M Lonergan
@mlonergan.bsky.social
Graphic art + visual communication | bit of Gaeilge | buddhist, queer, #actuallyautistic | diversity + intersectionality | she/her/they/them | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Maybe poetry is about finding poetry in all things. An elliptical definition. It is also a world to enter. I read Frederike Mayröcker's prose poems; I am in her Vienna apartment , looking out her window, recalling beauty, voyaging into the eeriness of the everyday. She writes, her eyes blaze.
But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it. As gearrscéal de chuid Terry Pratchett (is breá liom Granny Weatherwax)
Back by popular demand - Stoneybatter in the 1926 census - next Sat. 10th Oct - book here www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-story-fo...
For #WorldTourismDay, check out our downloadable Resource 'Translating Tourism' ✈️ Discover how #tourism helped shape modern Ireland through this engaging downloadable resource from the National Library of Ireland. 🗺️ Explore and download the resource here: https://ow.ly/56l350ZPaiB
Go hálainn Oíche Chultúir a chaitheamh An Taibhdhearc aréir! I spent my time during An Taibhsín developing this new work. I had also ran some poetry workshops with schools such as Scoil Enda Naofa and Bunscoil Synge. I hope you enjoy the message 💞 #CultureNight #Diversity youtu.be/q2RJwglTBM8?...
Litir do Mhacasamhail
YouTube video by An Taibhdhearc
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You can order a Palestinian mezze box for next Saturday or this tea box for Oct 10 and support Dublin’s Silk Road Cafe while it is involuntarily shut down during the EU presidency. Collect in Kimmage. Highly recommended!!! silkroadcafe.ie
Jessie & The Veil live at Meeting House Square 🎸 🎤
A blog about drawing - not on a computer screen. Drawing for real, and why I prefer it. Please subscribe! #blogpost #drawing #artofdrawing #keepingitoldschool #suscribetomywebsite https://f.mtr.cool/ysw003k9eu
I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)
Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
A haiku reading in Irish and English with Liam Carson, author of Belfast Twilight (Salmon Poetry) – featuring a gingko in which the audience will be invited to compose haiku. Beidh ginko ann, agus iarrfar ar an lucht féachana a gcuid haiku féin a chumadh. dublinbookfestival.com/event/tri-mh...
Trí Mhionlíne / Three Little Lines - Dublin Book Festival
Join a bilingual Irish and English haiku walking tour with Liam Carson
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Tá na staitisticí do mhí Lúnasa istigh. Mí chiúin ba ea í - is dócha go raibh móran daoine imithe ar saoire. Mar is gnách, bhí Bunchló GC i bhfad chun tosaigh ar na clónna eile, ach bhain Seanchló GC an dara háit amach agus thit Glanchló GC siar go dtí an tríú háit. 1/2
Little known fact: lots of book people are also stationery people. Pens. Coloured inks. Notebooks. Wax seals. The full “I am about to write a novel in a candlelit tower” fantasy. We now have them in store. Beautiful, serious pens. Please come admire them before I start naming them. ✒️📚
“[…] running an Empire requires strict binary definitions of things”
Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · last yr.New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
A year after receiving it the government has published its Land Use Review. But … Published “without being adopted by government”. And “it is not an articulation of government policy”. Neither is it “a new strategy in relation to land use”. That’s a long barge pole. 🧵#SpeirGorm
Tá litreoireacht Ghaelach le feiceáil ar roinnt de na hearraí atá ar díol anseo - b'fhéidir go mbeadh suim ag ár lucht leanúna iontu: www.ninearrow.com/shop
Intro to Researching at the National Library of Ireland Want to explore the Library's collections? Join this free introduction to learn how to search our catalogue, get a reader's ticket, order material, and access resources in person or online. 📅 Tues 30 June 1pm: https://ow.ly/NR5W50ZffuY
Intro to Researching at the National Library of Ireland
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Making our way home from Dublin City centre on midsummer night.
I’ll have a few of graphic art prints at a show in The Belfry in Stoneybatter. Opening on Thursday 18th next from 5pm to 7pm. Vino. Stoneybatter Festival vibes. Bigí linn! #stoneybatterfestival
Belfast anti racism rally today, massive crowd. Nó pasaran!
Nice review by Richard Hayes of Belfast Twilight, in latest issue of Poetry Ireland Review.
Discover the range and depth of literature in Irish at this special one-day seminar in the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast on Friday 22 May. Admission free, email liam@imram.ie to register.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 5mo agoQueen Medb of Connacht, famed for her role in the Táin Bó Cúailnge and flanked by bulls Finnbhennach and Donn Cúailnge - formidable warrior queen, shrewd leader, seductive beauty, and one of Ireland's most powerful, strong-willed, and legendary women 🐂 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
