"You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true." Pablo Neruda.

Vale Norman Ackroyd. An inspirational artist, and one who definitely made a major contribution to our island Archipelago. Thoughts with his friends and family.

Norman Ackroyd with Seamus Heaney in Oxford, 2007.

The word is out - the film about me, my family, Irish language and the Russian war against Ukraine is on TG4 on 25 September. It will be available to watch anywhere in the world. Two years in the making, produced by incredible UnderTheRadar Sinéad Ingoldsby Medb Ní Dhúláin

the song of dead mouths dies on the shore it has made its voyage Samuel Beckett

a bright starry night a ghost whispering: "shall I light a lamp?" Etsujin

Full moon insect serenade

We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Norman Ackroyd, one of Britain’s foremost landscape artists and contemporary printmakers. Our thoughts are with his family, and all whose lives he touched.⁠ 📷️ 1. Ian Ritchie. 2-4. courtesy of YSP

Arán & Im is coming to Britain 3 Oct Mwldan Cardigan 4 Oct Norwegian Church Arts Centre / Eglwys Norwyaidd Cardiff 10-11 Oct The Irish Cultural Centre 18 Oct Liverpool Irish Festival 20 Oct Tyneside IrishCentre 25-26 Oct Traverse Theatre 30 Oct An Lanntair 1 Nov SEALL Events onceoffproductions.com/aran-im Once Off Productions Culture_Ireland

An exciting night for Irish ecocriticism-joint launch of 2 books on Joyce and Flann O'Brien! Looking forward to introducing 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' edited by Richard Alan Barlow & Paul Fagan. 5 Oct 6:30 PM James Joyce Centre. Register: eventbrite.ie/e/finnegans-wa…

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