"Portrays a changing Hong Kong alongside developments in London’s Chinatown, delivering a touching look at the search for home." @ala-booklist.bsky.social "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the lived generational texture of what’s happening now in Hong Kong.” @naoisedolan.bsky.social

Today at the Anne Devlin Community centre in the Liberties! Take back empty buildings ⁊ labhraigí Gaeilge

Really positive mood today at the Anne Devlin Community Centre. The owner has been trying to send in guards and private security to stop a place that’s been abandoned for 16 years from being used for the Liberties local community. Don’t let him do it quietly www.independent.ie/county/dubli...

This is a lie. I was in there today helping out a little and it’s structurally fine. Be ready to defend this space when the time comes, bring any cutlery books cleaning supplies etc you have lying around in the meantime

Míle cuntas ar an bhfód anois thall ar @cogarapp.bsky.social

Huge crowd for Yves Sakila today. Racism is a necessary condition for what’s happening in Palestine, and to properly oppose this racism we must also address it within our own borders. Everyone who’s been vocal on Palestine needs to speak up for #JusticeForYves

I can imagine selling my soul for something darkly, irresistibly glamorous. Selling it to keep being a fucking FF/FG backbencher whipped out of voting against genocide is too contemptible for words

Protests outside the Dáil tomorrow 5.30 for full sanctions against Israel, and 1pm Thursday over police murdering Yves Sakila like too many Black men before him. If you can’t come do something else, this week all the absolute dregs of humanity are on show and we need to fight it

The Irish government paid for the current kidnapping of citizens by continuing to trade with Israel. Anyone who votes against full sanctions tomorrow is not only refusing to help, but actively funding the piracy

Bhí an allagar dátheangach idir @naoisedolan.bsky.social agus Emma Ferrari ag ilfdublin.com I gcearnóg Mhuirfean thar a bheith spéisiúil. B'fhiú an ruathar ó stáisiún Uí Chonghaile. Ag súil go mór le húrscéal Gaeilge lonnaithe i mBeirlín!

What does it mean to move into Irish as a writer whose work has been shaped in English? Naoise Dolan and Emma Ferrari offer a fresh and nuanced perspective on Irish-language writing today — and ask what it might become next. 📅 Sunday 17 May 🕰️ 5pm 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

‘I have better things to do.’ Naoise Dolan on refusing to unpack. granta.com/the-pile/

Kidnapping near Crete is a new level of audacity even for Israel. They saw from the last flotilla that there would be no diplomatic consequences for their actions. Appealing to our authorities to sanction them has done essentially nothing, we need to directly disrupt their supply chain from Europe

Dubs: come to the German embassy in Booterstown on Monday at 1pm if you can, there’s a protest for Daniel Tatlow-Devally and the Ulm 5. No juries under German civil law makes it harder than for Palestine Action in the UK; our best hope to help is sustained public pressure over the next few months

Tá seanchainteoir aontheangach Gaeilge le fáil i nach mór gach teaghlach sa Cheathrú Rua, abair, sa daonáireamh 1926 nua-fhoilsithe. Má tá sochaí daonna fós ann in 3000 beimid in ann a fheiceáil arb é Seán Ó hEinirí i ndáiríre an duine deireanach

Fuel is going up as a direct result of US- and European-backed imperial aggression. See you at the next port blockade for Palestine comrades

An Meiriceá, na hamfataimíní agus an t-impiriúlachas naoise2.substack.com/p/la-na-nama...

I was wondering why the Telegraph was the only mainstream media outlet to state clearly in the headline just what is happening here, and then I realised it’s because their readers will approve

I wrote about why AI ‘authors’ are the natural extension of a culture that values being a writer above writing naoise.substack.com/p/ai-and-bei...

Táim tar éis bheith ar ócáidí liteartha sa tSualainn, i Meiriceá ⁊ san Eilvéis agus bhí iontas an domhain ag daoine nach dtugann rialtas na hÉireann maoiniú don aistriúchán Gaeilge go Béarla. Bheadh an-deis sna tíortha sin, tá suim ann go deimhin, dá mbeadh siad díreach in ann na leabhair a léamh

Quick observations from the Land of the Free (🔒) open.substack.com/pub/naoise/p...

Native Irish speakers interviewed in the US in the early 90s expressing a hope that the language would one day be hip

"The abandoned native speakers of the Gaeltacht have not found reliable strategic allies among the [second-language educated] elites." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Nuachtlitir Ghaeilge nua: an tine Triangle Shirtwaist, an Nua-Ghaeltacht, leabhar baolach agus eile open.substack.com/pub/naoise2/...

Israel’s well-established targeting of journalists is going to intensify across the region. If you are a journalist employed by mainstream media, you need to not only condemn this individually but challenge your actual organisation on how they manufacture consent for it

‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea tells Naoise Dolan about walking in Paris with Rousseau. What began as an academic text on the philosopher morphed into an epistolary novel that playfully mirrors 21st-century communication www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

New newsletter naoise.substack.com/p/poto-and-c...

