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Coincidentally I am in the middle of this book and have loved all her previous books!
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The Hunter by Tana French
April 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Day 24 - these are my own choices for a book about resisting oppression #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25

Lost, Found, Remembered by Lyra McKee

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All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley

#resist #oppression #readirishwomen #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksky💙📚 #speirgorm
Day 24 - these are my own choices for a book about resisting oppression #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Lost, Found, Remembered by Lyra McKee #resist #oppression #readirishwomen #RIWC25 #bookpost #bookstagram Day 24 - these are my own choices for a book about resisting oppression #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley #resist #oppression #readirishwomen #RIWC25 #bookpost #bookstagram Day 24 - these are my own choices for a book about resisting oppression #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
April 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Calling all readers, here are the prompts for this April's #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
There's a different prompt for each day of April, starting on the 1st, to encourage conversation, sharing, and discovering new writers.
Happy reading & sharing everyone! 💙📚
#RIWC25
A list of Read Irish Women Challenge prompts for every day I'm April, running for the whole month. Day 1 is - a book about a fresh start. Picture shows a digital image of one young man & two young women reading books. The text above reads Dubray Supporting #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 The impotent part of the text reads - The challenge aims to be inclusive, so welcomes books by women of colour, ethnic minorities and the diaspora as well as trans women.
March 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 A cosy read

Here are the books we chose Dubray Books Rathmines

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Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 A cosy read Here are the books we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines Quentins by Maeve Binchy The Importance of Being Aisling by Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen Mrs Hart's Marriage Bureau by Sheena Wilkinson A Place Called Home by Alice Taylor Snow Pony Express by Nina Carbery Stockingopolis by Tatyana Feeney Moving On by Roisín Meaney #RIWC25 #cosyreads #booksellerrecommends #bookpost Day 12 #RIWC25- a cosy read
April 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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My own choices for the prompt for Day 13 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book written by a woman of colour/ethnic minority/diaspora

The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal
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The Fairy Queen by Chrissy Donoghue Ward & Monika Mitkute

#RIWC25 #WOC #EthnicMinority #diaspora #booksky 💙📚 #SpéirG0irm
Day 13 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and these are my picks for the prompt a book written by a woman of colour/ethnic minority/diaspora The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal & The Fairy Queen by Chrissy Donoghue Ward & Monika Mitkute #RIWC25 #WOC ##EthnicMinority #diaspora #booksellerrecommends #bookpost Day 13 #RIWC25 A book written by a woman of colour/ethnic minority/diaspora
April 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Day 11 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 & the prompt is a book that deals with fashion or beauty

Our booksellers in Dubray Books Rathmines chose these titles

There are contemporary fiction titles, mystery, practical guides, cultural commentary and young adult.

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Day 11 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 & the prompt is a book that deals with fashion or beauty Our booksellers @dubraybooks Rathmines chose these titles - Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen Don't Touch my Hair by Emma Dabiri Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy Ravelling by Estelle Birdy Braids Take a Day by Zainab Boladale The Wardrobe Department by Elaine Garvey The Garment Goddess by Laura de Barra Day 11 #RIWC25 A book that deals with fashion or beauty
April 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with maps, illustrations or photographs

These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines

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Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with maps, illustrations or photographs What we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines are - Gods and Monsters by Ellen Ryan & Shona Shirley Macdonald Tangleweed and Brine by Deirdre Sullivan & Karen Vaughan Dublin in Sketches and Stories by Róisín Curé Step into Nature: A Chronicle of Irish Nature through the Year by Rachel McKenna Ireland in Numbers by Jackie McCann & Dermot Flynn Rita agus an Dineasár by Máire Zepf & Mr Ando #RIWC25 #maps #photos #illustrations #bookpost Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with maps, illustrations or photographs These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines
April 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The books we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines for Day 27 - a book with a mystery for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 are attached

#RIWC25 #mystery #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends ##bookpost #booksky💙📚 #SpeirGorm
The books we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines for Day 27 - a book with a mystery for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 are - Web of Betrayal by Nicola Tallant Something Terrible Happened Last Night by Sam Blake Sparks of Bright Matter by Leanne O'Donnell Wych Elm by Tana French Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara The Cleaner by Mary Watson The Tower Ghost by Natasha Mac A Bhaird #RIWC25 #mystery #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends ##bookpost #booksky The books we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines for Day 27 - a book with a mystery for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 are #RIWC25 #mystery #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends ##bookpost #booksky
April 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Day 1 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - A book with a fresh start & these are the titles chosen by Dubray Books Rathmines. 💙📚

