My daughter (1 year a medical doctor) and my husband (39 years a surgeon) have just had a bust up about how to treat my pneumonia. I might yet die, laughing or crying🤦🏽♀️
❤️I came to Ireland 34 years ago on Valentine’s Day. Have loved this country, my wonderful friends, my one-in-a-million neighbours ever since.❤️
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Happy Valentine's Ireland, you lovely thing! I arrived here on 14th Feb 1987 and mo shíorghrá, it truly was love at first sight! Our first house 156, River Road Carton, Sligo. Such happy, happy memories.🇮🇳♥️🇮🇪🇮🇳♥️🇮🇪
#IndiaIreland
#ValentinesDay2020
Date by the gate! Hadn't seen my next door neighbour in a while so we brought our own coffees and chatted by the fence that seperates us.
#CoronaCulchies
Years ago, my mother arrived into Dublin airport shortly after my father died. Immigration officer asked if she was travelling alone and she burst into tears. When she explained, he left his booth to put his arms around her to console. Small act of empathy - she’s never forgotten
Today I turn 60 and will sign a three-book deal with wonderful
@hoperoadpublish
that will nudge me towards my 70th. I’m old enough now to suit my self the time…the best feeling ever!
@anbara_salam
Was with you every step of the way. Crying but with laughter. You are funny. The funniest actually. Did the lobster come home with you?🦞🦞🦞
From baby boy in a bucket to a fully qualified Vet! Happy Graduation Day to our son. So proud of you!!❤️❤️
We are delighted you are off the books too.🤑
#VetStudentNoMore
I was very lucky to see first hand what a very decent man
#JohnBruton
was. In 1997, we lived in Dunboyne & my parents were visiting from India. My father was watching RTE election news, when there was a knock on the door. It was John Bruton himself, canvassing. My father was
This is going to have a much bigger impact on the very lucrative higher education sector than Irish Universities realise. Parents will talk with their feet if they think Ireland is not a safe place to send their children. And that word is already out.
"A most unexpected book."
@CauveryMadhavan
's The Tainted is Sebastian Barry's
#LaureatePicks
for this week.
He explains what makes this novel's explorations of humanity and colonialism so captivating:
Political affiliations aside, I'm so damn feckin glad that my life & loves are in Ireland. Feel safer here in this crisis than I would anywhere else in the world. Science-led decision making, our low tolerance of gobshitery at this time and our black humour will see us thru.😷🇮🇪
See? It is possible to be a compassionate, clear thinking leader, learning from history, respectful of all religions, led by science and get elected by a landslide! Bigotry and division will get you nowhere in the end.
#PoliticiansTakeHeed
Set in Ireland’s Beara Peninsula in 1986 with a historical thread from 400 years ago… my 4th book out 19th Sept. Please RT!!
@hoperoadpublish
#TheInheritance
Love letters are private but this one is to Ireland, so I hope you’ll read it when it’s out later in the year. Finished!!
#TheInheritance
@hoperoadpublish
A proud and very, very emotional day for me as
#TheTainted
hits Indian bookshops with publishers
@speakingtiger14
. A story born of India & Ireland, two nations connected by a colonial past and a collaborative future. My birth place, my home place are both so special.
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Spent all of the last two years, through restrictions and lockdowns, obsessing about local herons. I’m off to a Dublin wedding in March wearing my statement!
@joancooke5
, I hope you approve!
This St Patrick’s Day, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between India and Ireland, I have a giveaway of
#TheTainted
!
Just follow&RT to be in to win one of 5 signed copies!
#SharedHistories
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My new book! Irish soldiers in 1920s India : a story based on the Mutiny of the Connaught Rangers and the brutal aftermath that reverberated right up to 1980s in India and Ireland. Pre order please and do RT! 🇮🇳🇮🇪🇮🇳🇮🇪
#militaryhistory
#irelandinindia
Spring 1920 in Nandagiri, south-east India.
