Vicky Cosstick
@cosstickv.bsky.social
Author E Sussex and Donegal. Belfast: Toward a City without Walls (2015). "Elegy for Echo" to be published Fall 2026. "Zones of Transformation: Change and Resistance on the Belfast Interfaces" (tbc March 2027). www.vickycosstick.co.uk
Bill Gustafson was a singer with the Metropolitan Opera. Elegy for Echo, my family memoir, starts with the silence and trauma that followed his 1931 suicide. My mother was Echo; this book aims to return her voice to her and will be published in Fall/Autumn. www.vickycosstick.co.uk/elegy-for-ec...
My Mayflower great grandmother Emma - one of the US's first women librarians #Mattapan, grandmother Mary - eminent pianist -- and mother Elizabeth. We are descended from John Alden and Priscilla Mullins - though I have no evidence that they knew of it. #elegyforecho tells their remarkable stories.
Like Burnham, I was an altar boy. His Catholic upbringing is shaping the way he governs |Julian Coman
Like Burnham, I was an altar boy. His Catholic upbringing is shaping the way he governs |Julian Coman
With a prime minister raised in a tradition that emphasises our mutual dependency, we may finally have a leader who can address the anomie gripping our country, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman
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#OTD in 1944 ANNE FRANK wrote the final entry in her diary: “I get cross, then sad, and… keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be… if only there were no other people in the world.”
Delighted to share cover for Elegy for Echo, which will be published as an e-book in Autumn/Fall 2026. Please join me on Instagram @Elegy4Echo and on my webpage www.vickycosstick.co.uk/elegy-for-ec... ...
“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.” — Gene Kelly
On the Huron Road, Near Strasburg, Waterloo County Carl Fellman Schaefer 1972
I heard a bus full of judges was traveling across America so I got in my car and chased it to Ohio. What I witnessed was extraordinary. Inspired by Poland’s March of a Thousand Robes, retired judges walked through Columbus to stand up for the rule of law. Carlo 🐾 was a fan favorite. Watch:👇
LIVE from Ohio: I Followed a Bus Full of Judges. Here's Why.
Watch now | What I witnessed gave me hope for America.
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I am so enjoying The Boy from the Sea - sitting here in Glendowan, Donegal - exquisite writing. And fond memories of exchanges with the Irish Border Twitter feed - seems a long time ago now - more innocent times ... @garrettcarr.bsky.social
Some movies are classics for a reason. Carol Reed's 1949 thriller “The Third Man,” back in theaters in a new 35mm re-release, is one of them.
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An independent public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane begins in Belfast today
Inquiry into Pat Finucane murder to begin in Belfast
An independent public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is due to begin in Belfast.
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The Mayflower Named after the pub that set course to America! The pub has a Descendants Book for all those related who sailed on the ship! The Pub has been on the same site since 1550s! @cosstickv.bsky.social you are a Descendant! Call the pub! #TheMayflower @badbrad2024.bsky.social
Civil & Human Rights Activist “Bad” Brad Berkwitt@badbrad2024.bsky.social · 2mo agoringsidereport.com?p=136582 @corrina.sheshed.rocks @bonhanson.bsky.social @agentketolarry.bsky.social
My Mayflower great grandmother Emma - one of the US's first women librarians #Mattapan, grandmother Mary - eminent pianist -- and mother Elizabeth. We are descended from John Alden and Priscilla Mullins - though I have no evidence that they knew of it. #elegyforecho tells their remarkable stories.
Thank you! It will be published in the next few days.
I was privileged to interview Jon Snow, then of Channel 4, in May 2018, on his experience of reporting the Northern Ireland Troubles - for an online piece for Northern Slant, here on my blog, and for my book "Don't Mention the War". www.vickycosstick.co.uk/post/the-oxy...
Interview with Jon Snow on Northern Ireland Troubles - Vicky Cosstick Blog How (not) to get a literary agent
Interview with former Channel 4 lead presenter Jon Snow about his experience of reporting on the Northern Ireland Troubles.
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Bill Gustafson was a singer with the Metropolitan Opera. Elegy for Echo, my family memoir, starts with the silence and trauma that followed his 1931 suicide. My mother was Echo; this book aims to return her voice to her and will be published in Fall/Autumn. www.vickycosstick.co.uk/elegy-for-ec...
We visited Cahuenga Carnegie in Los Angeles, on our tour of #CaliforniaCarnegies. A beautifully decorative yet functional library in an area of acute deprivation. Armenian Korean and Ukrainian languages, music, English and Spanish classes, talks and seminars all in positivity
Get ready. As the Iran War spirals out of control, Trump is going to get more desperate. The new attacks on ABC for airing criticism of Trump is a sign of what’s the come. We cannot shrug it off as “Trump being Trump”. He’s trying to build a censorship state - plain and simple.
Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure review – the anecdotes are just amazing
Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure review – the anecdotes are just amazing
From tales of giant tortoises trampling tents to almost getting shot, this is a relentlessly entertaining documentary about one of David Attenborough’s greatest pieces of TV
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The joy & irony of an English king, on the 250th anniversary of American independence, lecturing Congress on history and values.
David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 3mo agoWoke King Charles schooled Trump in front of the Congress and a WH dinner with sharp, intentional jabs about the importance of the rule of law, limits on executive power, NATO, Ukraine and even the White House ballroom. Trump didn't notice because the king gave him a bell with his name on it.
