It’s not Brussels (FCB Coffee at Blackfriars station, in fact) but it did fill the almond croissant longing your post instilled in me @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social . And got me thinking about the best almond croissant I ever had…
Bernadette Fallon
@bernibee.bsky.social
Journalist & editor - Irish & UK Times, Independent, Telegraph, Scotsman, author Cathedrals of Britain - flits between Croydon, Sligo & Lahinch
Then myself & the hotel cat, Lady, hung out in the drawing room for a while - they light the fires early at Gregan’s Castle!
Beautiful Burren sunrise this morning at Gregan’s Castle hotel
Beautiful show
Sunday Miscellany@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · last yr.This Sunday, a re-broadcast of our 2024 Culture Night special from Áras an Uachtaráin-great writing &music. 14 Sept, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social with @manchanmagan.bsky.social @timcarey1.bsky.social Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Donal Ryan, @president.ie www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany/
Great show as always
Sunday Miscellany@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · last yr.#LeavingCert result jitters, seeing fox cubs by night + the magic of the circus: Denise Blake, Emma Prunty, Kathy Donaghy, Denis Tuohy, John MacKenna... plus a new poem from Paul Muldoon... Sunday Miscellany is coming up 9am @rteradio1.bsky.social RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 24 August 2025. Tune in!
Was in early to get my seat at the opening lectures for @yeatssocietysligo.bsky.social #YeatsSummerSchool in Sligo, now in its 66th year - I’ve spent the last 50 wanting to attend! So excited. And two excellent talks kicked us off this morning
Staying at Iveagh Garden hotel for @ilfdublin.bsky.social - first time here - nice vibe, outdoor terrace, library entrance to dining room, tub chairs & the like
A moment’s silence for Paul Durcan RIP at the ceremony for the Dublin Literary Award, which has just been won by Michael Crummy’s The Adversary @ilfdublin.bsky.social
Happy 40th Birthday Cuirt Festival of Literature, kicking off today in Galway - I'm looking forward to getting over there on Friday, my first time back since 1999! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
irishtimes.com
Bring an angry young man was clearly lucrative if John Osbourne’s former home is anything to go be - now an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social writing retreat
Woke up in John Osborne’s house, The Hurst in Shropshire, now an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social writing retreat #writing #nature
Really enjoyed the first @forthwrite.bsky.social festival (and my first trip to Crawley!). @kitdewaal.bsky.social kicked things off with an insightful, relatable & funny keynote address
Ordering @thedublinreview.bsky.social now - on the strength of the first few lines of this essay & the cover
Bluesky
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Martin Doyle@martindoyle.bsky.social · 2y agoSuperb piece of memoir writing
Interesting conversation with a panel of very inspiring women at the inaugural @forthwrite.bsky.social festival @kitdewaal.bsky.social @abirfellows.bsky.social @britisharts.bsky.social
I love books’ events - from the huddles of conversations to the books on sale - with the possibility of having the authors sign them forthwrite.bsky.social
Loved this - am a big fan of the power of letters to instantly bring us back to the past in the way that a text or email can never do - and also have a stash of treasured letters from the '80s and '90s
Barbara Scully@barbarascully.bsky.social · 2y agoDelighted to have a script on tomorrows @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social. Called Letters From The Past, it describes the joy of finding a bag of letters from 1983, written by my Ma to me who was working as a rep in Gran Canaria for JWT. I hope you enjoy. 9am @rteradio1.bsky.social tnrw
Setting the clock! (Taking the extra hour into consideration)
Sunday Miscellany@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · 2y agoThe delight of a handwritten letter, the beauty of Ireland's South-West, and a mother-daughter rite of passage. #sundaymiscellany is on the way @barbarascully.bsky.social Jamie O'Connell Brian Daly James Harpur Joanne Hynes @conalcreedon.bsky.social Amenazeb Khan 9.10am Sun @rteradio1.bsky.social 📻
Lahinch hiding its blue skies this morning, always the same on the day I leave, it doesn’t want me to go away missing the sun
I started coming to Lahinch just over a year ago, at the start of 2024, and I’ve come nearly every month since - being on the beach for sunrise is just joyous
