Orla Moore

Did a wee thing yesterday. Jack of all trades, MASTER of something, at last 👩‍🎓 ⁦@ManMetUni⁩ ⁦@McrWritingSchl⁩

This St. Brigid’s Day, we’re looking at ‘A Brigid’s Girdle’, from Heaney’s first collection after his Nobel Prize win. In the poem, he hopes for magical healing powers for an ill friend from his Harvard days, Adele. Wishing you all a lovely and peaceful day with your loved ones.

OMG this was my school (a long long time ago) and I can confirm the teachers were excellent 🥳 @StPatsMaghera

And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore, In September or October, when the wind And the light are working off each other So that the ocean on one side is wild

The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by @_CaitlinORyan If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

But wind comes up from the shore: They shake when the winds roar, Old bones upon the mountain shake The words of WB Yeats that Edna O’Brien, who was buried today, requested on her headstone.

You ran your heart out 💚 so close 🤏 but you have no idea how proud we are 🥹 Massive National Record 🔥 3:19.90 !!! #TeamIreland | #Paris2024

@fiquigg @LeTour @BBCnireland Cracking match Fiona! To the last minute omg 🇮🇪

@mafletch2 @LeTour @BBCnireland I hope you chose well Orla!! C’mon the Banner 💛💙🥳

All-Ireland hurling final or the final stage of the Tour de France?! TV sport dilemma - like reliving my teens @LeTour @BBCnireland

@FionaQuigs @LeTour @BBCnireland You got it Fiona! 🤣

@mafletch2 @LeTour @BBCnireland Has to be the hurling 😂

Hello #Classof2024 👋 we are your Manchester Metropolitan University alumni community, here for you after graduation and beyond!

@YasminChopin @ManMetUni @McrWritingSchl Congratulations Yasmin! The sun came out for us - then bucketed after!

@mafletch2 @ManMetUni @McrWritingSchl Yay! Congratulations, Orla. I was there yesterday... !

Did a wee thing yesterday. Jack of all trades, MASTER of something, at last 👩‍🎓 ⁦@ManMetUni⁩ ⁦@McrWritingSchl⁩

@danhett Great to meet you in person, albeit briefly, Dan! Congratulations! Thoroughly deserved, you legend. 🎓

Steve Wright in the Afternoon’s theme by @AJMusicProds remains iconic. RIP Steve. A broadcasting genius.

In the run up to #ValentinesDay our team are reading out some of their favourite Heaney love poems. Today, we share "Scaffolding".

Heaney was fascinated by bog bodies, even travelling all the way to Denmark to see the Tollund Man. He would have been amazed to learn of this exciting discovery in his beloved Bellaghy. irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…

I wonder who dreamed up the name Rubicon for this university sponsored housing development in Cambridge . Not 100% auspicious I would say!

What a night! We only went and won @EHUShortStory @edgehill. Huge thanks to @NoAlibisPress @NOALIBISBOOKS @TorransDavid @EmmaHWarnock @ACNIWriting @ribhbrownlee. More pics when my head settles. Congratulations to @NaomiBooth, winner of The Readers’ Prize.

William Ulsterman

With plenty of 'Dangerous pavements' out there we share this haiku that Heaney wrote for the new year in 1987. It's a short but poignant poem written only a few months after the passing of his father. 'Dangerous pavements. But I face the ice this year With my father’s stick.'