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Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
@chandrikanm.bsky.social
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Writer, Performer & Cultural Consultant, Multidisciplinary Messer, #STEAM dreamer. She/🤷🏾‍♀️🏳️‍🌈♾️ www.chandrika.ie
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skeinpress.bsky.social
Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with:
🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com
🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social
🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show
🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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wcorklitfest.bsky.social
10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Ten of the best Irish books of 2025 so far
www.rte.ie
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
This is tomorrow! Please join us for a glass of wine & a chat - I am supposed to be asking the questions, but really I am going to listen! Two incredibly interesting, intelligent, witty women with lots to say - what could be better?!
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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trasinscneach.bsky.social
It's eternally frustrating that the HSE has the blinkers on & only looks to UK when it comes to trans healthcare when Spain & Malta are right there! In Spain I can walk into a pharmacist & get estrogen patches. No GP, no traumatic assessments. Just medicine without the bullshit and no one is harmed.
natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Oct 10
I’m at the Oslo trans healthcare conference today and have just been listening to Rosa Almiral of the Spanish trans healthcare service say “We have a waiting list of three weeks.” !!!!!!!!!!
Helsestasjon for kjonn og seksualitet THE OSLO INTERNATIONAL TRANS HEALTH CONFERENCE 9.-10. OKTOBER 2025
October 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
All my comics have happy endings!
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
So many people I'd like to thank in Ireland for championing

Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social

Here's a few

@jackielynam.bsky.social
@kitdewaal.com
Donal Ryan.
@martindoyle.bsky.social
@rickoshea.bsky.social

And all the booksellers & Librarians!

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life -
The feel-good series stars Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, with Julia Roberts as narrator
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
Thinking of publishing your novel?

Today's the last day to sign up to our Publishing Day Online event!✍️

3 sessions full of insights from publishers, agents, authors, and publicists kicking off from 10:30am tomorrow ✨

Booking + session info: irishwriterscentre.ie/autumn-publi...
Autumn Publishing Day Online - Irish Writers Centre
We are excited to announce our Autumn Publishing Day, and for the first time, we’re bringing it to you online! By making the event virtual, we aim to increase accessibility for all writers across the ...
irishwriterscentre.ie
October 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social
Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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skeinpress.bsky.social
Calling all arts managers and producers 📣

Next week, we're hosting a workshop with
Safe to Create and Migrant Rights Ireland
to help arts orgs support and employ migrant artists 🌎

🗓 Wed 10 Sept | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Online

Book here:
safetocreate.ie/training/wor...
Work Permit Guidance – Safe to Create
safetocreate.ie
September 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art
August 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
Please join us for a #IrishKidLitforPalestine Live Online Picture Book Masterclass with @chrishaughton.bsky.social Paddy Donnelly @pforde123.bsky.social & @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
Tues 2 Sept 2025 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Tickets: www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...
Please share and please support.
August 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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wereontheditch.bsky.social
Comment: Savagery like the attack on the innocent man in Tallaght can be expected as long as government punishes migrants for problems it creates, then feigns shock when members of the public mirror acts of sadism perpetrated by the state itself.

www.ontheditch.com/o-callaghan-...
Comment: O'Callaghan delivers cruelty against migrants
His deportations have a theatrical quality that should unsettle anyone who cares about basic human decency.
www.ontheditch.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters
uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?
Nature Beyond Cure: Disabled Perspectives
Books that explore nature and living with disability and illness from disability perspectives. No magical cures here!
uk.bookshop.org
July 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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wendylyon.bsky.social
There are an awful lot of NGOs in Ireland who claim to support people in the sex industry but have never given the real support UM has given over the years.

Now is the time for them to step up and use their massive funding (which UM has never had) to do something actually helpful for sex workers.
July 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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ashwhiffin.bsky.social
Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲

For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783

#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs
A close up of hands using pinning forceps to transfer an Emperor moth specimen to the main drawer which can be seen in the background.
June 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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president.ie
President Michael D. Higgins has sent a message to all those celebrating Pride today and across the summer
June 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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wcorklitfest.bsky.social
We love this novel by our West Cork neighbour @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social. Cauvery will be chatting about The Inheritance in #BantryBookshop on Sat 12 July at 11.30am as part of WCLF. #FreeEvent @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/culture/2024...
The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan - read an extract
It's 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O'Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the st...
www.rte.ie
June 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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kitdewaal.com
This is where I am. New book in the making. Thousand words a day if I can. They don’t have to be good words.
Sticky note on wood that says ‘Just make it exist first. You can make it good later.’
June 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social
Happy #DublinPride - keep kissing, keep loving, keep standing up for each other, keep fighting for #LGBTQ rights, keep showing the world that we exist and we won't be quiet and we won't hide in the shadows. #Pride #Equality #TransRights #GayRights (Photo from Dublin Pride 2023)
Photo of Bob and Leon kissing in front of a Dublin Georgian door painted in rainbow flag)
June 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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sylvialeatham.bsky.social
I had a great time doing my first official author event today! A panel at the @ucddublin.bsky.social Festival, in the company of authors Roisin O’Donnell and Claire Coughlan, with fantastic moderation by @chandrikanm.bsky.social !

Massive thanks to @rickoshea.bsky.social for the opportunity.
Me and fellow authors on stage in the Trapdoor theatre at UCD. Panel photo outside the Trapdoor theatre.
June 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies
Excellent news #speirgorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies
University will no longer facilitate Erasmus+ exchange agreements with Israeli colleges
www.irishtimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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sylvialeatham.bsky.social
Lots of literary events - plus festival fun for the fam - next weekend (June 7) at the UCD Festival in Dublin. Delighted to be part of it!

All lit events curated by @rickoshea.bsky.social - grab free tickets from his Linktree:
linktr.ee/rickoshea

@ucddublin.bsky.social
@chandrikanm.bsky.social
A poster for an event ‘New Writing for 2025’.
May 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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kitdewaal.com
Call out for writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology to highlight the complexity of the experiences of homelessness and poverty – struggles, resilience, hope, humour.

Please share :)

mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
Photo of five people, black and white, young and older, looking happy
May 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM