TOMORROW, Teachers' Club, Parnell Square at 6.30pm Arlen House warmly invites you to celebrate the launch of *Shapechangers: 1960s Irish Women Reflect on their Writing Lives* edited by @nessao.bsky.social with readings from a dozen contributors All welcome BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/shap...

Book below for my workshop on speculative fiction! @shhomeplace.bsky.social Sat 27th June 10-4 Want to write a dystopian novel like The Memorisers? If so, I'll help you generate or hone your own brilliant ideas and writing @arlenhouse.bsky.social seamusheaneyhome.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Happy to have an essay in ‘Shapechangers’, a new anthology from @arlenhouse.bsky.social, edited by @nessao.bsky.social , and available to pre-order from @booksupstairs.bsky.social booksupstairs.ie/product/shap...

Arlen House is delighted to announce the forthcoming *Shapechangers: 1960s Women Reflect on their Writing Lives* edited by @nessao.bsky.social PRE-ORDER booksupstairs.ie/product/shap... The 1st sequel to the bestseller *Look! It's a Woman Writer!* Thanks to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

"Books are the Grail for what is deepest, more mysterious and least expressible within ourselves. They are our soul’s skeleton. If we were to forget that, it would prefigure how false and feelingless we could become." Edna O'Brien

Book Launch TODAY Sunday 10 May at 3pm Arlen House warmly invites you to celebrate new fiction from Liz McManus *Tiny Bruises* at the Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green launch by Ivana Bacik Available now from Books Upstairs booksupstairs.ie/product/tiny... With thanks to Arts Council NI

THIS EVENING Friday 8 May at 6pm in Bray The Mermaid Arts Centre & Arlen House warmly invite you to celebrate Nell Regan's new collection *Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf* launch by Moya Cannon Celebrating Arlen House at 50 Available now from Books Upstairs booksupstairs.ie/.../thirty-s...

Here's my review of @lucycaldwell.bsky.social's latest collection of short stories Devotions. @arlenhouse.bsky.social @booksireland.bsky.social

This evening in Galway at 7pm at An Taibhdhearc Celia de Fréine discusses her play *Cóirín na dTonn* (currently recommended as a text on the Leaving Certificate syllabus) with Áine Ní Ghlinn. With thanks to Foras na Gaeilge & Arts Council of Northern Ireland for supporting new Irish writing

The first of my readings in Maine went well yesterday! Pleasure to read with Maine laureates Julia Bouwsma and Audrey Gidman. Thanks to Maine Irish Heritage Centre for inviting and hosting. We read a poem by Seamus Heaney for his birthday. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

✨ April Poetry Evening ✨ 📅 Friday 10th April 🕢 7:30pm 🎟️ Free - booking essential 👉 tr.ee/7RdO2qtT13 Come along to the United Arts Club, Dublin for an evening of powerful, heartfelt, and entertaining poetry. @arlenhouse.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

THIS EVENING, Friday 20 February, 7.30pm United Arts Club, Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 An evening of words, writing & wisdom with Celia de Fréine & Phyl Herbert. who have both contributed in vast ways to the Irish arts world over the past 50 years. Published proudly by Arlen House.

While @artscouncilireland.bsky.social's dysfunction & incompetence has been clear for decades, the 270 page Expert Report reveals the depths of mismanagement in quite staggering detail. And still so much more to be exposed. It is clear the AC would fail in its own funding applications.

While @artscouncilireland.bsky.social's dysfunction & incompetence has been clear for decades, the 270 page Expert Report reveals the depths of mismanagement in quite staggering detail. And still so much more to be exposed. It is clear the AC would fail in its own funding applications.

