Rory Carroll
@rorycarroll72
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@Guardian Ireland corr. Author of Killing Thatcher/There Will Be Fire and Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.
Dublin, Ireland
Joined July 2010
Big thanks to all at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts for hosting talk on Killing Thatcher. Great audience, great questions and 80s music.
.@rorycarroll72 will be in conversation w/ Sinéad Morrissey, to talk about #KillingThatcher.@HarperCollinsUK @mudlarkbooks If you didn’t snag a🎟️- our events are recorded & you’ll be able to watch via our extensive archive, at a later date.#NCLAevents.@UniofNewcastle.@NCL_English
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RT @GaschkeProds: Rory Carroll, @rorycarroll72, journalist and author, discusses his international bestseller “Killing Thatcher” about the….
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Kudos to Iron Mountain Literary Festival for a brilliant weekend. Great writers, engaged audiences, fascinating talks on and off stage. Leitrim Abú!.
Proud and honoured to participate in the Iron Mountain Festival in my hometown of Carrick-on-Shannon and to be in the company of many wonderful writers @rorycarroll72 @DevlinMartina @pazira1 and Denis Bradley all compered wonderfully by Vincent Woods. Well done @leitrimcoco
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If you're anywhere near Leitrim this weekend check out the Iron Mountain Literature Festival.
Really looking forward to this in my home town and to sharing a stage with @rorycarroll72.
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Forgive trumpet-blowing but completely chuffed about this. Thank you @Waterstones.
We are delighted that the brilliant KILLING THATCHER has been selected as a Waterstones paperback of 2024. Thanks @waterstones and huge congrats to author @rorycarroll72.
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RT @EditorialAriel: 📣 ¡Historia pura en clave de thriller! . ✍🏻 'Habrá fuego', de @rorycarroll72, es la impactante reconstrucción del atent….
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Cracking, timely essays in this book spanning millennia of tyrants, strongmen, military geniuses and the odd liberator. I contributed the chapter on Hugo Chavez -democratically elected but his personality cult and authoritarianism paved the tragedy of today's Venezuela.
THE DICTATORS is published on 5 Sept. I recruited 64 contributors to write about 64 different dictators from ancient times to the present. Preorder your signed copy now. Here are all 64. Pisistratus - Rene Lavanchy.Alexander the Great - Matthew
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'This amount of extreme heat events is beyond anything ever seen or even thought possible before.'. A climate historian's warning. By @jonathanwatts .
theguardian.com
Exclusive: In 2024, 15 national temperature records have been set as weather extremes grow more frequent, climate historian says
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“I really wish I’d taken it easier on myself.”. Terrific, haunting piece from @sirin_kale on the reality TV producer who pushed himself too hard.
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His symptoms began with dizziness, headaches, a lack of sleep and panic attacks. Over time, they grew worse. All the while, this beloved husband, father and son was wondering about the role his work...
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Irish pols scrutinising Tommy Robinson. 'Concerning that someone who is inciting racist violence across Britain and Ireland appears to be travelling on an Irish passport.'.
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Dáil members call for investigation after far-right leader gave false country of birth to Canada’s immigration officers
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Evading security by planting a bomb in a guesthouse weeks before the target is due - echoes of the IRA's near-hit on Thatcher at Brighton.
nytimes.com
An explosive device hidden in a heavily guarded complex where Ismail Haniyeh was known to stay in Iran was what killed him, according to a Times investigation.
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RT @APjoshgoodman: “This is a powerful symbol to them,” said the protester, who shared with @AP a video of the moment the 12-foot statue of….
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Anti-government activists across Venezuela are toppling giant statues of Hugo Chávez to express their anger over the alleged stealing of elections by the late president’s handpicked successor,...
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“This man did not win. He did not!” she said as the crowd swelled. I covered I don't know how many protests in Venezuela from 2006-12. All eventually fizzled. Viewed from afar, this eruption looks a potential game-changer.
theguardian.com
María Corina Machado says president should understand he lost vote, amid international doubts over victory claim
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'Hard to believe.' Yep.
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Nicolás Maduro faces calls to publish transparent breakdown of vote but allies hail his apparent victory
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Useful primer on what's at stake in Venezuela's election.
bbc.com
Venezuelans vote in a presidential election which could see the country change course after 25 years.
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Amid the Olympics, Kamala, Trump and Gaza there is a potentially hugely consequential election in Venezuela on Sunday.
theguardian.com
For the almost 8 million citizens who have left the country, Sunday’s vote could dictate whether they can return home
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RT @AKurmanaev: I’m back in Venezuela after three years, to cover the government’s biggest electoral challenge in a decade. Follow me and….
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'I grew up in a country that was fundamentally irrational.'.Neil Jordan on Ireland, England, film, books and the day some hippies sold him for sex.
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Warring with Harvey Weinstein, marvelling at Tom Cruise, realising Mona Lisa and many other films were about himself … the great Irish director looks back on his astonishing career
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RT @taniabranigan: Scattered: the making and unmaking of a refugee is out today - and I’m v much looking forward to reading it. Congratulat….
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My life is split in two: half as a stateless Somali refugee and half a British citizen. But Kakuma is crucial to everything that came after it. It is the foundation of who I am
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