I have been very lucky to read some proofs this year, and this is up there as one of the very best, and maddest (my favourite thing) — just brilliant writing! Anakana is definitely one of the most original Irish writers working today

🔥The one and only Elaine Feeney is the latest guest on Burning Books 🔥 And that's a wrap for 2025! It's been some year. Huge thanks to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, @wordwellbooks.bsky.social—and of course you, for listening. 🔔Have yourselves a merry little Christmas, and see you next year🔔

FREUDENFREUDE - pleasure derived from observing someone’s good fortune.

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: meet the characters from the golden age of children's TV. @barryhoulihan.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social on the Irish children's shows, rrom Daithi Lacha & Wanderly Wagon to The Den & Bosco that have shaped us www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The LAI Author of the Year Award was presented to Elaine Feeney by UCD Library Deputy Librarian and President of the LAI Lorna Dodd.📘

Lovely review of my (first ever😱) short story in great company as part of @tramppress.bsky.social beautiful An Alternative Irish Christmas anthology in yesterday's @irishtimes.com Very humbling & gratifying to see these kind words about the work. ✨️

Some great choices here. Mine are: Maggie Nelson, Yiyun Li, Ed Atkins, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, David Park, @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Leanne Shapton, and our Nero Fiction shortlist of Ben Woods, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Damian Barr and Ian McEwan. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... #Booksoftheyear

So delighted to win Author of the Year 2025 at Irish Book Awards Thanks to Libraries Association of Ireland & An Post

The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is... @elainefeeney.bsky.social #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs

We have 7 books on the Globe 100 list! Congrats to all the authors! 🔥 @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social

Sad news from Galway: Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91 www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

Shoutout to Elaine Feeney for her fascinating new multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, and learning to live with the past, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, which is a Fall Selection for The Booksellers’ List!

It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.

THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊 Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin 🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin. More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/

“In her latest novel, Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, the prolific poet and novelist Elaine Feeney showcases quite nicely the aptitude of the form in bringing memory to life.” Excerpt from D.W. White’s review of Feeney’s new book. Full review below: buff.ly/maDluzZ #writingcommunity

Remembering that time (tonight) I hung out at The Manx Pub with Irish writers Eimear McBride and Elaine Feeney, along with our pal Tina, after a grand event via the Ottawa International Writers Festival,

Are you ready to discover a new read to add to your (never-ending) physical TBR? Bookseller Michael T. Hamm from Bookmark Halifax shares why he thinks Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way should be your next read this fall.

Join us at Sacred Heart University next week to hear Elaine Feeney read from and discuss her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY www.sacredheart.edu/offices--dep...

I wrote about culchure www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Huge congrats to Elaine Feeney and her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY for making the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year shortlist! www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/let-...

10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

The Trio of Irish Authors are here! Welcome Elaine Feeney, Seán Hewitt and Wendy Erskine. @wimbookfest.bsky.social 🧡🤍💚

Oct 24, Tara McGuire conducts back-to-back interviews with Elaine Feeney (Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way), Ian Williams (You’ve Changed), and Jack Wang (The Riveter). writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... Elaine Feeney’s attendance made possible thanks to the generous support of Culture Ireland.

The Booksellers’ List is Canada’s newest way to discover must-read books, chosen by the people who know them best—independent booksellers. The independent presses featured on the List this season are excited to team up and present you with: your favourite indie’s favourite indies!

An excerpt of Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY on Lit Hub! lithub.com/let-me-go-ma...

So good!

Worth noting that 1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin 2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out. 3) They do deliver internationally booksupstairs.ie

I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

New on The Bibliophile: An interview with Elaine Feeney on her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY. Publishing next Tuesday, Oct 7! digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/history-is... "In Ireland, history has a habit of lingering at the kitchen table, and for the O’Connors that’s definitely true."

This week's @librariesni.bsky.social Bookcited! podcast features @elainefeeney.bsky.social Feeney! Elaine talks about her home turf, Athenry, and how to bring stories to life in her own way. Clicknto listen www.podbean.com/ea/pb-nd4uk-...

'I wrote plays and stories as a child and performed them for any willing audience ... It was usually just my siblings, but it set something on fire in me.' Elaine Feeney by Steve Pyke 📸 We are delighted to have Elaine Feeney - writer, poet, Galway queen - included in Scribendi.

🚨 First of the New Arcana launches kicking off tomorrow in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway with the marvellous @elainefeeney.bsky.social🚨 Come join us for poems & chats & 🍷 @Bloodaxe

Thrilled to make this list! Thanks to all the wonderful indie booksellers who voted ♥️🐎 Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way is out in North America in October with @biblioasis.bsky.social

Congrats to LPG members whose books have been selected for The Booksellers’ List, celebrating the top 20 books of the season as voted on by indie booksellers across Canada via @indiebookstores.ca! Find the full list here: IndieBookstores.ca

Hello new followers, I am a poet and this is my new collection coming September 2025 from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

'I am a hardware shop of rope and paint and hinges' - by Elaine Feeney #poetry #poemoftheday

We’re can’t wait to hear from these featured authors at the Vancouver Writers Fest, October 20–26! Visit our website to browse the full lineup now. Event details for #VWF2025 will be revealed to VWF Members this week!

wasn’t ready for the emotional punch of this, just beautiful by the brilliant @elainefeeney.bsky.social

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Delighted to share that the Nero New Writers Prize in assoc. with Brunel Uni is now OPEN for entries from unpublished writers in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children's Fiction. For full details visit nerobookawards.com/new-writers-... Good luck!

‘I loved every day I worked with Seán and will miss him’: tributes paid to beloved RTÉ presenter Seán Rocks Donal Ryan, Elaine Feeney, Sinéad Gleeson and more pay tribute to the Arena broadcaster and presenter www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

As excavation begins at the Tuam Site, thinking of all those affected directly and indirectly Resharing this article I wrote some time ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The Institutions’ past and resources on teaching it is now also included on the National Curriculum

Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way is a story of love and resilience, rich with history and drama, and the legacies of violence and redemption. Out now in-store and online! #booksky

I will be giving a Short Story workshop on August 6th thanks to super organiser / writer / brilliant lecturer @wordsofhelen.bsky.social via Brunel University Sign up below 👇 All Welcome

A trip into town means new books! Brilliant new fiction by three brilliant Irish writers #OurSong by @urchinette.bsky.social , #LetMeGoMadInMyOwnWay by @elainefeeney.bsky.social & #EatTheOnesYouLove by @griffski.bsky.social .... All from my local indie, the #CastleBookshop in #Castlebar #Mayo !

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