An April Dump to mark arising from my solitude, to a month defined by Guinness, champagne, work, the heart of the ocean and Daniella Westbrook it seems.
While I may be smiling, that is a lid on a scream! 😂 I finally managed to make it through my first Hyrox, something that seemed far out of reach a year ago. Training, effort and finally finding some semblance of fitness again has definitely been no easy task, but running around in circles repetitively, pushing and pulling sleds and slamming balls onto walls has definitely got me on track. And apparently brings out my side eye. Thanks to @m.clearygaffney for the push needed and @roh_nascimento for being great race partners and @barryl84 for the support. Now to shave the time, as I officially move into insufferable Hyrox hun phase.
Some Summer spamming to close the season, with EP bits, book festival bits, fun bits, leopard print bits and general frivolity. Now to enter hibernation mode.
Happy 4th Gotcha Day Baxter! Four years since a mad whirlwind of fur crashed into our lives. Here’s to always looking regal, always taking the warm part of the couch and to being simultaneously graceful and outrageous.
Thanks to @wicklowanimalwelfare for all the work they do in rescuing and rehoming dogs. There are so many sighthounds (and dogs) out there waiting for a second chance and a home, so if you have room on your couch 🛋️, adopt if you can! The love these dogs give back knows no bounds (conditional of course on occasion on high-value treats)🐕
What does Pride mean to me? 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
To mark #PrideMonth here at the Abbey Theatre, we spoke to artists, organisations, performers and others who have interacted with Ireland’s national theatre over the years.
For the final episode in this five part series, we spoke with Páraic Kerrigan, author, researcher and Assistant Professor at University College Dublin (@paraickerrigan ). Páraic brings us through some of the history of the LGBTQ+ community in Ireland and its relationship with theatre and arts from the 1900s to post-Marriage Equality.
Scroll back on our social channels to see the other episodes as part of this series 🎭
#AbbeyTheatre #IrishTheatre #Pride
I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Mighty Hoopla was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
Here’s another carbon copy Hoopla wrap-up post, but the best weekend with amazing people wrapped up by Kylie herself. The Kat Slater leopard prints are packed away for another year.
Well who knew the last stop on the book tour would be Áras an Uachtarain. It was for sure the best way to end this journey with the book and to get invited by President Higgins and Sabina to present them with a copy! To have the President of Ireland acknowledge the community’s history and speak about these stories was an honour!
And amazing to have the best company in @barryl84 and @helkerr46 and thanks to @newislandbooks as always!
So last night we were cast in green for the night like the cast of Wicked and were “holding space” in the Convention Centre at the dizzy heights of the An Post Irish Book Awards!
It was an amazing night and massive congrats to all nominees and winners.
While Reeling in the Queers did not bring home an award (and I did not get to give a Golden Cleric style acceptance speech), it was truly an honour to get my first book that was once the seed of an idea all the way to this point and be in a room as a peer with so many writers I have always looked up to!
While a book needs a writer, it truly takes a village and a community to get it out there. Thanks so much to all the team at New Island Books and to all the Irish booksellers who have supported, the readers who bought it and everyone who voted.
Now to put Reeling in the Queers to bed and onto the next book 📖 ✍️
So someone at the An Post Book Awards decided that Reeling In The Queers should be shortlisted for Best Irish Published Book of the Year.
And it’s truly been amazing to work with New Island and Ireland’s LGBTQ community on this massively important book! Now I’m off on my Will Young Pop Idol campaign bus to drum up support all across the country 😂
Please vote on the link below if you can spare a second!
https://www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/?gf_protect_submission=1
🧏♀️🦻 Irish Sign Language Interpretation
🗓 Saturday, 12 October
🕝 2:30pm
📍 Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
🎟️ Link to tickets in bio.
Páraic Kerrigan is an author, researcher and Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin from Kildare.
He has published widely as an academic and critic. His first book LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland was published by Routledge in 2021. He has previously been a John and Pat Hume and Irish Research Council scholar.
He is the author of the Irish Times bestselling book Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past.
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2024 #KildareLibraries #LeabharlannaChillDara #ArtsCouncilSupported #IrishSignLanguage #FéileLeitheoiríChillDara
The book events continue for the next few months! Kicking off today in the Print Works at Dublin Castle for the Big Weekend as part of the Dublin Festival of History! All free to attend!
