DUBLIN FOLK!

Books Upstairs have copies of Possible Worlds and Other Stories IN STORE!

If you like weird fiction and supporting indie bookstores, you should totally buy a copy from them 📚

You can also purchase a copy online: https://booksupstairs.ie/product/possible-worlds-and-other-stories/

#dublin #Ireland #writingcommunity #booksupstairs #dublinireland #bookshop #readingcommunity #irishmastodon #independentbookshop #writer #scifi #sff #sciencefiction #shortstory #shortstorycollection #mastodon

Happy Imbolc to everyone celebrating 💚
#Imbolc is a Gaelic festival set at the midway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. It is an agricultural festival celebrating the lambing season and the imminent return of Spring.
This is the first year where Imbolc will be a public holiday in the Republic of #Ireland.

#IrishMastodon #paganism #GaelicCulture

JUST LAUNCHED! Patrick McCabe's #Goldengrove.

After the triumph of Poguemahone, McCabe returns with a vicious black comedy set in Dublin in the 1970s in which a theatrical agency acts as a front for British counter-terrorism.

Pledge here: https://bit.ly/3iZOmrw
#books #bookstodon #IrishMastodon #crowdfunding #newbooks

What he said! #Thinlizzy #blackmastodon #IrishMastodon #dogsofmastodon

Speaking of beautiful melodies telling be terrible things, if this doesn't hit you in the feels there is something wrong

Lipstick and Cocaine by Kaz Hawkins #Music #Emotional #NorthernIreland #IrishMastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHy4p6Cq41k

Oh for crying out loud, RTE’s NYE countdown is with Westlife. Noping hard out of that. TG4 it is #Mastodaoine #IrishMastodon

So, #Baileys Irish cream, I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t stand it as a drink but in a cheesecake or in chocolates, it is lovely #Mastodaoine #IrishMastodon

I won’t be doing #DryJanuary. I never do it because moderating yourself all year round is better than one month of nothing and 11 of not knowing your limits #Mastodaoine #IrishMastodon

#NewYearsEve when you go out:

You go out way too early hoping to get a seat but everyone else has the same idea so you don’t. You spend most of the time queuing at the bar to buy overpriced watered down drinks. You get drink spilled all over you. You’re home before midnight.

Do yourself a favour and stay at home this New Year’s Eve #Mastodaoine #IrishMastodon

#TG4 can create an original and thought provoking celebration of the #poetry of Paul Muldoon than #RTE can manage with a much larger budget. It’s the best TV channel on Irish TV #Mastodaoine #IrishMastodon

Christmas cake has dried fruits and fiber so it's a breakfast food, right?

#IrishMastodon #cake

How many pairs of socks did you get for #Christmas, #Mastodaoine? #IrishMastodon

I got two

I wonder have the fellow #culchies made it over to Mastodon yet #IrishMastodon #IrishTwitter

PSA: spare a thought for retail workers today. I’ve worked retail on #ChristmasEve before. Worst job experience I’ve ever had #IrishMastodon #DontBeADick

We are taking a break, but we leave you with this present, a newly colourised photo of a 122-year-old tree, decorated with lights, baubles and crackers...

Nollaig faoi shéan agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh uilig! Wishing you and yours a very happy holiday season!

National Library of Ireland NLI CLON561

#IrishMastodon #MastoDaoine

My ma sent this to me last night. She must be recollecting now that the year is drawing to a close.
Yes, this is me as a wee tote.
#family #teaghlach #máthair #irish #IrishMastodon #babyMe #filmPhotography #redhead

From 📕 Old Ireland in Colour:

Christmas 1894

Clonbrock or Mote Park (seat of Augusta's Crofton family in Roscommon)

Toys include tennis racquets, a train set, a doll, books, a cricket bat and sailing boats which were likely sent from Europe

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/23645258470/ National Library of Ireland

#IrishMastodon #MastoDaoine

From 📗 Old Ireland in Colour Book 2

A cart of Christmas turkeys arriving at Flynn and Young's Poultry and Fish Stores

c. 1907, Conduit Lane, Waterford

Photographer: Poole Studio
Source: National Library of Ireland
Ref.: POOLEWP 0520
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/11286372466/

#IrishMastodon #MastoDaoine

"We're getting the band back together"

Nativity Play
23rd December 1930
Rosbercon, New Ross, Co. Wexford
NLI Ref.: P_WP_3785 National Library of Ireland https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6558859659

#IrishMastodon #MastoDaoine

As it is Christmas and many people will be going out to pubs and restaurants, I’d like to remind everyone not to be a dick to their barman/waiter/waitress. They aren’t paid enough to put up with arse hole customers #Christmas #Pubs #EatingOut #IrishMastodon #NorthernIreland