Join Oein DeBhairduin ✨, National Museum of Ireland Curator for Traveller #Mincéirí Culture on #IrelandsHiddenTreasures on RTÉ One this Sunday 5th May at 6.30pm and learn about the importance of representation & inclusion of Traveller culture in the National Collections.

A minute and a half of me drawing a wren, in case your stress levels are high too:

.Oein DeBhairduin ✨ to take RTÉ viewers behind the scenes of National Museum of Ireland - this sounds amazing: independent.ie/regionals/galw…

Best Wind in the Willows fanfic ever

Na laochra sa scéal seo: scoláirí na nollscoileanna ar son na Pailistíne.

May there be a permanent cease fire now.

This #InternationalWorkersDay , Palestinian unions urge global solidarity against Israel's genocide, apartheid and exploitation of workers.

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Watching kids being killed in Gaza and people supporting it, watching students being attacked in America for protesting peacefully and people cheering it is one of the hardest things I’ve witnessed. The injustice and depravity of it is sickening.What a disgusting world we live in

Beannachtai na Bealtaine! ☀️💈
May Day traditions celebrate the welcoming of summer, fertility, new beginnings, the workers and more.
#May1st #Bealtaine

Image from our Cuala Press Print collection. ‘Silver Apples’ by Victor Brown (1900 -1953), with an excerpt by W.B Yeats.

📚🗓️ My #MonthlyMustReads for April 2024:
⭐️ Dinosaur Pie Jen Wallace Alan O' Rourke
🌟 Keedie Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚 (FBoTM)
🌟 Nature’s Fascinating Friendships Mike Hills Kerry Hyndman (NFBoTM)
🌟Pink Trucks Sam Clarke Cory Reid (PBoTM)
⭐️ The Letter with the Golden…

This is heartwarming 🥰 especially as at HarperCollins Children's Books &
Farshore
Children's Insight event I learnt that a teacher reading to their class for 20 mins a day can change students’ lives… plus, as this picture proves, it’s so much fun! ❤️🙌

As evening fades to night on this Eve of May, Minas Tirith is bright with lights. Thousands of people have arrived from across Gondor and are waiting together for the dawn.

One of my favourite bookshops - visiting it is high on my to-do list. Check out their offer, get yourself some bargains, and make the world a better place by supporting a brilliant indie bookshop - it doesn't get better than that. 📚🚀📚

drawing in my sketchbook. Hind Rajab was a 5 year old girl in Gaza who was killed while she hid alone in a car, along with the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Yesterday students at Columbia seized the administration building and renamed it in her honor.

📢 🌈 Heartstopper fans!! 🌈
Táimid ar bís that Heartstopper by Alice Oseman Updates is publishing as Gaeilge in late June! Published by Futa Fata and translated by Eoin McEvoy, you can preorder a copy here 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️ 🇮🇪
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Thanks to Robin at JCSP Library Project #Marino 🙏❤️”The year is 2124.Jim's brain has been uploaded to the cloud. School lunch is a delicious beetle/moongrape stew flavoured pill…Let's hope not! But enter the museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday-2024… & express how YOU see the future of your area!

We love Milly McCarthy and her many misadventures! Looking forward to having leona forde back at #ILFD2024 & #ILFD4Schools in just a few weeks with Milly's latest Milly McCarthy and the Sports Day Shambles ⚽🥅 Find out more at ilfdublin.com!

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Starting TOMORROW: our annual #JhalakShowcase that shines a light on the longlistees for Jhalak Prize and Jhalak C&YA Prize 2024.

Join us to learn more about our longlisted authors and their incredible books. We'll be giving away books daily too! #jhalakprize24

NEW: ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS HAVE STUDENT GAZA SOLIDARITY PROTESTS 🤯

I don’t get it. Irish adult readers buy Irish written books for themselves and yet, when it comes to their kids, they’re not.
Can anyone explain this please? It’s not as if we don’t have the writers. 🤷‍♀️