Tickets running low for this one 👇 (also check out other events in the same thread):

so very very sad to hear the news of the lovely Sean Rocks’ @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena passing. He kept the arts and culture in the front line every evening at 7pm. RIP.

J’adore always the All Ireland @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social fantabulous!

Gawd but it’s good to have @secondcaptains.bsky.social back on d’radio @rteradio1.bsky.social Hip hip hurrah! Ciarraí Abú! @carolineheffo.bsky.social

Just caught with this gorgeous ep of The Prompt ‘Shoes’ three wonderful pieces. @seancarlsen.bsky.social @zoecomyns.bsky.social loved Cricklewood Seán, lived there in the early 90s.

📺 A chairde Gael, The propaganda wing of the regime has just contacted us. They WILL put our set from Glasto today on iPlayer this evening for your viewing pleasure. The crowd expected today is far greater than West Holts capacity so "you'll need to be very early to catch us father...VERY EARLY"

The bedside of an Irish toothache! The worst… Mercifully the wee fecker was ejected today by my fantabulous dentist.

The human rinse n spin in Ballyb by the Sea.

Fantabulous live @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social this morning as I trudge the beach in BB by the sae! @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social @lucycaldwell.bsky.social

Thanks to @jfennellauthor.bsky.social and Maggie Armstrong for being such interesting interviewees @writersweek.bsky.social I enjoyed being immersed in Your Own Dark Shadow and Old Romantics over the last few weeks @tramppress.bsky.social Míle buíochas to @mairelogue.bsky.social for the invite 🙏

Happy faces on Day 3 Listowel Literary Festival #LLF25 📚#books next up @johnboynebooks.bsky.social at 6.30pm #speirgorm #writersweek #blueskybooks @mairelogue.bsky.social @stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @writersweek.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @kerrygroup.bsky.social #writers

Getting @roisinm.bsky.social ready for her Listowel Literary Festival!

Listowel Literary Festival LLF25 Co-produced by 3 local arts groups Writers Week ❤️ St John’s Theatre ❤️ Seanchaí ❤️ Tickets selling fast. Festival office in Listowel Arms Hotel during the week or visit bit.ly/4dwDd9f #speirgorm @mairelogue.bsky.social @kerrygroup.bsky.social

So sad, we were good pals when he came to town. Delighted we are honouring him in Listowel during the festival, you will be down that evening, it’s on Friday.

So sad to read this, we were great auld pals when he used to come to Listowel, honoured to get a mention in one of Paul’s poem. He was wonderful. Sad day . RIP So happy that we are honouring him at this years .#ListowelLiteraryFestival

Family Wedding with the lovelies..

Family Wedding with the lovelies..

On way to London to protest Meta's scraping of LibGen to feed their Llama AI. Join @thesocietyofauthors 1.30 in Granary Square, King's X to add your voice! Sign the SoA petition at change.org (or sign again if u didn't get conf email) - it's at 9k sigs now, let's get it to 10k by lunchtime!

Getting set up for a biteen of Shakespeare this morning… The Merchant of Venice brought to us by Cyclone Reps. Did the merchant myself back in the too many days agooooo! @mairelogue.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #shakespeare

Welcome @writersweek.bsky.social here! Looking forward to end of May. They just announced their programme of Workshops. @stjohnstheatre.bsky.social

What are we do about Stephen Graham, he is just too brilliant for this world. #Adolescence sickeningly to the pit of the stomach good. Owen, the young man was outstanding.

Having moved home recently, at the monthly Board meeting of one, it was agree that this there cup has been nominated the gravy mixing cup, big responsibility but up to the challenge!

Ballyb by the Sea of a Spring evening.

Happy International Women’s Day to all the Banríons worldwide. #internationalwomensday youtu.be/qI8JlZlv1Kg?...

And so… I become the mother of child emigrating to the land of Australia. Hope he loves it, but not too much.

The gorgeous kind @jackielynam.bsky.social post this morning. Bucketfuls of Merci!

Fantabulous @dinkyhanrahan.bsky.social great and so interesting interview with @miriamocal.bsky.social

Fantabulous @dinkyhanrahan.bsky.social great and lovely interview with @miriamocal.bsky.social 👏👏

The younger child is a car wash virgin so I’m accompanying him on his first, for the auld NCT!

A thing of pure beauty of a Wednesday evening.

Cured by the Atlantic Sea in Banna.

My fiction in translation column for @irishtimes.com is available this weekend in print and now online for subscribers. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

I’d say it’s definitely consumption this time.

Storm ready #stormeowyn

‘It might have looked as though we were now surrounded on three sides by fires, but it didn’t feel like that. Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica were far away. The worry, however, was that the Altadena fire would spread.’ Colm Tóibín writes from LA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Looking for Dublin based artists/craftists of any art form to please fill this out. I'm trying to build a database of people available for work in the Dublin area. Please share widely! 🙏 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

WEATHERGLASS NOVELLA PRIZE 2025 Submissions close March 1st 2025 The winner will be chosen by Ali Smith.

@liliansmith.bsky.social happy Christmas and thanks for looking after so many of us in the early mornings of ‘24. Hoping that you’re getting to, in the words of John McGahern ‘arsing’ today.

Very useful list of numbers and support agencies available for anyone struggling this Christmas. This is for Ireland. ❤️ #Bluesky #Christmas #Speirgorm #Ireland

My favourite accompaniment to life. The Cranberry.

A rollicking boil @nigella.bsky.social said for her Chilli Jam.

It’s beginning to look like… @jamieoliveroffical.bsky.social Make Ahead Gravy (the childer drink pints of the stuff!) and sinus cleansing @nigella.bsky.social Chilli Jam 🌶️

Fundoran this lunchtime, wild and wet with the fabulous Aedín and @RTElyricfm in the cluas’ #StormDarragh #bundoran

Well hello Miss @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social my annual visit to your exhibition at Yeats Tavern Drumcliffe! 😉 Happy Christmas.

We’re like Twister this morning heading to Tyrone for the Christmas visit… trying to get ahead of #StormDarragh

Regretfully I have now reached the ‘unable to open a glass jar’ bare fisted’ stage of the life cycle! 😫

Finally, she’s asleep, acting the goat all evening!

@tomdoorley.bsky.social Tom will you be bringing your most important ‘Clinics’ over here to the Sky?

Isn’t Barry Lenihan journalist the Micheál O’Muircheartaigh of Politics. #GE24 Wonderful commentary. @rteradio1.bsky.social