What would you choose?
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There is a small, round table in a bookshop; on it is a sign for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and a stack of books. The are - Confessions by Catherine Airey Moving On by Roisín Meaney The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Sally in the City of Dreams by Judi Curtin Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney Last Chance in Paris by Lynda Marron My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan The sign below reads: #RIWC25 FRESH START Todays prompt - day 1 A book with a fresh start
April 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The prompt for Day 8 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 is a book of fantasy, mythology or science fiction

These are the books we picked at Dubray Books Rathmines & we could have easily doubled this number!

#RIWC25 #mythology #sff #SpéirG0irm #booksky 💙📚
Day 8 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 is a book of fantasy, mythology or science fiction These are the books we picked @dubraybooks Rathmines, and we could have easily doubled this number! The Salmon of Knowledge by Eithne Massey & Ellen Kane The World between the Rain by Susan Cahill The Land of the Living and the Dead by Shauna Lawless By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran Sword of Sun by Sinéad O'Hart Irish Myths and Legends by Lady Augusta Gregory The Morrigan by Kim Curran The Book of Gold by Ruth Frances Long The above titles are displayed together, sitting in a round table in the bookshop.
April 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Day 10 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - my own choices for the prompt, a book to do with the sea
Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson
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Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong
Both of these brilliant novels are closely connected to the textures & moods of the sea.

#RIWC25 #seastories #SpéirG0irm #booksky 💙📚
Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson The book is a vivid fuschia pink in the twilight; it is held up beside a weather beaten wooden fence. The title runs vertically down the centre in lime green; behind it is the outline of a craggy island with a tiny figure of a woman Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong The cover shows a rusting red hulk of a ship caught in swirling green seas; the sky is a clear blue framed with white clouds. The picture is standing on end, as if tge ship is about to slide off the cover. Day 10 #RIWC25 - A book to do with the sea
April 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Catching up on my own picks for Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a cosy read

Maeve's Binchy: From Maeve Binchy's columns in the Irish Times
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First Term at Fernside by Sheena Wilkinson

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Maeve Binchy's fiction is rightly celebrated as layered, warm and comforting books, but her non-fiction is equally as good. Maeve's Binchy: From Maeve Binchy's columns in the Irish Times are short missives from a young Irish woman living in London. Often humorous, sometimes poignant, but always deeply humane, they are a treasure. First Term at Fernside by Sheena Wilkinson is a boarding school story set in Belfast in the 1930s. For anyone who is a fan of Malory Towers or the Chalet School series, this is a delight; it's also great to introduce middle grade readers to this genre with a new publication. Day 12 #RIWC25 - A cosy read
April 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25

The Cleaner by Mary Watson

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Good Red Herring by Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social

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My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 The Cleaner by Mary Watson #mystery #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksellerrecommends My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Good Red Herring by Susan Maxwell #mystery #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksellerrecommends My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
April 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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mythology, science fiction #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
The Book of Gold by Ruth Frances Long, an action-packed
heist adventure
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Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Lost Irish Horror Stories edited by Jack Fennell, impeccable, recovered stories
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mythology, science fiction #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - The Book of Gold by Ruth Frances Long, glorious, adventure-filled fantasy with fights, heists and love. And books - I can't resist a book about books. & Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Lost Irish Horror Stories edited by Jack Fennell, it's wonderful to discover new stories ling forgotten, and this editor's taste is impeccable. The two books are face out against a dark-green tiled wall. The Book of Gold is a rich, glowing crimson with the title picked out in gold foil, there is the dark outline of a city in the bottom right corner. Your Own Dark Shadow has a black cover with an eerie looking house depicted in white. The title is set into a large red roundel in the top half of the book in the centre Day 8 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with fantasy, mythology, science fiction
April 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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So this is the last day of #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 it has been a blast looking at everyone's suggestions;
Day 30 prompt is Your next read inspired by #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - these are the books we're planning to dive into at Dubray Books Rathmines.
What #RIWC25 books are you reading next? 📚
So this is the last day of #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and it has been such a blast looking at everyone's suggestions, taking copious notes so my current #tbr is crying softly to itself... Day 30 prompt is Your next read inspired by #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - these are the books we're planning to dive into @dubraybooks Rathmines. In the Movie of Her Life by Claire Hennessy Matched Up by Jenny Ireland Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine Burn After Reading by Catherine Ryan Howard Girl in the Making by Anna Fitzgerald Throw In! by Emma Larkin The Wardrobe Department by Elaine Garvey My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden What #RIWC25 books are you reading next? 📚 #nextread #booksellerrecommends #bookpost #bookstagram #ReadIrishWomen So this is the last day of #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and it has been such a blast looking at everyone's suggestions, taking copious notes so my current #tbr is crying softly to itself... Day 30 prompt is Your next read inspired by #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - these are the books we're planning to dive into at Dubray Books Rathmines. What #RIWC25 books are you reading next? 📚 #booksky💙📚
April 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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For day 14 of #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with a protagonist under 18 - the booksellers in Dubray Books Rathmines chose these titles