Huge day for anyone who doesn’t hate my voice: I’ve started doing paywalled voice notes for when I’m truly just thinking aloud and don’t want it to be seen as a publicly accessible quote-unquote contribution to discourse. Here’s one on writing as job vs hobby naoise.substack.com/p/voice-note...

Is breá liom Eileen Gu, ach is fuath liom gur coincheap frithchultúrtha anois é an diansmaoineamh – mo nuachtlitir is deireanaí naoise2.substack.com/p/an-rud-ar-...

Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold Join Naoise Dolan, Anne Griffin & Ailbhe Malone in conversation, in collaboration with @dublinbookfest.bsky.social. Ancient Irish myth, retold — bold women reclaiming their stories. 📅 4 March at 6.30pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Occam’s Razor, I know, but the impact of the BBC’s editorial choices has certainly been that the censorship of Free Palestine has gone relatively undiscussed. When an organisation’s blunders somehow miraculously only BENEFIT them, it starts to look like deliberate deflection

One funny thing learning Arabic has made me realise is that when Israeli pundits go out of their way to say KHAMASSSSS to up the threat level to the Western ear, it just sounds like they’re mixing it up with the word for ‘five’

Why autistic people are often BETTER at tolerating ambiguity + my thoughts on Assimil’s Arabic course that I’m halfway through naoise.substack.com/p/autistic-a...

Tabhair dom an treo ceart - @naoisedolan.bsky.social Sanremo, @realt.bsky.social agus Nuala Rua, i measc rudaí eile. Grean séimh, léargas eile. naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...

Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. There are few clearer examples of how no one is free until Palestine is free: if unchallenged this ban would have destroyed civil liberties across the board. Solidarity with everyone who risked years of incarceration to fight it

Rinne mé iarracht an fhéile fonnadóireachta Iodálach Sanremo a mhíniú trí Ghaeilge naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...

The jury has thus far refused to convict the Filton 24 for the majority of their charges. Keir Starmer will be remembered as a war criminal

Join us as we explore some of the brilliant retellings and reimaginings in the new anthology Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold, with editor Ailbhe Malone and contributors Naoise Dolan and Anne Griffin ➡️ bit.ly/49X3fCN @nlireland.bsky.social

New Substack newsletter: what I read in January, thoughts on tracking things, and my criteria for whether or not I enjoy people naoise.substack.com/p/to-track-o...

Umer Khalid’s water strike starts tonight if the UK government does not enter negotiations with Prisoners for Palestine. The human body can survive, on average, 3 days without water. The genocide in Gaza continues, solidarity with a comrade risking his own life to oppose it

When ‘unfriend’ was a noun in English, my quest to learn 3,000 Arabic lemmas, and other language things naoise.substack.com/p/unfriend-n...

‘Hands off Greenland because it belongs to Denmark’ is not the one. Denmark colonised Greenland, suppressed the language and culture, and forcibly sterilised indigenous Greenlanders for decades

naoise2.substack.com/p/dialann-le... Ní deir aon Ghearmánach ‘Tá an iomarca canúna Bheirlín in Berlin Alexanderplatz’; b’fhéidir nach n-aithneoidh duine as München gach téarma ann, ach ní bheadh aon fhadhb ag cainteoir dúchais Gearmáinise é a thuiscint ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social faoi Cré na Cille

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

Smaointe fánacha faoi na leabhair a bhí mé ag léamh le déanaí i bPáras, i mBeirlín agus i bPalermo naoise2.substack.com/p/dialann-le...

This is Heba Muraisi’s 70th day on hunger strike. Bobby Sands died on his 66th day. I’m not privy to UK government meetings, I don’t have the pleasure of seeing inside their minds, but their behaviour is empirically indistinguishable from that of people who want her dead

I wrote on Substack about how to draft a book piece by piece when you don’t have much time, like I’m currently doing for my first Irish-language novel naoise.substack.com/p/just-write...

As the New Year rings in, Palestine Action prison hunger striker Heba Muraisi will cross over into her 60th day without food. This is often the threshold where sudden death becomes imminent. Her government knows and is wilfully proceeding, just as it has with the genocide in Gaza

naoise2.substack.com/p/an-gallant... cuireann sé frustrachas orm nach aistrítear sleachta Béarla go Gaeilge agus an Ghaeilge mar theanga oibre in aistí srl., mar sin déanfaidh mé mo sheacht ndícheall ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social Rud inmholta!

Mo chuid smaointe faoin scríbhneoir Ceanadach Mavis Gallant, a bhí an-dian maidir le caighdeáin aistriúcháin (rud is annamh) naoise2.substack.com/p/an-gallant...