We're excited to reveal the third ROAR-SOME dinosaur adventure by @jenwallacecreates.bsky.social and @alanorourke.bsky.social ... PROJECT DINOSAUR: TOP SECRET! Coming in July 2026 ... pre-order from your favourite bookshop or buy the complete set at 20% off from Littlelsland.ie

If you’re in London, and can make it to Bárd Books next Thursday BOOK NOW to hear the fabulous novelist Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social in conversation with Caoilinn Hughes. www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

By Harry Bliss

Very much looking forward to introducing this fantastic evening of music and poetry on 21 May as part of Harold's Cross Festival

Booking now open for WHY BOWEN MATTERS, a hybrid mini conf celebrating Elizabeth Bowen, 6th June, IWC. Link #1 - in person in Dublin Link #2 - online www.eventbrite.ie/e/why-bowen-...

Je n'aurais jamais pensé que les léopards me mangeraient le visage

Israel: 'Ceasefire'.

Our 2026 WCLF brochure is now at the printers 🖨️🎉 You can download a copy from our website. Or if you would like to pre-order a copy for home delivery you may do so at the link in our bio www.westcorkmusic.ie/literary-fes...

IT'S HERE! Thank you to @lilliputpress.bsky.social for supporting my writing. Really delighted to be a contributor in this collection😄 If you're interested in supporting the arts and hearing from different games folks' perspectives, get it today 💃🏼 www.lilliputpress.ie/products/ctr... #gamedev

Come and work with us! We’re looking for an Associate Publisher / Publishing Manager to join the team in Sheffield (hybrid). Deadline for applications is 20 April. www.andotherstories.org/2026/04/08/a...

Racists brining the country to a standstill this week (under guise of fuel crisis) tried to intimidate one of the great charities in the country last night. MSOÉ have been feeding the unhoused for 11 years on O Connell street. Ugly scenes but beautiful show of solidarity from the people they feed.

The Muslim Sisters of Éire will not be able to provide their much appreciated soup run to folks in need due to the protest and the blocking of O’Connell Street. "This is especially difficult given that we have been running this service outside the GPO for 11 years."

Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction A new flash prize and I'm judging! Crannóg Magazine is delighted to announce the inaugural Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction judged by Nuala O'Connor. €1500 in prizes Subs open May 1st to 21st. www.wordsonthestreet.com/pod.html?fbc...

Here's a devastatingly powerful book. Highly recommended. @unicefusa.org @unicefmedia.bsky.social @unicefireland.bsky.social @unicef.org @nipnlg.bsky.social @sallyhayd.bsky.social

This is going to be one of those April Fools jokes that sparks so much genuine enthusiasm they have to go ahead with it for real. youtu.be/59NORGNnWlQ?...

i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"

Happy April Fool's Day to all my fellow fools, eejits, and silly gooses, we are the confused daughters of the witches that wouldn't learn 🩷

Very loud sonic booms across Beirut now. Four in total that I counted. Terrorising a civilian population right as people are going to sleep. #lebanon

‘The responsible use of AI in newsrooms is already clear: don’t do it.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat and isn’t Indiana Jones.

11 days to go! ⏰️ Calling all #kidlit poets... Not long left to enter this year's Caterpillar Poetry Prize for the chance to win up to €1,000, plus a stay at the Moth Retreat in Ireland. Closing 31 March: bit.ly/tcpp26

#Scrubs reboot: JD and Eliot started at the same time and were both Chief Resident. He went off to be a concierge doctor, she stayed busting her hump at Sacred Heart. Now he’s back and suddenly HE’S chief of medicine and her boss. Yeah, that tracks.

I left for a week – and came back to war: Life inside Beirut’s expanding evacuation zone

More info here: niamhgarvey.com/2026/03/08/s... @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social

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...

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 :)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

#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!

"Classes taught in twelve languages: Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Croatian, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Kurdish, Portuguese, Serbian and Spanish."

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...

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

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

This book is utterly amazing, and genuinely original.

'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

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...

Good. Quite aside from Walliams being a creep, there are MUCH, MUCH better children’s books out there. www.thebookseller.com/news/david-w...

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.

Happy New Year! 🎉 Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️ #HATM www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...

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

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!

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

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)…