Everyone knows their place – with one exception. The local Anglo-Indians, tainted by their mixed blood, belong... nowhere.
@CauveryMadhavan
’s
#TheTainted
OUT 30 APRIL 2020.
Pre-order now:
Our
@AerLingus
plane is still on tarmac but I feel I’m back in Ireland. The passenger in seat in front has established after a short back and forth that he knows the brother of the air hostess (from Cong in Mayo), who is the sommelier in Ashford Castle. No degrees of
As
@KamalaHarris
takes her oath and Indians world over fill up with pride, just remember what she stands for - she has no time for religious bigotry or politics of caste. If you don’t subscribe to these principles don’t you dare claim her as one of your own.
#Inauguration2021
I’m really, really so delighted that
#TheTainted
’s been shortlisted for SAHR ‘s Prize for Military Fiction. It means more readers will know of the paradoxical role of Irish regiments in the Raj and the story of the many thousands of children left behind.
#IndiaIreland
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We are very pleased to be able to announce the shortlist for the 2019-2020 SAHR Prize for Military Fiction. Look out for more details of the shortlisted books, ahead of the winner being announced on 31 October.
An attempted murder should be treated as exactly that. The second such incident in Cork. Universities have a duty of care and should take it up forcefully with the Gardai . You can’t send delegations to Asia recruiting fee paying students unless you can assure students of basic
What a pity if Ireland was to lose a dedicated paediatrician,
@mohsinkamal169
, because he didn't have an opportunity to further his medical training. Unconscionable that there is no joined up thinking from the government. Great interview,
@SorchaPollak
Yes, it’s horrifying to see me and mine suddenly become the issue, when in reality we immigrants are part of the solution.
@UnaMullally
is right:‘Bigotry is going unchecked.’
So honoured to be part of this wonderfully curated exhibition on our shared Indo-Irish history. That’s me in the middle and I’m a video ‘exhibit’ too😅
@Chealy_
@EPICMuseumCHQ
📣Thrilled with wonderful review in
@thetimes
!! In best new historical fiction for May: “Cauvery Madhavan, a writer from Chennai who lives in Ireland, draws out powerful themes of identity and belonging to give heft to this evocative and affecting novel.“
I’m so honoured that
#TheTainted
has been shortlisted for SAHR ‘s Prize for Military Fiction. The prize recognises literary merit and historical accuracy - I’m just over the moon. Thank you
@societyarmy
!
@hoperoadpublish
As publication day approaches, my family are secretly hoping and praying that I’m not going through with my cunning plan to literally wear my book.
#TheInheritance
#WestCork
This is an extra special review because
@fmcomment
was my editor at the Sunday Tribune - I use to quake with anxiety when submitting my op-eds to him - he was so exacting! Delighted!!!
A year ago I was dragged, kicking screaming onto Twitter. I've made great friends & learnt things wildly outside my sphere of interest. I'm in constant wonder at the incredible possibilities that life has for me and my mates via Twitter. So a toast to my Twitter buddies 🥂🙋🏽♀️♥️🥂
A emotional journey of sorts yesterday, taking my book to Dursey Island - to pay respect to the memory of O’Sullivan Beare and his kin. To the right is the O’Sullivan vault.
#TheInheritance
Browsing second-hand bookstalls in India brings back fond childhood memories. My brother(6) and I(9) got a princely one rupee every Sunday and were let loose in the bazaar. It would buy at least 10 books. Still a great way to spend a few hours. Zoom in to see the titles!
#books
Halftime
@EURO2020
and I walk in to see my mam watching the semi . Your father loved football, she says. It’s 20 years since he died…she’s still so good to him.❤️
My 82yr old mam is lovely. BUT, everyday as RTE News ends, she eagerly readies herself for the Weather. Then shedding her kind persona she turns brutally judgy - tearing the meteorologists to shreds for their sartorial choices or like today conceding it’s a “lovely dress “!🤦🏽♀️😁🤦🏽♀️