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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Out on the town having the time of my life with some gravy. It's just out of frame, laughing too.
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Out on the town having the time of my life with some gravy. It's just out of frame, laughing too.
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Oh, your movie doesn’t have Miss Piggy crashing through a stained glass window on a motorcycle to tackle Charles Grodin then hop up and Emma Peel* the shit out of his accomplices while dressed like (Even More) Glam Evel Knievel? Sucks to suck.
*in a movie WITH Diana Rigg in it, no less
*in a movie WITH Diana Rigg in it, no less
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Oh, your movie doesn’t have Miss Piggy crashing through a stained glass window on a motorcycle to tackle Charles Grodin then hop up and Emma Peel* the shit out of his accomplices while dressed like (Even More) Glam Evel Knievel? Sucks to suck.
*in a movie WITH Diana Rigg in it, no less
*in a movie WITH Diana Rigg in it, no less
This is *so* good.
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is *so* good.
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"When I Look At The World"
From the Keshcorran Caves in County Sligo, Ireland.
Sometimes you need to sit on a photo for a while before you realize what it's trying to tell you.
#photography #ireland #eastcoastkin
From the Keshcorran Caves in County Sligo, Ireland.
Sometimes you need to sit on a photo for a while before you realize what it's trying to tell you.
#photography #ireland #eastcoastkin
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"When I Look At The World"
From the Keshcorran Caves in County Sligo, Ireland.
Sometimes you need to sit on a photo for a while before you realize what it's trying to tell you.
#photography #ireland #eastcoastkin
From the Keshcorran Caves in County Sligo, Ireland.
Sometimes you need to sit on a photo for a while before you realize what it's trying to tell you.
#photography #ireland #eastcoastkin
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This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
December 11, 2024 at 2:40 AM
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
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Happy #Duckerday 🦆 @cornduck3.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Happy #Duckerday 🦆 @cornduck3.bsky.social
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
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The Age of Wool needs to begin.
(If you prepare the fiber right it's soft, fully washable, extremely flexible weaving-wise, and it literally grows on livestock we already raise for dairy and meat. Stays warm when wet, doesn't trap odors. How is wool NOT a smart fabric??)
(If you prepare the fiber right it's soft, fully washable, extremely flexible weaving-wise, and it literally grows on livestock we already raise for dairy and meat. Stays warm when wet, doesn't trap odors. How is wool NOT a smart fabric??)
Ok Black Friday surfing has demonstrated the following to me:
- wool trousers simply no longer exist
- even wool-blend trousers barely exist (and so few washable?? whyever not??)
- the tyranny of Smart Fabrics (wtf) must end, except where indicated. It's wearing plastic. Would you wear a ziplock??
- wool trousers simply no longer exist
- even wool-blend trousers barely exist (and so few washable?? whyever not??)
- the tyranny of Smart Fabrics (wtf) must end, except where indicated. It's wearing plastic. Would you wear a ziplock??
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Age of Wool needs to begin.
(If you prepare the fiber right it's soft, fully washable, extremely flexible weaving-wise, and it literally grows on livestock we already raise for dairy and meat. Stays warm when wet, doesn't trap odors. How is wool NOT a smart fabric??)
(If you prepare the fiber right it's soft, fully washable, extremely flexible weaving-wise, and it literally grows on livestock we already raise for dairy and meat. Stays warm when wet, doesn't trap odors. How is wool NOT a smart fabric??)
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Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.
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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