Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social The official account of the Social Democrats - a new force for change in Irish Society. Our Values: Equality. Democracy. Sustainability. Progress #SocDems
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David McCullagh @mcculld.bsky.social Journalist with RTE, presenter of the Today show, Springsteen and Leinster fan, views mine not RTE's. RTs are not an endorsement. Get my new book here linktr.ee/mcculld
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
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Maria Power @mariapower.bsky.social 
Jack McCarron @jackmccarronkk.bsky.social Journalist | RTÉ News and Current Affairs | Email: jack.mccarron@rte.ie
The Reading Agency @readingagency.bsky.social We are a UK charity that inspires social and personal change through the proven power of reading. In 2025/26, we reached over 2.5 million people.
Nick Tanzi @ntanzi.bsky.social Librarian, author, speaker, and technology enthusiast. For speaking engagements, or to read my thoughts on the intersection of libraries and emerging tech: https://the-digital-librarian.com/
libfocus @libfocus.bsky.social A communal blog with a broad and open-minded take on the subject of library and information management. We love guest posts! https://www.libfocus.com/
DCU Library @dculibrary.bsky.social Dublin City University Library based in three locations in Dublin, Ireland: O'Reilly Library (Glasnevin Campus), Cregan Library (St Patrick's Campus) and Woodlock Hall (All Hallows Campus)
Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social Interim Head of Special Collections & Archives, UCC Library. Chair LAI Munster; Treasurer LAI Rare Books. Member LAI Executive Council 2023-2026. Co-founder SHOCC Project. Using technology to connect people with ideas. linktr.ee/walkerabroad HereSept2023
Saoirse de Paor @saoirsedepaor.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Librarian at Maynooth University Library | LAI, Social Media Officer | Tá Gaeilge agam | #freepalestine 🇵🇸
Niamh Dowdall @dowdalln.bsky.social (she/her) | libraries & publishing & open research | Irish women's writing/art/history/culture | dress and clothing in literature | labhair Gaeilge liom! | Views all mine!
Laura Ní S @ismiselaura.bsky.social Lefty intersectional feminist with a habit of tripping over her own feet.
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Cúpla Focal, Táim ag foghlaim Gaeilge.
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
📍Monaghan, Ireland.
Emma Rothwell @rothweeee.bsky.social Assistant Librarian @rialibrary.bsky.social. Libraries, history, art, theology, music and all that good stuff.
Cathal McCauley @cathalmccauley.bsky.social University Librarian Maynooth University & St Patrick’s College Maynooth | Library Association of Ireland President 21-23 l CoChair WLIC 22 l Chair of OMARC | #ebookSOS #ynwa #scout
Dublin City Libraries @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Dublin City Libraries & Archives. libraries@dublincity.ie +353 12224800.
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Carol Maddock @carolmaddock.bsky.social Recovering librarian.
Yvette Campbell @rarebookyvette.bsky.social 
UCC Library @ucclibrary.bsky.social UCC Library | Est. 1849
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Events, insights & a bit of craic
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Library Association of Ireland @laibluesky.bsky.social The Library Association of Ireland, working for librarians, information professionals and libraries in Ireland.
Visit us at https://www.libraryassociation.ie/
@daisylady1.bsky.social @daisylady1.bsky.social 
Aphra Kerr @aphrak.bsky.social Prof Digital Media & Communication, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co- PI ADAPT Research Centre & Algowatch project. Researching people & games, tech & AI.
Mount Carmel JCSP Library @mountcarmellibrary.bsky.social Vibrant, busy JCSP school library at the heart of Mount Carmel Secondary School in the centre of Dublin 
JCSP Library Project @jcsplibraries.bsky.social JCSP Demonstration Library Project. School library project supporting literacy and learning in Irish schools.
Info@jcsplibraries.ie
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Kathleen Moran @kittymo1.bsky.social National Coordinator JCSP Library Project https://jcsplibraries.com/
Chair LAI School Libraries group https://schoollibrariesireland.com/
LAI/CILIP Ireland Library Staff Champion 2023
Book lover-Educator-Dog walker. Living life & always learning 
@clairecostigan.bsky.social @clairecostigan.bsky.social 
Piers Torday @pierstorday.bsky.social Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, Midnight Treasure and Tree Thing. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
@cathalcoyle.bsky.social @cathalcoyle.bsky.social 
Jess Bates @jessicabates.bsky.social Research on education, libraries & information. Course Director, Library & Information Mgmt at Ulster (online course). Rathlin Island resident. Coastguard volunteer. Wife and mum.
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social Welcome to the library. We're here to connect with the academic community at York, and beyond. Tips, updates, dialogue and scholarly comms.
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Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Writer and so forth
Philip Nolan @philipnolan.bsky.social Journalist. Likes a bit of grub.
Helen O’Rahilly @helenorahillytv.bsky.social Former telly executive in BBC & RTÉ. Live central Dublin after 30 years London. Politics, books, gardens, art, cats, travel, poetry. Friendly & approachable unless riled. No bots/trolls/MAGAs/Fascists/Anti-Vaxx please.
Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com Politics guy @virginmedianews.bsky.social; host of Monday with Gavan Reilly (10pm, Virgin Media One); weekly columnist @thejournal.ie; bestselling author of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞: linktr.ee/gavreilly
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social Political Correspondent at RTÉ, Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything.
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️🌈
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan-Defender of Wonder
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Tabitha Witherick @tabisw.bsky.social Chief Executive at ASCEL- amplifying young voices, inspiring inclusive and innovative library services for children and young people. Secondary School Trustee. Championing inclusion. 🏳️🌈 She/her. Views mine.
https://linktr.ee/tabisw
Louisa Steel @lhsteel.bsky.social Relationship Manager, Libraries SE, Arts Council England. Adviser, Essex Book Festival. Cats and cocktails. Views expressed here are personal and not that of Arts Council England.
Gabby @gabliotecaria.northsky.social 🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. B with the T. Proud trade union organiser & rep. Former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
Masud Khokhar @masudk.com Higher Education, Libraries, IT, Leadership, Digital, and Inclusion. Chief Digital and Information Officer at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masudkhokhar/ All views are mine. Love Cats & Coffee!
Claire Warren @clairewarren.bsky.social Lead learning facilitator (head librarian) for a large UK college. Qualified + chartered librarian, also a freelance independent reading/library consultant. She/her. Pan. www.clairewarrenconsulting.co.uk
Rosie Hare @rosiehare.bsky.social Community professional and former librarian working for Jisc. People, education, edtech, collaboration. All opinions my own.🍉
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosiehare/
Jen Jones (sign name Red)🦻🤟🏳️🌈🩷💜💙 @jenjlibrarian.bsky.social #Librarian, #deaf. Head of User Engagement and Communication at Cardiff Met. Interested in Student experience and EDI, #disability and deaf awareness. #BSL user. Will mostly post about #dogs, gin and #knitting. Views my own
Luke Burton @biblioluke.bsky.social Director, Libraries at Arts Council England. Data, emerging tech, literacies, reading for pleasure and the joy of libraries. ‘Libraries gave us power.’ Personal views only.
Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social Local history author and researcher. Local Studies Librarian for Cambridgeshire Libraries - usually found in the Cambridgeshire Collection. Bit deaf 🦻. She/they.
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
Tina Reynolds @tinareynolds.bsky.social Chartered librarian. Interests include legal tech & innovation, KM, gin, languages/linguistics, reading especially Girls Own books, & road racing (mostly the classics). Usually found trying to improve my very rusty French or searching for sun. Herts/London
David Clover @davidclover.bsky.social Librarian and student services manager. 
Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk Run workshops on Neurodiversity, play(fullness), creative teaching and more. National Teaching Fellow. Journal of Play in Adulthood Editor.
Neurodivergent. https://playbrarian.uk
Samantha (Samanthahalf) @samanthalf.bsky.social Librarian, crafter, wokerati, she/her. Knitting & spinning & chatting & sewing & reading & generally carrying on. Business librarian in higher ed. Easily distracted. Owns small child and giant baby, posts indulgently on the subject. Tries to be an Ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
UnstableMabel @unstablemabel.bsky.social Burnt out ex prison medic & cancer nurse now loving libraries as my workplace. Aussie/ Brit, bookworm, info junkie & happy hooker crocheter. Love my tucker & glass of wine or three. Humanist. Support your local library. 💉💳📚🗞️🧶🥙🍷🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🌍☮️
Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social Book lover, tea drinker, trainee Yorkshire lass. She/her. Librarian and PhD student. Interested in gardening, feminism (intersectional or gtfo, trans women are women), scifi, books and cats.
Liz White @lizcwhite.bsky.social Book lover. Tea drinker. Incorrigibly plural.
Liz McGettigan @lizmcgettigan.bsky.social Libraries - Strategy, Technology, People, Community
Chris Wilson @christophernlc.bsky.social E-Services Librarian @northlanarkshire.gov.uk | Social Media @librariesnl.bsky.social @cilipswest.bsky.social | AKA @chriswilson32.bsky.social
Binni Brynolf (they/them) @brynolf.bsky.social Proudly trans & queer, killjoy feminist, grumpy vegan, Trekkie. Libraries, trade unions, music & friends 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇸🇪🏴🖖
Wallasey
(also tech.lgbt/@brynolf sometimes)
Caroline Fielding @cazapr1.bsky.social Chartered School Librarian, CILIP @YLGLondon Committee, National conference exhibition manager, Bea keeper. She/her
Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social Librarian, Knowledge Manager, Data Protection Officer and Records Manager. Let me know if I can be of any further help.
Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social Librarian at large. Chair of CILIP ILIG. Used to be a Slavonic librarian. Posts a random mix of libraries, Russia, food (gluten free) and the joys of life in Tooting.
https://hcommons.org/members/lesleypitman/
@ruthburns.bsky.social @ruthburns.bsky.social Library person, bibliovore, retro gamer, goth, sporadic crafter
Marie Lancaster @gingergalwales.bsky.social Red head Welsh Librarian, Wife, Mum, Dog Mum. Likes wine, crochet & rugby.
