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Martina Devlin

21 days

Thanks to @MiriamOCal and #SundaywithMiriam for letting me talk all things Irish, #Charlotte and #Bronte @LilliputPress . Listen here

Martina Devlin

Chat with the author about her new novel ‘Charlotte: A Novel’ (about Charlotte Brontë, told from the perspective of Mary Bell, the Irish woman who met Charlotte when she and her husband - and Mary's...

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11 months

Actually we took it back off people like you 100 odd years ago.

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The Irish are taking back O'Connell Street. #Ireland #IrelandBelongsToTheIrish

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Not a #brigidsday goes by but I wear my mother Bridie's treasured St Bridget's cross. It was given to her by her own mother Josie. Objects have power. I look at this and see the chain of loving women I'm descended from. Happy #LaFheileBride #StBrigidsDay #imbolc

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Live RTÉ coverage at Beal na Bláth #MichaelCollins shows not just @MichealMartin but @LeoVaradkar booed by sections of the huge crowd. Whatever your political affiliation, this is disrespectful both to the State and the event.

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Martina Devlin

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3 years

As queues stretch outside petrol stations in Britain+empty shelves yawn in supermarkets, political unionism forms an Us Too Society. They want fuel+food shortages in solidarity with their mainland brethren. My column on the illogic of being anti #protocol

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Martina Devlin

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5 years

When @MichealMartinTD uses terms such as "up there' about the North my heart sinks. That's the language of the past not the future. Where's the leadership in language emphasising division rather than that wonderful concept... possibilities? #fiannafail #Leadersdebate #GE20

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Martina Devlin

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6 years

Here's the cover of my new book Truth & Dare due out Oct 1- series of short stories in which I bring to life some of the exceptional women who shaped Ireland: Maud Gonne, Kathleen Lynn,Anna Parnell,Countess Markievicz, Nano Nagle, Dorothy Macardle, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington+others

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Martina Devlin

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4 years

Good luck to @SarahAMcInerney presenting the show today - you played a blinder on @TodayRadioRTE . An asset to the airwaves. Onwards and upwards. #WomenSupportingWomen @WomenOnAirIE

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Martina Devlin

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2 years

Jimmy Nesbitt reading over his speech before the off @3ArenaDublin @IrelandsFuture #TogetherWeCan

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Martina Devlin

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4 years

1. Persistence and conviction pay off: Keane family #Coventry have just learned Church of England will refund costs of their court action for right to use 5 words of Irish without translation on their mother's headstone @My_Mums_Voice @caoilfhionnanna @DoughtyStPublic @PENIreland

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Martina Devlin

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4 years

1. A family in #Coventry are fighting for the right to use 5 words of Irish on their mother's headstone. They've been stopped because the language has been politicised. The Keanes spoke to me here @Independent_ie @CnaG @IrelandsFuture @My_Mums_Voice

‘We’re fighting for right to display our heritage’ – family’s legal battle in UK for Gaeilge on...

The Keane family are in the midst of a legal battle over five words they hoped would be used to remember their mother.

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Martina Devlin

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4 years

I've gone back again+again to the First Min's tweet - each time taken aback anew by "the real law breakers". Words are weapons. They can light petrol bombs. Send people out to riot. To damage property...and worse. Words need to be used judiciously, not flung out to fan the flames

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Martina Devlin

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3 years

There'll always be people who are uncomfortable with the #unity conversation + for whom it's never the right time, says @LeoVaradkar . But the conversation is happening regardless. Thank you for showing leadership here, Tánaiste. Thank you for not letting the criticism silence you

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Tánaiste @LeoVaradkar speaking today on his speech on #IrishUnity at the #FGArdFheis . Repeats tonight at 22:00 on the RTÉ news channel and at 23:20 on @rteone . #rtepolitics

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Martina Devlin

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3 years

Of course @PresidentIRL should not attend any event (church services included) to mark #NorthernIreland 's #centenary . He knows his history. NI was a political solution rammed through not thought through, marked by naked, unchecked sectarianism. My column.

Why President Higgins should not attend service marking 100 years of partition

Centenaries are in the air, and Northern Ireland is no exception. Political unionism is gung-ho about marking 100 years of partition, but the prevailing weather isn't four-square behind it - Sinn...