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For day 14 of #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with a protagonist under 18 - the booksellers in Dubray Books Rathmines chose these titles - Under the Hawthorn Sky by Marita Conlon-McKenna Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal Wonder by Emma Donoghue Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey Poor by Katriona O'Sullivan Matched Ip by Jenny Ireland Jess Gets Her Wings by Lucy Kennedy & Philip Cullen Foster by Claire Keegan #youngprotagonist #RIWC25 #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends #bookpost Day 14 #RIWC25 a book with a protagonist under 18
April 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - here are my picks for a book with maps, photographs or illustrations

Daughter of Winter & Twilight by @hcor.bsky.social
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Alive Alive O! Recollections & Visions of Dublin Women by Máirín Johnston

#RIWC25 #maps #illustrations #photographs #booksky💙📚 #SpéirGorm
Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - these are my picks for a book with maps, photographs or illustrations Daughter of Winter and Twilight by Helen Corcoran #RIWC25 #maps #illustrations #photographs #bookpost #booksellerrecommends Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - these are my picks for a book with maps, photographs or illustrations Alive Alive O! Recollections and Visions of Dublin Women by Máirín Johnston #RIWC25 #maps #illustrations #photographs #bookpost #booksellerrecommends Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - these are my picks for a book with maps, photographs or illustrations
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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My own choices for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Day 26 - a book with LGBTQ+ themes are these -

The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan

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Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel

#RIWC25 #lgbtqbooks #transfiction #bookpost #booksellerrecommends #booksky💙📚 #speirgorm
My own choices for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Day 26 - a book with LGBTQ+ themes are these - The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan & Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel #RIWC25 #lgbtqbooks #transfiction #bookpost #booksellerrecommends #booksky My own choices for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Day 26 - a book with LGBTQ+ themes
April 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Dubray Books will hold the Read Irish Women event @paviliontheatre.bsky.social on 27/04/25

***Author Intro***
Sinéad Gleeson is the editor of four short story anthologies, author of the award-winning memoir Constellations, & her debut novel Hagstone was longlisted for the Dublin Lit Award. #RIWC25
***Author Introduction*** I'm going to post a short introduction to each author over the next few days - I'll begin with Sinéad Gleeson. Sinéad Gleeson is the editor of four short story anthologies, author of the award-winning memoir Constellations, and her debut novel Hagstone was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and is now out in paperback. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 #RIWC25 #event Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson The countdown begins! In just over two weeks, @dubraybooks will hold the second Read Irish Women event @paviliontheatre at 8pm on Sunday 27th April. You can look forward to a fascinating discussion between authors writing across varied fields; the panelists will be Sinéad Gleeson, Elaine Feeney, Liz Nugent and Róisín O'Donnell, hosted by Nadine O'Regan. I am looking forward to chatting with lots of readers on the night and hearing your thoughts and ideas! #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 #RIWC25 #event The countdown begins! In just over two weeks, @dubraybooks will hold the second Read Irish Women event @paviliontheatre at 8pm on Sunday 27th April. You can look forward to a fascinating discussion between authors writing across varied fields; the panelists will be Sinéad Gleeson, Elaine Feeney, Liz Nugent and Róisín O'Donnell, hosted by Nadine O'Regan. ***Author Introduction*** I'm going to post a short introduction to each author over the next few days - I'll begin with Sinéad Gleeson. Sinéad Gleeson is the editor of four short story anthologies, author of the award-winning memoir Constellations, and her debut novel Hagstone was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and is now out in paperback. I am looking forward to chatting with lots of readers on the night and hearing your thoughts and ideas! #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 #RIWC25 #event
April 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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My own picks for today's #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 prompt, an anthology, are -

