Louise Kennedy
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
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Writer, galoot, sunscreen aficionado north by northwest
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Catherine Crichton
about 11 hours ago
The absolute state of the Oval Office. 🤦🏻♀️
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Stephen O'Neill
3 days ago
the Dublin launch of my book: 22 April, 6.30 at Notre Dame Dublin, O'Connell House, 58 Merrion Square. Bígí Linn.
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Book Launch: Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955
A book launch for Stephen O'Neill's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, with guest speaker Dr Tom Walker.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-irish-culture-and-partition-1920-1955-tickets-1985713874653?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Riverhead Books
9 days ago
We've partnered with
@people.com
to reveal the cover of bestselling author
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
's latest book‼️ Set in 1980s Ireland, Stations follows two teens whose initially fierce friendship withers over time. This gorgeous, wrenching novel lands on shelves this November:
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Besotted with this cover 😭💚
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
9 days ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Radley Balko
about 1 month ago
JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.
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Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island
Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.
https://time.com/7380294/pope-leo-july-4-trump/
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Nicholas Allen
about 2 months ago
It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style.
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Irish Studies@LivUni
5 months ago
📚LitFest weekend at
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
📚 Plenty of events for booklovers to look forward to including the reading and discussion by Anna Fitzgerald, winner of our John McGahern Book Prize 🗓️ 5:30pm, 19 October 2025 🧭
@victoriagallery.bsky.social
🎟️FREE:
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The John McGahern Annual Book Prize
Join us for the 2025 Liverpool Literary Festival
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-john-mcgahern-annual-book-prize-tickets-1622501568869
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Trespasses trailer. I can’t believe how good it looks. 🙏
youtu.be/HNJF5No6NU0
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Trespasses | Official Trailer | 4TheDrama
YouTube video by 4 The Drama
https://youtu.be/HNJF5No6NU0
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6 months ago
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Five Irish citizens are among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla, including writer Naoise Dolan. They were not breaking international law and should be released immediately. 🇵🇸saoirse don Phalaistín
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
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Five Irish citizens among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla
Author Naoise Dolan and Independent TD Barry Heneghan among those on board boat captured in Mediterranean
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/10/08/five-irish-citizens-among-those-detained-by-israel-on-gaza-bound-flotilla/
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Sinéad Gleeson
6 months ago
Our friend, poet and activist
@sarahmaintains.bsky.social
has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪
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Sinéad Gleeson
6 months ago
Great turnout for the Norah Hoult plaque unveiling in Terenure. Thanks
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
, Dublin City Council, Lord Mayor Ray McAdam, Jimmy (the house owner), the writers who showed up - with a shoutout on the day to
@sarahmaintains.bsky.social
&
@naoisedolan.bsky.social
for their activism
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Talk ’90s To Me
6 months ago
Before Britpop & Cool Britannia, Blur were just 4 lads from Colchester finding their feet. On Talk 90s To Me,
@msmirandasawyer.bsky.social
chats with
@daverowntree.bsky.social
about those chaotic times and his brand new book of pics from the band’s early days! Listen
linktr.ee/talk90stome
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Amanda Bell
6 months ago
Congratulations
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
and
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
and thank you
@dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
- great to see a big group of people celebrating Norah Hoult today in Terenure 💫
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Great thread from
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here. Amazing that this is really happening.
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6 months ago
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Books Ireland
12 months ago
'I can remember a time when I could not speak English' Micheál Ó Conghaile, founder of Cló Iar-Chonnacht talks about his life in publishing 📗
@forasnagaeilge.bsky.social
@loveleabhargaeilge.bsky.social
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'I can remember a time when I could not speak English'—Micheál Ó Conghaile - Books Ireland
Micheál Ó Conghaile, founder of Cló Iar-Chonnacht on his life in publishing.
https://booksirelandmagazine.com/i-can-remember-a-time-when-i-could-not-speak-english-micheal-o-conghaile/
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Literature Ireland
12 months ago
What a wonderful week with our special guests and travelling companions, authors
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
, Micheál Ó Conghaile and Alan Murrin! First in Berlin with at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum and then at the Leipziger Buchmesse.
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Raven Books
about 1 year ago
The latest one in the Penguin European Writers series just landed: Brian Friel's Stories of Ireland, with an introduction by
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
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Literature Ireland
about 1 year ago
Join us in Leipzig for four great literary events, featuring
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
, Micheál Ó Conghaile and Alan Murrin. All events are open to participants of the buchmesse, free and unticketed. Event Details below 👇
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Shove your daffodils
about 1 year ago
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Sinead O'Shea
about 1 year ago
For much of 2024, I transcribed the diaries of Edna O’Brien by night and edited our film about her by day. I couldn’t believe it when she died. She seemed capable of willing herself to live forever. Here's to Edna for obsessing us all 💚
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Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh daoine álainn
#saoirsedonphalaistín🇵🇸
#endthegenocide🇵🇸
about 1 year ago
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Sinéad Gleeson
over 1 year ago
Grateful to
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
for picking Hagstone as one of her best books of the year in
@irishtimes.bsky.social
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Sinead O'Shea
over 1 year ago
I'm pleased to share our new trailer for BLUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY. In Irish cinemas on Jan 31st w
@breakoutpictures.bsky.social
and in UK after. It features
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosley, Jessie Buckley and of course, Edna.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEEr...
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BLUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY | TRAILER | IN CINEMAS JANUARY 31
YouTube video by BREAK OUT PICTURES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEErqpfb3HM
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this life 🙏
over 1 year ago
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Mehdi Hasan
over 1 year ago
Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
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Muiread O’Hanlon
over 1 year ago
I'll be at the Irish Writers Weekend tonight to see
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
with Graham Norton and Paul Muldoon. There's still time to get tickets! Let me know if you'll be there!
#irishwriters
#britishlibrary
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God it’s great on here. Since the US chose darkness I’ve picked up a rake of followers without doing a hand’s turn.
over 1 year ago
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Sinéad Gleeson
over 1 year ago
Trying to think of a collective noun for Irish Writers, as 30 of us - me,
@louisekennedy.bsky.social
@daraobriain.bsky.social
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social
- will be at
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
this weekend. If you can’t attend, many events will be live-streamed.
www.seetickets.com/tour/irish-w...
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Is everyone still nice on here?
over 1 year ago
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Reading at Joyce’s house was the best. Ever. Here’s how she does it.
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over 1 year ago
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South Africa Charges Israel with Genocide Major Actors Read the Case File
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South Africa Charges Israel with Genocide — The Palestine Festival of Literature
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about 2 years ago
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Sinéad Gleeson
over 2 years ago
I also recommend that you read Hagstone in a cabin by the sea with the rain pattering down. Thank you Cunning Folk.
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This book 💚💚💚
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over 2 years ago
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My bake on a lamp post in Princeton. Life is fkn mad.
over 2 years ago
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Maidin mhaith. This is early Twitter without rage and hate, right?
over 2 years ago
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