Nuala O'Connor
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social
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Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
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Newly elected members at our official welcome to AosdĂĄna, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland. (L-R) Paul Brady (Music), Nuala OâConnor (Literature), Mufutau Yusuf (Choreography), Ăine NĂ Ghlinn (Literature), Orla Barry (Vis Arts), Paul Mercier (Literature) and Locky Morris (Vis Arts).
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Competition to win a Bowen print & card, with At It Again. See
@bowensociety.bsky.social
instagram page for more.
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3 days ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
5 days ago
Remembering Elizabeth Bowen born
#otd
, 7th June 1899, in Dublin
#elizabethbowen
#ElizabethBowenSociety
#otdshe
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Maebh Long
10 days ago
Applications for a new, 2 year postdoctoral position are now open! Please share widely. The Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Studies, based at ĆtÄkou Whakaihu Waka, the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand, is open to Ph.D. graduates in any area of Irish studies.
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Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish Studies
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
https://otago.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2600864
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
5 days ago
A glorious day celebrating Elizabeth Bowen in Dublin today
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
. Thanks
#DanielleMcLaughlin
#JohnBanville
#DianaHirst
#NicolaDarwood
, Mags, Niamh, & IWC team Shelbourne Hotel after to raise a glass to Bowen. Thanks to all who joined online & in person.
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Dr Robert Bohan
15 days ago
Two new recommendations for anyone interested in contemporary Irish poetry. Nuala OâConnor & Rita Ann Higgins write in a lyrical accessible way allowing you to see the world again, in wonder. Get your local library to order them & learn what real poetry is like. A puff of Oxygen to the mind.
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Last chance for tix, online & in person options.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/why-bowen-...
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8 days ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
9 days ago
Bowen (born in Herbert Place) features in Brendan Lynch's comprehensive Visitors' Guide to Dublin's Latin Quarter â based in the city's south Georgian enclave. Biographies and details of the homes and haunts of Ireland's most famous writers, artists and musicians.
www.dublinslatinquarter.ie
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Join us
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
for a Bowen birthday bash, Sat. 6th June đ
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10 days ago
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore
14 days ago
"Reach high with language â excite the reader. Choose words for their musicality as much as their aptness." ~
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
15 days ago
Save the date! Next Reading Group: 29th July, 7pm BST, online. We're reading *The Hotel* by Elizabeth Bowen, her excellent dĂ©but novel set in Italy. Link soon đ
#thehotel
#Bowensociety
#ElizabethBowen
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FINAL REMINDER! Reading Group tomorrow, Weds. Book choice: *The Shelbourne*, Bowenâs chaming social history & biog of the Dublin hotel. Online at 7pm BST, 27th May. All welcome!
@bowensociety.bsky.social
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
17 days ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
21 days ago
Reading Group next Weds! We're discussing *The Shelbourne*, Bowenâs charming social history & biog of the Dublin hotel. Online 7pm BST, 27th May. All welcome!
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
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'An arts festival is not a tourism activation with cultural sprinkles on top.'
#NaoiseNunn
being excellent in the
@irishexaminer.bsky.social
on a disturbing cut to arts fest funding.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Naoise Nunn: I'm an arts festival organiser â our funding has been gutted in the name of tourism
A policy to defund arts festivals arrived with little fanfare as funding for tourism-led initiatives moved to a different government department
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41847525.html
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Please join us to celebrate Dublin-born writer Elizabeth Bowen on her birthday weekend, in Dublin đ
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23 days ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
24 days ago
Reading Group reminder! We are reading *The Shelbourne*, Bowenâs biog of the Dublin hotel's provenance and progress. Online at 7pm BST, 27th May. All welcome!
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
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Sara Mullen
about 1 month ago
'Cassata', my new chapbook is now available for pre-order:
silverlocust.press/shop/p/cassa...
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Cassata / Sara Mullen â Silver Locust Press
Sara Mullen finds joy in the minute, and excels at pared-back, exacting detail. The poems in Cassata are moving elegies to a near-past, as well as paeans to lifeâs glories. Like her foremother Eavan B...
https://silverlocust.press/shop/p/cassata-sara-mullen
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Join us online or in person
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
in Dublin for WHY BOWEN MATTERS.
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about 1 month ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
about 2 months ago
The booking link for our May Reading Group is now live. Link below. We're reading *The Shelbourne*, a fascinating trot through the Dublin hotel's provenance and progress, stylishly written by Bowen. Online at 7pm BST, 27th May. All welcome!
