Julian Gough

@juliangough

Rhymes with cough... Writer of novels, children's books, BBC radio plays, the ending of Minecraft, etc. Once sang in Toasted Heretic. Lives in Berlin.

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Joined June 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    12 Feb 2015

    A novel is a script for a six-hour dream. To edit it is to find and fix all those moments where your clumsiness might wake the reader.

    11 replies 198 retweets 371 likes
  2. 2 hours ago

    Likewise... Come along tonight, if you're near Limerick. (I'll also be doing a thing in Nenagh tomorrow night.)

    Hope to see some of you at this fine event later!
  3. 4 hours ago

    Today, Jan 26, we're excited about our & eve w/ Donal Ryan & Michael Durack~8pm start.

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  4. 16 hours ago

    I think they may have only recently left. I found a turnip.

    It's where the two lads waited for Godot.
    1 reply
  5. 17 hours ago

    Downside: several days spent sea-sick and exhausted. Upside: this will make for an amazing sea-travel chapter in her book on cat-schlepping.

    1 reply 6 likes
  6. 17 hours ago

    Waiting for to arrive at Limerick train station, after her epic 2-ferry, 5-country, 8-train trip with cat.

    2 replies 6 likes
  7. 18 hours ago

    So a phone company gets 100,000 real people to spam all their friends, thus reaching tens of millions of eyeballs... for just 5 grand. Ugh.

    For every tweet or retweet Bell will donate 5 cents to Canadian Mental Health Programs.
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  8. 19 hours ago

    Highly recommend this incredible new edition of a timeless classic

    7 replies 29 retweets 117 likes
  9. 20 hours ago

    Exactly. The sweet, sweet smell of home.

    Kind of like the skunk scent in the air on returning to N.E. Los Angeles, or the mildew in the jetway carpet in New Orleans.
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  10. 20 hours ago

    You have to buy your own butter, these days. In Lidl. Dark times.

    did you get handed a pat of butter and a pack of taytos as you passed through customs?
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  11. 20 hours ago

    I assume some local farmer had been spreading manure on his fields. A greeting-smell as iconic as flowers in Hawaii.

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  12. 21 hours ago

    It was comforting, as I deplaned at Shannon Airport, to be greeted by the familiar smell of cow shit, and lots of it.

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  13. 22 hours ago

    Ah, the Courthouse in Nenagh, where 13 of my CBS teachers once appeared, sporting black eyes etc, after a huge fight.

    3 replies 7 likes
  14. Jan 25

    If you enjoy reading,come join us for an evening w/ Donal Ryan & Michael Durack tmrw, Thurs Jan 26 8pm.

    1 reply 6 retweets 3 likes
  15. 22 hours ago

    I'm doing a thing onstage with Donal Ryan & others in Limerick tomorrow, & with & others in Nenagh the day after. Go google...

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  16. 23 hours ago

    Popped into Computer Science building, University of Limerick, to meet a friend. Discovered a robot writing poetry. This one's my favourite.

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  17. Jan 24

    Julian Gough appointed new writer-in-residence at University of Limerick

    2 replies 10 retweets 22 likes
  18. Jan 25

    Hope to see you at tomorrow for literary evening w/ Michael Durack, Donal Ryan & . Our pop-up shop will be there!

    3 retweets 2 likes
  19. Jan 24

    Outstanding. A Trump fan tells Martina Navratilova, who fled Communist Czechoslovakia aged 18, to "educate yourself on Communism"

    658 replies 22,249 retweets 30,776 likes
  20. Jan 24

    This Thurs Jan 26, , Donal Ryan & Michael Durack will be reading from their works. What a great line up!

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  21. Jan 24

    wouldn't mind givin' that a good heckle, the !

    So who's coming to heckle me, and Michael Durack at on Friday night then?
    1 reply 2 retweets 1 like

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