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Martina Devlin

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3 years

Just thinking differently made me an enemy of Eoghan Harris in his mind. My column about #onlineabuse

Untruths spread about me by accounts linked to Harris were deeply upsetting

The best lie is always the one people want to believe. A miscellany of lies has been spun anonymously about me. I am described in exceptionally disparaging terms and accused of traits which - if true...

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Martina Devlin

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4 years

Now that @sinnfeinireland is again backing @IanMarshall_ for #Seanad seat, isn't it time other parties stepped forward? Let's have less party political self-interest, more national interest. A well-qualified unionist is ready to engage - encourage him! @fiannafailparty @FineGael

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3 years

1. We need expand the definition of Irishness - one million people living on this island were not born here but call it home, says @IRLPatricia in a discussion chaired in #Derry today by @SusanMcKay15 @IrelandsFuture

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Martina Devlin

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5 years

Ah here. Rallies+marches are a legitimate+effective tool to drive change. Worked with #repeal #marriageequality #WaterRights But Leo Varadkar says of @sinnfeinireland rally plans:"Rallies and marches designed to force your way into gov is not what a normal democratic party does."

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2 years

Dónal Lunney and Denise Chaila preparing to go on stage @3Arena @IrelandsFuture #TogetherWeCan

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2 months

A beautiful setting for today’s farewell to storyteller Edna O’Brien in Tuamgraney. Family, friends and Co Clare locals did her proud. The Country Girl was among her own people.

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Martina Devlin

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2 years

"Something shared isn't something lost ... it's something gained" - yesterday I spoke about my hopes for peaceful and consensual #Irish #reunification at Oulart Hill #Wexford . There, United Irishmen of all religious persuasions fought for reform and equality in #1798 #Easter2022

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Martina Devlin

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3 years

Today I always wear my mother Bridie's favourite brooch bought for her by her own mother. It reminds me of the many wonderful women I'm descended from. Happy #StBrigidsDay one and all. Welcome #spring we're ready for you when you're ready for us #L áFéileBríde #imbolc #Brigit2022

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Edna O’Brien: There was a star danced, and under that was she born.

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The Country Girls first edition cover #ednaobrien

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3 years

1. British government has sole say in timing of #borderpoll and is not bound to make decision in good faith says @JohnDoyleDCU . It can choose to do so at a time when it thinks it will kill off the debate. So Ireland needs to be ready he warns @IrelandsFuture #jointheconversation

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3 years

It's very positive and most welcome to see colleagues from @QUBelfast stand up for @cjhumanrights - in the process backing free speech and independent thinking. This essential step is taken in the face of demonisation from tiny+unrepresentative minority within unionist community

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@QUBHRC

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Professor Colin Harvey is a leading researcher on human rights and constitutional law @qubschooloflaw and a former Director @QUBHRC . Colin's colleagues in the HRC condemn these attacks on his academic standing and express their solidarity with him.

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Martina Devlin

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Happy #NollaigNamBan one and all. Here's my feisty #SheelanaGig to mark the day: I'm envious of those plaits. Look for other Sheelas around #Ireland - 100 plus on church, castle+town walls, 12 in museums incl @NMIreland . has list. Share your Sheela pics!

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1 year

Here's @Love1solidarity standing up for herself and her community here. She's an asset to public life. #discrimination #seanad

Senator says taxi refused to bring her to halting site

A senator who represents the Traveller community has told the Seanad how a taxi driver refused to drive her to her home in the halting site where she lives last night.

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3 years

1. The #Irish government needs to lead the debate on #unity says @frances_black of @irelandsfuture at an in-person unity discussion event in #Cork #jointheconversation #lech éile

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4 years

Today the Keane family in #Coventry can set about having their mother's headstone inscribed in Irish. Their battle is won. My report @My_Mums_Voice @caoilfhionnanna @PENIreland @irishinbritain @labourirish

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5 years

Sylvia Hermon, a woman with backbone and a moral compass, speaks truth to power here as she challenges Boris Johnson. She is doing the Northern state some service #Brexit

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@Saraita101

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Sylvia Hermon MP question to @BorisJohnson about legal advice from the Crown Solicitor's Office.

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4 years

Important anti-apartheid bill from @frances_black that needs to be passed. Has wide, cross-party support but not gov backing. #WestBank Opinion: There really is no excuse for a new Government not to pass the Occupied Territories Bill (via @thejournal_ie )

Opinion: There really is no excuse for a new Government not to pass the Occupied Territories Bill

Duncan Casey argues that the Bill, which would prohibit the import of goods from the West Bank, should no longer be delayed.

