Artist - Teacher - Traveller Traveller Education Coordinator, MTU Cork. Views are my own!
Cork, Ireland
Joined June 2014
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Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Huge congrats to all the winners of the @KidsBooksIrel @KPMG_Ireland Book Awards!! Great pick up across the papers too 😁 @ExaminerPhotos @Independent_ie thanks to 🙏🏻
@propermiss @karenmvaughan @padraig_kenny @PJLynchArt @Oeiny @LMCDART @CiaraNicG
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Congrats to Leanne McDonagh @LMCDART 👏
Leanne, together with Oein DeBhairduin received the Judges Special Award at the recent Children’s Book Awards. Oein DeBhairduin is a Galway-born Mincéir author and storyteller for Why the Moon Travels which is a book with 20 folk tales
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Warm congratulations to @Oeiny and @LMCDART, whose captivating book Why the Moon Travels won TWICE at the @KidsBooksIrel Awards 2021!
This haunting collection rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community is available in-store & online🌝
glucksmanshop.com/why-the-mo…
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
#wallsandwindows @AbbeyTheatre @JassByrne They said I was ‘useless, good for nothing’. They put me on the corner of Abbey street rattling a box. Very emotional to have my work on in the National theatre. Thanks to so many people who reached out and helped me on this journey.
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Here's the moment we surprised the @KPMG_Ireland Children's Books Ireland Awards winners with the news that they had won.🏆✨
Congratulations to @propermiss, @karenmvaughan, @padraig_kenny, @PJLynchArt, @Oeiny, @LMCDART & @CiaraNicG 👏
#ReadingHeroes
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Wow, congratulations @Oeiny & @LMCDART for winning two awards for 'Why the moon travels' at the @KPMG_Ireland Children's Books Ireland Award. We are thrilled for you both on what is an extraordinary achievement. @KidsBooksIrel @ILFDublin #ReadingHeroes
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Congratulations to @Oeiny & @LMCDART for winning the @KPMG_Ireland Judges' Special award with Why the Moon Travels
'This is a beautifully written and ground-breaking book, celebrating and sharing a rich tradition that may be unfamiliar to many readers.'
#ReadingHeroes
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Huge congratulations to all the winners today! An amazing array of books from @propermiss @karenmvaughan @Oeiny @PJLynchArt @CiaraNicG @padraig_kenny – comhghairdeas libh 👏👏👏 #ReadingHeroes
Congratulations to the winners of the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2021! 🏆
'This eclectic mix of material will inspire and challenge readers for years to come.’ – Chair of the judging panel @whypadraic
Read more: ow.ly/ejzv50EUFg4
#ReadingHeroes
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Congratulations to all of the @KidsBooksIrel winners!
Including @LMCDART for their breathtaking illustrations in @Oeiny collection of Traveler stories 'Why The Moon Travels'
We are proud to stock this and all of the other amazing winners on our website
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Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Thank you all so very much - I'm delighted that old tales have found such warm new homes 🥰
It was an honour to be nominated and beyond a joy to see 'Why the Moon Travels' win two of the awards at @KPMG Children Book Ireland - Musha!
#EveryChildaStoryteller
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
We're delighted to present the Judges' Special Award to...
🥁🥁🥁
@Oeiny & @LMCDART for Why the Moon Travels!
Judges said, 'This is a beautifully written and ground-breaking book, celebrating and sharing a rich tradition that may be unfamiliar to many readers.'
#ReadingHeroes
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
We are delighted to share that 'Why the Moon Travels" by @Oeiny which is illustrated by @MTU_ie alumnae @LMCDART is a finalist in the Children's Books Ireland Awards 2021. #mtualumni #awards
home.kpmg/ie/en/home/insight…
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
We are delighted that `Why the moon travels' by @Oeiny illustrated by @LMCDART is a finalist in @IndieBookAwards for children's fiction. It's wonderful that the stories have resonated with an international audience.
Congratulations, Oein and Leanne, you're amazing! #NGIBA
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Here's a beauty for you to enjoy today!
Why dandelions grow/As beárnan gidge raired
Click on the link below and listen to an excerpt from 'Why the moon travels' by @Oeiny read by @CormacOSulliva2 Illustration by @LMCDART
Available in bookshops and ow.ly/BtTB50Ez3Q6
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Shortlisted for the @KPMG_Ireland Children's Books Ireland Awards, Why the Moon Travels by @Oeiny & @LMCDART shares superb stories from the Irish Traveller community.
Learn more about the book, hear an extract & tell us your own folk tale: ow.ly/ZAuS50EyTjy
#ReadingHeroes
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Exciting that the illustrations from 'Why the moon travels' by @Oeiny created by @LMCDART have been acquired by @IMMAIreland.
Here is one for you to enjoy! Click on the link. 'The good horse/A burradh currie', read by @CormacOSulliva2
In bookshops & skeinpress.com/shop.
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Key reports by the Irish Traveller Movement #EDIawareMTU @MTU_ie @EDIMTU @MTUCork_TravEd @LMCDART @CIT_TLU @OSullivanLinda itmtrav.ie/key-reports/
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
Imagine being born into ingrained discrimination, in particular by a force that is supposed to protect and serve #Everyone in society #EDIawareMTU @MTU_ie @EDIMTU @MTUCork_TravEd @LMCDART @CIT_TLU @OSullivanLinda irishtimes.com/news/crime-an…
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
"Hair is... a unique feature of Irish Traveller women" Crown is a short film celebrating hair and identity in Traveller culture #EDIawareMTU @MTU_ie @EDIMTU @LMCDART @MTUCork_TravEd @CIT_TLU @OSullivanLinda rte.ie/culture/2020/1104/117…
Leanne McDonagh retweeted
The barriers to education faced by the Traveller community & the inclusive practices we as a society can undertake to negate them #EDIawareMTU @MTU_ie @EDIMTU @MTUCork_TravEd @LMCDART @CIT_TLU @OSullivanLinda