Control, horror, and satisfaction: what's not to like? Thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for inviting me to review The Marionette and the Maestro, the new collection of short stories by Tanya Farrelly. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 18 is 'Pitch for Thicker than Water' from 'Blood Atlas' by @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social 🌹 @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Arlen House - celebrating 50 years Eavan Boland leads the WEB Women Writers Workshop at Annaghmakerrig in 1985 - including fascinating interviews with Eavan, and attendees Mary Morrissy, Roz Cowman and Rosemarie Raughter. rte.ie/archives/202... @nessao.bsky.social

🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 12 is 'My Grandmother's Kitchen' from 'Watching for the Hawk' by @bredaspaight.bsky.social 💖 @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Neil Hegarty reviews the vivid and inventive new collection The Marionette and the Maestro, by Tanya Farrelly (Arlen House) @neilhegarty.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/control-horr...

My dystopian novel, The Memorisers, is recommended by Angela Graham as a book of the year: ‘Chillingly identifiable with today.’ @arlenhouse.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/09/b...

My playscript, Manichea: A Play on Cancellation, is launching tomorrow 6pm at the American Bar Belfast - a play, poetry and a pint! @arlenhouse.bsky.social @abbeytheatre.bsky.social

Belfast launch TOMORROW Thursday 4 December, 6pm at The American Bar Liz McManus (ed) *May Morton: Phantom Poet* Rosemary Jenkinson *Manichea: A Play on Cancellation* Francis O'Hare *A Different Light* ALL WELCOME Arlen House - Celebrating 50 Years

My new play script, Manichea: A Play on Cancellation, is launching this Thursday 4th at 6 pm at the American Bar Belfast - it will be fun! @arlenhouse.bsky.social Many thanks @booksireland.bsky.social

Rosemary Jenkinson discusses the thrilling prospects of a playscript and her new publication Manichea: A Play on Cancellation @arlenhouse.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/rosemary-jen...

LONDON this evening, 7.30pm, Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith Celebrating Arlen House at 50, launching biggest anthology of Irish women poets ever compiled *Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry, 1975-2025* @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Hosted by @irishlitsoc.bsky.social ALL WELCOME

Watch/listen/read—the first page of Tanya Farrelly's new collection, The Marionette and the Maestro, read by the author ❤️ @arlenhouse.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/the-first-pa...

London! Celebrating Arlen House at 50, launching @nualaoconnor.bsky.social's *Menagerie* plus *Washing Windows V: Irish Women Revolutionise Poetry, 1975-2025* Hosted by @irishlitsoc.bsky.social at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social Hammersmith, Tuesday 25 Nov, 7.30pm irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...

Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House Arlen House & Books Upstairs invite: Liz McManus (ed) *May Morton: Phantom Poet* Noelle Lynskey *Featherweight* Ruth Carr *Catching the Missing Beat* Rosemary Jenkinson *Manichea: A Play on Cancellation* Sunday 30 November, 2pm Books Upstairs Café ALL WELCOME

Arlen House & Books Upstairs launch invite: Liz McManus (ed) *May Morton: Phantom Poet* Ruth Carr *Catching the Missing Beat* Noelle Lynskey *Featherweight* Rosemary Jenkinson *Manichea: A Play on Censorship* Sunday 30 November, 2pm, Books Upstairs ALL WELCOME Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House

looking forward to seeing @arlenhouse.bsky.social at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025! Arlen House publish a broad range of literature in English agus as Gaeilge arlenhouse.ie

Great readings @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin on Sunday with the gang. I read from my new short story collection, Laganside Lights @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Arlen House & Books Upstairs invite you to enjoy readings from 5 stunning works of Irish literature: Deirdre Cartmill *Under the Blue Seraphim* Rosemary Jenkinson *Laganside Lights* Luke Morgan *Blood Atlas* Francis O'Hare *A Different Light* Csilla Toldy *Firebird* Sun 9 Nov 2pm, Books Upstairs

Launching Sr Stanislaus Kennedy's groundbreaking research on female homelessness *But Where Can I Go? Homeless Women in Dublin* (Arlen House, 1985) with Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald & Catherine Rose. Rest in power, Stan RTÉ Archives: A day in the life with Sr Stan in 1985 www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

