Couldn't be happier for my friend Deb - a great storyteller, meticulous researcher and all-round brilliant person.

@villa_writes Deb 🌺 Mimi_the_Cat ValerieM Sheldon The Cat Emma MASTERPIECE | PBS There is a wonderful continuation of the fragment by Rose Servitova - Find me on insta @roseservitova called #ASeasonAtSanditon which is absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended it to everyone. Feels most like JA. Would love to see it adapted some day! #SidlotteForever #SidlotteDeservedBetter

Recipients of Arts & Disability Connect scheme (including me) attending its 10 year celebration Project Arts Centre this week. Thanks to team Arts & Disability Ireland for running this life & career-changing scheme & The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon for supporting it. Such inspiring stories. I left a different person.

Her Kind US Edition #alicekyteler #herkind Niamh Boyce : Her Kind: The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler niamhboyce.blogspot.com/2024/06/her-ki…

This time, over 200yrs ago, Lady Catherine threatens to take Elizabeth with her to London: “... if you will stay another month complete, it will be in my power to take one of you as far as London, for I am going there early in June, for a week.#PrideandPrejudice #JaneAusten

This must be one of the best jobs going at the moment in the creative sector in Ireland. Arts & Disability Ireland

“#DavidPuttnam: The Long Way Home” premieres tonight at 10:15pm on RTÉ One. Huge thanks to Clíona, Edel and the incredible team at Icebox films for bringing this documentary to life.

My writing at present skirts around the author #KateOBrien. I'm so fortunate to have in my possession, a letter she wrote in her later years from Boughton (her final home). I hope to visit her grave at Faversham some day to pay my respects and have a chat about life & #Limerick.

As someone who reads books about writers' process/habits/desks, I highly recommend the Writer's Routine Podcast. I've started at the beginning and listen to at least one a day. Am somewhere in 2022 now Writer's Routine Podcast writersroutinedotcom.wordpress.com/tag/episodes/

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Not a recipent myself but feedback has indicated it has been transformative for artists & the arts sector. Retain, Extend and Expand Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts Pilot - Sign the Petition! chng.it/QJVhWx5shj via Change.org

A heartfelt congrats to Evie Woods today on publication of #TheStoryCollector. The magical themes in her writing are only eclipsed by her own magical path to success. Great interview here with IMAGE Media #WritingCommunity image.ie/living/page-tu…

For anyone who missed my interview this evening, please listen and share.💔 It's not an easy listen, but it's vital tax payers know the contempt the HSE & government officials have for chronically ill patients. rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

Oh I'm so sorry to hear this news. Eibhear Walshe wrote brilliantly on Kate O'Brien & other Irish writers and I'd selfishly hoped to meet him some day. May he Rest in Peace. English UCC

Why Ireland banned over 12,000 'evil' & 'unwholesome' books. It started with the 1926 'Committee on Evil Literature'. #KateOBrien rte.ie/brainstorm/202… via RTÉ

15 years married today ❤️

#OTD Aug 13th, it's 50yrs since the passing of Irish writer & trailblazer #KateOBrien. Tomw, I’m off to Roundstone, where she lived in '50s. Details soon re 'Tea with Kate' Patricia Roberts . Images © Special Collections & Archives, Glucksman Lib., University of #Limerick

I'm so bloomin' happy to be accepted on post-grad in Creative Arts Management English, Media & Creative Arts, Uni of Galway NUIGalway. Looking forward to brushing up old skills & learning to support creativity & communities. Grateful it's accessible, affordable, part-time w/ option distance-learning Springboard+

#SaveTheDate Sunday November 10th, 2024 - a special celebration takes place in #Limerick to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of Kate O'Brien this year. More details to come....