Jessica Grene
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Irish writer. Reader. Mother of redheads. Leftie nerd. She/her.
https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
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Niamh Garvey
5 days ago
More info here:
niamhgarvey.com/2026/03/08/s...
@littleislandbooks.bsky.social
@newislandbooks.bsky.social
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Tramp Press
3 days ago
Gethan Dick won the 2026 Kate O'Brien award for her funny, wild optimistic novel about a group of people on a post-apocalyptic road-trip.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Kit de Waal
27 days ago
Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes. Link below Please share :)
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Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize
This £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction.
https://bridportprize.org.uk/news/new-never-too-late-60-award/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAP9mqJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR4RPdhM2AkCN4WyXyLPGBNYv3PVH-xEeVHZRMyWLWGg8Gtbm-IKNyhygWq80w_aem_1cKG26gFlZnOxnz94NSW8g
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Jan Carson
22 days ago
I love the people and the vision behind
@extrateethmag.bsky.social
so it is a real treat to be facilitating an online workshop for them in March. Snap up these places as they’ll go fast.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
24 days ago
Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes
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The Life of Sharks 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
28 days ago
Our book, “The World According To Sharks”, is available for pre-order from loads of sources -
www.penguin.co.uk/books/473994...
. Just realised the acronym for it is TWATS. Too late to change it now. Just have to own it.
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Sophia Grene
28 days ago
I love this in Tallaght University Hospital. One day all hospitals will have libraries for bored patients and their families. All credit to South Dublin Libraries. That’s the kind of innovation we like to see.
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about 1 month ago
A little taster for you…
@hollowaywriter.bsky.social
reading from his debut novel, ‘The Language of Remembering’ The book is available from your local bookshop, as ePub or direct from our website. More on Patrick at:
www.epoquepress.com/patrick-holl...
#epoquepress
#epoquepressauthors
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The O’Brien Press
about 1 month ago
Congratulations to Liam Donnelly and Tony Hayes of Hodges Figgis Bookshop, Dublin, who were named The O’Brien Press Booksellers of the Year 2026 at the Bookselling Ireland Conference in Waterford this evening!
@thebookseller.com
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Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
about 1 month ago
We are deeply concerned that Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been handed further prison sentences of seven-and-a-half years by an Iranian court and appeal for her release. Re-post please.
#FreeNarges
@englishpen.bsky.social
@peninternational.bsky.social
@scottishpen.bsky.social
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I sold a book to Jonathan Rhys-Meyers without recognising him. A colleague told me who it was just as he left, and I ran to have a look as he went down the stairs. The loud thudding of my pursuit made him look up and see me, and I wished the floor of Hodges Figgis would open up and swallow me.
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Sophia Grene
about 1 month ago
#SpéirGorm
Aramark also has the contract for lots of DP facilities, and it owns Avoca. Think twice before going for your bougie lunch at Kilmacanogue!
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Sally Hayden
about 1 month ago
"Classes taught in twelve languages: Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Croatian, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Kurdish, Portuguese, Serbian and Spanish."
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Awesome writer Jan Carson
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
writes about awesome writer Barbara Pym. Barbara Pym is Jane Austen with a side of jumble sales, public transport and laugh-out-loud one-liners
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Barbara Pym is Jane Austen with a side of jumble sales, public transport and laugh-out-loud one-liners
Her dour, unflinching portraits of women doing their level best not to lose any part of themselves reek of real life
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/01/21/barbara-pym-is-jane-austen-with-a-side-of-jumble-sales-public-transport-and-laugh-out-loud-one-liners/
about 2 months ago
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Martina Devlin
about 2 months ago
Excited to sign again with
@lilliputpress.bsky.social
for my next novel Glorious Monsters. Features Mary Shelley of Frankenstein fame, set in 1819 … and Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley are also characters. Out Sep 2026. Here’s me with Antony Farrell of Lilliput
#books
#histfic
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray
about 2 months ago
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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This book is utterly amazing, and genuinely original.
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Sally Hayden
about 2 months ago
'My Fourth Time, We Drowned' is 4.99 pounds on Audible in the UK for January only. The audiobook version includes original audio from reporting I did over those years. Please consider listening if you haven't already. It (unfortunately) has not stopped being relevant.
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
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Martin Doyle
2 months ago
The best fiction of 2026 to look forward to: Books from Louise Kennedy, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry, Maggie O’Farrell, Keith Ridgway, Danielle McLaughlin, Louise Nealon, Sarah Gilmartin, Patrick Freyne, Liz Nugent, Jan Carson, Tana French, Kathleen MacMahon & more
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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The best fiction of 2026 to look forward to: Books from Louise Kennedy, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry and more
A comprehensive round-up of fiction from Irish and international authors due out this year
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/01/11/the-best-fiction-of-2026-to-look-forward-to-books-from-louise-kennedy-donal-ryan-sebastian-barry-and-more/
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Good. Quite aside from Walliams being a creep, there are MUCH, MUCH better children’s books out there.
www.thebookseller.com/news/david-w...
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David Walliams sales down 30% in weeks after author 'dropped by HarperCollins'
Sales of David Walliams’ books decreased 30% in the last two weeks of 2025, and were down 19% year on year, according to NielsenIQ BookData.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/david-walliams-sales-down-30-percent-in-weeks-after-author-dropped-by-harpercollins
2 months ago
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Joanne Harris
2 months ago
E-books are reading. Comics are reading. Genre is reading. Fanfic is reading. Text-based games are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Braille books are reading. Non-fiction is reading. Picture books are reading. There is no single way to read, nor is any reading style more worthy than another.
