clara
@claralaherty.bsky.social
✍️ Writer (Oestrogeneration, Poetry Ireland)
🚸 @childrensbooksireland.ie Raising Voices Fellow
🏳️⚧️ editor of the trans zine CAMP CRASH FILTH
🖌️ pfp by @kimberleychiu.bsky.social (my fiancé whom I love), header by Milly Meredith
🌱 pronouns sídhe/her
🚸 @childrensbooksireland.ie Raising Voices Fellow
🏳️⚧️ editor of the trans zine CAMP CRASH FILTH
🖌️ pfp by @kimberleychiu.bsky.social (my fiancé whom I love), header by Milly Meredith
🌱 pronouns sídhe/her
My partner lives in Singapore and LOVES Knives Out but can't see it in theatres – Netflix's limited theatrical run skips Singapore entirely.
When companies run the bare minimum, it's important to ask what territories are left out, and why.
When companies run the bare minimum, it's important to ask what territories are left out, and why.
Stellan Skarsgård agrees that Netflix films shouldn't qualify for the Oscars without a full theatrical run
"That’s the only way to make the theaters survive ... Without cinema, you don’t have any Netflix"
(via Variety)
"That’s the only way to make the theaters survive ... Without cinema, you don’t have any Netflix"
(via Variety)
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My partner lives in Singapore and LOVES Knives Out but can't see it in theatres – Netflix's limited theatrical run skips Singapore entirely.
When companies run the bare minimum, it's important to ask what territories are left out, and why.
When companies run the bare minimum, it's important to ask what territories are left out, and why.
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'The only way for people in this group to be confident that everyone will see them as either male of female – and, indeed, the only option for anyone who wants to be sure of never being questioned – is to play up to gender stereotypes.'
Exactly, this is taking is back to Victorian times.
Exactly, this is taking is back to Victorian times.
More than meets the eye: sex, gender and dangerous women
Labour's unworkable approach to policing gender means trouble for everyone – which is exactly what the real enemies of women's rights want | Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Labour's unworkable approach to policing gender means trouble for everyone – which is exactly what the real enemies of women's rights want | Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
More than meets the eye: sex, gender and dangerous women
Labour's unworkable approach to policing gender means trouble for everyone – which is exactly what the real enemies of women's rights want
centralbylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
'The only way for people in this group to be confident that everyone will see them as either male of female – and, indeed, the only option for anyone who wants to be sure of never being questioned – is to play up to gender stereotypes.'
Exactly, this is taking is back to Victorian times.
Exactly, this is taking is back to Victorian times.
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Our Black Friday offers ends today! Use the code BF25 to enjoy 25% off only at LittleIsland.ie
Little Island - Buy books online for children and young adults
Little Island Books is an award-winning independent Irish publishing company. We publish only great books for children and young adults.
LittleIsland.ie
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Our Black Friday offers ends today! Use the code BF25 to enjoy 25% off only at LittleIsland.ie
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The deadline for applications to our 2026 Poetry Workshop is tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish Time.
Be sure to read the submission guidelines and get your application in on time.
More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
Be sure to read the submission guidelines and get your application in on time.
More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
Poetry Workshops – The Stinging Fly
stingingfly.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The deadline for applications to our 2026 Poetry Workshop is tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish Time.
Be sure to read the submission guidelines and get your application in on time.
More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
Be sure to read the submission guidelines and get your application in on time.
More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
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if u missed it, i had a set in this fest! it's a collection of original work, which i don't usually do. this'll all go into a mixtape or album eventually but for now this is the only place you can hear a lot of it :3
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
if u missed it, i had a set in this fest! it's a collection of original work, which i don't usually do. this'll all go into a mixtape or album eventually but for now this is the only place you can hear a lot of it :3
(going down the street with a bell) APPLY APPLY APPLY! YES, YOU!
Applications for the our 2026 National Mentoring Programme are now open!
