If you haven’t yet, you can still vote for our amazing shortlisted titles in this year’s Irish Book Awards!

absolutely raging that philip sutcliffe represents my area and I’m so sickened by his horrible spoiled vote/fucking zodiac killer hate scrawl that I’ve made a complaint to the dcc ethics registrar. the info is at the link below and he’s in direct contravention of section 9.4 of the code of conduct

Our Song has been shortlisted for an Irish Book Award! It’s up for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year prize and you can (and should) vote for it here: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

We'll be doing a live Arena show at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social celebrating 100 issues of @thedublinreview.bsky.social. We'll have editor Brendan Barrington, contributors Sara Baume, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and @mrkocnnll.bsky.social. Do come, it's going to be special...

I wrote about the new Victoria Beckham docuseries www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Very happy to be doing this live podcast recording next Friday (17th Oct) with @urchinette.bsky.social and Prof Paige Reynolds at @molimuseum.bsky.social in Dublin! Will this be a MeetCute? Or a new love triangle? Will we get our Happy Ever After? Or just Happy For Now? 😜 moli.ie/events/happy...

AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

I wrote about House of Guinness/Beamish/Buckfast www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

Is this the only credible solution to the global climate crisis?

I wrote about Stranded on Honeymoon Island which is a television program and possibly a state of mind www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

There is a reference not just to this film but to the dress in this photo in the book I’m writing right now…

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

This brilliant supernatural, romcom directed and cowritten by my brother David is debuting tonight at the Toronto Film Festival tiff.net/films/eternity

I love my neighbourhood. ❤️❤️❤️

Truly she is the people’s princess.

23 years ago when me and my friend Paul were devising silly musical schemes, Paul's flatmate Mick was in the next room organising Belong To & starting an LGBTQI+ youth movement. Mick Barron is a legend. I interviewed him about his new book on LGBTQI+ youth activism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

​We’re delighted to share that artist Ciara Kenny has created a stunning series of sketches celebrating Irish Traditional Crafts. Her work will be on display at this year’s Dublin Maker Festival. Find out more on our website: dublinmaker.ie/celebrating-... #DublinMaker #MeetTheMaker

I wrote about the Real Housewives of London with reference to HP Lovecraft www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

I have returned from the wilderness (Marino) to write columns again www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Tadhg DOES sound suspiciously like Patrick in that audiobook bonus song…

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Details of the Stop Killing Journalists protest in Dublin this evening. Please join NUJ members to protest Israel’s ongoing slaughter of media workers and civilians.

I strongly endorse starting a band whether you can play or not.

Do you think Dermot Desmond has ever been on a bus? I genuinely bet he hasn’t, in his adult life at least.

I saw The Commitments on its opening weekend in the Savoy on the biggest screen in Ireland. The minute Dublin city centre appeared on the screen the entire cinema burst into wild applause and cheers. That screening is still the most joyful cinema experience of my life.

I know I posted about this already but I truly cannot get over how fucking stupid and disconnected from reality this is ALL OF THESE JOBS INVOLVE *KNOWING WHAT WORDS FUCKING MEAN*

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

This pic is in our kitchen. It's me, at an event at EP 10 years ago. If you look closely you'll see it's not a photo but a pic @chrisjudge.bsky.social drew (he documented the event as we went). @urchinette.bsky.social keeps threatening to leak it to create a literary scandal before my next book

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

I wrote about the weirdness of getting personal in public open.substack.com/pub/annacare...

I had a lot of fun chatting with @griffski.bsky.social and @alanmaguire.bsky.social for this

Final day of the flash sale! ⚡

Utterly maddening to see allegations of mistreatment and abuse of women ignored or even smeared when other progressive activism obscures it. You can fully support a vital cause and expect accountability too.

Thanks so much to everyone who has not only posted nice things about Our Song but also kindly sent me photos of it on prominent display (and in the charts!) in bookshops around the country 💙🩷❤️🧡

Our Song is in Dubray’s currated summer romance collection which also makes me very happy www.dubraybooks.ie/curation/sum...

Hearing that Our Song is giving people book hangovers is the highest praise ❤️

God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

I really liked Sinners. The main thing I liked is that Jack O'Connell's character clearly turned 2 people into vampires so they'd be in a harmonising ensemble with him. It's what I'd do if I was a vampire. And as @urchinette.bsky.social @msleedy.bsky.social will tell you, what I do after 2 drinks

Loving this from @urchinette.bsky.social If you’ve: been: a) in a band, b) in the 90s, or c) a teenager, you’ll love it.

This was great fun and I like that each of chose a (very different) French book. All these editions are available at Books Upstairs!