#AmReading #LightYears by #JamesSalter Penguin Classics
They have a pony called Ursula!
#novels #reading

A family of owls in a clock tower in France

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The Voyageur: I reviewed Paul Carlucci's 'tremendously vivid' debut novel for The Irish Times.
Swift Press
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An amazing list of authors Belfast BookFestival Come join me for #flashfiction fun on 6 June belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/tell-…

The Belfast BookFestival programme has landed: and I'm so proud to have co-curated this year's Festival. Kevin Barry, Sinéad Gleeson, Margaret Drabble, Colm Tóibín, Aingeala Flannery, Jan Carson, Jacqueline Wilson, Mícheál McCann, Lucy Caldwell...
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Saint Nicholas of Myra is an impressive classical church, designed by John Leeson in the late 1820s with the portico and bell tower added in the second half of the nineteenth century to designs by John Bourke.

#welovedublin8 #dublin8 #culture #historydublin

To Books Upstairs tonight for the #Dublin launch of Jan Carson Quickly, While they Still Have Horses, with great introduction by livisoffline. Congratulations, Jan! Doubleday Books

The fu-KIN train keeps a coming. This time to Netflix. In May. 🔥

Insightful Neil Hegarty review of Roland Philipps #BrokenArchangel Much to learn about Roger Casement

I wrote about Roger Casement for The Irish Times The Irish TimesBooks. Thanks to Martin Doyle.
#newwriting The Bodley Head

Under Irish law, greyhounds are not dogs but farm animals. Their worth is decided by how fast they can run. Thousands are killed every year. Watch #RTEInvestigates youtube.com/watch?v=ZYTb2q… and repost to urge Simon Harris TD Micheál Martin Eamon Ryan to #BanGreyhoundRacing

The monastic interior of St. Thomas’s Church, Cathal Brugha Street, provides an oasis of calm in Dublin city centre. It was designed in 1930 by one of the leading architects in early 20th-century Ireland, Frederick G. Hicks, whose oeuvre straddled classicism to early modernism 🧵

Happy publication day to my eighth book. Godspeed the little horse as they canter their way unto bookshelves up and down the land #quicklywhiletheystillhavehorses

Billy came in after being slashed and with PTSD and 80% blind. He wouldn't stop crying for days.

Today all the people who have helped him took Billy out for a little brunch and an ice cream to celebrate his recovery.

Little Billy said it was the best day of his life 🥰🙏

There's a 1,600 year old hidden holy well in a very unexpected place. You likely passed it a thousand times. There was even a cryptic clue to its location, on a now vanished old street sign for Nassau Street. The former Irish name mysteriously said, 'Sráid Thobar Phádraig'....

Who needs Easter eggs when you have Neil Hegarty baking this! #cake

How did an Italian masterpiece 'The Taking of Christ' by the murderous hellraiser Caravaggio end up hanging in a dining room in Leeson Street? The iconic scene depicts the event in holy week, when Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane by identifying him to the

You`ve seen them both thousands of times, two men gazing down on you from their stone plinths on O`Connell Street, where the Luas crosses. But their names and stories are forgotten by the majority of Dubliners who pass them daily. So let’s change that and make friends with the

The end of an era for two institutions in the area.
Credit: Shuttermanaic for Eddie Thornton photo.