This is an opportunity open to all writers across the island of Ireland to receive sustained creative and professional mentoring from an established Irish writer.
irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...
This is an opportunity open to all writers across the island of Ireland to receive sustained creative and professional mentoring from an established Irish writer.
irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men...
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
(going down the street with a bell) APPLY APPLY APPLY! YES, YOU!
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Also in today's Indo, a fab double-page spread of kids books recommendations from @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Also in today's Indo, a fab double-page spread of kids books recommendations from @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
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they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
Congrats to all at this. Sad I couldn't make it up but such a good thing to have
goodnight sweet ladies goodnight goodnight goodnight
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Congrats to all at this. Sad I couldn't make it up but such a good thing to have
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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As a children’s bookseller I spent quite some time every week explaining two things - why visual literacy is important and why comic books are ‘real’ books.
And why certain books are better read when a child is older and more able to understand the emotional complexity on the page.
And why certain books are better read when a child is older and more able to understand the emotional complexity on the page.
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
As a children’s bookseller I spent quite some time every week explaining two things - why visual literacy is important and why comic books are ‘real’ books.
And why certain books are better read when a child is older and more able to understand the emotional complexity on the page.
And why certain books are better read when a child is older and more able to understand the emotional complexity on the page.
I'm in this! 'ON BEING AN ARTIST', ed. Caoilfhinn Geary, with contributions by myself and other artists.
A zine that aims to break down the artistic process and offer an insight into what being an artist can look like.
Available at Dublin Art Book Fair and Cork Zine Fest!
A zine that aims to break down the artistic process and offer an insight into what being an artist can look like.
Available at Dublin Art Book Fair and Cork Zine Fest!
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I'm in this! 'ON BEING AN ARTIST', ed. Caoilfhinn Geary, with contributions by myself and other artists.
A zine that aims to break down the artistic process and offer an insight into what being an artist can look like.
Available at Dublin Art Book Fair and Cork Zine Fest!
A zine that aims to break down the artistic process and offer an insight into what being an artist can look like.
Available at Dublin Art Book Fair and Cork Zine Fest!
Holy smokes! Hup!!!
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 11:21 PM
Holy smokes! Hup!!!
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Help us to bring the joy of reading to the children who need it most this Christmas.
Can you give the gift that lasts for a lifetime? 📚🎁
To learn more and donate, click the link below ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/support-us/g...
🎥: Crannóg Media
#EveryChildAReader
Can you give the gift that lasts for a lifetime? 📚🎁
To learn more and donate, click the link below ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/support-us/g...
🎥: Crannóg Media
#EveryChildAReader
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Help us to bring the joy of reading to the children who need it most this Christmas.
Can you give the gift that lasts for a lifetime? 📚🎁
To learn more and donate, click the link below ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/support-us/g...
🎥: Crannóg Media
#EveryChildAReader
Can you give the gift that lasts for a lifetime? 📚🎁
To learn more and donate, click the link below ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/support-us/g...
🎥: Crannóg Media
#EveryChildAReader
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In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
Went to a queer céilí a couple years ago where instead of men and women, the pairs were wife-swappers and sodomites
Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Went to a queer céilí a couple years ago where instead of men and women, the pairs were wife-swappers and sodomites
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.
"MK" is also good as brackets here, because you might use square brackets but the English language hardly ever uses M and K next to each other!
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"MK" is also good as brackets here, because you might use square brackets but the English language hardly ever uses M and K next to each other!
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
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Where occupations were known, sex workers made up over a third of trans people murdered.
You simply CANNOT claim to care about trans people and then exclude sex workers. It is just lip service otherwise.
I'm tired of LGBTQI organisations in Ireland staying silent on sw
tgeu.org/trans-murder...
You simply CANNOT claim to care about trans people and then exclude sex workers. It is just lip service otherwise.
I'm tired of LGBTQI organisations in Ireland staying silent on sw
tgeu.org/trans-murder...