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
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National Flash Fiction Day
about 2 months ago
Thinking of submitting to NFFDâs FlashFlood (opens on Sunday for a week. Up to 300 words), why not have a read of last yearâs stories? You can see the full list here:
flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com?m=1
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
about 2 months ago
âïž SAVE the DATE âïž The Bowen Society in association with
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
are holding a Bowen symposium in Dublin, Ireland, on 6th June 2026. In person & online. Booking link soon!
#whybowenmatters
#ElizabethBowen
#ElizabethBowenSociety
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Is the book world ableist? Yup.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When an author says she had to decline a $175,000 prize, what does it say about the publishing world? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Helen DeWitt turning down the Windham-Campbell literary award caused controversy. But her bold act highlights that such prizes arenât always as meritocratic as they might seem, says Guardian columnist...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/helen-dewitt-author-turn-down-prize-publishing-fiction?CMP=share_btn_url&fbclid=IwY2xjawRNf5xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeWfZY1deu233RuvemUx_imPz8MQ2uPlLpz868NEy1mYCGarx7kJTtJdmZs6Y_aem_KNYHC9HhSm9ZjbhwU6eBBA&sfnsn=mo
about 2 months ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
about 2 months ago
In the new Modernist Review, from PhDer Tabitha Rowland: 'The Female Network: Gossip in the Life and Works of Elizabeth Bowen'. Aims is to show that gossip is essential in the formation and potential destruction of identities and communities.
#modernistreview
#tabitharowland
#ElizabethBowen
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Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction A new flash prize and I'm judging! CrannĂłg Magazine is delighted to announce the inaugural Pushbike Prize for Flash Fiction judged by Nuala O'Connor. âŹ1500 in prizes Subs open May 1st to 21st.
www.wordsonthestreet.com/pod.html?fbc...
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publisher of fiction and poetry
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2 months ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
2 months ago
đŁ Happy Easter from the Bowen Society đŁ From Bowen's story, 'The Easter Egg Party': "The glossy blues, the faint greens, the waxy buff-pinks, the freckles seemed to her to be for nothing: while the sisters, breathless...â"
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
2 months ago
Book Feature - *Elizabeth Bowen in Context*, ed. by Allan Hepburn. Fr.
@universitypress.cambridge.org
'*Elizabeth Bowen in Context*Â came into being because of the diversity and range of scholarship on her fiction that has emerged in the past couple decades. ' More here:
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
3 months ago
Save the date! Next Reading Group: 27th May 7pm GMT, online. We're reading *The Shelbourne* by Elizabeth Bowen, in which she takes us on an evocative tour through the history of the landmark Dublin hotel.
#ShelbourneHotel
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
3 months ago
Bowen Essay Competition 2026 âïžDEADLINE 30th Sep. 2026âïž The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review invites undergrad and postgrad students to submit essays that focus on Bowenâs life or work. 4,000 wds More info: Dr Nick Turner / Dr Nicola Darwood, at bowen @ beds .ac .uk
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
3 months ago
Last call for The Last Day! Bowen Reading Group: 25th Mar. 7pm GMT, online. All welcome! *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late
#eibhearwalshe
, explores Bowen's rich and complex life, & particularly her long love affair.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
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âïž LĂĄ 'le PĂĄdraig faoi mhaise âïž
3 months ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
3 months ago
âïž Happy St Patrick's Day from the Bowen Society âïž '...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.' Elizabeth Bowen
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
3 months ago
We are reading this beautiful novel at the mo, ahead of our Reading Group: 25th Mar. 7pm GMT, online. Booking link below. All welcome! *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late
#eibhearwalshe
, explores Bowen's rich and complex life, & a long love affair.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
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For World Book Day, a visit to the CaitlĂn Maude poetry bench, with her poem Na BlĂĄtha, and my translation The Flowers, at the Uni of Galway. Thanks @juno_mcl for pics.
#worldbookday
#CaitlĂnMaude
#poetrytranslation
#filĂocht
3 months ago
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Dr Shauna Gilligan
3 months ago
Congratulations to John MacKenna
@lilliputpress.bsky.social
on a wonderful and jam-packed launch in the gorgeous Athy Library
@kildarelibrary.bsky.social
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
4 months ago
Booking link, March Reading Group: 25th, 7pm GMT, online. *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by
#eibhearwalshe
, exploring Bowen's complex life, particularly the love rectangle she formed w/ her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, and EB's husband Alan Cameron.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
4 months ago
Elizabeth Bowen died
#otd
in 1973, in University College Hospital, London, aged 73. She is buried with her husband in St Colman's churchyard in Farahy, Co. Cork, close to the gates of her family seat, Bowen's Court.
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Kathryn Petruccelli
4 months ago
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Protect our hedgehog pals!
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Bid to encourage protection for hedgehogs as numbers fall
A new initiative is to be launched in a bid to encourage people to help protect hedgehogs as numbers of the mammal "dramatically" decline across Europe.
https://share.google/4vSVl24O0FMYzzTKN
4 months ago
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On a pod today talking poetry, hope, autism, and Emily Dickinson with excellent host
@kpetruccelli-poet.bsky.social
#melodyorwitchcraft
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4 months ago
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Nuala O'Connor
The Elizabeth Bowen Society
4 months ago
đ Happy Valentine's Day đ 'I am torn and demented by longing for you...I think you *are* my soul.' Elizabeth Bowen, in a letter to Charles Ritchie, April 1950.
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National Library of Ireland
4 months ago
In this episode, NLI Podcaster in Residence
@zoecomyns.bsky.social
's guest is writer
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social
â they discuss writing historical fiction and specifically the case of An CailĂn BĂĄn â Ellen Hanley. đ§ Listen here:
on.soundcloud.com/pddR057jUPNu...
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Hear a new story I wrote for
@nlireland.bsky.social
podcaster-in-res
@zoecomyns.bsky.social
& an interview with me about the process, for her pod The Reader. Link below. 'White Ellen' is about the Colleen Bawn.
soundcloud.com/national_lib...
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Podcaster in Residence - Episode 6 - An CailĂn BĂĄn - Nuala O'Connor
In this episode ZoĂ« Comynsâ guest is writer Nuala OâConnor â they discuss writing historical fiction and specifically the case of An CailĂn BĂĄn â Ellen Hanley. An CailĂn BĂĄn/The Colleen Bawn was 15-y
https://soundcloud.com/national_library_ireland/podcaster-in-residence-episode
4 months ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
4 months ago
The lost, lovely Bowen's Court. It's in our next Reading Group pick *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late
#eibhearwalshe
, in which he explored the love rectangle EB formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, and EB's husband Alan Cameron. 25th Mar, 7pm GMT, online. Link soon.
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đ Happy birthday, Jim đ James Joyce, born February 2nd, 1882 in Dublin
#jamesjoyce
#otd
#collageart
#candlemas
4 months ago
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Irish Literary Times
4 months ago
IWC - We Are Hiring: Programme Administrator
irishwriterscentre.ie/we-are-hirin...
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We Are Hiring: Programme Administrator - Irish Writers Centre
Programme Administrator for the Irish Writers Centre 15 January 2026  ABOUT THE ROLE JOB TITLE: Programme Administrator CONTRACT: Full time, permanent, with six-month probation period. SALARY:  âŹ31...
https://irishwriterscentre.ie/we-are-hiring-programme-administrator/?utm_source=Main+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=61d81b1a23-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_11_7_2023_16_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_615d15ae04-61d81b1a23-230597373&mc_cid=61d81b1a23&mc_eid=d52351cc05
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Irish Literary Times
4 months ago
Fighting Words: Weâre thrilled to announce the Brendan Behan Celebration on Saturday, February 7th from 11am to 3pm! Join us as Dublin City Council unveils a new plaque honouring Brendan Behanâs legendary contributions to Irish literature at Behan Square, the site of Brendan's childhood home.
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Why is scammer Raynor Winn still being pubbed by Penguin?! Apparently her next book is due...I don't get it. Interesting article here:
drb.ie/a-pinch-of-s...
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A Pinch of Salt - DRB
David Blake Knox writes: A literary storm raged during this summer. The eye of that storm could be found in the UK, but it concerned a book that has been an international multi-million bestseller. The...
https://drb.ie/a-pinch-of-salt/
4 months ago
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society
4 months ago
Save the date! Next Reading Group: 25th March GMT, online. We're reading *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late, lovely
#eibhearwalshe
, in which he explored Bowen's rich and complex life, & the love rectangle she formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, & EB's husband Alan.
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Reminder for our Elizabeth Bowen Society Reading Group, 28th Jan, Weds, 7pm GMT.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
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5 months ago
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Petition for a Jennifer Johnston statue:
my.uplift.ie/petitions/cl...
@uplift.ie
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Celebrate Jennifer Johnston
Her family, authors of this petitition, and those who admired her tremendous body of work and passion for life would like to see her celebrated as a woman writer, all too neglected, and as...
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/clebrate-jennifer-johnston?share=81d6b122-a029-4424-a170-289cf915ee1d&source=bluesky&time=1769438012&utm_medium=myuplift&utm_source=bluesky
5 months ago
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