Joyce Butler
@joycebwriter.bsky.social
Married Mam. Writer. Poet. Author. Historical fiction. Contributor - Irish Times, Poetry as Commemoration, The Galway Review. From Waterford, Ireland.
Pinned
Delighted to get a place on this series of @thegallerypress.bsky.social poetry Workshops with the brilliant Grace Wilentz. 🙏🏻
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Leonard McCombe, Dublin, 1957
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Leonard McCombe, Dublin, 1957
Well done, Rekha 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Bumper Issue V of The Storms @eatthestorms.com is out and I'm in it with my short prose THE BIRTH 📗 super thrilled to be part of multiple launches print edition, audio recording, podcast, Youtube 🎤 enjoy the many #poetry #prose #reading 📖 #writing ✍️ eatthestorms.com/the-storms-a... 📚 #silicasun 📙❤️
The Journal
The Storms Issue 5 Issue 5 of The Storms, the printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art, is honoured to be supported by Fingal Arts / Fingal C…
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November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Well done, Rekha 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a great cover!
Definite date for the diary tomorrow Banshee issue 20 launch
Date: Thursday 30 October at 6pm
Location: Staff Common Room, the Quad, UCC
Date: Thursday 30 October at 6pm
Location: Staff Common Room, the Quad, UCC
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
What a great cover!
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So sorry to hear about Prunella Scales.
After Henry is STILL one of my favourite sitcoms of all time.
After Henry is STILL one of my favourite sitcoms of all time.
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
So sorry to hear about Prunella Scales.
After Henry is STILL one of my favourite sitcoms of all time.
After Henry is STILL one of my favourite sitcoms of all time.
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
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Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
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October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
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Trespasses | Official Trailer | 4TheDrama
YouTube video by 4 The Drama
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October 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Whey-hey!!
AGENT ZO has been shortlisted for the Polish Foreign Ministry’s biannual history book prize! I couldn’t be more delighted!
Full list: www.gov.pl/web/diplomac...
AGENT ZO has been shortlisted for the Polish Foreign Ministry’s biannual history book prize! I couldn’t be more delighted!
Full list: www.gov.pl/web/diplomac...
October 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Whey-hey!!
AGENT ZO has been shortlisted for the Polish Foreign Ministry’s biannual history book prize! I couldn’t be more delighted!
Full list: www.gov.pl/web/diplomac...
AGENT ZO has been shortlisted for the Polish Foreign Ministry’s biannual history book prize! I couldn’t be more delighted!
Full list: www.gov.pl/web/diplomac...
@junec.bsky.social Thanks for following! And congrats on the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
October 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
@junec.bsky.social Thanks for following! And congrats on the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@mollytwomey.bsky.social Hi Molly, thanks for following. That’s made my day ☺️
October 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@mollytwomey.bsky.social Hi Molly, thanks for following. That’s made my day ☺️
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An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
October 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
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The rooks and cathedral bells bid you goodnight. 🖤
#stdavidspembrokeshire
#stdavidspembrokeshire
October 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The rooks and cathedral bells bid you goodnight. 🖤
#stdavidspembrokeshire
#stdavidspembrokeshire
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Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.
October 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.
Thank God 🙏🏻
Via Sarah Clancy's partner Anne Mulhall:
"Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow.
Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."
"Friends I am so happy to tell you that Sarah and all the Irish flotilla heroes are in the air flying to Athens and will all be on flights home to Dublin tonight or tomorrow.
Sarah will be arriving into Dublin airport at 11pm tonight."
October 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Thank God 🙏🏻
Peppermint Pattie
It's Your Seventy-fifth Birthday, Charlie Brown!
