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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

Thank you!

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 16h

The latest @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column by Catherine Taylor is now online for subscribers 👇

Fiction in translation: The Midnight Timetable; The Woman Dies; The Ferryman & His Wife; My Name Is Stramer; Wolf Moon’ and The Loft

Books by Bora Chung (Korea), Japan (Aoko Matsuda), Frode Grytten (Norway), Mikołaj Łoziński (Poland), Julio Llamazares (Spain) and Marlen Haushofer (Austria)

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

Submitted some poems….

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

Oh I’m always saying that, nobody would believe me if I told them my whole life story 🤣

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 13h

“Perfection is less interesting.” —Anne Carson

buff.ly

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 13h

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 13h

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 13h

Just discovered Maison Assouline

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 14h

Not me drooling over these …. How gorgeous are they!!?

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Jane Austen: The Complete Novels (Limited Edition) Fiction

Jane Austen: The Complete Novels (Limited Edition)

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

The lecturer also wrote down title to read!!! We were discussing Laetitia Pilkington in class and then went on to discuss contemporary women’s life writing. 🎉✨⚡️ Fierce Appetites made a very deep impression!!

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

There is something about discovering Great Books for first time when you are older which is a completely different pleasure, for me at any rate

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

I want to read it again with the Edgeworthian analysis in mind

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

But it’s not just the reading list… I have been running to read the Milkman again because 1)our first lecturer said he believed it was perhaps one of the greatest Irish novels of our time and 2)because in an academic article on Edgeworth it was mentioned again in a completely new light

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

But then a class discussion took an interesting turn and everybody mentioned Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark (which I had never read but am reading now) and Elizabeth Boyle’s Fierce Appetites was enthusiastically recommended and discussed by very brilliant classmate in context of life writing

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

But it’s not just the reading list… I have been running to read the Milkman again because 1)our first lecturer said he believed it was perhaps one of the greatest Irish novels of our time and 2)because in an academic article on Edgeworth it was mentioned again in a completely new light

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

But it’s not just the reading list… I have been running to read the Milkman again because 1)our first lecturer said he believed it was perhaps one of the greatest Irish novels of our time and 2)because in an academic article on Edgeworth it was mentioned again in a completely new light

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 1d

To be nothing more than something the rain is falling on

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

Am a pile of mushy sentimental goo at moment.

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 2d

Literally also her dream course! but I also can’t stop thinking about how the time she had her children, she had lost both her parents &was living far away from all her family and had nobody to support her through her pregnancies and our childhoods.The loneliness,isolation must have been unbearable

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 2d

I talk a lot about how older generations, especially women, never got a chance at university education and it’s something I think about really every now I am at college - I am studying a course in a dream place that my mother would have given her soul for!! I love sharing what I am learning with her

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

This woman lying here like a white stone
Like water in the moon in a dead crater
Not a sound in the night not moss nor sand
Only the slow budding of my words
At the ear of water at the ear of flesh Unhurried running

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

And this. Not on reading list. Just for me.

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Donald Clarke @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 1d

Me in conversation with the incomparable Diane Keaton from 2017. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in.

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Diane Keaton: ‘Where would I be without Woody? I wouldn’t be here’

An Oscar-winning performance in Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’ changed everything for Diane Keaton

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

🔥🔥🔥

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

Congrats!!!

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

Obsessed with this too

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

Discovering re college…. Also obsessed with all Seamus Deane