Gethan Dick won the 2026 Kate O'Brien award for her funny, wild optimistic novel about a group of people on a post-apocalyptic road-trip. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

'Publishing is an industry that has often proclaimed itself to be on the brink of collapse; yet the persistence of books tells a different story.' EXCEPTIONALLY proud of co-Tramp Lisa Coen for this clear-eyed, straight-up introduction to essays on women's writing in Ireland of the last decade

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

A window in support of paying and crediting real artists and designers

LAUNCH DAY - come celebrate Ireland's hellmouth! #NellOnEarth #WorldBookDay @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to debut writer Gethan Dick! If you haven't picked up #WaterInTheDesertFireInTheNight this is your sign – it is *riveting* (and prize-winning!)

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Every now and then #LastOnesLeftAlive pops up on a reading list and it makes me so happy, especially when it's in company like this over at @bookriot.bsky.social bookriot.com/creepy-post-...

Gethan Dick is shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award for her debut novel Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night. It's funny and hopeful, check it out!

'The fantasy elements are terrific ... but Rudden is also excellent at peeling back layers of history to excavate the human cost of colonisation' How about this Irish Times rave for #SisterWake! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Takes the @theguardian.com to report that Ireland twice facilitated extraordinary rendition of Palestinians in the past two weeks. And prominent commentators in Ireland have the gall to ask why we wouldn't trust our Govnt if the Triple Lock was removed? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Literary hunk @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social is on @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social right now talking about his cultural faves and I LOVE it #SisterWake

Take a break from watching the world ending and come listen to the brilliant Gethan Dick at EPIC! 5:30 this evening epicchq.com/event/eire-t... @tramppress.bsky.social #WITDFITN

Did you make yourself a little resolution to get out more this year? How about coming down to Grafton St and supporting a local artist, writer @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social today - it’s free, there may be wine, and everybody is really welcome #SisterWake

This book is utterly amazing, and genuinely original.

This was a lovely chat with the fantastic @eithneshortall.bsky.social about all things SISTER WAKE, Sam, and a dinner party argument about why, no, colonialism was not a 'mixed bag...'

'Books and Sam' – extremely proud of @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social whose STUNNING Irish fantasy is out on Thursday #SisterWake www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery. www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...

This year the British establishment covered up this new #Banksy. Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes?? Protect the right to protest! RT!

Proud and delighted to see Soula Emmanuel's brilliant story 'Christmas Number One' in the Irish Times today www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Great now do an Irish literary creep we all know about

Some savvy broadcaster out there should do counterprogramming about the actual state of feminism, what is working, what needs improvement, with a diverse panel of smart women. It would be awesome. Anyway. I’m around.

#speirgorm if you are in the Clonliffe Road area please keep an eye out for our lovely former foster boy Ernie

'Davis’s team has documented the decline in women’s quality of life at mid-age. Despite a huge amount of cultural discourse focusing on the so-called male loneliness epidemic, the documented mental health struggles of middle-aged women remain unacknowledged.' www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

Read an extract from @suerains.bsky.social's extraordinary story in #AnAlternativeIrishChristmas right here: www.image.ie/living/read-...

Irish & UK Non-Fiction Writers & fans - there's a new indie publisher in town! #FULLSET has just launched. Run by Blathnaid Healy & Eoin Purcell - two hugely experienced (& lovely) people. You can follow them on Insta here www.instagram.com/fullsetbooks/ & check out their info here fullsetbooks.com

You see anyone acting the fuckin' fool on this matter - give 'em the facts and nothing else. Trans rights are human rights, no matter how hard these people try to create spectacle, confusion and distraction. #speirghorm #ireland #transrights

OUR NEXT BOOK with incredibly talented Juliano Zaffino – coming out in April @tramppress.bsky.social Jacket design by @feekra.bsky.social

TLDR: buy a copy of #AnAlternativeIrishChristmas for Crimbo, babes www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack | Irish Independent share.google/spCMW7qYvg79...

this is WILD and I love it

Excited to pick this up

LOVE voting for my faves! If you do done fun / satisfying thing on the internet today this should be it

I look forward to this arts anthology all year & don’t open it until the week in between Christmas & New Year when I can sit and savour it! Confession though - 1 year I left it into January because I heard so many good things that I wanted to keep the loveliness in my pocket!

Its #samhain, so carve your turnips & settle down for some good #Irish #folkhorror @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social @melaniegolding.bsky.social @unshavedmouse.bsky.social @amshine.bsky.social

Absolutely bursting with pride that the mighty #ConnOfTheDead is up for an #IrishBookAward! Written by @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social and illustrated by @aeadraws.bsky.social – vote early, vote often! www.irishbookawards.ie/2025-shortli...

We're having at event at the Dublin Book Festival to launch our new anthology. Tickets sold out quickly, so it's been moved to a larger space in the venue, which means THE TIME HAS CHANGED TO 3:15PM on Sunday 9th. Hope you can join us! Book here: dublinbookfestival.com/event/book-l...

I honestly believe that opposition to Me Too—or even willingness to mock it—is an indicator of personal moral rot and nascent conservatism. So far this has a 100% predictive accuracy.

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

Two Irish novelists have now done more to break the blockade and end man-made famine in Gaza than the entire UK government. (Naoise Dolan on the flotilla and Sally Rooney with her words and deeds)

Trying so hard not to say 'going forward' I usually go with 'as seo amach', but got dangerously close to a 'henceforth' this morning. If you have a good one in your pocket, help me out.

#BREAKING Thousands upon Thousands of Israelis are marching towards Netanyahu RESIDENCE in JERUSALEM

41 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip since dawn today.

Very excited! Signed copies of ‘Such a Good Couple’ by Sophie White instore now!!

Trying to do one thing, no matter how small, a day. Here's today's small thing, maybe you could sign too #Palestine #PalestineAction #Gaza www.amnesty.ie/urgent_actio...

I LOVE this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.