crredwards
@crredwards.bsky.social
Almost absolutely reliable. In Ireland since 2017. Parent to LGBTQ+. Writer of history, studier of literature, creator of cosy magical realism. Just a whole mess.
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crredwards
@crredwards.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I want to share with you the single funniest thing I have ever read in my life. I first read this around 1993 in a copy of the Oxford Book of Humorous Prose that I picked up in a bookshop in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Sale ends on monday!
I'll do the first one :>
Hey, I'm Lily from Germany, shipping worldwide, and I sell a buch of cute stuff! There's also 15% off on almost anything until December 1st ❤️
www.paraplyshop.com
Hey, I'm Lily from Germany, shipping worldwide, and I sell a buch of cute stuff! There's also 15% off on almost anything until December 1st ❤️
www.paraplyshop.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Sale ends on monday!
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Hi! I’m Elio, a queer illustrator based in Italy, and I sell my art :) here’s some of my stuff!
You can find it here: ko-fi.com/thesunxix/shop
You can find it here: ko-fi.com/thesunxix/shop
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Hi! I’m Elio, a queer illustrator based in Italy, and I sell my art :) here’s some of my stuff!
You can find it here: ko-fi.com/thesunxix/shop
You can find it here: ko-fi.com/thesunxix/shop
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The woman has been carried out of more courts than a secondhand tennis racket.
Known widely for her outbursts condemning and berating judges, politicians, guards, teachers and even nurses, Ms Burke is a woman of ferocious belief in her convictions
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
The making of a matriarch: How Martina Burke went from fun-loving camogie girl to mother of a fundamentalist family
The transformation of Martina Burke from her schooldays as a “totally normal” teenager who was “a laugh a minute” and a gifted camogie player, confounds those who knew and cared for her in her youth.
www.independent.ie
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The woman has been carried out of more courts than a secondhand tennis racket.
Inkle made a game. Jon Ingold (of Inkle) gives his background story.
Which is amazing. 🧵
Which is amazing. 🧵
Here's the Bletchley Park connection, in full:
I don't actually *know* that my late great-uncle worked at Bletchley. But the available evidence suggests he did. Here's what I know.
I inherited a few things when he died - not in his will, but just collected from his attic. One of these is significant, and linked.
I inherited a few things when he died - not in his will, but just collected from his attic. One of these is significant, and linked.
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Inkle made a game. Jon Ingold (of Inkle) gives his background story.
Which is amazing. 🧵
Which is amazing. 🧵
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Lol jesus, Liselotte, chill out
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Lol jesus, Liselotte, chill out
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Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Just found out an application was denied; they then could not provide further information on how that decision was made, despite submitted reports. Babes, I was forged in the fires of the American healthcare system, leaping forth with arguments in one hand and documentation in the other. Strap in.
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just found out an application was denied; they then could not provide further information on how that decision was made, despite submitted reports. Babes, I was forged in the fires of the American healthcare system, leaping forth with arguments in one hand and documentation in the other. Strap in.
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✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
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Huge congratulations to our colleague and brilliant author Gráinne O'Brien, who has just won the Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year 2025 at the Irish Book Awards for her novel, Solo. We are so proud to see her hard work and wonderful writing awarded tonight. Comhghairdeas - well done Gráinne.🏆
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Huge congratulations to our colleague and brilliant author Gráinne O'Brien, who has just won the Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year 2025 at the Irish Book Awards for her novel, Solo. We are so proud to see her hard work and wonderful writing awarded tonight. Comhghairdeas - well done Gráinne.🏆
All my Irish friends are spontaneously sending "Happy Thanksgiving!" messages and I'm having to be honest with them: we don't observe it. We tried the first year here, but the oven was small and I was strung out. The plates were still half full when one of the kids said, "Let's get sushi next year."
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
All my Irish friends are spontaneously sending "Happy Thanksgiving!" messages and I'm having to be honest with them: we don't observe it. We tried the first year here, but the oven was small and I was strung out. The plates were still half full when one of the kids said, "Let's get sushi next year."
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
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Huge thanks to David for dropping in this afternoon. We now have signed copies in stock - perfect Christmas gift for history buffs!
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Huge thanks to David for dropping in this afternoon. We now have signed copies in stock - perfect Christmas gift for history buffs!