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6 years

Ah here. Nelson McCausland is a creationist. As the North's culture minister the DUP politician tried to have anti-Darwin teachings imposed. Yet he's been appointed to a state education board? Someone's having a laugh. But he shouldn't be let anywhere near schooling.

The Irish News

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Creationist ex-DUP MLA Nelson McCausland appointed to Education Authority board

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3 years

Here's Robert Ballagh in his studio with his iconic artwork The Thirtieth of January depicting #BloodySunday . Striking painting launched tonight in the Guildhall #Derry and on show there until end June. Well worth seeing. In a speech Ballagh said he was influenced by Picasso+Goya

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I've shared a platform with Colin Harvey - found him unfailingly courteous, articulate, willing to listen+well-informed - a man who wears his learning lightly. He's Prof of Human Rights Law @QUBelfast + Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute. No slouch #WeSupportColin

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3 years

Roger on his rock: just visited #rogercasement statue near his birthplace in #Dunlaoghaire . Fair dues to @dlrcc for honoring him. He was both nationalist + internationalist, patriot and human rights activist.

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2 years

Political attacks on academic freedom of speech are not only inherently wrong and anti-democratic, they are dangerous in a polity such as Northern Ireland @cjhumanrights @Queens_Belfast

KRW Law Human Rights

@KRWLaw

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Prof Colin Harvey Having reviewed official correspondence, we formally confirm that approval for the use of the QUB logo on the recent research report was explicitly sought in advance and was definitively authorised, by the appropriate authority in QUB

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4 years

"I'm hoping someone fantastic will rent it+replace what's there with an amazing, world class, better version of #bewleys "- Johnny Ronan in today's @Independent_ie interviewed by Liam Collins. Translation: someone fantastic=more rent; better=better for him; 'world class'=Starbucks

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5 years

Here's a long read about a hatchet job on talented storyteller Edna O'Brien in the New Yorker. Worth putting on the kettle and settling down. A Gratuitous Assault

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5 years

'All changed, changed utterly.' For the 1st time since the landslide 1918 election leading to the inaugural Dáil Éireann, @sinnfeinireland tops the polls in Ireland. Not only did no one predict this, received wisdom insisted the party would lose support #IrishTimespoll #GE2020

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4 years

It's the people's right to vote in a #borderpoll it's not for a #Taoiseach to rule it out. My column

Border poll deniers - like the Taoiseach - are no friends to the democratic process

'Border poll deniers” were cited by a prominent political figure yesterday, who suggested a referendum on Irish unity was inevitable and preparations should be made to argue one's case. Was it...

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5 years

Wearing my #StBrigidsDay cross today. It was by mother's before me. Bought for her by her mother.

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11 months

Important to note it was a Brazilian Deliveroo rider who helped to tackle the man with knife attacking little kids in #DublinCity city centre. This brave individual who intervened is from Rio and just a year in Ireland #ParnellSquare

Hero Deliveroo driver who stopped Dublin city knife attacker: ‘I didn’t have time to be afraid’ as...

A Deliveroo rider and father-of-two has told of how he stopped a knife attacker on Dublin’s Parnell Square yesterday.

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Martina Devlin

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4 years

The surge towards #unity for #Ireland will become widely recognised in #2021year . Let's start the planning. My column @IrelandsFuture

Shifting tides of UK politics flow towards Irish acceptance we're stronger together

'Unity is no longer a thing I can influence. Look out the window: the Rhine flows by there. You can't stop it. I can't stop it...

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Martina Devlin

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6 years

Friends, let's remember reproductive choice may have been passed by public demand in the Republic but it remains strictly limited North of the border. A lot of good work done, more to do. Follow @All4Choice and lend your support #together4yes #repealthe8th #peoplepower

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2 years

"A home is where you are loved and protected, where family comes together - despite difference - under one roof. That's the foundation for building a nation,""" says @MaryLouMcDonald @IrelandsFuture @3ArenaDublin #TogetherWeCan

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4 years

Here's a clear-sighted politician with fire in her belly. This four-minute speech is worth listening to #SNP #InternalMarketBill #Brexit

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It took us 300 years to get our Scottish Parliament and 20 years for Westminster to put a bulldozer right through it. #InternalMarketBill

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Saddened by this shortsighted decision to toss The O'Rahilly's home. Opposition from #1916 relatives, Dept of Arts, An Taisce etc ignored. New build planned here: controversial co-living development. As a society we'll end up knowing price of everything and value of nothing.

