Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
I know those feelings well.
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I know those feelings well.
Ahah! I will have to read your poem so.
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ahah! I will have to read your poem so.
I will take my head out of the sand one of these days.
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will take my head out of the sand one of these days.
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Nancy Mitford, Novelist, Biographer, Journalist, #BornOnThisDay in 1904, in London
📸 Bassano Ltd (7 July, 1932)
📸 Bassano Ltd (7 July, 1932)
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Nancy Mitford, Novelist, Biographer, Journalist, #BornOnThisDay in 1904, in London
📸 Bassano Ltd (7 July, 1932)
📸 Bassano Ltd (7 July, 1932)
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Remember dedicating a song to your crush? Good times!
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Remember dedicating a song to your crush? Good times!
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I recall being in a NYC cab, only to hear on the radio that my name requested a song, I hadn’t but the DJ had run out of random names, had to use those of personal friends as no one had ‘faxed’ a request to New York’s most banal radio station of the time. Light FM?
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I recall being in a NYC cab, only to hear on the radio that my name requested a song, I hadn’t but the DJ had run out of random names, had to use those of personal friends as no one had ‘faxed’ a request to New York’s most banal radio station of the time. Light FM?
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But it was so exciting parking yourself in front of the radio for that chance.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
But it was so exciting parking yourself in front of the radio for that chance.