Obie, the idiot dog, managed to surprise a lizard on our afternoon walk. Irish lizards shed their tails when surprised to distract predators as they make their escape... It will grow a new one but it does take a while... In the meantime, here's a wiggly lizard tail... #IrishFauna #Lizards

Poetry Ireland is recruiting a new Director to lead the Poetry Ireland team. Applications for this role are being managed by CCI Executive Search. For further details visit www.charitycareersrecruitment.ie/vacancy/159

I love Ouida! She knew Wilde well & her work influenced his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. She had an extraordinary life. For more read my book Wilde’s Women.

Details of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV in today's Irish Independent. It starts on Friday 17th October at 9pm on BBC One. Do tune in!

Join us for a guided tour of Eileen Gray: The Making of Modernism with #IrishSignLanguage interpretation Discover one of the most influential 20th Century designers and architects. 📅 Sun 28 Sept, 15:30 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🎟️ No booking required 🔗 museum.ie/.../Irish-Si...

🚨Launch details for New Arcana!🚨 I'll be in Galway, Dublin, Belfast & online. Please do come along if you can, & spread the word. 🔮✨️🐍🃏 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

The Booker Prize shortlist was announced an hour ago. And in that time, i've had my tea (meatballs), and added this wild offer onto my website, where you can get ALL SIX of the shortlisted books at a big discounted price! biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

"Dublin Bay Chimneys", a new #painting that sold earlier this month. For many, seeing the chimneys when arriving into Dublin port or Dublin airport, means simply one thing. Home, that word home, with all its flaws and its joys, it means you’re home. So I paint them. #SpeirGorm #Stunday #ArtYear

“If they were alive, all 10 would certainly salute this gifted writer who has done so much to restore women to our lopsided historical narrative.” Thank you to Clodagh Finn for such a brilliant piece on Nicola Pierce’s newest title. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

We're really looking forward to this Dublin Book Fair event in November with Evelyn Conlon (author and UCD Press co-editor of After the Train) and author Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with author and journalist Clodagh Finn! Saturday, 8 November 11 am IMMA, RHK 🎟️ Get your tickets: bit.ly/dbf-att

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

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PRE-ORDER my upcoming novel, set in an Irish hotel, for a chance to WIN AN OVERNIGHT STAY FOR TWO at Ireland's Falls Hotel & Spa INCLUDING breakfast/dinner/A SPA TREATMENT Use this link to O'MAHONYS indie bookstore 👉 share.google/Gofj84xh0K5R... #OnceAYear #Spéirgorm #Irish #Fiction #Booksky

My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers. Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza. Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Are you +/- a friend interested in learning about poetic forms such as the sonnet or the pantoum? If so, why not join me next month, when I’ll be leading this 4-week online evening workshop. Reposts appreciated! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/an-e...

Hold the front page! Well, P7 anyway. 😎 There's the #recordcollection curious #ForTheRecord's details and running order in the latest #IrelandsOwn. On @rtegold.bsky.social Sunday evenings at 6.00pm until November 9th. #music #radio #records #vinyl #CDs #albums #singles

Wonderful book! Looks like a beautiful edition.

Today’s the day! We are thrilled to announce our full programme of events for Dublin Book Festival 2025. All events now up on our website to browse and getting booking ✨ bit.ly/46ixJu1

Listened to our arts & culture podcast Get Around To It yet? We’re number one in Arts in Apple podcasts in Ireland! Thanks so much to everyone who has listened in so far - please do spread the word. Listen in here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g... or here open.spotify.com/episode/0Mqg...

How fitting to see news of this lovely looking book while on the train to Cork on literary business!

@catherinecrichton.bsky.social Might interest you Catherine

Not just single-author books, and not just US. Work published internationally, in journals, anthologies, and magazines too. Check the list! 👁

Throughout history, wives often disappear from the page, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husband’s work.   Nicola Pierce’s ‘Great Irish Wives’ shines a spotlight on ten wives who were instrumental in their famous husbands' success.   Coming this September.

A moving interview with author Nicola Pierce.

Lots of love for our new episode and for its subject, Ursula Le Guin. Many thanks to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social for his insights and sharing his passion for Earthsea with us (and you). Andy, Una, Tess and Nicky x open.spotify.com/episode/0sc5...

