@elidavies
Writer and researcher of home, memory, conflict & Ireland. The Spinster Cookbook: Culture, Politics & Pleasure in the Single Woman’s Kitchen, Indigo Press 2026 📧 elidavies.ed@gmail.com There’s enough for everyone 🍹 ✊ She/ Her
The Indigo Press has acquired The Spinster Cookbook: Culture, Politics and Pleasure in the Single Woman’s Kitchen by Eli Davies. The book will be published on 11th June 2026 👇 #BookSky
Solidarity with the Bloody Sunday families forever.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha uaisle.
Respect to the Irish News for linking to Hansard on their live feed and confirming Soldier F's name can be read there despite the anonymity order
No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.
Thank you Rebecca 🧡🧡
I love this piece by @elidavies.bsky.social in today's @vittles.bsky.social (free to read) featuring @nigelslater.bsky.social beloved lentils and a well-travelled pot
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Who woke up and thought - I know what will work - MORE Ofsted.
Latest newsletter! It’s sort of about watching The Wire for the first time but also about how good absorbing art can make you feel calm and at home open.substack.com/pub/elidavie...
This is no longer a case of outside influence. SexMatters have been handed a partnership, redefining the EHRC's operational function and guiding their involvement in this orchestrated "course correction" of erasure.
This is a monumental scandal.
Excellent work by @tacc.org.uk
Latest newsletter, on couples, capitalism and cultural discussions of ‘different types of love’ open.substack.com/pub/elidavie...
we need to bring back the feminist critique of marriage therewillbesinging.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/s...
Labour is upping the ante on anti-migrant politics just to learn that Farage & the Tories can always, always go further than them.
It’s real people who are caught in the crossfire of politicians trying to outdo each other on toughness.
How we treat people matters. #r4today
#ExamFactory schools - is it any wonder we have a #MentalHealth crisis?
Young people are not machines
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We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop.
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Congrats, looks so great!
This is lovely! (And includes an account of myself and Jo being rendered speechless by The Years at the Almeida)
Drawing of Brigid in greyscale, holding a three-armed cross, with a drawing of a flaming anvil over one shoulder and a drawing of horns and flowers over the other one.
The Irish saint and goddess entwined, Brigid is associated with blacksmiths, spring, and cattle, among others, and stories like blinding herself to repel men's unwanted attention. The three-armed cross here represents both the triple goddess and the trinity. Lá Fhéile Bríde shona daoibh 🌸
"Imbolc or Imbolg, also called (Saint) Brigid's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Bríde, Scottish Gaelic: Là Fhèill Brìghde, Manx: Laa'l Breeshey), is a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of spring."
"February-isn't-Spring" people, remove the coloniser from your mind
Beautiful, perfect book!
Any favourites?
38 is a lot!
January 2024 National Demonstration in Dublin for Palestine. Photo of a crowd of thousands with Palestinian flags waving and "Freedom & Justice for Palestine" on the banner held at the front of the march.
First Descend on Shannon protest, people ae gathered on a roundabout with banners and flags. In the foreground a child on his father's shoulders raises a hurl in the air.
Second Descend on Shannon protest, a woman leads chants with a megaphone as a line of Gardaí stands beside protesters sat on the road.
A Palestine march in Belfast heading down Royal Avenue, marchers display a "Boycott Eurovision" banner at the front.
First event I did photo coverage of in 2024 was a Palestine protest and tonight at 6pm at Belfast City Hall we'll be closing out 2024 with a Palestine protest.
I read 27 books in 2024 with the final one being this jewel from Ocean Vuong and the others listed in the screenshots. A very energising and nourishing year for reading! (Watch out for hot new author Jill’s Cooper)
As families gather for Christmas, families in Gaza have no refuge from Israel’s genocide.
Over the past few weeks, HRW, Amnesty & ECCHR have documented war crimes, ethnic cleansing & genocide — yet the UK government continues to sell arms, enabling this horror.
We won’t forget.
“‘i’d a notion to sail by night, to enter into the dark, for the love of its textures and wild intimacy.’ … I find calm and companionship in Jamie’s reading of those dark days and her craving for the ‘wild intimacy’ of the outside world.”
Happy Solstice!
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I just took a similar couple from Camberwell Old Cemetery
“‘i’d a notion to sail by night, to enter into the dark, for the love of its textures and wild intimacy.’ … I find calm and companionship in Jamie’s reading of those dark days and her craving for the ‘wild intimacy’ of the outside world.”
Happy Solstice!
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Was there any sun at Newgrange? I drank too much last night and slept through it 😔
I want to try and use Bluesky more regularly now but I also got massively out of the habit of posting on the other place the last few years and have sort of forgotten what to do!! Anyway here’s a pic of what I’m currently reading (so far heartbreaking and beautiful!)
It's striking how blasé politicians who nominally believe in climate change are about potentially building our societies around new forms of environmental harm
