Maeve O'Sullivan
@maeveos
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Tutor of media in further ed. Poet & haikuist. 6th collection “Where All Ladders Start’ (Alba, 2024) Poetry/haiku stuff @writefromwithin + 👇🏻
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Joined February 2009
It was a honour to present the prizes @smockalley for the 2025 Duais Basho/Basho Award for secondary students & give a speech, having delivered #haiku workshops as part of the project. Comhghairdas do na buaiteoirí do Féile Imram agus don breitheamh @RoghaGabriel
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What a marvellous evening in a packed @RIAdawson, at the launch of Cian Ferriter’s debut collection ‘Brink’. @patboran_poet of @dedalusbooks introduced @MaureenKennell5 who gave a wonderful speech & the man of the moment read some of his fine poems
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49 years ago at the inauguration of President Hillary (1976) in a lovely moment his young daughter broke with protocol and peered out to see her father become the new President of Ireland… from my old negatives #35mmfilm #photography #documentary @PresidentIRL #Connolly #Ireland
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Big congrats to our new President, Catherine Connolly! 🇮🇪 Here’s hoping her first day in the Áras goes smoothly — and that she keeps the keepie-uppies going! ☘️⚽️ As always, feel free to share and follow! #PresidentConnolly #Aras25
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Think about leaving Twitter sometimes, the trolls and weirdos can be wearying, even with a thick skin, but ultimately, the positives far outweigh the negatives, gotten to know many great people on here, and I'd be too stubborn to leave anyway 😂.
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I’m rather fond of quirky old fashioned words. Here are some of my favourites: Skedaddle Nincompoop Highfalutin Malarkey Comeuppance Skullduggery Kerfuffle Flummoxed Thingamajig Tomfoolery Shenanigans Hoodwink Blethering Hullabaloo Curmudgeon Whippersnapper Bamboozled
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Wordle 1,590 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This has a nice shape (too)
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Wordle 1,588 3/6 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This one has a great shape too!
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Wordle 1,587 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I like the shape of this one (too)!
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I’m thrilled that my last #haiku collection, Wasp on the Prayer Flag (2021, Alba) is Book of the Week at The Haiku Foundation, with a thoughtful review by librarian Dan. It’s available to read for free on there, along with my two other haiku collections 📚
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Wordle 1,586 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I like the shape of this!
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Such a sad loss of such a talented woman. ‘Diane Keaton: a life in pictures | Film | The Guardian’
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Diane Keaton, who has died aged 79, started her stellar career in The Godfather and Woody Allen’s early comedies, before going to appear opposite just about every major star in Hollywood. We look...
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So Jim Gavin’s face on the ballot paper is now going to be like one of those horses at a race after the Jockey fell off but the horse keeps going!
It is not possible, at this juncture, to officially withdraw or to remove a name from the ballot paper. Jim Gavin’s name will remain on the ballot for Friday 24th, merely with no campaign behind it.
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