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Superstars for solidarity @tramore_valley_parkrun this morning! What an incredible group we have in the city. Join us, be the change you want to see in the world! #BeSound

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Today is World Alzheimer’s Day. To mark it, Kate Durrant opens the diaries she has kept since her partner’s diagnosis.

📲 Click the link in our bio to read more

🎥 @larry.cummins.14

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In February 2017, PJ Lynch was diagnosed with dementia, joining the 64,000 people in Ireland living with the condition.

His partner Kate Durrant, shares the love, loss and joy that remains through extracts from the diary she began keeping after his diagnosis.

Click the link in our bio to read more

🎥 @larry.cummins.14

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I'm just in the door after a really wonderfully welcoming and warm event at Waterstones Cork. Insightful, funny, joyous - as it should be 👌

Patrick Holloway was a fantastic host chatting to Wendy Erskine (The Benefactors) and Andrew Cunning (Clara and Christina)

Honestly we could still be there. Thank you all ❤️

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What a gorgeous evening @waterstones.cork to launch my new book If These Walls Could Talk. Thanks so much to the wonderful @john.breen64 and the team at Waterstones and to everyone who came out in the heat to celebrate with us. It meant so much to me. A special thanks to my amazing friend @instakatedurrant for the great job she did in interviewing me about the book, calming the nerves and so much more. And to my lifelong best friend, my sister @wellwearkate for being by my side through thick and thin and Uncle Seamus and Yvonne for coming down from Galway. It was great to catch up with the hugely supportive Cork writing crew @catherinekirwanbooks @amyjordanbooks @caseyking2023 @sultanabun #booklaunch #waterstonescork #irishcrimewriters #psychologicalsuspense #domesticnoir

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A chance encounter outside a local school sparks memories of packed lunches, school tours, bus sing-songs and the fleeting magic of childhood adventures, writes Kate Durrant in this week’s Irish Country Living.

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Michelle McDonagh’s new book If These Walls Could Talk is being launched this Tuesday 23rd June by Kate Durrant in Waterstones Patrick Street and all are welcome. There will be themed cup cakes 😋and lots of fun is guaranteed ❤️👏🎉PS the book is a real pageturner and it’s inspired by a terrifying true incident that happened to Michelle and her husband (out now from Hachette Ireland) 📚

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Today’s deliveries 🌸

A delicate Thank You Posie vase of blush and fuchsia garden spray roses gathered around late-season peonies and accented with violet anemones and blue cornflower.

The second arrangement was inspired by a beautifully written piece in today’s @irishcountryliving @farmersjournal by a mother missing her daughter and grandchildren on the other side of the world…

How better to capture the carefree joy of childhood than with wild and wonderful daisies dancing amongst violet anemones? The roses speak of a mother’s love, the peonies remind us that love never fades, and the blue Nigella gently acknowledges that sometimes it is perfectly alright to feel a little blue. 💙

Locally grown with love at Blarney Buds & Blooms 🌸

#LocallyGrownFlowers #IrishFlowerFarmer #BlarneyBudsAndBlooms #SeasonalFlowers #SustainableFloristry

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If you’re in Cork on June 23 and free around 6.30om, please do come along to Waterstones and join me in celebrating the launch of my new book If These Walls Could Talk in conversation with @instakatedurrant my friend and cohost on @natterwithkateandmichelle The more, the merrier!!! #waterstonescork #booklaunch #bookstagram #ruralnoir #irishcrimewriting

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A final training session for our amazing Fermoy @sanctuaryrunners - on Sunday, the victory lap at @corkcitymarathon - Thank you so much @clotildefitzgibbon for the training and motivation #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect

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A little recap from all these fabulous writers (so far) who generously shared their wonderful tips & tricks over on my 'Write Smarter with' blog series.

The link to the full 'Write Smarter with' posts/features (to date) is in my Linktree above where you will find lots more interesting words of wisdom.

[Or at:
https://www.swirlandthread.com/category/write-smarter/ ]

Thank you to all who have participated so far. I really do appreciate it 🙏

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