Grace Tierney

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Word history - books, blog, LMFMRadio Comedyfic - Channillo Love to read, craft, garden in Ireland My Books - wordfoolery.wordpress.com/my-books/ Weekly Word Blog - http://www.wordfoolery.wordpress.com/ Newsletter - subscribepage.io/wordfoolerywhispers

Closeup of figs (un-ripe) on brown turkey fig tree
How to Get Your Name in the Dictionary" by Grace Tierney (orange and white cover) beside some sunflowers and a pumpkin. Out now in paperback and ebook editions
View of partial eclipse 12 August 2026 through dappled shade, Ireland
Wordfoolery Whispers is out This Friday, plus Wordfoolery jester doll in red green and yellow motley complete with bells
A selection of books, all open and looking wind blown. Actually was a display in IKEA but I like the light and shade in it.
Verbena bonariensis in dappled shade, purple, tiny flowers in clusters at top of tall stiff stems, against green background
Wordfoolery logo - white and black jester hat on orange background
Words Christmas Gave Us by Grace Tierney, red and white cover with snowflake motif, with Santa hat. Available now in paperback, hardback, and ebook editions
Modern Words with Old Roots by Grace Tierney - blue and white cover with old tree roots photo. Available as ebook edition only. A short read.
Words the Vikings Gave Us by Grace Tierney, green cover with Viking longship motif, on display in Academy Books, Drogheda. Available in paperback and ebook editions
Words the Sea Gave Us by Grace Tierney, blue cover with wave motif, on display in The Company of Books, bookshop, Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland. Available in paperback and ebook editions.
A series of wooden belaying pins, with ropes looped around them on the railing of a vintage sailing ship I visited.
How to Get Your Name in the Dictionary by Grace Tierney, orange cover, available in paperback and ebook editions - all the eponyms you need!
Open and closed runner bean flowers - bright scarlet, closeup
Wordfoolery Whispers is out This Friday, plus Wordfoolery jester doll in red green and yellow motley complete with bells
garlic bulbs in a wooden box in the sunshine on a garden bench with raised bed in the background
How To Get your Name in the Dictionary by Grace Tierney - out in ebook and paperback, orange cover, with sunflowers. Explores the stories of the amazing people whose names became English words.
Words the Sea Gave Us, Words the Vikings Gave Us, and How to Get your Name in the Dictionary (eponyms) all by Grace Tierney and available in paperback and ebook in various bookshops and online at Amazon, Kobo etc.
white astrantia bloom
LMFM radio logo on 95.8
Words Christmas Gave Us by Grace Tierney - red and white hardback cover with snowflake motif and a Santa hat at one corner - available in ebook, paperback, and hardback
Words the Sea Gave Us by Grace Tierney - blue and white cover with wave motif, posed against driftwood, shells, and sea glass. Out now in paperback and ebook.
Closeup of New Dawn rose with rain drops, pale pink climbing rose
How to Get Your Name in the Dictionary by Grace Tierney - ornage and white cover out in paperback and ebook, surrounded by corkscrew, fabric, and garden trowel
Wordfoolery Whispers is out This Friday, plus Wordfoolery jester doll in red green and yellow motley complete with bells
A selection of gingerbread cutters on a wooden board with rolling pin - hearts, Christmas trees, star, snowman, gingerbread man and child.
Closeup of a purple chive flower, pointed petals in a spherical inflorescence (I think that's the word!)
The four Wordfoolery books by Grace Tierney (out in paperback, ebook, and sometimes hardback) with wrapping paper and scissors. Viking, Eponym, Sea, and Christmas words.
How to Get Your Name in the Dictionary by Grace Tierney, on an ipad, orange and white cover
A knolling selection of my paperclips, bulldog clips, and other paper joining gadgets - variety of shapes and sizes and ages.
LMFM red and white logo, 95.8FM, blue background
25 May Geek Pride Day - to all the geeks out there - today is your day! text surrounded by glasses, gaming consoles, game pieces, rockets, and atoms
Closeup of flowers and buds of jacob's ladder, against foliage background - violet, 5 pointed petals with yellow centre
Closeup of a geum flower, pink/peach colour, 5 petals, drooping stems, against a lefty background with a metal plant support.
Wordfoolery Whispers is out This Friday, plus Wordfoolery jester doll in red green and yellow motley complete with bells
Tin pencil case in shape of an Egyptian sarcophagos. Filled with coloured fineliners and with a pencil eraser and sharpener.
White and pale pink aquilegia blooms against green garden fence and blue shed
Small boy in scarf, t-shirt, shorts, and wellies perched on a wooden chair in a floral garden, engrossed in his picture book
closeup of white aquilegia flower
LMFM radio logo on 95.8 FM (in Ireland)
Words the Sea Gave Us by Grace Tierney - paperback blue and white with wave motif. One of four in the series about the history of English words - sea, eponyms, vikings, and Christmas.
Closeup of wild garlic in bloom - green strappy leave, a rounded cluster of small white petal flowers with green centre
Wordfoolery Whispers is out This Friday, plus Wordfoolery jester doll in red green and yellow motley complete with bells
The Wordfoolery Doll - jester in red and yellow and green with bells on their hat
Wordfoolery Whispers sign-up graphic reminding you to check your spam for the confirmation email. Newsletter has writing, reading etymology adventures plus a word quiz, contests, and advance news on my books.
A sleepy ted tucked up in a bed. This bear is called Snowbear and wears a dashing striped scarf, even for his naps.
A romantic rubber ducky - pink with love heart pattern
LMFM logo 95.8 FM, blue, red, white
The Wordfoolery books by Grace Tierney - out now in ebook, paperback, and hardback (Christmas only).
An apple a day, keeps the doctor away. Wordfoolery's apple harvest in boxes.
The Wordfoolery doll - a jester in red, yellow, and green, with bells on their hat.
How to Get Your Name in the Dictionary by Grace Tierney, out now in paperback and ebook.
Irish postage stamp, Christmas design, with Éire (the Irish for Ireland) on it.
Wordfoolery's gardening paraphrenalia - wooden trug, kneeler, gloves, trowel, string, wire, plant tag and secuteurs