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6 years

My #FeministPresident realises feminism isn't a women's issue. It matters for men and women...it's a society issue. It's not men vs women. Nor one sex being superior to the other. It's about equal opportunity for all. #Aras18

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4 years

1. Undemocratic to change the rules for a #borderpoll when 50pc plus one has been enough to maintain #partition says Niall Murphy on @PatKennyNT He asks why would those who aspire to unity should have to deviate from a democratic norm used for all elections @IrelandsFuture

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3 years

1. The conversation has started - some people want it to happen and some people don't, says chair of @IrelandsFuture latest discussion @mairinnighadhra in Galway tonight. #PreparingforanewIreland

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3 years

Here's some news I'm delighted to share. My next novel #Edith is due out soon. It's about Edith Somerville, co-author of The Irish R.M. stories and an early adopter of the value of hybrid identity. Publisher is @LilliputPress #Cork #Womenwriters

Edith by Martina Devlin (A Novel) - The Lilliput Press

Edith by Martina Devlin, a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of ‘Somerville and Ross’ fame. Buy now!

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@DevlinMartina

4 years

The O'Rahilly's house has been tossed in a blatant act of cultural vandalism. Yeats warned of a society where people would "fumble in a greasy till/And add the halfpence to the pence".

1916 Walking Tour

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The same people who own the Herbert Park Hotel who want tourists to come to Dublin have now destroyed O’Rahilly’s Home 40 Herbert Park a potential tourist attraction. Now it’s a pile of rubble.

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11 months

I saw this often during the Troubles. It's recreational rioting by bored kids. Problem is the consequences can be serious

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Parnell Street right now

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This is my don't jump on my lap, don't jump on my lap, DON'T JUMP ON MY LAP face #liveTV @rtetwip @lawlor_aine

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Being Irish is much more complicated than being English, says Jimmy Nesbitt. Quotes Churchill saying trouble with Irish is they refuse to be English. "Too bloody right," says Jimmy Nesbitt @IrelandsFuture

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1. Tribute paid to "leadership" shown by @KarenSethuraman by @paulmaskeymp for standing shoulder to shoulder with community workers at an interface area to prevent rioting in #Belfast . @OireachtasNews Joint Committee on the Implementation of the #GoodFridayAgreement

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Jaw-dropping to see here list of companies with Michael Cawley on the board. Ryanair, Kingspan, Paddy Power, Hostelworld - + Failte Ireland until y'day. Key lesson from the financial collapse was importance of diversity on boards. Not same faces everywhere

Resign or be removed Fáilte head was told

FÁILTE Ireland chairman Michael Cawley resigned after being told by the Government that his position was untenable following revelations that he is on holiday in Italy. Mr Cawley resigned during a...

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I'll be cheering for #Tyrone today but hoping both sides give a good account of themselves. Here's one of my father's #GAA medals back before I was born. @omaghstendas

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Friends meeting backstage @MaryLouMcDonald and Dónal Lunney @3ArenaDublin @IrelandsFuture #TogetherWeCan

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2 years

We need to find ways around and over walls because walls block progress. And lack of progress means stasis - one of my key messages @dalkeybookfest event 'Think 32: United Ireland...Are You Ready?'

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Here's the legendary Edna O'Brien immediately after making an inspiring speech today @1city1book where she said she wanted to read great books not glib books. Hurrah for eloquent straight talkers. Even Parnell on the wall there looks impressed @DublinCityofLit @dubcilib

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Great idea to have a foot pump to dispense hand sanitiser in public places - just spotted this in #DunLaoghaire branch of #AnPost

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3 years

An ongoing smear campaign against @cjhumanrights threatens academic freedom in #NorthernIreland and could lead to other negative consequences, warn #UN human rights experts

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For the first time an MLA in #Stormont who isn't a nationalist has asked the Irish government to set out details of what a #unitedireland would look like. Here's my piece in @Independent_ie

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'Irish heart Coventry home' is a phrase which in many ways encapsulates Margaret Keane.She was a proud Irishwoman who emigrated to England from Meath in 1950s, one of many Irish people who made journey at that time, @caoilfhionnanna told appeal ct today @My_Mums_Voice @PENireland

