Eleanor Hooker
@eleanorhooker.bsky.social
Poet & Writer | PhD Candidate, UL | RNLI Helm & Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett Award | Markievicz Award | 3rd collection Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
Last walk of the day - the plough and the stars, O’Ryan too… #stargazing
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Last walk of the day - the plough and the stars, O’Ryan too… #stargazing
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Silence from my collection ‘A Tug of Blue’ (Dedalus Press)
Thanks so much to Irish Centre for Poetry Studies for posting my poem earlier. #poetry #PoetsSupportingPoets
Thanks so much to Irish Centre for Poetry Studies for posting my poem earlier. #poetry #PoetsSupportingPoets
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Silence from my collection ‘A Tug of Blue’ (Dedalus Press)
Thanks so much to Irish Centre for Poetry Studies for posting my poem earlier. #poetry #PoetsSupportingPoets
Thanks so much to Irish Centre for Poetry Studies for posting my poem earlier. #poetry #PoetsSupportingPoets
Winifred McNulty’s beautiful new poetry book ‘Weather on the Peninsula’ (Wild Lane Press) is out in the world and is being launched at the Allingham Festival tomorrow.
Win is a gifted poet, it was a joy and a honour to edit her collection in advance of its publication. #poetry #BookLaunch
Win is a gifted poet, it was a joy and a honour to edit her collection in advance of its publication. #poetry #BookLaunch
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Winifred McNulty’s beautiful new poetry book ‘Weather on the Peninsula’ (Wild Lane Press) is out in the world and is being launched at the Allingham Festival tomorrow.
Win is a gifted poet, it was a joy and a honour to edit her collection in advance of its publication. #poetry #BookLaunch
Win is a gifted poet, it was a joy and a honour to edit her collection in advance of its publication. #poetry #BookLaunch
Fabulous launch of @eoindevereuxwriter.bsky.social new poetry book ‘Gardening Leave:New and Collected Poems’ (451 Editions) at O’Mahony’s in Limerick
Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry
Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fabulous launch of @eoindevereuxwriter.bsky.social new poetry book ‘Gardening Leave:New and Collected Poems’ (451 Editions) at O’Mahony’s in Limerick
Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry
Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry
October 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Caimin, The Eagle - sculpture at Mountshannon Harbour #SeaEagle #LoughDerg
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Caimin, The Eagle - sculpture at Mountshannon Harbour #SeaEagle #LoughDerg
Our Wedding Anniversary today 💕- first poem P ever read to me was ‘Midsumner’ by Thomas Kinsella - my love poem, written many years later, was with ‘Midsumner’ in mind. #LovePoems
September 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Our Wedding Anniversary today 💕- first poem P ever read to me was ‘Midsumner’ by Thomas Kinsella - my love poem, written many years later, was with ‘Midsumner’ in mind. #LovePoems
Wonderful to hear Catherine Connolly T.D. @catherinegalway.bsky.social speak at her Presidential campaign launch at ‘The Complex’ in Dublin on Monday evening. I have huge respect for this politician. #presidentialcampaign
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Wonderful to hear Catherine Connolly T.D. @catherinegalway.bsky.social speak at her Presidential campaign launch at ‘The Complex’ in Dublin on Monday evening. I have huge respect for this politician. #presidentialcampaign
Delighted that Garry Cotter, editor at the #NenaghGuardian gave my post event review at full page in today’s paper, thank you.
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan
September 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Delighted that Garry Cotter, editor at the #NenaghGuardian gave my post event review at full page in today’s paper, thank you.
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan
Huge thanks to @lloislanel.bsky.social @ailbhemcdaid.bsky.social Profs Eugene O’Brien & James Moran, Williams Rossa Cole, & North Tipp. Artists’ Collective whose talks and presentations ensured the tremendous success of the 3rd annual #ThomasMacDonaghHedgeSchool 2025
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Huge thanks to @lloislanel.bsky.social @ailbhemcdaid.bsky.social Profs Eugene O’Brien & James Moran, Williams Rossa Cole, & North Tipp. Artists’ Collective whose talks and presentations ensured the tremendous success of the 3rd annual #ThomasMacDonaghHedgeSchool 2025
Thrill to read alongside Jane Clarke, Mark Roper, Bernard O'Donohue & Grace Wilentz, w/ #music by Leslie Dowall & Hugh Buckley, Emma Roche, Ed Dwan Quartet and Hidden Highways, at the #CirclingTheSquare festival in #Thurles, Saturday 1 November. Thanks to Larry O'Doherty for the invitation #poetry
September 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Thrill to read alongside Jane Clarke, Mark Roper, Bernard O'Donohue & Grace Wilentz, w/ #music by Leslie Dowall & Hugh Buckley, Emma Roche, Ed Dwan Quartet and Hidden Highways, at the #CirclingTheSquare festival in #Thurles, Saturday 1 November. Thanks to Larry O'Doherty for the invitation #poetry
Today is World Drowning Prevention Day - the #RNLI is teaching the public how to Float To Live - the campaign has saved lives! #DrowningPrevention
July 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Today is World Drowning Prevention Day - the #RNLI is teaching the public how to Float To Live - the campaign has saved lives! #DrowningPrevention
An Gorta Mór: Doolough, Mayo, 1849
One evening after a conversation about this preventable tragedy,my brother sent me a load of info on it.
This poem went through at least 30 iterations, and truthfully, I’m still not happy with it, perhaps the events of 1849 and yet too close… #OurFamineDead
One evening after a conversation about this preventable tragedy,my brother sent me a load of info on it.
This poem went through at least 30 iterations, and truthfully, I’m still not happy with it, perhaps the events of 1849 and yet too close… #OurFamineDead
July 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
An Gorta Mór: Doolough, Mayo, 1849
One evening after a conversation about this preventable tragedy,my brother sent me a load of info on it.
This poem went through at least 30 iterations, and truthfully, I’m still not happy with it, perhaps the events of 1849 and yet too close… #OurFamineDead
One evening after a conversation about this preventable tragedy,my brother sent me a load of info on it.
This poem went through at least 30 iterations, and truthfully, I’m still not happy with it, perhaps the events of 1849 and yet too close… #OurFamineDead
July 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Geese over Lough Derg last night.
‘There a skein of geese assumes
the rusty air of the potting-shed door, their rising path oblique’
from Watermarked: i.m. Seamus Heaney in A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) #poetry
‘There a skein of geese assumes
the rusty air of the potting-shed door, their rising path oblique’
from Watermarked: i.m. Seamus Heaney in A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) #poetry
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Geese over Lough Derg last night.
‘There a skein of geese assumes
the rusty air of the potting-shed door, their rising path oblique’
from Watermarked: i.m. Seamus Heaney in A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) #poetry
‘There a skein of geese assumes
the rusty air of the potting-shed door, their rising path oblique’
from Watermarked: i.m. Seamus Heaney in A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) #poetry
George Hooker lectures in film & drama at Trinity - earlier this month he collaborated on a production, providing technical support for a play entitled ‘Sweeney Agonistes: after TS Eliot’ #TSEliot #TrinityCollege #Dublin
July 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
George Hooker lectures in film & drama at Trinity - earlier this month he collaborated on a production, providing technical support for a play entitled ‘Sweeney Agonistes: after TS Eliot’ #TSEliot #TrinityCollege #Dublin