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I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
Growing Your Idea: From Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre
In-person scriptwriting course at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Turn an idea for a film into a detailed outline or script. Starts Tues 11 March 2025.
irishwriterscentre.ie
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
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Dublin lights under a sky out of an 18th century gothic novel
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Dublin lights under a sky out of an 18th century gothic novel
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“You will have your own view on the state of Irish food and the spice bag’s place within it, the state of it. Far be it for me to yuck anybody’s yum, I’m just not wholly convinced it’s definitively Irish, a state of being I concede is slippery at the best of times” open.substack.com/pub/omos/p/o...
Ómós Digest #204: A Reflection on Spice Bags.
Made from my daughter’s leftovers. By Gerry Godley.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“You will have your own view on the state of Irish food and the spice bag’s place within it, the state of it. Far be it for me to yuck anybody’s yum, I’m just not wholly convinced it’s definitively Irish, a state of being I concede is slippery at the best of times” open.substack.com/pub/omos/p/o...
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Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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📢Out now on #firstview!
Daithí Ó Corráin (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) on 'The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion'
#Compensation #Civilian #Casualties #Injury 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Daithí Ó Corráin (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) on 'The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion'
#Compensation #Civilian #Casualties #Injury 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📢Out now on #firstview!
Daithí Ó Corráin (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) on 'The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion'
#Compensation #Civilian #Casualties #Injury 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Daithí Ó Corráin (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) on 'The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion'
#Compensation #Civilian #Casualties #Injury 20thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Yes, let's cannibalise the energy of our youth during their prime learning years to give cover to poor political management of a well-predicted crisis.
"Anything is worth a try." Most things should die at the idea board.
"Anything is worth a try." Most things should die at the idea board.
‘All school leavers should be required to work in the building industry for a period after Leaving Cert’
‘All school leavers should be required to work in the building industry for a period after Leaving Cert’
In a housing crisis, anything is worth a try
www.irishtimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yes, let's cannibalise the energy of our youth during their prime learning years to give cover to poor political management of a well-predicted crisis.
"Anything is worth a try." Most things should die at the idea board.
"Anything is worth a try." Most things should die at the idea board.
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🇮🇪🏴🦌 🎄 ❄️ Irish language TV channel @TG4 @Cula4_TG4 has co-produced a new animated Christmas film in collaboration with @BBCNI and Welsh language station @S4C in a first-of-its-kind collaboration.
https://bit.ly/48nft5y
https://bit.ly/48nft5y
First ever multilingual animated Christmas film to be aired in Irish and Welsh
Irish language TV channel TG4 has co-produced a new animated Christmas film in collaboration with BBC Northern Ireland and Welsh language station S4C in a first-of-its-kind collaboration.
www.independent.ie
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🇮🇪🏴🦌 🎄 ❄️ Irish language TV channel @TG4 @Cula4_TG4 has co-produced a new animated Christmas film in collaboration with @BBCNI and Welsh language station @S4C in a first-of-its-kind collaboration.
https://bit.ly/48nft5y
https://bit.ly/48nft5y
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I haven't seen a post like this going around yet, so I'll make it myself! EU-based artists, tell us what you sell and drop a link to your shop in the replies ❤️
Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟
#shopsmall
Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟
#shopsmall
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I haven't seen a post like this going around yet, so I'll make it myself! EU-based artists, tell us what you sell and drop a link to your shop in the replies ❤️
Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟
#shopsmall
Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟
#shopsmall
Oh my gosh, there's the baby owlbear!
Hi! I’m Kaddi and I sell cute animal and fantasy inspired art 🧡 in my shop you find sticker sheets (my biggest passion), stickers, wooden pins, postcards and more! 🌱
exozetart.etsy.com
exozetart.etsy.com
exozetart.etsy.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Oh my gosh, there's the baby owlbear!
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Every summer, a lady of a certain age would arrive in Paris and stay in the hotel right across the street from my bookshop. Once she settled in, she'd fling open her windows and call out my name punctuated by a YOO HOO! I'd go to my front step, wave, and welcome her to town.
Check out the trailer for Nathan Silver’s touching short documentary CAROL & JOY. Coming to Criterion Channel on 12/1!
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Every summer, a lady of a certain age would arrive in Paris and stay in the hotel right across the street from my bookshop. Once she settled in, she'd fling open her windows and call out my name punctuated by a YOO HOO! I'd go to my front step, wave, and welcome her to town.