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Julia Rose Kraut
2 months ago
Happy New Year! 🎉 Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️
#HATM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...
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Victor Laszlo Gets a Crowd To Sing "La Marseillaise" (Clip) | Casablanca (1942) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOliU7X1fEg
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Why ‘failed’? She didn’t fail to restore it. It looked different is all. ‘After news broke of the restoration the small town of Borja saw a boom in tourism from people eager to see it.’ Success!
jrnl.ie/6914979
Spanish woman known for failed restoration of Jesus Christ fresco dies
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Spanish woman known for failed restoration of Jesus Christ fresco dies
Cecilia Gimenez rose to international fame in 2012 after her botched restoration of the Ecce Homo fresco.
https://jrnl.ie/6914979
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YourAnonRiots 🐈️🏴🇵🇸🇲🇲🦋
2 months ago
This year the British establishment covered up this new
#Banksy
. Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes?? Protect the right to protest! RT!
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
3 months ago
If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON.
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
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Adam Sharp
3 months ago
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
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This show jumped the shark several seasons ago.
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3 months ago
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Nicola Miller
3 months ago
Please stop reposting that vicious amoral man's words. You're spreading poison.
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There’s also a feature that blocks screenshots from X and other media. However, it doesn’t always work, so I IMPLORE people to *STOP* sharing deranged and toxic content on here. If I wanted to read it, I’d be on those networks. Thanks.
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Jane Casey
3 months ago
Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
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Carole (Ducky) (IrPsych)
3 months ago
Public service announcement to anyone in the UK trying to phone people in Ireland. Chances are that, unless you are a ‘contact’, you won’t get through. We’re being bombarded by spam calls from 0044 numbers atm, & so most of us are not answering unknown UK numbers.
#SpeirGorm
#IrishBluesky
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Oisín McGann
3 months ago
In my latest piece for
@thebookseller.com
, I talk about my experience working as a Champion of Reading in a secondary school in Dublin with reluctant readers. Rather than concentrating on text, I made my focus the point where language triggers the imagination.
www.thebookseller.com/comment/copy...
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Instilling a hunger for language
Children's Books Ireland's Everyone a Reader programme holds powerful lessons for the National Year of Reading.
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/copy-of-publishing-but-not-as-we-know-it
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
3 months ago
📌
ciaraioch.com
is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁
#SpéirGorm
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Dr Neutopia
3 months ago
A brilliant idea by the marketing manager of my hot coffee drone delivery company to send President Zelensky a welcoming steaming oat milk caramel latte. Now to log onto BlueSky and see how it went down.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
3 months ago
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA!
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
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lukelukeluke
over 2 years ago
I’m hearing rumors about a “new year”, do we really want another one of these things?
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
4 months ago
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann
4 months ago
Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary - Deadline extended to Wednesday 3rd Dec. Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann invites applications from poets for the inaugural Home Again - Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary aimed at the development and creation of new work.
www.poetryireland.ie/news/home-ag...
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
4 months ago
Nature: Winter is a time of slowing down, resting, conserving energy and recovering for the year ahead Capitalism: NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL SELL SELL, EXTENDED OPENING HOURS, CHECK OUT OUR SALES, BUY EVERYTHING WE SAY YOU NEED FOR AN ELABORATE LABOUR-INTENSIVE FESTIVAL, WORK YOURSELF TO THE BONE
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Cethan Leahy
4 months ago
This email could have been a heartbreaking debut novel for fans of Matt Haig and Jodi Picoult.
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‘This decision (a ‘bathroom ban’) will not make women safer, but it will undoubtedly endanger trans and non-binary people, who already face higher rates of harassment and violence.’
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Tramp Press
4 months ago
Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack | Irish Independent
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Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack
A much-loved Dublin bookshop will kick off the festive season next week with a late-night Christmas shopping party featuring cocktails, cookies and surprise author signings.
https://share.google/spCMW7qYvg79vUW1x
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The Irish Times
4 months ago
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The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/11/14/the-benefactors-by-wendy-erskine-is-waterstones-irish-book-of-the-year/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Hey
@miseryvulture.bsky.social
, nach mbeadh sé greannmhar dá tabharfá cic sa thóin di? Irish is a 'gift' says President Connolly as she visits gaelscoil on first full day in office
jrnl.ie/6871895
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Irish is a 'gift' says President Connolly as she visits gaelscoil on first full day in office
As she arrived Gaelscoil Inse Chór this morning, students from the school chanted her name.
https://jrnl.ie/6871895
4 months ago
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Cethan Leahy
4 months ago
There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
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This is an excellent book. I highly recommend!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Flashlight by Susan Choi review – big, bold and surprising
Stretching from Indiana to North Korea, the US writer’s sixth novel is a study of absence, alienation and affection in a family rocked by tragedy
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/30/flashlight-by-susan-choi-review-big-bold-and-surprising?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
4 months ago
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But the book is called GLORIOUS EXPLOITS.
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4 months ago
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This premise for a novel by
@richycraven.bsky.social
is easily the most fun thing to come out of this presidential election.
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