Claire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
thedesignconcept @designconceptuk.bsky.social We are library people! We design the most fabulous, creative interiors! Beautiful, flexible library spaces all over the world. #librarydesign #Designinglibraries
Alistair Brown @alistairbrown.bsky.social Head of Museums, Libraries and Archives Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Laura Williams @ljwilliams.bsky.social Part-time PhD student researching running, information behaviour and social media. Librarian. Slow runner. Stroke survivor and neurodivergent. Evertonian. Prone to typos.
LibraryDenJ @librarydenj.bsky.social Library Ninja. Liverpool Central Library Manager-Liverpool Libraries advocater. Proud Mum.
Planner, creator, grower, northerner and probably an over thinker. It’s ALL about the people and nowt else.
Rebecca Gediking @bexlibrarian.bsky.social GLL Head of Libraries. Irish-Dutch-Cornish-Londoner. Blue Peter Badge Holder. SMP Theatre Co-Chair. Likes reading, theatre + adventures. Views personal
David McMenemy @dmcmenemy.bsky.social Professor of Information Ethics and Policy at the University of Glasgow - Interests include information ethics and law, and public libraries. All views mine, etc.
Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social Library Writer at www.teenlibrarian.co.uk
South African abroad 🇿🇦
No one is free until we are all free!
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Edith S @wiilassie.bsky.social Health library nerd for money | a Complicated Woman / 6 Music dad / Big Man | love SE London, visiting Japan, Nintendo and public transport
she/they
Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social Family historian and One Place Study researcher of Long Buckby Wharf and Boat Families of the Grand Junction Canal.
Former library assistant, collector of many crafts.
Martin O Connor @martinoconnor.bsky.social Librarian.
Communications Coordinator at University College Cork Library.
LAI / CILIP Ireland Library Staff Champion 2021.
Libfocus. Blackpool Sentinel. Shush! Sounds from UCC Library
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Vicky @vixie84.bsky.social Bit too loud sometimes but otherwise totally lovable former senior library assistant. Now working in IT. Also a massive Star Trek nerd.
National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social An organisation for everyone interested in the acquisition, management and development of library resources.
https:/nag.org.uk
Lyndsey Goddard @pinklibrarian.bsky.social Librarian. Singer. Writer of pantomimes and murder mysteries. Crime fiction devotee. All views are my own.
Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social Uni business librarian, Mum, Researcher. #SystematicReview, searching. Books & reading, esp. scifi (& on tv). Hashtag obsessive. Blogger: https://researcherlibrarian.wordpress.com #AliceWrites
Past focuses: left wing politics, aphantasia, gentle parenting
Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Open Book Collective, #ebookSOS, WikimediaUK, NLISN. Easily swayed by rainbows, cupcakes, cats, Cheetos, unicorns, and all things sparkly and fabulous.
Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social Director of Business @icaew.bsky.social, supporting our 65/170k+ members working across businesses of all shapes, sizes, and sectors https://www.icaew.com/
Sue Lacey Bryant @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social Visiting Professor, Knowledge & Information Mobilisation at MMU. KM Consultant. Hon Advisor, HIN KSS. Coach & mentor. Chair, Health & Digital Literacy Partnership; past President of CILIP; Walford & Cyril Barnard Awards. Former CKO for NHSE. Stationer.
Rowan @scatterbones.bsky.social he/they 🏳️⚧️
librarian 🐀 occasional poet ✨
writing: linktr.ee/scatterbones
geordie in greater manchester 🖤🤍
Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.org.uk We are an independent charity that supports, promotes and represents public libraries. Our work is driven and led by our membership, which includes almost every library service in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies.
Colette Townend @colettet.bsky.social Systems librarian at Lambeth Libraries (she/her) 🏴
Frances Tout @francestout.bsky.social Library Central Services Manager at Bristol Libraries.
Chartered Librarian, ex professional photographer, past school librarian, public libraries across SW for the past 12 years.
Mainly libraries, a bit of lurcher, knitter & some nice pics.
Views mine
NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social Neurodiverse Library and Information Staff Network, Supporting Neurodivergent Talent in Library & Information Staff in the UK & Ireland. Find us at NLISN.org
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Ruth 🏳️🌈 @paintedpigeon.bsky.social public library worker | writer | artist | neurodivergent | no AI, no NFTs | totally not three pigeons in a trenchcoat
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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
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Lucy Banks @lucybanks.bsky.social Programme Manager @ASCEL. Advocate for libraries. Author of stories: Caged Little Birds, The Depths, Dr Ribero etc.. (Sandstone, Bloodhound Books, Chicago Review Press). Full-time book-monster and #folkhorror obsessive. All views are my own.
Mobeena @mobeena.bsky.social "I don't know if this is a race thing or a lady thing but I'm mad as hell" Libraries, vampires and Sherlock Holmes. Very good bad influence. She/Her.