Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉
@VKennefick
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EGG/SHELL (Feb 2024) 🐣 EAT OR WE BOTH STARVE 🫦 @Carcanet || @artscouncil_ie @centreoscar Writer Fellow 2025|| 🍉
The Kingdom
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*COVER & TITLE REVEAL 🖤🤍💛* Here's my wee egg 🥚, I've been incubating it for 2 years, now it's ready to crack. I hope you like what's inside. Thank you, @KennysBookshop, for this Limited Edition available for pre-order, & to all @Carcanet for everything. HATCHING: Feb 2024🐣
We are delighted to reveal the Kennys Limited Edition of Victoria Kennefick's new collection of poetry, Egg/Shell. This is the only hardback edition, is limited to 300 copies and is signed and numbered by the author. Out in February. @VKennefick
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The Newgrange Winter Solstice livestream link is now available on https://t.co/3Dh65f3y5o No matter where you are in the world, you can be a part of this extraordinary event by tuning in at 8.40am on 21 December by visiting https://t.co/vQeAtZFV6h I hope you find time to watch
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One of the few good things RTÉ makes is their documentaries. This is a massive loss for public broadcasting in Ireland.
RTÉ's in-house TV documentary unit is to cease production in 2026. At a meeting this afternoon, staff at the in-house TV documentary unit were told the department would cease in the coming months. https://t.co/12BePeL5jn
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Why are the Irish so pro-Palestine? 🇮🇪: “We have a history of occupation as well”. 🇮🇪: “We ourselves were colonized to play an oppressor.” 🇮🇪: “It's Britain's first colonial project here in Ireland.” 🇮🇪: “ it's something we fought back against for 800 years.”
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The British press once again proving their deep knowledge of their nearest neighbour - Connolly will actually be Ireland’s *third* female president
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🚨Outgoing President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins gives some €2m back to State from his salary. A great man.
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The extinction of the Slender-Billed Curlew should be a wake-up call. The world is upside down: billionaires jaunt to the moon while wildlife vanishes. Endless wealth for greed, scant care for what enriches all our lives. Nature belongs to all of us—we must defend it.
The Slender-Billed Curlew is extinct—the first mainland bird lost from Europe, North Africa, or West Asia. It will never be seen again. A stark reminder of the global extinction crisis. We must act now to save its cousin, the Eurasian Curlew, before it disappears from the UK.
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World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’ and the oceans devoid of marine life Humans are not the caretakers of Mother Nature They are its destroyers and will leave nothing for other species in the quest for more and more materialism
theguardian.com
Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding
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The planet you think you're living on no longer exists.
This is one of the scariest graphs of climate change you will see. The North Pacific is warming 1,000% faster over the past 25 years than it was from 1850–2000 (h/t @LeonSimons8). Ocean temperatures last month blew any previous year completely out of the water.
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Humankind is on a mission to wipe out all life - including itself And it is bang on track https://t.co/qwNnuGCAAq
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Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding
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Tonight!
Caroline Bird reads a selection of #poems plus #booksigning Saturday 18th October, 5-6pm Simon Armitage describes #CarolineBird as "Irrepressible; she simply explodes with #poetry." https://t.co/IsNNPCRhpT This event is part of the #EnfieldPoetsLiteraryFestival
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Want to know John Banville's advice for writers? Here he is in conversation with Neil Jordan in the latest episode of Dublin, One City, Many Stories. Full video: https://t.co/norQBHpmoI
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It's a really bad sign that the thing destroying our planet and driving up our utility costs is the thing propping up our economy.
"Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025," per Harvard.
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'That is the best review I've ever had in my life.' John Banville in conversation with Neil Jordan on his relationship to readers, in the latest episode of Dublin, One City, Many Stories. Full video: https://t.co/norQBHpmoI
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WE'RE ALL JUST WATCHING THE WORLD GO BYE.
Is Earth on track for a mass extinction? More than 48,000 animals are now at risk of being wiped out, report warns From the dodo to the Tasmanian tiger, many majestic creatures have become extinct over the years. Now, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
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'You don't expect people to read what you've written. It's always a surprise.' John Banville in conversation with Neil Jordan on the publishing process (and not reading reviews of his own books) in the latest episode of Dublin, One City, Many Stories. Full video:
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I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians
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Just after 5 a.m. on Wednesday, 8 October, Israeli forces had illegally boarded us in international waters, at roughly...
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"The CCAC said while the National Planning Framework published earlier this year stated that planning authorities “should seek to address no net loss of biodiversity” Time for a review of @sdublincoco €35m coffee shop at the Hellfire. These are the 11 Key Ecological Receptors!
New buildings must present ‘no net loss’ to nature, says Climate Change Council Green spaces, biodiversity corridors, new habitats, nature based solutions - @CCACIreland says they should be built into design of every construction project https://t.co/HI11NE4B5j
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'And I do love finding characters through how they talk...' Neil Jordan and John Banville discuss the power of dialogue in the latest episode of Dublin, One City, Many Stories. Full video: https://t.co/norQBHpUeg
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