Arlen House & Books Upstairs invite you to enjoy readings from 5 stunning works of Irish literature: Deirdre Cartmill *Under the Blue Seraphim* Rosemary Jenkinson *Laganside Lights* Luke Morgan *Blood Atlas* Francis O'Hare *A Different Light* Csilla Toldy *Firebird* Sun 9 Nov 2pm, Books Upstairs

Launched "Blood Atlas" at the Irish Secretariat in Belfast last night, alongside new work from these other fine writers - Celia de Fréine, Ruth Carr, Deirdre Cartmill and Csilla Toldy. Thanks to @arlenhouse.bsky.social and the audience for coming out to support new irish poetry!

I had a wonderful time in Cork reading from my new short story collection, Laganside Lights, at the Cork International Short Story Festival @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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.

The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November! 30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates

Had a pop-up reading at @carleton.edu, Minnesota yesterday. Edgar Allan Poe showed up! Thanks to students and staff of the English Department. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

See @shaunagilligan.bsky.social's poem in Ballincollig Regional Park with Cork City Libraries "Poems in the Park" celebrating 50 years of Arlen House. Other poets @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Medbh McGuckian @rosemaryj77.bsky.social Tara Newley Arkle @nessao.bsky.social Deirdre Brennan, Pauline Bewick

Visiting University of Notre Dame, Indiana, last week. Poetry reading and Q&A hosted by @ndirishstudies.bsky.social. A joy to speak to the students, especially those who are studying gaeilge. Bhí sé iontach gaeilge a labhairt leis na daltaí. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

A date for the diary: Arlen House 50th celebration in Cork City Library this Saturday at 2.30, with Catherine Rose, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and multiple poets from Washing Windows V.

I'm reading poetry from "Blood Atlas" in Chicago at Consulate General of Ireland on Oct 21st. Featuring music from Seán Cleland. In association with Chicago Sister Cities International. Registration open at www.ireland.ie/en/usa/chica... @arlenhouse.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

Delighted to represent writers in Arlen House anthology Fire - Brigid and the Sacred Feminine today in Books Upstairs. Compered by Shauna Gilligan,with an illustrious spectrum of Arlen House authors: Rosemary Jenkinson,Ger Reidy& Celia de Fréine Fire-Brigid and the Sacred Feminine shorturl.at/uZ4em

Awful to hear this. Attended a lovely book launch and reading there with @arlenhouse.bsky.social yesterday afternoon. Such a wonderful community space as well as bookshop. Please support @booksupstairs.bsky.social and buy books from them.

Join us! Rosemary Jenkinson, Ger Reidy, Celia de Fréine, @alisonwellswriter.bsky.social, TCArkle read from new work @arlenhouse.bsky.social 50 years celebration @booksupstairs.bsky.social Sunday 5th October at 4pm!

I will be visiting @notredame.bsky.social next week to kick off a series of events for "Blood Atlas" in the Midwest. Thank you to @ndirishstudies.bsky.social for the invitation! @arlenhouse.bsky.social irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

Yet more shameful @artscouncilireland.bsky.social waste of public funding. Making artists beg for peanuts (then refusing any support to so many), the AC had no qualms spending millions on consultants, advisors, legal & other "experts". Arts Council spent almost €1m www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Congrats to Noelle Lynskey whose debut poetry collection *Featherweight* published in May has already gone into its 2nd ed. Noelle reads in Books Upstairs next Sunday 21 Sept at 2pm with Katie Donovan, Anne Tannam & Patrick Chapman. BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/feat... Huge thanks, Argosy Books

Mary Cullen, happy 96th birthday, legendary feminist activist, educator, thinker, doer, writer who has inspired many generations (pictured with sister legend, Catherine Rose). Arlen House proudly publishes "Telling It Our Way: Essays in Gender History" & "Girls Don't Do Honours"