www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Children's book reviews: From teen’s musical dreams to ‘fin facts’ about stinky sharks @meabhagscriobh.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @futafata.bsky.social @tadhgmacdh.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @thelifeofsharks.com

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Secret sisterhoods, high-seas adventure, and great scary fun: New children's book releases from Irish authors @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social, @pforde123.bsky.social and Ciara O'Connor. @theobrienpress.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Get carried away on a wave of imagination with the latest Irish children's books @theobrienpress.bsky.social @laurakeohane.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... #Cork #spéirghorm #ireland Hammy Hamilton: "Singing is such a personal thing. When I sing I think not just of the emotion of the song but where I learned it and the occasions I sang it before, so these are all songs that really mean something to me very deeply."

Cork native Seosamh Céitinn’s Irish-language snapshots; cairdeas agus cogadh from Áine Ní Ghlinn, hair-raising adventures, and suspicious fish. #SeachtainnaGaeilge #SnaG www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @cloiarchonnacht.bsky.social @futafata.bsky.social

Photographs by the unassuming Macroom native, who died last January, aged 59, graced the covers of albums by artists including Lúnasa, John Spillane, Jim Murray and the late Séamus Begley. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... #Macroom #Cork

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Tales of climate change and Ramadan fasting, mountain climbing, and the wonders of Irish seaweed @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie

irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41760881.html New twist on Irish mythology is a story of grief and learning to let go of ghosts of the past. @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @alnolan.bsky.social

irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41760578.html Christmas murder-mystery has suspense, snow, festive glow and wholesome advocacy of cheese on toast. @nosycrow.bsky.social @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social @alexcotter.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @erikamcgann.bsky.social

This weekend’s Féile na Laoch sees a reprise of Ceoltóirí Chualann, featuring Seán Ó Sé. @catherinegalway.bsky.social addresses a celebration of Fuinneamh na mBan, or female energy, where Cór Ban Chúil Aodha perform Peadar Ó Riada's Laoi na Laoithe. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Irish Examiner children's book reviews: Magical urchins, a fearful fur ball, and a pubescent trainee banshee: www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @sineadohart.bsky.social @unawoods.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social

Tacking up and mucking out, hoof picking and horsey snobbery in new children's books: irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @alnolan.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... As the Kanturk native celebrates his 80th birthday, ranked among his achievements is the title of the Man who put the Planxty into the Sliabh Luachra tradition.

irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @emmalarkinbooks.bsky.social threads family intrigue through the sporting action in 'Féile', capturing the essence of grassroots GAA and parochial rivalries. @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @megcathwrites.bsky.social

irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Futuristic fantasy holds a mirror to today’s world, where it is perhaps not AI we should fear, but those who would use it for nefarious ends. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social

Drawing on biographical detail from CS Lewis’ life, including the death of his Cork-born mother when he was aged 9, Judith McQuoid creates an imaginary friendship between Lewis and her own grandfather. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social

Cork fiddle player, academic, and authority on Sliabh Luachra music Matt Cranitch will this weekend be presented with a TG4 Gradam Ceoil for lifetime achievement. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @tg4.bsky.social

The Case of the Secret Signal is historically informative but first and foremost just what a children’s book should be: a damn good [email protected] @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @futafata.bsky.social @pforde123.bsky.social @unawoods.bsky.social irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, first held by a nascent Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Mullingar in 1951, was “the most extraordinary thing which happened to traditional music in the 1950s and 1960s on this island”. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

A shape-shifting beast with jagged antlers and red eyes arrives from another time and place but nearly as petrifying is the spine-chilling spectre of peer rejection @Doomsday Club @kmoranwrites.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @pforde123.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

'The Last Boy' is at once a story of darkness and hope as Brewster wishes on each star that he will be the last climbing boy. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @everywithwords.bsky.social @evemcdonnell.bsky.social @susancahill.bsky.social @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social

UCC’s first female music lecturer and the first woman in Ireland or Britain to be awarded a non-honorary doctorate in music, Annie Patterson was instrumental in the foundation of Oireachtas na Gaeilge and Feis Ceoil. @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @ucc.bsky.social

“There’s an obvious Irish influence when you listen to Québécois music - whether it’s known about or not.” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @canadianirish.bsky.social