Brendan Behan wasn’t very fond of Patrick Kavanagh, and the feeling was mutual
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@fhayesmccoy.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialI well remember the pair of them rolling out of Searsons in Baggot St and disrupting Miss Keilty's classes by shouting riotous comments up at the first floor windows of my school. On the other hand, Kavanagh helpfully taught me how to spell fuchsia at the school's back gate bus stop in Waterloo Road
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialA customer once told me that Kavanagh used to "bother" her aunt on the bus
@richycraven.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialOur English teacher never even tried to tell us that Yeats once fought a dark wizard.
@winberg.ieReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialIt's 21 degrees in Dublin. I no longer have any fucking clue how weather and seasons work.
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialOne of the joys of delivering books to Blackrock College & Willow Park is seeing all the Oystercatchers on the pitches
@cethanleahy.comReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialListening to the soundtrack from Bagpuss and there is now something wonderfully counterintuitive of basing a kid's show around a cast of loveable characters whose main activity is waking up.
@perevaa.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialRespected US tech outlet Tom’s Hardware reported a sharp drop in Russian bot activity after Ukrainian strikes. Are all bots on Cloudflare’s graph disinfo bots? No. Does that mean strikes on three Yandex data centers had absolutely no impact on Russian disinfo? Also no!
@rebelalliance77.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialThe Irish politics subreddit had hard numbers on it this morning. A not insignificant amount
@timothysnyder.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialWhen Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialA good complaint to have had a very busy few days sa siopa, finally a calm moment to share that we had not one but two lovely author visits on Friday.
First in was @kmoranwrites.bsky.social for the second in his Doomsday Club series - fabulous Goosebumps-esque cover🧟♂️
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialFriday afternoon @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social popped by after visiting Blackrock's St. John the Baptist church which boasts one of the very few publicly displayed paintings by Irish artist Amelia Curran, the central character in her new novel Glorious Monsters about Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialFriday afternoon @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social popped by after visiting Blackrock's St. John the Baptist church which boasts one of the very few publicly displayed paintings by Irish artist Amelia Curran, the central character in her new novel Glorious Monsters about Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialA good complaint to have had a very busy few days sa siopa, finally a calm moment to share that we had not one but two lovely author visits on Friday.
First in was @kmoranwrites.bsky.social for the second in his Doomsday Club series - fabulous Goosebumps-esque cover🧟♂️
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialOne of the joys of delivering books to Blackrock College & Willow Park is seeing all the Oystercatchers on the pitches
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialThis Tuesday and Thursday ⤵️
@raynewman.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialThat time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.
@thejournal.ieReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialWhy is the Government pumping more than €20 million into greyhound racing while animal welfare concerns continue to mount?
Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore argues that Budget 2027 shows just how far down the government's list of priorities animal welfare really is.
jrnl.ie/7188354
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialThis Tuesday and Thursday ⤵️
@ravenbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @ravenbooks.bsky.socialIt's a gorgeous sunny Sunday in Blackrock Village and we are open 'til 5pm
