Robert Clarke

@adrianmckinty Although to be fair, I do have a g/grandmother from Co. Antrim

@adrianmckinty Donegal

when planning your trip to Ireland this summer, don't forget that Co. Antrim is Ireland's best county

@fbongiornoanu The world needs a stirrer or three

Breaking. Vossy new ANU Chancellor.

@AdamCoffeyNT classy

Even put CHEESY DUMPLINGS in the top 🤤

@SamWPaquet keep on keeping on

@RobertClarke147 I haven’t conquered Chile just yet…

What is this a map of? Wrong answers only.

@adrianmckinty wow!

a bit more about ladders... every British person over 40 knows who Fred Dibnah is he was a steeplejack who repaired and demolished factory chimneys without a hardhat or a safety harness using old rickety ladders you can find the BBC doc about him on youtube a taste:

@adrianmckinty Finally arrived and half way through. Terrific!

so this book was excellent existing at the Venn intersection of so many of my interests: Tennyson, poetry, Victorian science, pessimism, Existentialism (I know but read my review) it's pricey in the hardback but your library will have it &, like I say, full review to follow...

@MST_Writes Don't envy you the edit. Removing the words is like cutting friends...but then I'm a sensitive soul. Congrats on being able to almost see the sunrise.

At 130,000 words, I've nearly finished the first draft of my biography of Australian feminist Louisa Lawson. Still have to write an epilogue & edit those words to fewer than 100,000. But today I wrote about her death in 1920 & it feels like a milestone. #biography

@adrianmckinty why?

do you know I have substack? aye, well, I do... adrianmckinty.substack.com it's free and there's a bunch of shite on it and today there's a new update to 39 Birds and Sean Duffy 9

@adrianmckinty Crikey mate you live well. I'd need to sell a kidney to buy a bottle here - around $A430! No wonder you went back for seconds.

I was at a fancy thing in the Mid-Town where the open bar had a Bowmore 21 Year Old Oak Sherry Cask I went back for seconds sinister peats, Biblical smoke, decadent fruits When St Michael and Lucifer meet every 100 years to discuss human affairs they drink this 👍

People are expressing outrage about how Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested, saying it was too public. He was arrested with no cuffs, not a hand on him, despite facing allegations of war crimes. I can’t help but think of the young Aboriginal boy wrongly arrested at gunpoint by the AFP on a Canberra bus. A boy who was wrongly identified, profiled because he was Aboriginal, searched even after police realised they had the wrong person. An innocent child, just trying to get home – publicly humiliated, a gun drawn on him. Where was the outrage then? Where has it been for the hundreds of Black and brown people who don’t survive police arrests, who die at their hands? Spare me your tears for Ben Roberts-Smith. If you have a problem with the police, at least be consistent.

@adrianmckinty And I went out and spent $40. Great book.

1/3 in case you missed 'em my 3 most recent articles from Lit/Hub the first one was about the meaning of life and Alfred Tennyson lithub.com/19th-century-b…

@fbongiornoanu yeah yeah. Try being a Tigers supporter...

Tell #carlton that, good as he is, the whole recruiting Warren Ralph idea isn't going to work out.

@MST_Writes @SketchesbyBoze well said

@SketchesbyBoze I’m a reader and a published writer. I love books and I love your advocacy for them. But lots of societies without books definitely have a history. 50,000 years of Australian First Nations culture springs to mind … 0 books doesn’t equal 0 history

Haunted by something I read this morning in a book on the Vikings: “A society without books is ... a society without a history.” We have no idea what we’re throwing away when we abandon literacy as a culture. The rejection of reading is the birth of a new dark age.

@MST_Writes Onya!

Wow. Just wow. Shortlisted for the 2026 Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards. Stunned and delighted 💚🐊💚 #SpiritoftheCrocodile #MiddleGrade

@adrianmckinty can't see online bookings, sadly.

so I'll be in Magheramorne this Sunday at the Magheramorne Literary Festival unfortunately the event with Col is sold out but its always worth checking to see if there have been cancellations or extra seats put on... see you there...

@Ravilious1942 Agreed.

On #InternationalWomensDay I wanted to once again pay tribute to Tirzah Garwood, Eric Ravilious’ wife. They met when she was a student at Eastbourne College, married Eric in 1930 & a dozen years later was a war widow. Her work continued, and she deserves to be much better known.

@adrianmckinty Thanks for this. Will suss it out. Great writer.