Trans Murder Monitoring 2025 reveals new trend in anti-trans violence: Systematic targeting of activists and movement leaders - TGEU - Trans Europe and Central Asia
New global data Trans Murder Monitoring 2025 reveals a dangerous shift: a growing number of murder victims are trans movement leaders and activists.
tgeu.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Where occupations were known, sex workers made up over a third of trans people murdered.
You simply CANNOT claim to care about trans people and then exclude sex workers. It is just lip service otherwise.
I'm tired of LGBTQI organisations in Ireland staying silent on sw
tgeu.org/trans-murder...
You simply CANNOT claim to care about trans people and then exclude sex workers. It is just lip service otherwise.
I'm tired of LGBTQI organisations in Ireland staying silent on sw
tgeu.org/trans-murder...
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We are delighted to be one of the charities supported by this years Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal. A donation to this campaign goes not only to us, but also towards brilliant organisations such as My Lovely Horse Rescue, and the NSPCA.
Donate below ⬇️
www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/r...
Donate below ⬇️
www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/r...
*** MY XMAS APPEAL 2025 ***
Every year at Christmas I run an appeal asking you to donate the price of a book (or whatever you can!) to some incredibly worthy charities who need funds at this time of year. So far, in 8 years I've raised over €250,000...
🧵
(link at bottom)
Every year at Christmas I run an appeal asking you to donate the price of a book (or whatever you can!) to some incredibly worthy charities who need funds at this time of year. So far, in 8 years I've raised over €250,000...
🧵
(link at bottom)
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We are delighted to be one of the charities supported by this years Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal. A donation to this campaign goes not only to us, but also towards brilliant organisations such as My Lovely Horse Rescue, and the NSPCA.
Donate below ⬇️
www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/r...
Donate below ⬇️
www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/r...
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First Wednesday Series - December!
🎤 Open Mic & Readings 📖
🗓️ Wed 3rd December, 7:30pm
📍 The White House Bar, Limerick City
This month’s special guest readers are Ben Keatinge and Rafael Mendes.
All are welcome! Book an open mic spot via [email protected].
🎤 Open Mic & Readings 📖
🗓️ Wed 3rd December, 7:30pm
📍 The White House Bar, Limerick City
This month’s special guest readers are Ben Keatinge and Rafael Mendes.
All are welcome! Book an open mic spot via [email protected].
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
First Wednesday Series - December!
🎤 Open Mic & Readings 📖
🗓️ Wed 3rd December, 7:30pm
📍 The White House Bar, Limerick City
This month’s special guest readers are Ben Keatinge and Rafael Mendes.
All are welcome! Book an open mic spot via [email protected].
🎤 Open Mic & Readings 📖
🗓️ Wed 3rd December, 7:30pm
📍 The White House Bar, Limerick City
This month’s special guest readers are Ben Keatinge and Rafael Mendes.
All are welcome! Book an open mic spot via [email protected].
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REMINDER: just over ten days left to apply for the Limerick iteration of 'Memory of a Free Festival'!
The deadline is Saturday, 29 November at 6pm. For any queries, please contact [email protected].
Full information on how to apply can be found here:
The deadline is Saturday, 29 November at 6pm. For any queries, please contact [email protected].
Full information on how to apply can be found here:
Open Call: Memory of a Free Festival - Ormston House
Ormston House welcomes submissions for the Limerick iteration of Memory of a Free Festival through our free Membership Scheme for artists. For this opportunity, we invite members living and/or working...
ormstonhouse.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
REMINDER: just over ten days left to apply for the Limerick iteration of 'Memory of a Free Festival'!
The deadline is Saturday, 29 November at 6pm. For any queries, please contact [email protected].
Full information on how to apply can be found here:
The deadline is Saturday, 29 November at 6pm. For any queries, please contact [email protected].
Full information on how to apply can be found here: