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Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
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Gerard Beirne
about 8 hours ago
Jim Harrison who died ten years ago, March 26, 2016. "Death steals everything except our stories."
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Donie going to CPAC so you don't have to.
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about 11 hours ago
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Jess Traynor
about 20 hours ago
Step one: colonise half the planet Step two: steal their art Step three: charge them entry to see it
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OisĂn McGann
about 16 hours ago
Good.
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Zac Thompson
about 21 hours ago
Letâs not forget what Ursula K. Le Guin had to say about JKR and Harry Potter.
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Tres cool.
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about 12 hours ago
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I remember watching it in the historic Garland Theatre in Spokane (for a dollar).
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about 12 hours ago
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Adam Roberts
about 13 hours ago
Stunning photo: James Bradford in 1961, arrested for reading in the Jackson, Mississippi public library.
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Jan Carson
about 14 hours ago
You havenât made it as a writer until youâre featured in the Ballymena Guardian beneath an article about the Milwaukee Tools Road Show. Thanks to Philip Taylor for the lovely write up and @waterstonesballymena for hosting the launch on April 16th at 7pm
#FewAndFarBetween
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Sinéad Gleeson
about 21 hours ago
One of the greatest Irish novels, unpacking the obligations of family & documenting an Ireland of stifling morality, thankfully long gone. McGahern excels at small-town claustrophobia and there is no better chronicler of Leitrim's green lanes. Honoured to write this foreword.
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Jan Carson
1 day ago
Available for international order if youâre living outside the North. If youâre coming to the launch at the Crescent Arts Centre youâll be able to pick up your preorder on the night.
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Benjamin Dreyer
1 day ago
Tracy Kidder was a lovely writer, an absolute pro to work with, and, in our few but memorable encounters, quite the nicest fellow. I'm very sorry to read of his death.
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A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/r...
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A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/realestate/ireland-cell-phones-children.html
1 day ago
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Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy
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David Collard
1 day ago
On this day in 1961 Samuel Beckett married Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil in Folkestone Registry Office.
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Mary M. Burke
1 day ago
Mayne Reid, Ulster-born âGiant of the Westerns.â That face should be better known...(whatever about the novels!)
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Martin Doyle
1 day ago
An Taoiseach MĂcheĂĄl Martin launches my friend and colleague Ronan McGreevyâs edited memoir of SeĂĄn Lemass this evening at the National Library. Sean Haughey, Lemassâs grandson, also spoke
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Eamonn Sweeney
1 day ago
Bratislava is surprising. It has a wonderful English language bookshop Megabooks. One of the booksellers there asked where I was from in Ireland. When I mentioned living in Cork for years she said, "I thought I recognised Cork in your voice. My father is from Tipperary." We are everywhere.
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Jan Carson
3 days ago
Delighted to be doing a wee
#FewAndFarBetween
event with the lovely folk at Elk Books in Warrenpoint. Places are free but limited so reserve your spot asap if youâd like to join us.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans."
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2 days ago
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RĂłnĂĄn Hession
3 days ago
The full series of Leonard and Hungry Paul is now available on the RTE Player. Shyness is nice, as Morrissey once sang in the good old days.
www.rte.ie/player/serie...
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Leonard and Hungry Paul S01E01
Leonard begins to open up his world with the help of his best friend Hungry Paul. Watch Leonard and Hungry Paul S01E01 on RTĂ Player for free
https://www.rte.ie/player/series/episode-1/10012646-00-0000?epguid=AI10012647-01-0001
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RĂłnĂĄn Hession
3 days ago
"Maggie O'Farrell and fellow judges" seems a weird way of reporting this instead of "Anne Dempsey wins Hilary Mantel prize" â I know Hamnet is red hot at the moment but still.
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Maggie OâFarrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction
Anna Dempseyâs This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else, a coming-of-age story set in Florida, took the award, which aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/24/maggie-ofarrell-awards-inaugural-hilary-mantel-prize?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Jess Traynor
3 days ago
Come join us on April 23!
