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Ignore the bestsellers — these are the Irish writers you should read With the help of booksellers and festival directors, Aoife Barry picks the best of this year’s fiction, non-fiction and short stories

Catching up on end-of-year best-ofs here! With @sweetoblivion.bsky.social including @oonaf.bsky.social on her "10 Irish writers you should read" list, dusting off my short review of her very deserving work — This Interim Time — for @commonmag.bsky.social: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

IRISH BOOK WEEK. SEACHTAIN NA LEABHAR ÉIREANNACH Irish Book a Day Saturday 18 October: Share an Irish bookshop. Sunday 19 October: Share an Irish language book. Monday 20 October: Share an Irish debut book. Tuesday 21 October: Share an Irish book you read recently. Wednesday 22 October: Share an Irish book that you bought in a local bookshop. Thursday 23 October: Share a book set in Northern Ireland. Friday 24 October: Share an Irish book you are going to read next. Saturday 25 October: Share an Irish book you discovered at a bookshop event. #lrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay Logos for Bookselling Ireland and Discover Irish Kids’ Books

It's #IrishBookWeek and Bookselling Ireland have​ daily prompts to inspire you to discover Irish books
Day 3: Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel @soula.bsky.social
Day 4: This Interim Time by Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social
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A collage of books featured in the article on an orange background. Text says "11 moving books about grief, love and loss".

Author @oonaf.bsky.social's This Interim Time (@lilliputpress.bsky.social) is a poignant meditation on memory, family, and the brief windows of life we share with those we love.

This #IrishBookWeek, Oona joins us to share some of her favourite books about grief.

Read now: buff.ly/1wwAtgh

An exciting day here at the Department of English as we meet our first group of students on the BA in Creative Writing and English. 🎊🤩 Welcome!! And on your tour of our gorgeous library, be sure to stop by the Pride stand and grab a pin or a bookmark! @mulibrary.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie

We are so proud of Edie, and can't wait to celebrate the launch of her brilliant novel! ⭐ @maynoothuniversity.ie @mu-alumni.bsky.social @oonaf.bsky.social

We are so excited to have @aingealaflannery.bsky.social with us for the coming year! ⭐

We're looking forward to meeting incoming first-years at the Arts Subjects Talks tomorrow and Wednesday @maynoothuniversity.ie! Come and say hello! @mulibrary.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social

Come and work with us! This is a brilliant residency open to established, mid-career writers resident in Ireland.

@maynoothuniversity.ie & @kildarelibrary.bsky.social are thrilled to announce @aingealaflannery.bsky.social as Writer-in-Residence. Aingeala is an award-winning writer, journalist, & broadcaster. It is a great pleasure to welcome Aingeala back to Maynooth! @mu-alumni.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social

What We’re Reading: July 2025 SEÁN CARLSON <br> Frawley revisits memory to anchor her love and affection for each of her parents as she knew them. With precision and tenderness, she flits between their real and imagined pasts, her...

What a treat to read and recommend Oona Frawley's achingly gorgeous new essay collection This Interim Time for @commonmag.bsky.social's "What We're Reading" series: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

Thank you so much for reading, Sean, and for such generous and thoughtful insights! 🙏😊

Maynooth's own Dr Oona Frawley recently published 'This Interim Time' featured in the Times' Best Books for Summer 2025. A well deserved acknowledgment! Get a copy & read.

Thank you so much! 🙏🙏

Congratulations one and all! 🥂🎊

The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top reads for the holidays

I was delighted to see This Interim Time in the @irishtimes.com's 'best books for summer 2025': www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...? Thank you @martindoyle.bsky.social & @jesstraynor.bsky.social 🙏🙏
@lilliputpress.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social

Thank you so much to all of the bookshops and readers - so grateful for your support! 🙏🙏 🥰

It's been just over a month since we launched THIS INTERIM TIME by @oonaf.bsky.social, so it feels like a good time to share some of the lovely things reviewers have said about it 🧡💛

We are hiring! Details about 2 x 10 month contract posts are available here: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... @maynoothuniversity.ie

This Interim Time by Oona Frawley: Moving essays by the daughter of Irish actors in New York Rooted in the writer’s own experience, this collection offers the intriguing viewpoint of a person neither truly here nor there

So pleased to see a lovely review of This Interim Time in Saturday's @irishtimes.com (by the brilliant writer @jesstraynor.bsky.social no less). 🙏 🙏

@lilliputpress.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

'A raw exploration of the past ... A beautiful, delicate, skilfully-meandering book.' - Irish Examiner

A gorgeous review over the weekend for This Interim Time by Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social ✨ Get your copy of this gorgeous book from your fave bookshop or direct from the Lilliput website!

Book review: Oona Frawley brings readers on a raw exploration of the past As both her parents are now dead, Frawley feels able to tackle the thorny subject of her father’s alcoholism, his struggles as an actor, and her mother’s reasons for enduring dysfunction for so long

So grateful for this generous and thoughtful review of This Interim Time. 🙏🙏 @irishexaminer.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Seán also tells us about a recent book he loved: To Avenge a Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan @lilliputpress.bsky.social

Video: Freddie Greenall
Music: Natalia Beylis @sunkenhum.bsky.social

Blúiríní was made possible thanks to the support of The Arts Council

Our new BA in Creative Writing and English was noted in an article in the @irishtimes.com as one of a series of new 'popular and novel courses' on offer for CAO applicants this year. We are so excited to get started! 🤩

Thank you so much! 🙏

Oona Frawley: My father’s friend who knew nothing about his alcoholism surprised us at his funeral I was overwhelmed by questions, including: how many people speaking does it take to articulate a human being?

Really pleased that there's an extract of This Interim Time in today's @irishtimes.com weekend magazine: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

@lilliputpress.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social

Huge thanks to everyone who turned up to Books Upstairs and made the launch of This Interim Time so special! @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social 🙏😊

Today's the day! 😊