Have you got your tickets for Murder One yet? Our festival will take place October 17th - 19th at the wonderful dlr LexIcon venue in Dun Laoghaire. We have a brilliant programme so go to www.murderone.ie for event details, including those very important booking links. Tickets are selling fast 🔥

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

A gorgeous morning in Stoneybatter! The cafes are open, wonderful coffee on every corner and equally wonderful comics here! We're open until 4pm today with @tinygreens.bsky.social at the desk😌 littledeercomics.ie

This has been cooking for a while so delighted to bring it to you, how we talk about climate and environmental crisis is critical to our future - storytelling, making climate change, action and solutions relevant to people in their daily life matters. Please join us #Spéirghorm on Sept 22nd. 👇📌

So deeply honoured to be among those participating in this symposium in honour of a truly remarkable man, a brilliant scholar, trusted mentor, and dear friend. Green Carnations: Remembering Éibhear Walshe Wednesday 10 September University College Cork www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

It's true! Julia Roberts will be narrating Leonard and Hungry Paul. She read the book when it came out and her agent got in touch to say she really liked it. But I never thought things would go this far. Delighted. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Tessa Hadley never fails to deliver! Love her books. I’m in awe of her ability to create such compelling characters & stories.

Amazing woman! Makes my “I don’t do it during the summer (in Ireland) because it’s too hot” excuse look pretty lame. 🏃

Isn’t this the most glorious cover! My very talented friend @nicolapierce.bsky.social is launching her latest book in Drogheda next month. You can preorder it here: obrien.ie/great-irish-...

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In other news, major changes at Redbubble mean I'm shutting down the print shop on Sep 1st. Not great timing with other new problems. I've almost 500 paintings up there but over the next 10 days I'll be disabling all of them so for last days of the shop here you go: www.redbubble.com/people/eolai...

Always something going on in Dublin. Tonight it’s QOTSA in lovely Kilmainham.

Good morning and I've just pressed the reprint button For _Leonard and Hungry Paul_ @ronanhession.bsky.social Did I mention it is coming to your BBC TV screens! @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social @rte.ie @thebookseller.com

Sheridan le Fanu published his vampire novella 'Carmilla' in a magazine called 'The Dark Blue' between 1871 and 1872. I don't think I've ever seen a bound volume of The Dark Blue until today...and it's BEAUTIFUL! 💙 #c19th #vampires

'Apple Tree I.' (1912). Though publically known for his allegorical compositions and female portraits, in the 1890s and afterwards, landscape painting became an increasingly important outlet for Gustav Klimt’s creativity - a necessary break from his supremely consumeristic art.

I'm very excited that my new book, IRELAND IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF C.S. LEWIS, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan! The book is quite dear (!) but there is a 25% discount going till tomorrow (21/8). Just use the discount code SNB2S25 at the following site: link.springer.com/book/9783031...

New episode of Backlisted! The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, with Paul March-Russell, Una McCormack and me. @backlisted.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/246...

Fancy joining #TheGutterTeam? We are hiring! 📚💚 • Bookseller positions available across Temple Bar & Dalkey shops • 2-4 days a week • 1-2 years bookselling experience essential • email CV & cover letter to [email protected] by 24th August 2025. #jobfairy #gutterteamdreamteam #mustlovedogs

Delighted to be involved again with Belfast International Arts Festival’s Talks and Ideas programme this year in Oct and Nov. Click here to see what’s on, and a few highlights follow: belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/2025-festiva...

@aodhbc.bsky.social Thanks for sharing my book post.

Want to know the secret passions of everyone from Dillie Keane and Meg Rosoff to Alan Rusbridger and Nigel Planer? Listen to Better Known, a beguiling podcast in which people enthuse about six things they think should be better known. I loved doing it! betterknown.co.uk/2021/08/21/d...

Tonight on Arena it's Friday, so it's TV and music review night. We'll be looking at, amongst many other new releases, the new Alien: Earth series and the latest album from Alison Goldfrapp. Live at 6.30 on @rteradio1.bsky.social, listen back afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Happy Birthday E. Nesbit! You can learn about her extraordinary life by reading my biography.

"I am the only person to know that he was killed by a violet car, which, having killed him, went noiselessly away towards the sea. And that car was empty - there was no-one in it. It was just a violet car that moved along the lanes swiftly and silently, and was empty." Happy birthday E. Nesbit

Exciting – some early images of the forthcoming BBC adaptation of Leonard and Hungry Paul starting to come out. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...