Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker is set to receive the Freedom of Dublin city.

Review of Belfast Twilight in the latest issue of Blithe Spirit, journal of the British Haiku Society.

Former RTÉ TV chief Joe Mulholland’s character and courage remembered at funeral

"My graphic novel MOONCOP will be out in paperback from @DandQ in the autumn."

Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU7Y...

Irishman detained by Ice appeals to Taoiseach to raise case with Trump amid ‘torture’

Reminder that I'll be at @yorklitfest.bsky.social on 14th March at 6.30pm. I'll be interviewed by the hugely talented writer @colettesnowden.bsky.social (who also has an event at 2pm the same day – go to that too.) Do come!

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy’s ambitious vision for Dingle cinema www.irishcentral.com/culture/ente...

I'm not really here anymore, but just to say that Wild Iris (Dedalus) launches at Hodges Figgis, Dublin, on 19 May, everyone is welcome ❤️

✒️ Join poet and activist Len Pennie for an evening at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast on 23 March from 7:30pm - 9:00pm. Part of the Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics and presented in association with Poetry Ireland. More details: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/poy...

Shannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past year www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Little Island is exhibiting at the Booksellers Association conference today and tomorrow – come say hello!

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Without this man, there really is no road: Neal Cassady (aka Dean Moriarty) who would have turned 100 today (born February 8, 1926. Salt Lake City, Utah). "And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go."

Try not to be a “Tommy or Tammi Try-Hard.” (In my ignorance, I hadn’t heard that phrase before, and now I suspect I shall never stop using it.)

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Whose story is it, and what is the story?"

🌏🌘🌙SLIGO SPACE MUSEUM🌏🌘🌙 #irishsciencefiction #irishcomedy #sligospacemuseum

Rare to get the chance to hear firsthand account of war in Ukraine from someone both soldier and poet. I’m doing public interview with Yaryna Chornohuz, former combat medic now soldier with 140th Marine Reconnaissance Battalion, who still makes time to write poetry. Free but register 2pm Feb 18 TCD

"On this day 100 years ago, The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey premiered at the Abbey Theatre."

'Since when,' he asked, 'Are the first and last line of any poem Where the poem begins and ends?' #seamusheaney

We shall drink water and walk slow.

I still remember seeing this for the first time as a teenager. Momentous.

Sylvia Plath interviewing Elizabeth Bowen for Mademoiselle magazine, May 1953.

Sylvia Plath interviewing Elizabeth Bowen for Mademoiselle magazine, May 1953.

And now anyone who has a computer can type without having to change the paper, just like Jack Kerouac

'Since when,' he asked, 'Are the first and last line of any poem Where the poem begins and ends?' #seamusheaney

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's vault in Mount Jerome, Dublin. I organised the restoration and plaque in co-operation with the Le Fanu family back in 2014 for the bicentenary of his birth. Here's what it looked like back then, all spiff and bedecked with flowers. JSLF passed away on 7 February 1873.

U2’s Larry Mullen plays a blinder at the agriculture committee – surely some mistake? www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Behan “took the language of the streets and proved it belonged on the page and on the stage,” Dublin’s Lord Mayor said. www.thejournal.ie/brendan-beha...

Cover reveal of my new book and a link to pre-order. You’re welcome 🤓https://www.lilliputpress.ie/products/a-hosting-interviews-with-irish-writers-1991-2025

Twice Shy | Exploring Seamus Heaney's Love Poetry www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia. Link below. Please share far and wide :)

Interesting contribution on AI from the Social Democrats (who support Mícheál Martin accepting the invite to the White House): they say they will draft legislation so that everyone enjoys “copyright-like ownership” of their own image and voice, so as to effectively ban deepfakes by stealth

Maggie O’Farrell on Grief, Her History with Shakespeare, and Adapting Her Novel to the Screen lithub.com/maggie-ofarr...

Poem of the Week: The Sixty Second Poem A new work by Geraldine Mitchell www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Neil Young cancels tour of UK and Europe, including date in Cork Musician (80) apologises to fans for letting them down, saying it is `not the time’ to tour www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

"We have cleared away our natural forests, dug out peatlands, converted hills to conifer plantations, drained wetlands, compacted soil under the weight of millions of farm animals and straightened rivers to create yet more grazing land" by @whittledaway.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/readme/storm...

🚨 Micheál Martin confirms he has received, and accepted, an invitation to the White House for St Patrick’s Day. The Taoiseach said Donald Trump’s invite was “an opportunity to celebrate the special relationship between our two countries”. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

"Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers by urinating the words “Fuck Ice” on the snow just before the start of the Winter Olympics." I'm impressed by his aim (in more senses than one). www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

One week until submissions open. HOWL New Irish Writing 26 opens on Feb 13th. Poetry and prose in English and Irish. We’re looking forward to reading what you’ve been working on. 📅 7 days

In case you didn't catch it in last Saturday's print edition, my review of Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly is now up on the Irish Times website. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

BRAWLER TOUR! Gainesville, Brooklyn, DC, Nashville, Boston, South Hadley, Seattle, Portland, LA, San Diego,San Francisco, New Orleans, Miami!

Thanks so much! Now live: A new poem from Spain — "Easter Week in Valencia" — in Image, events in Providence (Rhode Island), and more... seancarlson.substack.com/p/easter-wee...

ICE planes deporting Palestinians to West Bank (in coordination with Israel) refueling in Ireland.