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Up-to-date coverage of Irish literary news and events. Curated by Gerard Beirne - https://t.co/iU7eszt5ND
Joined September 2012
The Irish Literary Times is not leaving but going into hibernation here on Twitter. We joined 12 years ago and have almost 33,000 followers. I thank you for your engagement and the sustenance you provided. 🙏. You can find me at:.
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Wherever you stand on The Banshees of Inisherin, can we all agree that Barry Keoghan's performance here is worth the price of admission alone.
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The last picture taken of David Bowie. By his wife, Iman, on his birthday, 8th January 2016 - 2 days before his death.
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Seamus Heaney with his pupils in Belfast in the 1960s
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Sally Rooney at The Southbank Centre tonight, before beginning her reading, speaking out strongly about the death and destruction in Palestine while saying, "It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are witnessing an unfolding genocide. "
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Remembering Sinead O'Connor and Shane MacGowan - (photo by BP Fallon) Pink Pop Festival, Holland 1988. #sineadoconnor #shanemacgowan
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Happy 69th, Tom. ""Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.”
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Remembering Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly who both died on February 28. Dermot in 1998 and Frank in 2016.
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I'm not singing for the future.I'm not dreaming of the past.I'm not talking of the first times.I never think about the last
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“I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem.there is no perfect ending. Indeed, there are infinite endings. Or perhaps, once one begins,.there are only endings.”. ― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night
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So drunk to hell I left the place.Sometimes crawling sometimes walking.A hungry sound came across the breeze.So I gave the walls a talking.And I heard the sounds of long ago.From the old canal.And the birds were whistling in the trees.Where the wind was gently laughing
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Wishing Tom Waits a very happy 73rd birthday. "Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.”
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Seamus Heaney's grave at St. Mary's Church, Bellaghy, Co. Derry (his home village - in the same graveyard as his parents, younger brother, and other family members). (He died on this day 2013.)
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"Shane has the gift. I believe him. He knows how to tell a story. The Pogues are a roaring, stumbling band. These are the Dead End kids for real. Shane's voice conveys so much… It's whimsical and blasphemous, seasick and sacrilegious." Tom Waits, 1999.
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Edna’s coffin was borne across the waves in glorious sunshine to her final resting place on Holy Island in Lough Derg. The men working in relays, carried her up & over the brow of the hill down to the ancient graveyard. a plot beside her mother’s people.
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Happy birthday, Tom Waits - 74 years old today. "Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.”
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“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”. ― Seamus Heaney who died August 30, 2013
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Nick Cave performing A Rainy Night in Soho at the funeral of Shane MacGowan
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Be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised.to toast the Queen. Seamus Heaney
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Great photo of Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clark in Soho
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“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”. ― Seamus Heaney
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And a blackbird broke the silence.As you whistled it so sweet.And in Brendan Behan's footsteps.I danced up and down the street
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It seems appropriate somehow that Shane MacGowan's funeral is happening today on Sinead O'Connor's birthday #RestInPeace
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Terribly sad news. One of the greatest Irish writers ever. Edna O’Brien has died aged 93.
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“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”.― Louise Gluck.
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Shane MacGowan on being a bad example to his fans:. "I'm a fucking bad example, a very bad one. But I would say that our fans don't need any bad examples to a large extent. They're quite capable of being completely obnoxious degenerates all by themselves. God bless em!".
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Take my hand and dry your tears, babe.Take my hand, forget your fears, babe.There's no pain, there's no more sorrow.They're all gone, gone in the years, babe
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Remembering Dolores O'Riordan who died on this day 2018
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This may be my favourite Trumpism yet: . "There's no cognitive problem. If there was, I'd know about it.".
Trump on himself: "There's no cognitive problem. If there was, I'd know about it."
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The Pogues' gigs were legendary affairs. Where did you get to see them and when?.#rememberingshane
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Tribute to @ShaneMacGowan written by Nick Cave in the Observer - New Review 17 December issue.
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Remembering Sinead O'Connor on the first anniversary of her death.
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Got some of my First Year undergraduate spirit still left in me this fine morning
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Remembering Maeve Binchy - died on this day 2012
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Johnny Depp as pallbearer at Shane MacGowan's funeral
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from “Mycenae Outlook” by Seamus Heaney. No such thing.as innocent.bystanding.
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Remembering Sinead O'Connor on her birthday. Born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966 at the Cascia House Nursing Home on Baggot Street in Dublin
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Three enormous losses this year and three enormous talents. Shane, Christy, Sinead. 🙏🙏🙏
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Remembering Seamus Heaney on what would have been his 85th birthday. “Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.”
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The birthday boys! . Two of our greatest sharing the same birthday.
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Remembering Seamus Heaney who died on this day nine years ago
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An Post today unveils four stamps to honour Séamus Begley, Christy Dignam, Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor, all of whom died in 2023. #seamusbegley #shanemacgowan #christydignam #sineadoconnor
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Cillian Murphy is producing and starring in the film adaptation of Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These
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Telegram sent by Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley Dec 31 1929
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“The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible, and the precious life is everything.”. ― John McGahern
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stunning photo of #ShaneMacGowan's funeral as people dance in the church around his casket.
What a great send off for Shane and @victoriamaryclarke speech at the end was ⚡️♥️⚡️ - first time I’ve seen people jumping over pews and breaking into spontaneous dance around the casket. #shanemacgowanfuneral #shanemacgowan
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“When you’re a writer, you’re never quite like other people. You’re doing a job that other people don’t know you’re doing and you can’t talk about it. You’re just always finding your way in the secret world and then you’re doing something else in the ‘normal’ world.”. Alice Munro.
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Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died ten years ago today
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Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor in 1995. Photograph: Des Willie/Redferns
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Remembering W B Yeats who died January 28, 1939, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
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Brendan Behan: the difference between prose and poetry
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Seamus Heaney's last words to his wife Marie, in a text message, just minutes before he died, were "Noli timere" - "Don't be afraid". (Seamus Heaney died on this day in 2013.)
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What's the collective term for Seamus Heaney poetry books?
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Hodges Figgis is Ireland's oldest bookshop and has been in operation since 1768
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Sometimes all that the world really needs is a picture of Seamus Heaney with a great big smile.
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Wishing Edna O'Brien a very happy 91st birthday.
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History says, don't hope.On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime.The longed-for tidal wave.Of justice can rise up,.And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change.On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore.Is reachable from here. S Heaney.
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Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney who died ten years ago today
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Remembering Patrick Kavanagh born on this day 1904 - in Inniskeen, County Monaghan. “A man innocently dabbles in words and rhymes and finds that it is his life.”
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The birthday boys! . Two of our greatest sharing the same birthday.
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Seamus Heaney's grave - he died on this day 2013
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Cillian Murphy is set to star in the film adaptation of Irish novel 'Small Things Like These'
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Samuel Beckett perfecting that Liam Gallagher look
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