Dublin Photography & Street Photography Best of December 2025.... so far! ehhhhhhhhhhhhh #Dublin #Photography #Streetphotography #December nerosunero.art/dublin-autum...

PEN America mourns the death of Tom Stoppard, one of the world's most influential playwrights and a tenacious defender of free expression. Along with multiple Tony Awards and an Oscar, Stoppard was also the 2020 winner of the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award. pen.org/press-releas...

We're in a piece by @johnmeaghermedia.bsky.social today in the Indo looking at the impact a large online American corporation has had on Irish retailers

This month’s reading list is themed “From Behind Bars” in for our #DayoftheImprisonedWriter campaign. These works, born from experiences behind bars remind us that the human voice endures even when freedom is taken away. Take action for those behind bars: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...

This just blew my mind a bit

Today marks 97 months since the brutal assassination of #DaphneCaruanaGalizia in #Malta 97 months without full justice for her killing. Scottish PEN continues to fight for #JusticeForDaphne #JournalismIsNotACrime @peninternational.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social

This is journalist, Furkan Karabay, 29 yrs old who has been held in pre-trial detention in Turkey since May 2025, charged with insulting his president in his news reports. His next trial is 2nd December & he faces 6-15 years in prison if sentenced. We call for his release. Please repost for Furkan.

We're launching next Thursday 27th November in the Digital Depot - come one, come all!!

I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.

Okay whoever decided on that ridiculous story about suspected foxes cutting wires in Dublin needs to own up. They don't even have any proof and there's a whole piece with interviews etc. RTE, the foxes in mayo take in washing when it's raining I'm happy to give an interview on it

Fabulous resource on classic women’s literature, focusing mainly on women who wrote in the English language, as well as global authors who were translated extensively: www.literaryladiesguide.com

#DayoftheImprisonedWriter: Algerian poet #MohamedTadjadit — the voice of the Hirak movement — is in prison just for speaking truth to power. Join PEN International in demanding his immediate and unconditional release. Take action today: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...

Michael D Higgins to receive lifetime achievement award at An Post Book Awards

Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has filed a complaint with the European Ombudsman against the European Commission, accusing it of using generative AI in public documents www.rte.ie/news/busines...

All writers know that the most important stage of writing is actually the re-write. Join me on 25 November, 6-8pm, @bluepencilagency to find out what that REALLY means, and just how much better you can make your writing when you know how to tackle this crucial stage:

Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally www.yahoo.com/news/article...

#journorequest - anyone in Ireland going out for dinner on Christmas day (or staying in a hotel and having dinner there) and would like to chat to me for a piece. DM if any thoughts. Shares appreciated. #Christmas2025 #Christmas #restaurant

#DayoftheImprisonedWriter: 📣 Today we stand in solidarity with writers silenced for their words. Join us in amplifying their voices: #RoryBranker, #YalqunRozi , #MohamedTadjadit , and #MziaAmaglobeli. Take action with us ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...

ZOOM IN 14 November 2025, Dublin. Huge Scary Waves earlier on on the the West Pier!!!!! Never ever seen big waves like those! #Dublin #Storm #WestPier #DunLaoghaire #Photography #Streetphotography nerosunero.art/dublin-autum...

This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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While we are both delighted and relieved to see Boualem Sansal pardoned and able to reunite with his family, he should never have been deprived of his freedom in the first place. Algeria must do better in protecting writers’ freedom of expression. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.

#Cuba: Writer José Gabriel Barrenechea Chávez has spent 1 year in prison for his words. Accused of “public disorder,” he faces up to 6 years. The Patmos Award 2025 honoured him and his late mother for their dedication to free expression. We call for his immediate release. @penamericas.bsky.social

Thank you @shaunagilligan.bsky.social ! @mercierpress.bsky.social

Delighted to feature @maryodonnell.bsky.social on my #WritersChat we talk about her excellent short story collection "Walkingwith Ghosts" @mercierpress.bsky.social shaunagilliganwriter.com/2025/11/11/w...

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Steven Russell Black.

Hard to believe this wonderful vista will be destroyed by SDCC to make way for 300 car spaces for a €35M overscaled coffee shop at the Hellfire. change.org/p/save-the-h... #sundaythoughts #trees #nature

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Looking forward to @irishpen.bsky.social event @dublinbookfest.bsky.social It will be incredible to hear İlhan Sami Çomak read his poetry in person. dublinbookfestival.com/event/day-of...

No new episode tomorrow of the podcast as last weekend’s was such a bumper one, running at 2.5 hours, an audio companion to The Storms, Issue V Tune in on most podcast platforms including Spotify (link below) and buy your copy at eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh... open.spotify.com/episode/1uM1...

“The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.” ― Seamus Heaney, Station Island

#Georgia: We condemn the sentencing of former PEN Georgia president Paata Shamugia to 5 days in prison for taking part in peaceful protests and urge the authorities to uphold fundamental rights. www.interpressnews.ge/ka/article/8...

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

New #TheWaterboys album, a companion piece to this year's Life, Death And Dennis Hopper, comes out Dec 5. Title is RIPS FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR. Contains strange, genius, funny, psychedelic, retro and delightfully weird tracks. You'll love it. Pre-order/save here: linktr.ee/RipsFromTheC...

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

💻 Happy #WorldDigitalPreservationDay! The @nlireland.bsky.social keeps safe our country’s cultural heritage by preserving born-digital and digitised collections. Learn more: www.nli.ie/collections/...

For all horrified by the fire in an Ipas Centre in Drogheda and wishing to help those impacted - a go fund me has been set up - see 👇🏼#speirgorm www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-dr...

Aisling Rogerson scatters her late husband Manchán's ashes at his month’s mind. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Really enjoyed this fine essay...Love the entwining of archives/appendix and writing/identity. "The ruse of the literary first-person singular cloaks our lived first-person plural."

A magical event in Cork celebrating Arlen House at 50, honouring Catherine Rose, Ireland's first feminist publisher; plus launching the biggest anthology of Irish women poets ever published ‒ Washing Windows V ‒ with an amazing speech by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin + stunning readings from contributors.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Great to see two of our titles listed in the '10 of the best Irish short story collections' this week @rte.ie by journalist @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social t.co/GFEduC6U8r 1. Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms (2007) t.co/rzORCbHNAb 6. Colin Barrett - Young Skins (2013) t.co/50JJvsOQZg

Join us Saturday 8 November at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social for this panel discussion with Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong, Sophie White and Molly Twomey, as they explore writing the body 🎟️ bit.ly/3WqJOL1

Coillte & SDCC have sought licenses to destroy all these trees & wild beauty for🚫 300 parking spaces & a €35M centre at the Hellfire? This isn't enhancement — it's erasure. Protect what makes this place special. #StopTheDestruction #NatureFirst #Review www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

REPORT: PEN International launches Critical Junctures: Safeguarding the Freedom to Create in Poland, revealing how artistic freedoms have been curtailed, and celebrating the courage of those defending independent voices. Read more: www.pen-international.org/news/critica... #CriticalJunctures

Momentum that boosted Catherine Connolly spells trouble for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil ‘A quiet and thoughtful woman, who built a broad coalition & pursued a positive message in the face of negative campaigning, won the day. There’s a lesson in that’. #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

The 5th Storm has landed, the printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art featuring 89 star Stormers & cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn is supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @fingal.ie Now available to buy at our online shop eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...