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And lo, on the 6th day (of #IrishBookWeek) I finally get my hands on this! 📚📚📚My first copy of my first book! #ThePresidentsLetters @PresLetters @NewIslandBooks
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Former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa wrote the following letter to Donald Trump:
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A new award-winning, documentary portrait of the great Edna O'Brien, Blue Road will be released in select cinemas in Ireland this Friday. It features extracts from her journals, various contributions and a final interview with Edna when she was aged 93. palas.ie/film/blue-road-the-…
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I wonder just how often court reporters will have to state the obvious...
Jozef Puska had an address at Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Co Offaly when he murdered teacher Ashling Murphy.
We know this address only because of journalists who were in court for his first appearance and later trial.
They wrote the address in their pieces.
I am staggered at the amount of people who do not know that court reports - unless reporters are directed otherwise by the judge or they are of no fixed abode - contain the accused’s:
Name
Address
Age.
The main reason we do this is to make sure the accused person is properly identified, not someone of the same name.
Say, for example, there were two Jozef Puskas in Offaly, the other one could and would sue the media if the clarifcation was not there. He would argue he had been labelled a murder accused.
I cannot believe people who are adults and interested in current affairs suddenly getting outraged at accuseds’ details appearing in reports and threatening journalists over it.
Have you never read a court report before?
Solidarity to the journalists involved.
Forever grateful to Shane and Victoria for this beautiful letter. From President Michael D. Higgins to #ShaneMacGowan on the death of his mother, Therese: “..as an award-winning folk singer in her own right, she inspired you to develop your own musical talents”. Jan 4th 2017. – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
‘We wish you long life, health and happiness..’. wrote President Éamon de Valera in a telegram delivered to #JFK as the US President was about to depart @ShannonAirport. He’d promised to return as soon as possible with Jacqueline and their children [image NAI] #JFKassassination – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
‘The whole Irish people mourn in sympathy with you..’ Telegram from President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera, to Jacqueline Kennedy as news broke of the assassination of #JFK, Nov 1963. The US President had made a 4-day State Visit here in June. #ThePresidentsLetters [image, NAI] – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
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Delighted to report that Kieran Cotter, #Baltimore bookseller (among many other accolades) now has signed copies in stock!#ThePresidentsLetters
#BaltimoreWestCork 📚 – at Cork, Ireland
Delighted to report that Kieran Cotter, #Baltimore bookseller (among many other accolades) now has signed copies in stock!#ThePresidentsLetters
#BaltimoreWestCork 📚 – at Cork, Ireland
17th March, 1959: President Seán T. O’Kelly and his wife Phyllis are guests of honour of US Pres.Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House, during the first ever State Visit to the US by a President of Ireland.(Pic O’Kelly and Mamie Eisenhower @NLIreland) #onthisday
#StPatricksDay
The story goes that Seán T and Ike hit it off so well that the US President cancelled all official engagements and hit the town with O’Kelly, attending #StPatricksDay parties at the #AOH and the ‘Friendly Sons of St Patrick’. Ike was said to be telling Irish jokes for weeks. #otd
“Their poisonous fangs were everywhere in evidence..” Former Irish govt minister JJ Walsh on the role of women in the foundation of the state, in a letter to the Taoiseach, May 1937. More on this in Chapter 4: Rocking the System, with a brilliant intro by Catriona Crowe #IWD2022
And old JJ didn’t stop there: “..it’s time the wheel was reversed..” on the women’s rights movement. These were his warnings to government at the time in 1937 that the Irish Constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann, was being drafted. #InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2022 #womensrights
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It's #PresidentsDay in the US & no better day to remind any presidential fans from Ireland or US about @florNEWS's tremendous book 'The Presidents' Letters'! Packed w/ stories, letters & 400+ illustrations of our 8 presidents - a must read! @PresLetters
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Ag léamh @PresLetters le @florNEWS fá láthair. An dá litir áille seo ón Uachtarán Mhic Ghiolla Íosa ina measc.
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Twixmas books tweet💚thankyou @florNEWS for the shout-out, all the work was done by the intrepid @jamesohbrien 🤗👏how lovely to see that the very first Ambassador to present credentials to an Irish President was from Belgium🤝where we enjoy so many dear friends & strong partners
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Gorgeous image of our ambassador @florNEWS taken @MarshsLibrary by Marc O’Sullivan in yesterday’s @IrishTimes to promote #ExploreYourArchive !
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Win one of these 4 prizes at our launch this eve and you'll get a copy of our EYA ambassador @florNEWS 's new book @PresLetters !
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A sneak peak here at some of the letters…💌📃📚
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When @florNEWS delved into the archive of Presidents' letters, she found them to be by turns moving and amusing @AnPostIBAS jrnl.ie/5603035t
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It's your last chance to vote in this year's @AnPostIBAS so may I kindly but firmly steer you towards these 2 terrific titles @NewIslandBooks: @PresLetters @florNEWS & #NoraNovel @NualaNiC, championed @SeanRocksARENA. These books were made w/ a lot of ❤ (+ some 💉 & 😓 & 💦) 🙌🏻



