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Nobody does colour like Harry Clarke. Magnificent stained glass windows in chapel @StMarys_Belfast and well worth a visit if you're in #Belfast @FeileBelfast #irishart

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1 Small memory #SalmanRushdie to share. In 1990s London I was sent to interview unidentified figure in news. Security tight. No info. Some reporters ushered into room+there he was.When he saw our astonished faces he burst out laughing.Always when I think of him I see him laughing

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1. The diversity of the issues raised at @irelandsfuture public meetings around preparing for unity tells us this is a current and important conversation which people want to engage in, says chair @andreemurphy at latest public meeting in #Sligo #preparingforanewireland

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Here's to #CountessMarkievicz , died 90 years ago today. Our 1st Cabinet minister1919- 1979 before another #morewomen

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1798 united Protestant, Catholic+Dissenter. Examples of such unity are rare. This wonderful #Wexford museum should be protected as the repository of a teachable episode. Not sold to the highest bidder. Please sign this petition via @Change

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1. Timely that we're having the #unity conversation now because we're going through the biggest constitutional change in a generation, said @moneillsf @IrelandsFuture

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If nuns don't want to run the new maternity hospital why do they want 4 out of 9 seats on board? #NationalMaternityHospital @morningireland

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5 years

The Israelis have created this appalling ghetto... important to remember amid the @Eurovision feelgood stagecraft. There's no way to feel good about what's happening to Palestinians.

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"Twenty minutes away from the Eurovision festivities lies the Gaza Strip, a tormented land of siege, poverty and hunger, of Israel's own making" | Ghada Karmi

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Well said @MarianKeyes "It would be better if the Government put their resources into dismantling Direct Provision and all its attendant horrors instead of simply monitoring opposition to it.” #enddirectprovision

Civil servants monitor posts criticising the Government

OFFICIALS at the Department of Justice have been monitoring celebrities, politicians, asylum seekers and members of the public who criticise Direct Provision on social media. The Department of...

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How would you feel about protests against divorce outside courts? This is what anti-choice activists are doing to women+staff outside clinics offering abortions. My @Independent_ie column

Martina Devlin: 'The right to protest gives nobody the right to intimidate others - it allows no...

Imagine having to pass protesters on your way into court, where a judge is ready to deal with your divorce application, because some people believe marria...

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King Puck should be left in the wild. NOT caught. NOT caged in a metal box. NOT paraded through #Killorglin with blaring PA system. And NOT hoisted onto a platform above the town. This is animal cruelty NOT culture. Stop it #puckfair #Kerry @cronin_siobhan

Puck Fair goat to spend less time on elevated stand

The hours spent by the wild mountain goat on a high stand overlooking Killorglin at the annual Puck Fair are to be severely curtailed next month.

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@DevlinMartina

3 years

And so say all of us. Here's proof the North has changed. The #belfastriots don't define the place. Most people just want to live and let live.

Michelle O’Neill

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As Deputy First Minister I wish to extend my sincere condolences to Queen Elizabeth and her family on the death of her husband Prince Phillip.

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A handwritten, newly discovered copy of Wolfe Tone's speech from the dock to be auctioned @WhytesDublin next weekend. He united Protestant, Catholic+Dissenter under common name of Irishman+woman. I really hope it stays in the country+ goes on public show.

For sale: Wolfe Tone's handwritten speech from the dock

A 1798 proclamation and a previously unknown handwritten copy of Wolfe Tone's speech from the dock before his death sentence will be auctioned next weekend. A treasure trove of manuscripts from the...

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@DevlinMartina

4 years

Why are both Irish and British govs united in their reluctance to consider a #borderpoll ? asks @cjhumanrights of @IrelandsFuture . Says this issue is about choice+its constant denial. That position "will not be sustainable for much longer," he writes here:

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

5 years

Calling all readers. Here's a new book podcast for bookworms to burrow into. It's called #CityofBooks sponsored by @DublinCityofLit and @DubCityCouncil in association with @MoLI_Museum @dubcilib #Ireland #Dublin #books … Please retweet

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

3 years

12. People talk about angry Nordies but it's hurt and to call them not Irish is to make them stateless says @tadghhickey

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

1 year

Very proud and happy to launch Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Selected Stories from @BlackstaffNI tonight. What a wonderful collection of #shortstories gathered from a lifetime of storytelling @IrishWritersCtr

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

5 years

I "shuddered to see watch towers on UK soil" when I visited the #border during the Troubles, says @BorisJohnson #Dublin Not half as much as we who lived with them day in and day out, Prime Minister #Brexitmehole #Brexit

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

4 months

1. #WomenandResistance ⁦Bernadette McAliskey tells @yesderry2024 it was baptism of fire on her 1st civil rights march.Says: I was angry at police beating up people+angry w/ myself for not already knowing we wouldn’t be let march.That bad temper led to me being youngest ever MP

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

4 years

Head in my hands watching the #PresidentialDebate2020 right through now. It's depressing regardless of whether you're Democrat or Republican. All those women, told for so many years, you just aren't president material dear.

