Jay Spencer Green
@jayspencergreen.bsky.social
“Everything went downhill after the invention of the wheel.” Dublin-based writer, Dadaist, and layabout. Genre-bending comic novels a specialty. New work, DESCANSO, out now. He/Him https://jayspencergreen.com/
Take 2: Kilkenny, Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge, North Mayo, Some autumnal trees, and those chimney stacks in Dublin Bay. Five more paintings have been added to the print shop I'm trying out after a year of no prints. There are now 75 of my paintings there: fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-l... #SpéirGhorm
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A friend who knows about these things told me the other week that he was aware of several European 1%ers buying up places in Ireland (esp. the West) as a form of insurance against war, climate disruption, instability in continental Europe. US 1%ers too? www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Meta's Zuckerberg buys 19th-century castle in southeast of Ireland
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has bought a 19th-century Gothic-style castle overlooking a river in the southeast of Ireland, 200 kilometres (125 miles) from his company's European headquarters, a spokes...
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Time for a #painting "Howth Lighthouse and Dublin Bay" was one of the dozens of paintings I did the first time I did a 24-hour livestreamed video painting marathon thing. It's an evening view of the Baily Lighthouse and across the bay as seen from high up on the Howth Cliff Walk #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear
House moves generate endless Proustian moments. Just found my staff badge from Wimbledon 1983 (Bedford College tennis team provided court coverers). Weird that I never noticed my badge number before.
Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Gianni Infantino, your boys took one hell of a beating!
You go away for a few weeks and Oxfam restocks its shelves completely. Some cerebral reads here!
A west of Ireland #painting. "Through a Burren Wall" I painted because I love walls, especially walls of stone. Like love them so much I can spend hours looking at them. And this one was easy because there was a big hole in it that let you see the view - of fields of stone. #Art #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear
“A stunning achievement that is utterly unlike anything else you have ever read.” Well, isn’t that a fab way to start the week?! A lovely five-star review of “Descanso” from Colette. Thanks, Colette! ❤️
Dublin City Council telling me it's against the public interest to release to me an organisational chart showing its different departments and units down to a detailed level, and how many posts are sanctioned for each, so the public can see what functions the 6,800+ staff are focused on.
Great find at the charity bazaar in Plaka this morning.
Big thanks to everyone for the kind birthday wishes. It was touch and go at times as to whether I’d make it to 64 (one “widowmaker” heart attack, one exploding appendix) but, with all due respect to the Beatles, I don’t feel much older at all (I shall ignore the line about losing my hair!) Yamas!
www.goodreads.com/review/show/... A fab four-star review of Cannibal Joe’s from Jenni over at Goodreads. Not sure which line I like most!
Took several weeks to get through customs, but my Publishers Weekly book review finally arrived! “Fiercely original”: I’ll take that. And an Editor’s Pick as a “book of outstanding quality.” Well, thank you kindly. 😀
Sticking with the west of Ireland for another #painting. "The Long Walk, Boats" is not the first time I've painted this iconic Galway scene, and I have another one in progress currently. This came out of spending happy times in the city looking across from the Claddagh. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
A #painting from County Mayo done a few years ago. "Clare Island Sunset" came out of an evening where I climbed onto a fence post to take in the sun setting over Clew Bay, before realising my dodgy knees would mean I'd be stuck up there a while. Worse places to be stuck. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
A Crass reference and a Poison Girls reference on the same page: “Loren Ipsum,” by Andrew Gallix.
Please consider buying a print so that I'm not forced to invent Aprilgiving to encourage sales bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2y agoA cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁
Thirty pieces of silver now up to $150 per hour.
“Something Genuinely Unusual” Insightful, generous, and ridiculously intelligent. Not me, but the brilliant Leo X Robertson, who just gave Descanso this wonderful five-star review over on Goodreads. Thanks, Leo!
The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day: The nerds-against-the-Patriarchy romcom guaranteed to tickle your inner geek! amzn.eu/d/0j5SRdUN
I analysed the DoJ’s immigration chatbot for @iccl.bsky.social and the amount of seriously wrong information it gave was shocking even to me. The idea that people fleeing persecution would be expected to rely on a chatbot in lieu of actual legal advice is 😱😱😱 www.dublininquirer.com/chatbots-con...
Chatbots considered for providing legal counselling to people seeking asylum, documents suggest
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission doesn’t believe chatbots are suitable “in provision of legal counselling”, a spokesperson said.
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Our book is out in paperback shortly, and the publishers have made Ch 1 available. Have a read. www.wiley.com/en-gb/Migrat...
Migration: A Critical Introduction
<p><B>A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION</B> <p><i>Migration: A Critical Introduction</i> offers a fresh and accessible framework for understandin...
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Just learned that the Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri wrote a book called “The Racist Delirium” 90 years before “Descanso.” Not a Brexit satire and no zombies, but the racist delirium trope is right there in the title. I’m not as original as I thought but I am in good company!
Satirical Fiction Book of the Year Delighted to report that book reviewer and blogger Phoebe Matthews has selected Descanso as one of the books of 2025, topping the "Satire Fiction" category. Phoebe read over 300 books last year, so I'm rather chuffed to have made the cut. Thanks, Phoebe! You can…
Satirical Fiction Book of the Year
Delighted to report that book reviewer and blogger Phoebe Matthews has selected Descanso as one of the books of 2025, topping the "Satire Fiction" category. Phoebe read over 300 books last year, so I'm rather chuffed to have made the cut. Thanks, Phoebe! You can read the full list here.
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Book reviewer Phoebe Matthews (@mxphoebesviewpoint) has included Descanso as one of their books of the year for 2025. Thanks, Phoebe!
"Mock Hard." A fab five-star review of Descanso over at Goodreads from the brilliant Rebecca Gransden. Thanks, Rebecca! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Rebecca Gransden's review of Descanso
5/5: An unconventional gem. Structured in the form of an encyclopedia, the book uses this conceit to illustrate the ego and megalomania of the fascist mindset. Our protagonist compiles his own set of ...
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