Edel Coffey
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
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Author and journalist
https://linktr.ee/edelcoffey
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🚨🚨🚨NEWS🚨🚨🚨 I’m delighted to share that I’ll be publishing two new novels with @BooksSphere in 2026 and 2027. I’m really looking forward to sharing these books with you. You can pre-order IN GLASS HOUSES now from the link in my bio. 😘
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🚨🚨📣 COVER REVEAL 🚨🚨 📣 My new book IN GLASS HOUSES will be published on February 12th 2026 You can pre-order it at the link in my bio! (Please do!) I enjoyed writing this one so much and I really can’t wait for you to read it…but for now, here’s a little bit about the story!
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16 days ago
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Tolka
29 days ago
Lovely interview with Claire-Louise Bennett by
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
– touching on exploring the Samuel Beckett archives. You can read Bennett's creative response to Beckett in Tolka Issue Seven.
www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
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Edel Coffey
Murder One International Crime Writing Festival
about 2 months ago
"An amazing coup for Murder One to have him (Chris Whitaker) as their guest" TY
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
🙏 Chris Whitaker in conv. w/ Edel Coffey 🗓️Sat, Oct 18th at 6pm 📍dlr LexIcon, Dun Laoghaire Book your ticket today at:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/all-the-co...
www.murderone.ie
#murderonefest2025
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Tune in to Arena on
@rteradio1.bsky.social
at 2pm for a bank holiday special looking at upcoming cultural highlights with me, Sean Rocks,
@johnmaguire.bsky.social
@zarahedderman.bsky.social
and
@jengannon426.bsky.social
. So many great books, films, albums and TV shows coming our way!
6 months ago
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Edel Coffey
Zoë Comyns
6 months ago
Ep 2 of
@wearetheprompt.bsky.social
airs this Sunday on
@rteradio1.bsky.social
at 7.30pm. I'll be chatting to
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
and you'll hear three new pieces of writing all inspired by Edel's prompt: 'An Unexpected Parcel'.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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The Prompt - opening 'An Unexpected Parcel' with Edel Coffey
This week on The Prompt on RTÉ Radio 1 guest writer Edel Coffey's writing prompt is 'An Unexpected Parcel'.
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0530/1515916-the-prompt-opening-an-unexpected-parcel-with-edel-coffey/
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🚨🚨🚨NEWS🚨🚨🚨 I’m delighted to share that I’ll be publishing two new novels with @BooksSphere in 2026 and 2027. I’m really looking forward to sharing these books with you. You can pre-order IN GLASS HOUSES now from the link in my bio. 😘
6 months ago
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Edel Coffey
Andrea Carter
7 months ago
Can’t wait to be a part of this! Come see me and the brilliant Jess Kidd interviewed by the also brilliant
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
on Friday 23rd May!
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Such a pleasure to talk to a writer like
@kitdewaal.bsky.social
— smart, empathetic, funny and super-talented. Her new novel THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is out now, and it’s great!
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7 months ago
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Edel Coffey
The Prompt
8 months ago
Lovely to chat with Kay Sheehy on
@rteradio1.bsky.social
's Arena this eve. The brilliant
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
(one of our guest writer/prompters) joined to discuss using prompts as a way for your writing to take flight:
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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The Prompt: RTÉ Radio 1
Zoë Comyns and Edel Coffey on The Prompt, a new series for writers on Radio 1.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22498235/
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Edel Coffey
The Prompt
8 months ago
Submissions are now open for The Prompt, a new writing series for RTÉ Radio 1. Eight of Ireland's best writers have set prompts for you - details here:
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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RTÉ Radio 1 is looking for writers for their new series
The Prompt is a brand new series for writers...
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0306/1500653-rte-radio-1-is-looking-for-writers-for-their-new-series/
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Edel Coffey
Rae Radford
9 months ago
Which author's books do you 'pre-order'? I already have
@tmloganauthor.bsky.social
The Daughter waiting in my account. Plus
@peterjamesauthor.bsky.social
@sallyrigby.bsky.social
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
@neillancaster66.bsky.social
@fionacumminsauthor.bsky.social
are 'musts'!
#BookSky
#Books
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9 months ago
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Essential reading from
@emerthescreamer.bsky.social
🩵🩵🩵
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Emer McLysaght: Five years ago I entered a psychiatric hospital with an eating disorder
I’m not recovered from my eating disorder and the mental challenges behind it
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/01/31/emer-mclysaght-five-ways-im-wiser-after-five-years-in-recovery/
10 months ago
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Today is publication day of the paperback version of IN HER PLACE. 🎉 🥳
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10 months ago
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Weekly recommendations are back! This week, THE CLEANER by MARY WATSON.
@marymary.bsky.social
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10 months ago
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Edel Coffey
Rae Radford
10 months ago
This was my favourite - l read 109 books. Also discovered
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
and
@sallyrigby.bsky.social
two outstanding authors.
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Wow, love this.
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10 months ago
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11 months ago
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Thank you so much for this Rae (and happy Christmas!).
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11 months ago
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Never knew this book had a glow-in-the-dark cover! (But don’t like how haunted Beyond Black looks with the lights off. 😨)
12 months ago
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I’m at that stage in my draft where I’ve decided every book in my house needs to be alphabetised.
12 months ago
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I've made an executive decision to start Baileys season early this year. (If they can play Christmas at me wherever I go, then I can drink Baileys.)
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12 months ago
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What are your writing hacks for when you get stuck in a story or novel? Mine are to jump to a different point in the story, or to try telling the story from a different character’s point of view to see what happens.
