Saturday night! Phoenix Bar, Dalymount, Firehouse Skank Soundsystem in full effect. Be there! #FreePalestine

book cover saying "somewhere" a novel by Jessamine O'Connor May 2026

Can't really contain my excitement so here we go - the proof copy (not 100% ready to print but near enough, like this isn't the cover it's just a stand-in) arrived last week! It's my first novel and it's called 'Somewhere', published by the Lilliput Press www.lilliputpress.ie/products/som...

Update: delighted to say, our film WON! first prize at the Drumshanbo Written Word fest 2025 😀thanks to all XX

>> new techno-poem made in August with DJ Thomas Drouard AKA 6x6x6x in Le Havre, France. Funded by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award; it's released on a bunch of streaming platforms (so no need for Sp0tify) hope you like it! Please share -thank youX
I Don't Dance Enough
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Amazing news! Learning to Breathe was just selected by Nature & Culture International Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!
Delighted that our poetry film is getting screened in Copenhagen this Autumn, thanks to Nature & Culture film fest X

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions chuffed.org/project/help...

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Amazing service: practical and invaluable help - if you're in the arts in Ireland and need financial, legal, or other advice, they get straight back to you and it's free!! *Pass it on to artists in your life >>

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OK I don't really know how this Bluething works but seeing as Faceache won't let me in, here goes:
Happy to be shortlisted for this Drumshanbo Written Word fest competition - awards night Friday 22nd August! - in collaboration with Marek Petrovic & Tear Down the Walls music 😊