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âIâve learned first-hand how evil is toleratedâ: Colm TĂłibĂn on living in the US under Trump
The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/21/ive-learned-first-hand-how-evil-is-tolerated-colm-toibin-on-living-in-the-us-under-trump?CMP=bookmarks_email
4 days ago
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"WITCH WILL CONTINUE"
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4 days ago
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When I am not busy being the ILT, I occasionally do things like this. Thanks to
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who do, to borrow the words once attributed to a Kiltyclogher councillor, "trojan work for the community at large".
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Jan Carson
4 days ago
Some book festivals are just a wee bit fancier than others. Had a fantastic afternoon at Magheramorne Literary Festival talking about
#FewAndFarBetween
with Wendy Erskine and Freya McClements
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"Schofield is one of the most adventurous writers in the English language today."
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Cat MacLeane
4 days ago
"TĂłibĂn is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for." ~~Clare Clark, The Guardian
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New collection of stories from Colm Toibin to be published March 26
#colmtoibin
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/colm...
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The News from Dublin by Colm TĂłibĂn
Find out more about The News from Dublin by Colm TĂłibĂn
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/colm-toibin/the-news-from-dublin/9781035030736
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Michael Harding recalling a segment of a conversation between two elderly men in a restaurant in a west Cavan village as the conversation turned towards the weather: âHorrid day.â âShocking.â âOdious.â âThe snipe would need wellingtons.â
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Being only a blow-in to Cavan myself as a toddler, I am not in the slightest bit offended by Niall TĂłibĂnâs humour: âI saw a Cavan man stripping wallpaper one day. I see youâre decorating, says I. No, says he, weâre moving!â
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RĂłnĂĄn Hession
5 days ago
Leonard and Hungry Paul is on RTE tonight at 10.30pm, gently dispelling those Sunday evening Glenroe feelings.
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5 days ago
Eavan Boland Body In the morning they were both found dead. Of cold. Of hunger. Of the toxins of a whole history. But her feet were held against his breastbone. The last heat of his flesh was his last gift to her.
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5 days ago
Utterly moving. Huge fan of Boland here.
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Victoria Woodhull
5 days ago
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Kat Farrington, Esq.
5 days ago
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Alison McCrossan
5 days ago
Mother Ireland, Eavan Boland is up there.
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The Poetry Foundation
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=167&issue=1&page=99
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Claire McGing
5 days ago
"Being with her was intimate and helpful, like a cure you didn't notice happening". â€ïž I must have read those words a hundred times & they have never lost their meaning (The Wellhead, Heaney).
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Declan Gaffney
5 days ago
Breaking red alert car parked in a red zone about to disintegrate it's oh so quiet you can almost hear it rust Ciaran Carson,from 'Breaking News (2003)
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Cathal Mac Coille
5 days ago
The dry stone wall builders of Aran fascinated me as a child on holiday. Now I stare at a poster of MĂĄirtĂn Ă DireĂĄinâs âAn ClochadĂłirâ on the wall above my desk. Making me wonder again, as I search for the right words for a column, at their easy skill in selecting the perfect stones for their task.
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sinéadnico
5 days ago
The Planter's Daughter by Austin Clarke
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M Lonergan
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Rita Ann Higgins
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Matthew Terrill
5 days ago
Do You Believe in God? PĂĄdraig Ă Tuama âyou-the hum at the heart of an atom; you-nothing: you-my favorite emptinessâ
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Tip your glass right back at the wonderful
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to celebrate her birthday!
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Brian Sexton
5 days ago
The Hatchet of Billy the Ballad. Sorry, I meant the Billy of Hatchet the Ballad. No wait, The Hatchet of Ballad the Billy. I meant, Billy the Hatchet of Ballad. Ah, fuck sake, writing is hard, I give up.
#constaflubberfygibbert
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RĂłnĂĄn Hession
6 days ago
This painting sums up how I imagine the relationship between writer and reader. That's me in the middle in the green latex suit with the giant pink cotton buds and that's you sitting down on the right.
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Electric Literature
5 days ago
Calling all readers! Electric Literature is now accepting applications to join our editorial team as a volunteer reading for Recommended Reading, ELâs weekly fiction magazine. Learn more about the role here:
buff.ly/AdHjbhd
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Maeve O'Sullivan
5 days ago
I really enjoyed this excellent workshop today, thanks very much! A great way to spend part of
#WorldPoetryDay
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