbooks.bsky.social + two Chorleywood charity shops The weeks and months of reading ahead, already looking good, just got even better 📖🦋 #booksky

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

People in the EU are now putting up stickers that read, “Elon Musk is attacking the European Union. Boycott Tesla,” and “Elon, stay away from the EU.” These stickers, featuring EU flags and a link to StopElon.eu, appear on public EV chargers and other visible spots.

Finally approaching Berlin… 10 hours 🚆 and €74 ticket 🎫 so I can vote in the Bundestagswahl tomorrow Ought not be necessary, but I can’t let what happened at the EP election happen again, and my postal vote papers not get to me #BTW25

The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it

This turned into quite thread. Juice-full bluesky.

*New* campaign action on Marks & Spencer - any help getting the first few signatures going would be greatly appreciated! actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... We're sharing this first on Bluesky as this is so much friendlier (and troll free, so far at least!) than any of the other platforms right now!

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

The EU needs to be willing to hold the line on this, up to and including banning US owned companies that refuse to comply with EU law (ideally in cooperation with other major markets)

Powerful & heartbreaking from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at extortion of Ukraine’s wealth. Essential reading. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

BREAKING: Associated Press is suing the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment. This is what needs done at every turn. Resist. Fight back. Well done AP👏

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