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#Snoopy #CharlieBrown #Peanuts #Peanuts75 #CharlesMSchulz
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#Snoopy #CharlieBrown #Peanuts #Peanuts75 #CharlesMSchulz
October 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Peppermint Pattie
Delighted to get a place on this series of @thegallerypress.bsky.social poetry Workshops with the brilliant Grace Wilentz. 🙏🏻
October 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Delighted to get a place on this series of @thegallerypress.bsky.social poetry Workshops with the brilliant Grace Wilentz. 🙏🏻
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A treat to read at "The Poetry Lounge" in Waterford yesterday, with John Noonan and D'or Seifer. Thanks to Ger Duffy for organising and the close reading of "Blood Atlas" for the Q&A. Cheers to Catherine for the photos and @poetryireland.bsky.social for sponsoring. @arlenhouse.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A treat to read at "The Poetry Lounge" in Waterford yesterday, with John Noonan and D'or Seifer. Thanks to Ger Duffy for organising and the close reading of "Blood Atlas" for the Q&A. Cheers to Catherine for the photos and @poetryireland.bsky.social for sponsoring. @arlenhouse.bsky.social
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no one else seemed to think it was their responsibility.
In 2022, she unveiled @ianwolter.bsky.social ’s memorial to the Kindertransport at Harwich, ‘Safe Haven’.
She was such a life force, it’s hard to believe she’s gone.
#StephanieShirley
#SteveShirley
16.9.1933-9.8.2025
In 2022, she unveiled @ianwolter.bsky.social ’s memorial to the Kindertransport at Harwich, ‘Safe Haven’.
She was such a life force, it’s hard to believe she’s gone.
#StephanieShirley
#SteveShirley
16.9.1933-9.8.2025
September 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
no one else seemed to think it was their responsibility.
In 2022, she unveiled @ianwolter.bsky.social ’s memorial to the Kindertransport at Harwich, ‘Safe Haven’.
She was such a life force, it’s hard to believe she’s gone.
#StephanieShirley
#SteveShirley
16.9.1933-9.8.2025
In 2022, she unveiled @ianwolter.bsky.social ’s memorial to the Kindertransport at Harwich, ‘Safe Haven’.
She was such a life force, it’s hard to believe she’s gone.
#StephanieShirley
#SteveShirley
16.9.1933-9.8.2025
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When her pioneering software co, employing nearly all women, made many of them millionaires, she donated over £50m to autism organisations, after the death of her severely autistic son.
In her 80s, she still cleaned antisemitic graffiti off walls, because, she said… 2/3
In her 80s, she still cleaned antisemitic graffiti off walls, because, she said… 2/3
September 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
When her pioneering software co, employing nearly all women, made many of them millionaires, she donated over £50m to autism organisations, after the death of her severely autistic son.
In her 80s, she still cleaned antisemitic graffiti off walls, because, she said… 2/3
In her 80s, she still cleaned antisemitic graffiti off walls, because, she said… 2/3
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Somehow I missed the sad news that wonderful Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley left us last month.
10 yrs ago, she told me how, aged 5, she had slept on cardboard in the corridors of her Kindertransport train. Vowing to make hers ‘a life worth saving’…. 🧵🪡 1/3
10 yrs ago, she told me how, aged 5, she had slept on cardboard in the corridors of her Kindertransport train. Vowing to make hers ‘a life worth saving’…. 🧵🪡 1/3
September 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Somehow I missed the sad news that wonderful Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley left us last month.
10 yrs ago, she told me how, aged 5, she had slept on cardboard in the corridors of her Kindertransport train. Vowing to make hers ‘a life worth saving’…. 🧵🪡 1/3
10 yrs ago, she told me how, aged 5, she had slept on cardboard in the corridors of her Kindertransport train. Vowing to make hers ‘a life worth saving’…. 🧵🪡 1/3
Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The upside down book club has 93 different authors
September 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Sisters are doing it for themselves. #WW2Historians
Love this pic of me with the excellent @spitfirefilly.bsky.social at @wehaveways.bsky.social #wehavewaysofmakingyoutalk. Victoria wrote the brilliant book #eagledays life & death for the #luftwaffe in the #battleofbritain .
Thanks to @stubertphoto.bsky.social for the pic!
Thanks to @stubertphoto.bsky.social for the pic!
September 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sisters are doing it for themselves. #WW2Historians