Patrick Helvik
@HelvikPatrick
Author of DISTILLED, a novel set in 1879, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Read a free chapter at my website below or get it on Amazon: http://mybook.to/Distilled
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'Distilled' is a new Irish novel set in Mayo during 1879, the Land War years. A people scarred by the decimation of famine, a land of forgotten heroes, of Michael Davitt, of tenants & landlords, rebels & empire. A time that forged the nation we know today. mybook.to/Distilled
The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism announces that our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95. #thichnhathanh #Buddhism
Sunrise at Stonehenge today (21st December) is at 8.09am, sunset is at 4.01pm #WinterSolstice
Thank you, Mary. Your generous support for other writers is very much appreciated. 🙏😊
The Munster Bookshelf, a year of books – 2020 marycrowleyauthor.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/the… via @marycrowleym Great Books featured throughout 2020 on the Munster Bookshelf. # Novels @sgc58 @HelvikPatrick @watchingthedai1 @GoEndaODoherty @DerekFlynn03 @TrillLINDSAY
Three winters long and full of death and despair, the Fimbulwinter will precede Ragnarök, and usher in the end of everything. #FolkloreThursday
GHOST APPLES The beautiful & uncanny name for when freezing rain settles on the fruit & ices over creating a frozen coating. The apple defrosts before the ice does & the rotting apple falls out of the bottom leaving its gothic icy 'ghost' behind #FolkloreThursday
Thank you to @OMaraBooks and @andrewlownie for all their help with #thewonders - publishing day today! And thanks too @IslingtonMayor @IslingtonLabour for your support as I balance my job as a writer with my job as a Councillor @CanonburyLabour
Happy publication day to #TheWonders by @drjohnwoolf, a radical new history of the Victorian age 🎪 Meet the forgotten and extraordinary performers whose talents and disabilities helped define an era, out now 🎪
We need YOUR help to Stop the Illegal Sale of Dogs and change the cruelty & deception surrounding the illegal selling and advertising of dogs and puppies! New laws exist but they need to be enforced to have an impact! #SoldAPup
This day 696 years ago – 3 November 1324 - Petronilla de Meath was flogged and burnt at the stake in Kilkenny. It was the first trial to link witchcraft and heresy in either Ireland or Great Britain. She had been accused of helping Lady Alice Kyteler plot her husband's murder.
#OnThisDay 1920 Sean MacEoin & Longford IRA men defended the village of Ballinalee from an 11 truck convoy of Black and Tans who aimed to burn it in a reprisal. The firefight began at 11pm on the 2nd & the Tans pulled out at 5am. The IRA had no casualties. #Ireland #History
This day 173 years ago – 2 November 1847 – landlord Denis Mahon was shot in Co Roscommon. Prime Minister John Russell did not defend the killing, but he criticised those who evict “50 persons at once, and burn their houses... The murders are atrocious, so are the ejectments.”
Don't take my pic 🙂 #nikon #TwitterNatureCommunity #nature #naturelovers #photography #wildlifephotography #NaturePhotography #birds
'The Irish jaunting car has not sprung "fully orbed" into being'. The Sphere, 1910.
#OnThisDay 1920 Private James Daly 22, from Tyrellspass Westmeath was executed for his role in the Connaught Rangers Mutiny. The Rangers mutinied over the British military's atrocities in Ireland. Daly was the last soldier in the British Army shot for mutiny. #Ireland #History
Not always sunshine of course but Torridon has more than huge hills. We found this historic outdoor church called Am Ploc. I tried preaching, but Gill was the only member of the congregation (and she was looking a bit bored!), so went for a walk/swim by this lovely burn 🐾👣😊
The Monday morning alarm clock look 😲 #nature #photography #photo #NaturePhotography #bird #birdwatching #TwitterNatureCommunity #Nikon
How to write poetry See this pencil? Throw it away See this computer? Fuck it See this paper? Lose it. Just take a stick & drag it right through the mud In front of you Howling each word into the wind Like Jesus howling on his dying cross.
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