📚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: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-john-m...

The book isn’t out until January in Ireland and March in the States, but if you’d like a copy eventually here is the pre-order discount code. I’ll share it again and have some launches planned in Bellaghy, Belfast and Dublin for late Feb/ early March. Do come along, I’d be glad to see you.

Trespasses trailer. I can’t believe how good it looks. 🙏 youtu.be/HNJF5No6NU0

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...

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. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

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

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

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 💫

Great thread from @sineadgleeson.bsky.social here. Amazing that this is really happening.

'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 booksirelandmagazine.com/i-can-rememb...

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.

The latest one in the Penguin European Writers series just landed: Brian Friel's Stories of Ireland, with an introduction by @louisekennedy.bsky.social

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 👇

Shove your daffodils

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 💚

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh daoine álainn #saoirsedonphalaistín🇵🇸 #endthegenocide🇵🇸

Grateful to @louisekennedy.bsky.social for picking Hagstone as one of her best books of the year in @irishtimes.bsky.social.

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...

this life 🙏

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.

Londoninium

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 www.seetickets.com/event/graham...

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.

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...

Is everyone still nice on here?

Reading at Joyce’s house was the best. Ever. Here’s how she does it.

South Africa Charges Israel with Genocide Major Actors Read the Case File www.palfest.org/south-africa...

I also recommend that you read Hagstone in a cabin by the sea with the rain pattering down. Thank you Cunning Folk. www.cunning-folk.com/book-club-po...

This book 💚💚💚

My bake on a lamp post in Princeton. Life is fkn mad.

Maidin mhaith. This is early Twitter without rage and hate, right?