#writinghacks
#writersofbluesky
12 months ago
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I’m doing
#nanowrimo
over on my insta and TikTok. Anyone else do it? I use it to bounce myself into a daily writing schedule and as a way of problem solving plot issues.
about 1 year ago
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Edel Coffey
Kate Mosse
about 1 year ago
Hello Blueskyers, here I am … How are things over here?
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Today is the last day to vote in the Irish Book Awards. I’d love an oul vote if you have a couple of minutes to spare. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
about 1 year ago
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Edel Coffey
Martin Doyle
almost 2 years ago
The best books of 2023: More than 20 writers and critics share their favourite books they have read the year. Thanks to Edel Coffey, Roddy Doyle, Catriona Crowe, Conor O’Clery and Joseph O’Connor for their generous words about my own book, Dirty Linen.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/12/02/the-best-books-of-2023-writers-and-critics-choose/
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She’s back with her buds! Thanks everyone for spreading the word. She was stuck in a neighbour’s house. Always worth checking with your neighbours. 😮💨
about 2 years ago
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My October recommendations for The Gloss magazine, out today with The Irish Times!
www.instagram.com/reel/CyBfKxj...
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THE GLOSS MAGAZINE on Instagram: "#GlossyThursday! Have you picked up your copy yet? Books editor @e...
6 likes, 1 comments - theglossmag on October 5, 2023: "#GlossyThursday! Have you picked up your copy yet? Books editor @edelcoffey talks through some of..."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyBfKxjtLtI/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
about 2 years ago
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I sold my mammywagon and had a little cry.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Edel Coffey: Selling my Qashqai and saying goodbye to the baby era of motherhood
The Qashqai has served me well for these past years but it’s an old car now and as a family of six we were starting to outgrow it.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41235562.html
about 2 years ago
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This was an utter joy. #lovemyjob
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Katherine Rundell: ‘Extraordinary wealth should be looked at the same way as punching a baby in th...
The extravagantly gifted children’s writer on the cult of the billionaire, her crush on Aslan the lion, and John Donne as a sex educator
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/09/27/katherine-rundell-extraordinary-wealth-should-be-looked-at-the-same-way-as-punching-a-baby-in-the-face/
about 2 years ago
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Delighted to be joining The Gloss as Books Ed. Here are some recommendations for September!
thegloss.ie/edel-coffey-...
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Edel Coffey Selects The Best Books To Read This Month - The Gloss Magazine
https://thegloss.ie/edel-coffey-selects-the-best-books-to-read-this-month/?fbclid=PAAaZHyRvYMS_vhJ4joTthVR1JXyE5k0wt3c-8dzv_kNfxIzm9BE3M96eHzzw_aem_AUTSIcTPZoa6vhBFs-fyWg44I1fPMeLMkFsTY2l7JA0nck9XnxzooMRlqXfC_1SI7vk
about 2 years ago
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Edel Coffey
Rónán Hession
about 2 years ago
Delighted to be taking part in @DublinBookFest
@edelcoffey.bsky.social
Megan Nolan and I will be chatting with
@321kieran.bsky.social
about music, writing and creativity. Some tunes too. Thurs 9 November at the Glass Mask Theatre, 8.15pm #DBF23 Do come!
dublinbookfestival.com/event/words-...
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Words and Music - Dublin Book Festival
Words and music event at Dublin Book Festival with authors and musicians Edel Coffey, Rónán Hession and Megan Nolan
https://dublinbookfestival.com/event/words-and-music/
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Edel Coffey
Rónán Hession
about 2 years ago
I'm over here now! I'd appreciate it if you could share this as a sort of bat signal to others you might be interested in following/avoiding me. Thanks.
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Equal parts thrilled, excited and a nervous wreck to reveal the cover of IN HER PLACE. Out March 2024, you can pre-order it now from the link in my bio. Ever grateful to everyone who read and supported Breaking Point, which made it possible for me to have a second novel. 🧡♥️🧡
about 2 years ago
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Such a great interview on the creative process. Looking forward to reading Thomas Morris’s collection Open Up (Faber) ‘I write as a way of being alive rather than as a way of making a living.’
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Thomas Morris: ‘I was hiding. I hid my stammer. I hid that we were poor. My characters can’t hid...
The Open Up author decided that, if he was going to thrive, he needed to stop pretending he was something he’s not
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/08/12/thomas-morris-i-was-hiding-i-hid-my-stammer-i-hid-that-we-were-poor-my-characters-cant-hide-any-more/
over 2 years ago
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Blackbird in Dun Laoghaire – a poem by Joseph O’Connor ❤️
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/08/09/blackbird-in-dun-laoghaire-a-poem-by-joseph-oconnor/
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Blackbird in Dun Laoghaire – a poem by Joseph O’Connor
Joseph O’Connor wrote this poem for his sister Sinéad O’Connor
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/08/09/blackbird-in-dun-laoghaire-a-poem-by-joseph-oconnor/
over 2 years ago
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I haven’t posted here yet because I feel so much pressure to make the first post a profound post…and then I remembered perfectionism and thought: just get started!
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I have realised perfectionism is a form of self-sabotage
Edel Coffey: For ages I ran my own personal fight club as friends lapped me with achievements
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/i-have-realised-perfectionism-is-a-form-of-self-sabotage-1.4630861#:~:text=Edel%20Coffey%3A%20For%20ages%20I,friends%20lapped%20me%20with%20achievements&text=I%20never%20thought%20I%20was,was%20about%20doing%20things%20perfectly
over 2 years ago
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