Alexander Poots
@alexander_poots
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Ardent hobbyists are often viewed as eccentric. I think they might be the only normal people left. Me for @unherd
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A brilliant night at the Seamus Heaney Centre for the launch of @A_Joseph_Black Anything Strange or Startling! 🎉 4 tickets remain for the Sunflower Bar launch on 12 Nov 🌻 📖 Get the book: https://t.co/Z38LnBUxPf 🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/HgtxnZohUn
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This is well worth reading.
‘On November eve,’ wrote W.B. Yeats, ‘the dead are abroad, and dance with the fairies.’ But do they still? Read @alexander_poots on the ghost stories of modern Ireland👇 https://t.co/rrsB6MQg0d
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What a Halloween treat! The great @alexander_poots on the Irish, and particularly Irish Protestant, ghost story tradition:
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A momentous day for built heritage in the Cathedral Quarter. Still a long way to go, but we're taking a minute to celebrate this milestone and thank everyone who made it happen 👏
Belfast City Council has now signed off on the contract and owns the Assembly Rooms. Phase one completed. As Greens we will continue to push for the regeneration of the rest of the area.
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"To put that in context, Northern Ireland makes up just 3% of the UK population, yet is responsible for 25% of the nation’s food supply."
M&S chief tells Belfast event Northern Ireland is ‘feeding the nation’
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For @unherd on Grantham's inaguaral Thatcher festival, and the new battle for Middle England between the Tories and Reform
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Only 2 tickets remain folks @A_Joseph_Black debut short story collection Anything Strange or Startling launch 4th Nov
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Join us for Tony Black’s debut short story collection launch, with Q&A by Alexander Poots & fine wines from McGarry’s.
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Gore Vidal was born one hundred years ago today. Widely reviled at the time of his death in 2012, today his work seems to have an awful prophetic power - @NewStatesman
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The writer understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
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📚✨ Book Launch ✨📚 Join us for the launch of Tony Black’s debut short story collection Anything Strange or Startling! 📖 Reading + Q&A chaired by Alexander Poots 🍷 Wine by McGarry’s 📅 4 Nov, 7pm 📍 Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB 🎟 Free tickets: https://t.co/8AqGj66zv6
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Who is Margaux Blanchard? Margaux Blanchard net worth? How old is Margaux Blanchard? Is Margaux Blanchard married? Tbh, I don't know. But today I wrote about how @_dispatch_media exposed her — and why she matters: https://t.co/pACeqKeBnk
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Dispatch rumbles AI fraud • The power of reporting • Introducing the Blanchard offer
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Wrote this for @unherd a while back. Allotments and the eternal YIMBY/NIMBY conundrum. https://t.co/Kp7KaoBWUJ
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They are the last outposts of a vanishing Britain
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Before selling off allotments @AngelaRayner should think again. The 1925 Allotment Act was designed to provide green space for people without gardens to grow their own affordable fruit & vegetables. For many people,they also provide an important outlet for physical & mental
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Can’t wait to mosey down to Armagh for the @The_JHS Summer School, where I’ll be chatting to @WednesdayErskin about her wonderful novel, THE BENEFACTORS. July 31, 13:30. See you there!
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The Uraicecht Becc, or “Small Primer”, the manuscript is almost certainly of Munster origin. The manuscript has references to the monasteries of Cork and of Emly. Below are the Bríatharogaim ‘Ogam words’
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Why is rural Denmark (an objectively expensive, high-waged country) so cheap? What’s going on up there?
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‘Criticism of the proposed mine has focused on its potential impact on land and water. Less has been said about the impact it has already had on the people themselves.’ As @alexander_poots discovers in Northern Ireland, not all that glitters is gold 👇 https://t.co/9bXX7vC8Xe
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