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Aoife Doyle

@1adoyle.bsky.social

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✒️ Irish Mythology-inspired feminist fantasies for MG & YA. Rep @lucyirvine93. WM Children's Novel Award & PFD Queer Prize '22 Gaeilgeoir. Queer, ND, they/them. Professional nerd 😎🐲

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Nov 19

✒️ MG, YA & more
🖌️ Newbie illustrator
🤩 Irish Mythology and Folklore nerd
💚 Fluent Irish speaker
📽️ Movie references are my first language
🏆 WriteMentor Children's Novel Award & Queer Fiction Prize 2022
📖 RevPit 2021
🤝 Rep: @lucyirvine93.bsky.social of PFD

Aoife pronounced EE-fah
May steal your 🐈‍⬛ 👀

a man with long hair and a mustache is sitting in front of a wall and says `` no , there is too much . ''

Alt: Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride saying: Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 5d

👇Happening tomorrow!

Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 10d

A fabulous initiative from Blackrock Councillor @marthafanning.bsky.social - next Saturday at Urban Junction (just up the road from us) 👻🎃🧙‍♀️

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · 10d

More 👏 of 👏 this 👏

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 12d

Manchán Magan devoted his life to enriching Irish culture. He was a man about whom you’d never hear a bad word said. Kind and generous and gentle. RIP

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · 12d

Easpa ollmhór orainn ina imeacht

Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · 12d

Táim croíbhriste 😭

RTE news : Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.

www.rte.ie

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 20d

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · 22d

Cost-benefit analysis of the #BUIA scheme. More concrete evidence this should be embraced and expanded.

Please, government, be sound. Obey the Data. Support artists*. It, we, you – deserve it

*And apprentices, essential workers and, well, everyone but we can start small
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Basic Income for the Arts pilot produced over €100 million in Social and Economic Benefits

www.gov.ie

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 23d

One of the more obvious signs of recent Cliff erosion - these fence posts were not dangling from the cliff less than two weeks ago.
Just a reminder that the Cliffs are very much a "work in progress".
County Clare, Ireland.

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Ola Majekodunmi @olamajekodunmi.bsky.social · 24d

Nearly 1 week to go...for Off the Scéal: Multilingual Open Mic Night series! All welcome. Including (performances in English).

#OpenMicNight #Multilingual

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · 27d

The most reluctant happy feet in all the worlds

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · 29d

For the love of god don't give furbies more cursing power

Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm recovering from a lil surgery, please send recs for pleasant nonsense to entertain me in my couch potato era

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Sep 3

This competition closes soon! Take your shot! #KidlitUk

Undiscovered Voices @uvcompetition.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Don't be scared to put yourself out there" - the words of the amazing #UV26 Honorary Chair @louiestowell.bsky.social

Take her advice before it's too late - competition closes this coming Monday.

undiscoveredvoices.com

@scbwi.bsky.social @scbwiireland.bsky.social

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Honestly at some point you just start wondering what an otherworld bull with revenge issues is even worth without an insecure someone to lose their mind over it 😔

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · Sep 2

Words are magic

My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders.
(Credit: Ann Morg)

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ART @art.bsky.social · Sep 1

Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent six years planning a perfectly aligned shot of the Moon with Turin’s Basilica of Superga and Monviso. Weather delays thwarted annual chances until December 2023, when a crescent Moon with visible da Vinci glow completed his long-envisioned composition

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Sep 1

Five days left to add more data that the BIA is good, actually, and should stay and expand etc etc:
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Basic Income for the Arts public consultation

ec.europa.eu

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · Aug 31

Read this thread 👇

Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Aug 31

Techno gremlins tried to thwart me: if you tried filling the form in and it wouldn't let you pick multiple answers it is now fixed and shall behave 🙈😅 Same link, better manners

Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

I'm working on making a cosy home for all things KidLit from across the island of Ireland: think digital library meets Golden Pages with AO3 searchability. If that sounds cool ✨join my quest for world domination✨ (or just updates)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#IrishKidLit #UKKidLit #speirgorm

Fireside Stories Contact Form

Thank you for your interest in Fireside Stories! We are a small startup working to bring all things Children's Literature from across the island of Ireland into one accessible, user-friendly space. Th...

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Aug 31

HECK YEAH

a woman is jumping in the air while a man holds her hands up in the air .

ALT: a woman is jumping in the air while a man holds her hands up in the air .

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oh nooo! 🙈 Thank you for pointing that out, it's now fixed!

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

Fireside Stories Contact Form

docs.google.com

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · Aug 28

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

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Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social · Aug 27

Truly unsettling number of interactions with spiders this week

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Aug 24

Always worry when people share photos of their kids publicly online on non-private platforms, due to both safety concerns and them being far, far too young to truly consent, but with AI and deepfakes now a reality... It's never worth the risk, or the lack of control they have over their own privacy.

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