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

6 years

1/13 For the next 12 days I'll be tweeting about some of the trailblazing women in my new book. They struggled for a fairer society but are forgotten or sidelined. Their stories are fascinating - let's remember them @PoolbegBooks #exceptionalwomen #HERstory #truth &dare

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

3 years

This #belfast

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

11 months

Well done to @chaptersbooks for your creative snowmen made from #books and a few twists of paper. You've put a smile on my face.

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

2 years

1. An #Oireachtas committee on #Irishunity should be set up to prepare for a possible #borderpoll , @nealeRichmond says at a @irelandsfuture event in @HouseofCommons

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

2 years

#Edith is in the shops now. It's #HistoricalFiction - the dramatic life of #IrishRM co-author Edith Somerville of Somerville and Ross. She was some woman. As is Louisa of @ravenbooks for kindly putting her in the window @LilliputPress

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

9 years

A 7-year-old boy wears his great-grandfather's medals to the #1916 ceremony on O'Connell St @Independent_ie

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

5 years

If we winter this one out/We can summer anywhere - Heaney's words chalked on a house near us #COVID19 #coronavirus #lockdown

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

3 years

The #Protocol is working. That's beyond dispute. Freight trade is up significantly this year at Belfast, Larne+Warrepoint ports. No real shortages on #NI shelves unlike Britain. So who benefits from push to change it? Not the North's population. My column.

Face facts, Frost - protocol is working and unionist rhetoric will leave UK out in cold

PROBLEMS are being caused by the Northern Ireland Protocol, apparently. Who for? Not for the bulk of Northern Irish businesses, which support it. Not for the majority of Northern Irish politicians,...

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

2 months

Hand on my heart this is my favourite book cover yet - thrilled with jacket image for #Charlotte my new novel about Charlotte Brontë's life, afterlife+strong Irish links. Pub Sep 11. Thanks to designer Katie Tooke +hardworking @LilliputPress team @artscouncil_ie @booksirelandmag

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

2 months

Edna O’Brien spoke too much truth for people in Ireland. My analysis of the trailblazing writer and her work in @Independent_ie

Edna O’Brien obituary: She washed her country’s dirty laundry in public, prompting a tidal wave of...

There must have been sex in Ireland before Edna O’Brien wrote about it, but unless it was sex sanctified by a wedding ceremony it didn’t exist – at least n...

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

2 months

Edna O’Brien: There was a star danced, and under that was she born.

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

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First copy of my new novel is now on my bookshelf. Thrilled to see #Charlotte join a row of other #Bronte books by and about them. ⁦ @LilliputPress ⁩ #Haworth

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

4 years

For me a #unitedireland is a shared island @cjhumanrights tells #seanad @IrelandsFuture

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

2 years

Edith Somerville was some woman. It was a privilege to immerse myself in her life for this novel. #books #irishauthors #reading

The Lilliput Press

@LilliputPress

2 years

◽️ COVER REVEAL ◽️ Edith, by the bestselling, award-winning author, journalist and playwright @DevlinMartina . Edith is a captivating novel based on the life of Edith Somerville (1854–1949) of ‘Somerville and Ross’ fame. Cover design by the incredibly talented @hitoneie .

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

4 years

Better a little which is well done than a lot done imperfectly - Plato. #johnhume funeral was a perfect example of the 'less is more' approach. Dignified and understated.

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

2 years

1. Revolutionary+politician, aristocrat+republican, Countess Markievicz died 95 years ago this month but the inspiration we can take from her exceptional life lives on. My play about her #CallMeMadame is just published by @ArlenHouse with thanks to @ArtsCouncilNI @LissadellHouse

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Martina Devlin

@DevlinMartina

4 years

In speech and song #johnhume always hit the right note. Here he is signing a song he loved on @rte

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