I attended a talk tonight on Cumbrian postman and artist Percy Kelly, who beautifully illustrated his letters to friends. He died in 1993 as the writing of letters was starting to die out, but his letters serve as a Requiem to the written word. percykelly.co.uk/history/

From ‘Another Man’s Poison’ - Bette Davis not reading an Ireland Summer Season by rail poster.

Ghost signs of Thomas Street revealed.

Love it.

Calling all writers aged 15–17! Applications are now open for the Edna O'Brien Young Writers Bursary, our 5-day immersive experience for 15 talented students from around Ireland. This year's mentor is award-winning Jessica Traynor 😀 Apply now at moli.ie/edna_obrien_bu… ✏️

I think this means no bathroom? Ruth Cannon this is from 'Irish Society'. July 7 1894.

Architecture history job alert! 3 year postdoc in UCD Art Hist Cult Pol on the role of female entrepreneurs in the dissemination of modern architecture & design between 1920 & 1970 timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

'A little republic': how Dun Emer created a utopian space for Irish women Evelyn Gleeson & the Yeats' sisters wanted their enterprise to provide women with economic independence & professional opportunities, explains UL's Dr Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Time is money. If it takes twice as long to do something you earn half as much. This is the brutal fact at the heart of Brexit. Let’s "Brexit" a £12.99 paperback, blow by blow, and see what difference leaving the single market has made.

Shortlist for #zurichportraitprize this is the powerful ‘Orpen Minded’ by Lynn Kennedy TheGlossMag National Gallery of Ireland thegloss.ie/see-the-incred…

A raft of wonderful writers here in Tearing Stripes off Zebras, edited by Nessa Opoku and published by Alan Hayes : Arlen House.

Piece I wrote, ‘Sole Trader’, grew out of research funded by We are now Research Ireland at Trinity Long Room Hub and is included here by Nessa Opoku #LoveIrishResearch #HubMatters - dlr LexIcon Venue launch Sat 16 Sept 2:30 for 3.

The contributors to the anthology 'Tearing Stripes off Zebras' (Ed. Nessa O'Mahony, publisher Alan Hayes : Arlen House) this afternoon in the LexiconDL. Thanks also to @libranwriter @DunneCatherine And a reunion of the WEB group! Nessa Opoku

Gathered in one book, gathered in one room. Contributors, just before the launch of #TearingStripesoffZebras at dlr LexIcon Venue yesterday. A day full of celebration! Ed Nessa Opoku pub Arlen House Publishing Women

Books in brief: A ‘Proper’ Woman?; Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition; and Tearing Stripes off Zebras irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Thoroughly enjoyable evening last night with THE GLOSS x Goodbody Investment Club in the Market Hall at the Irish Stock Exchange - the VERY room in which in 1925 Oonah Keogh began work as the first Irish woman stockbroker #businessasusual TheGlossMag tinyurl.com/6bxk6yuk

Most welcome book post 🧡 thanks Four Courts Press and brilliant editors Dr. Jennifer Redmond @MaryMcAuliffe4 - look at that array of contributors. I’ve a chapter in there too, on 19th-century women running pawnbroking shops. Get it from FCP site, it’s flying in to shops pronto too.

Boarding school blues, a brass band, the clang of the blacksmith's anvil... sweet music +sweet treats in a mid-century schoolmistress's recipe book. Tune in! 9am Sun RTÉ Radio 1 @carolmtaaffe Colin Regan Paul JohnstonIUA Margaret Dunne Fiona Smith Antonia Hart #Ploughing #Buttera

Book Launch TONIGHT: @BooksUpstairs starting at 6.00pm ... "The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland: A Reader" (edited by Dr. Jennifer Redmond & @MaryMcAuliffe4) ... Maynooth History University College Dublin @booksirelandmag History Ireland Irish Association of Professional Historians/@iaph #books

Strange days, pangs of youth and a “whistling city”… #sundaymiscellany is coming up with Paul Muldoon Carol Taaffe Conall Hamill Georg Grote Antonia Hart Frank Shouldice, 9am-10am RTÉ Radio 1 + stay tuned for details of our Christmas show🎄❄️✨ with RTÉConcertOrchestra Tues 2 Dec! National Concert Hall