Take Six: Six Irish Women Writers edited by Tanya Farrelly
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The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland edited by Sinéad Gleeson

#anthology #RIWC25 #booksky💙📚 #SpéirG0irm
My own picks for today's #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 prompt, an anthology, are - Take Six: Six Irish Women Writers edited by Tanya Farrelly & The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland edited by Sinéad Gleeson (I'm up in Belfast for Eastercon, t'would be rude not to!) #anthologies #anthology #RIWC25 #ReadIrishWomen #booksky #bookpost #booksellerrecommends today's #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 prompt, an anthology
April 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Completely missed this year's edition! Jumping aboard for day 16: A book with different modes of transport.
@mariankeyes.bsky.social's Anybody Out There?—one of the Walsh Family novels—features different forms of transportation—in fact, the tragic premise of the book depends on one of them. #RIWC25
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Calling all readers, here are the prompts for this April's #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
There's a different prompt for each day of April, starting on the 1st, to encourage conversation, sharing, and discovering new writers.
Happy reading & sharing everyone! 💙📚
#RIWC25
A list of Read Irish Women Challenge prompts for every day I'm April, running for the whole month. Day 1 is - a book about a fresh start. Picture shows a digital image of one young man & two young women reading books. The text above reads Dubray Supporting #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 The impotent part of the text reads - The challenge aims to be inclusive, so welcomes books by women of colour, ethnic minorities and the diaspora as well as trans women.
April 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Day 2 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book that deals with neurodivergence/mental health

The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood

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Wired Our Own Way: an Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices edited by Niamh Garvey

#RIWC25 💙📚
The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood A black cover with the title in lime green, the authors name in white. Held against an ivy clad wooden fence. Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices edited by Niamh Garvey A bright green cover with the title in gold; multicoloured tangled wires take up the bottom half of the cover Reviews of The Fate of Mary Rose and Wired Our Own Way Day 2 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book that deals with neurodivergence/mental health
April 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Day 6 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - poetry or a play as chosen by the booksellers in Dubray Books Rathmines
The books chosen in Dubray Books Rathmines for day 6 #RIWC25 - poetry or a play Na Trí Mhuicín by Áine ní Ghlinn & Paddy Donnelly Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan The Poison Glen by Annemarie ní Chuirreáin Raised Among Vultures by Molly Twomey To Star the Dark by Doireann Ní Ghríofa An Triail by Mairéad Ní Ghrada Washing Windows IV: Irish Women Write Poetry The Long Weekend by Rita Ann Higgins Day 6 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book of poetry or a play
April 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 is a book about a figure lost to history - my own choices are

A Quiet Tide by Marianne Lee

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The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan

##hiddenfigures #losthistory #RIWC25 #booksky 💙📚 #SpéirG0irm
Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 is a book about a figure lost to history - my own choices are A Quiet Tide by Marianne Lee "Ellen Hutchins...was Ireland's first female botanist, self-taught and determined to make her mark, had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay." New Island & The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan "...across Europe only about one in 10 of those participating in the Resistance were women but more than half of the Irish people who resisted the Nazis were women." Brendan Daly, Irish Examiner ##hiddenfigures ##losthistory #RIWC25 Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 is a book about a figure lost to history - these are my own choices
April 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Day 19 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - an anthology

These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines are

#RIWC25 #anthology #bookpost #booksky💙📚 ##SpéirG0irm
Day 19 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - an anthology The titles we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines are Wild Wonders: an anthology of short nature stories for children edited by Aga Grandowicz The Long Gaze Back edited by Sinéad Gleeson Washing Windows III edited by AlanHayes & Nuala O'Connor Dublin, Written in Our Hearts edited by Declan Meade Wired Our Own Way: an anthology of Irish Autistic Voices edited by Niamh Garvey Sunday Miscellany edited by Sarah Binchy Mamaí Gé Take Six: Six Irish Women's Writers edited by Tanya Farrelly #RIWC25 #anthology #bookpost #booksky Day 19 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - an anthology
April 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM