clara

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📚 editor of HERETIC PRIDE and CAMP CRASH FILTH 🏳️‍⚧️ Board of North Tipperary Queer Shed, former Chair of Trans Limerick Community ✏️ YA writer 🚸 Children's Books Ireland Raising Voices '25 🎶 Composer ⚧️ 30, she/they

A designed heading reading "HERETIC" in red text. Text reads: "ARTS BOOKLET OPEN CALL DEADLINE: 26 APRIL, 11:59PM PAID OPPORTUNITY Heretic Pride will be an arts booklet produced by the Trans Limerick community with Clara Laherty as Prose & Poetry Editor and Dylan Ryan as Visual Arts Editor. Submissions are open to the entire trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming community across all of Ireland. The booklet will twin ancient Irish pagan traditions with contemporary queer experience to explore life on the fringe. The launch will form part of Limerick's Alt Pride this July."
Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul
A hand holds a copy of Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates: Chocolate Cheat! by Cat Weldon & Nene Lonergan. The cover is an illustration of Amelia, a mouse wearing pilot goggles, on a propellor plane with her best friend Webster the spider. In the background, there is a museum to the right and an Aztec temple and huge snake to the left.
A gloved hand holding a copy of 'Shorelines' by Ruth Ennis at the launch in the Gutter Bookshop. The cover has an illustration of a mermaid.
White-and-grey cat with ginger bits edited to be wearing a fedora and smoking a cigarette. The brim of the hat is edited so that it fits his ears.
Wake Up Dead Man: 5 stars. Die My Love: 3 stars. Bogonia: 5 stars. V for Vendetta: 4 stars.
One image on top of another, with the lower image forming a border. In the top image, a hand holds a zine. The cover reads 'ON BEING AN ARTIST' in large, green handwriting alongside black, typewriter-style text reading 'ON BEING AN ARTIST', 'A ZINE BY CAOILFHINN GEARY'. The border image is of Caoilfhinn's work desk, with several copies of 'ON BEING AN ARTIST' and other materials.
Me speaking behind a podium at the Grafton. I have dark, curly hair and wear round glasses and a denim jacket and skirt. I'm leaning forward in a kind of intense storyteller way.
A graphic reading "RAISING VOICES SHOWCASE", "Amelia Etherton, Caoimhe Hennessy, Clara Laherty, Coireall Kent, Eve Magrahan and Laura Ambrose", "Sat 8 Nov, 4.45pm | Bartley's Lounge, The Grafton", "TICKETS: dublinbookfestival.com". There are headshots of all six participants. The logo for Dublin Book Festival is in the top-right, and the logo for Raising Voices is in the bottom-left.
The original Starbucks logo, depicting a two-tailed mermaid. The tails are spread suggestively. She also, it must be acknowledged, has her boobs out.
Completed 'Intermediate' newspaper sudoku in red ink
Meme with an image of Batman on the top and Joaquin Phoenix Joker on the bottom. The Batman image says in the Impact meme font: "CHILDHOOD IS WHEN" "YOU IDOLISE BATMAN". The Joker image says "ADULTHOOD IS WHEN" "YOU REALIZE CHEESE IS REALLY EXPENSIVE".
On a grey boundary beside a footpath, there is graffiti of a fluffy, anthropomorphic cartoon animal laying horizontal as if being blown along by the flow of traffic. They have pointed, tufted ears and a spiral in the centre of their torso.
Nene Lonergan sits in an orange chair and reads a book with a played-up hand-on-chin thoughtful expression. To the right, Coireall Kent and I both sit on a rug on the floor, each holding a hand to our own faces with exaggerated expressions of awe and wonderment. Behind us, there is a bookcase.Two display bookcases on a stage. To the left, there is a signpost with three signs pointing in different directions, reading: 'WHOLE', 'WILD', 'WORLD'. On top of the right-hand-side bookshelf stack, there is a hand-drawn peace sign and a hand-drawn sign reading 'RESISTANCE' in orange bubble font.
Jessica Love speaks to an audience. She wears a yellow cardigan over a light-yellow top. A spread from 'Júlio is a Mermaid' is projected behind her. In the spread, a dark-skinned child with a mermaid tail is underwater, in among a shoal of fish in all the colours of the rainbow.
A Dav Pilkey cartoon of Dog Man with his trademark bubble writing reading "TÁ DOG MAN AG TEACHT AN GHAELTACHT"
Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin speaks to an audience in front of a bookcase display, his expression a little intense. An ISL interpreter to the left of him is signing, and her expression is very intense.
Leon Dip speaks to an audience. He wears a grey jacket and dark trousers.
Lauren O'Hara paints a fantastical bird in fiery reds on a cloth canvas. She sits at a desk. A camera on a stand in front of her records her painting. The footage is projected behind her, large, so an audience can watch. The accompanying music is an excerpt of Stravinsky's 'The Firebird': a slow-tempo, slow-building orchestral piece, mainly on strings.
Multiple tables covered in a varied, colourful range of children's books.
Two display bookcases on a stage. To the left, there is an orange armchair and a signpost with three signs pointing in different directions, reading: 'WHOLE', 'WILD', 'WORLD'. On top of the right-hand-side bookshelf stack, there is a hand-drawn peace sign and a hand-drawn sign reading 'RESISTANCE' in orange bubble font.
A hand holding a copy of 'Making It Up As You Go Along: A Children's Guide to Writing Stories'. In the background and out of focus, Mags Walsh addresses an audience. She's seated around a coffee table with Patricia Forde and Mary Murphy.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Patricia Forde laugh together. They're both sitting in chairs behind a coffee table. Frank wears a white shirt, dark trousers, and loafers. Patricia wears all black shirt and trousers.
A street near the Light House Cinema in Dublin city.
In the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Caoimhe Hennessy, Eve Magrahan, Amelia Etherton, me (Clara Laherty), and Coireall Kent sit around a table having a conversation in a bay window.
Shannon Bridge over the River Shannon in Limerick city at sunset.
Bantry Bay on an overcast day.
Will Sliney, seated, speaks to an audience in a sheltered area outside Bantry House.
Daniel Galvin speaks into a microphone to an audience at Marino Church.
Quynh Tran speaks into a microphone to an audience at Marino Church. Seán Farrell is to his right.
Five teenage contributors to Rainbow Library pose for a photograph in a school hall
Balsam Karam speaks to an audience in Marino Church from a seat behind a table. Saskia Vogel is to her right
A person reads to an audience in a library
Kel Menton reads from his novel A FIX OF LIGHT into a microphone to an audience at Bantry Bookstore. Molly Twomey is to their left. Kel wears a white shirt and glasses and has short, fair hair.
Me, Amelia Etherton, Jen Wallace, and Caoimhe Hennessy pose for a photo
Caoilinn Hughes speaks into a microphone to an audience in the Maritime Hotel. She wears a white top and her hair is tied up. Claire Kilroy is on her left, and the MC is on her right (I didn't get the name, sorry to her). Behind them, a projector screen reads "West Cork Literary Festival, Friday 11 – 18 July 2025, Bantry, Co. Cork" with a red circle over it, surrounded by a red, dotted-pattern design.
Patricia Forde speaks to an audience in the Work Shop. She has red hair and wears a brown dress. Sarah Webb is to her right, and Leona Forde is to her left. In front of her, a table holds loads of children's books.
Bathroom mirror selfie of me in a blue T-shirt with a floral design and orange fake-leather shorts
I pose for a bathroom mirror selfie! I have big, dark hair and round glasses, and I'm wearing a grey, professional skirt with a floral blouse over a light-blue T-shirt.
My nails with nail art: a white base with pastel red, blue, and green polka dots.
A painting of me on a yellow-stone balcony, facing away. I wear a burgundy T-shirt and aqua-blue chinos. I'm looking at a parking complex in the background. The painting is, you know – very good!!!
Me posing for a photograph with illustrator Caoimhe Hennessy and her fiance Anna in the Dublin Pride parade.
A selfie of Kim and me smilin! I have big, dark, curly hair and wear round glasses and a red T-shirt. Kim wears rectangular glasses and a light, sleeveless top in a different red. She's four-foot-ten and I'm six feet and I have my arm around her.
Text reading: "Kerry Guinan’s practice is informed by the way that places are effectively brought closer together by capitalist processes. Using installation, participatory art, performance, and photography, she twins subjects in different locations, revealing political connections across vast distances. This exhibition guides invisible technological and economic connections into presence, gently suggesting that distance can deepen the significance of human interdependence."
An illustration of Clara and Kim viewed from the back, sitting on a bench by the River Shannon, facing Shannon Bridge. The sun is on the horizon. Kim has dark hair in a ponytail and wears a white shirt and has a red jacket tied around her waist. I have brown, curly hair and wear a big purple coat. There are pigeons around us. There are loads of flat-bottomed clouds, stars, and birds in flight, and behind them, the sky is different shades of blue, divided into segments of a big semi-circle as they get further out from the sun.
An image from the animated movie Wolfwalkers. Robyn is in a dark, spooky forest. She's a kid with blonde hair in a plait and a trepidatious expression, and she wears a dark hood and a green... I'm going to say tunic.
The money used by the Limerick Soviet edited to be pink and read "The Workers of Limerick Promise to the bearer 1/3 ESTROGEN"
Inis Magazine, the Children's Books Ireland magazine, Issue 74, in my hand. On the cover, there is a colourful, cartoon-style drawing of some comically startled... hens? Cockerels? I think one on the left is a turkey. And in the bottom-left is the Children's Books Ireland logo with their tagline "Every child a reader".
A bowl of pancake batter. In the background, a pan is on the hob.
Small, professional headshot of a man in a suit. "By Pat McGrath, Western Correspondent". Body of text reads: It was perhaps apt that the final film screened at Galway's Pálás cinema last Thursday night was Mulholland Drive. The movie, directed by David Lynch, is a picture that's generated much conversation and comment since its release in 2001. Some rank it as one of the best films of the 21st Century, others remain baffled by its narrative arc, in as much as it even has one. Anyone who's seen the film will have a definite view on it. Either good or bad. Worthwhile, or a waste of time. Similarly distinct opinions have been attached to the cinema in which 'Mullholland Drive' was shown the other evening.