*State, In Relation | Readings & Conversation* - Books Upstairs - Tuesday 5th May 2026 at 6:00pm. Featuring: Clare Bell, Oein DeBhairduin, Sonya Gildea, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Nithy Kasa, and my lovely wife Susan Tomaselli! booksupstairs.ie/all-events/s...
Last night we had unbelievable piano playing, body performance, an eerie true tale of a dead baby in a chipper and just on the brink of all that, a tiny bird flew into my room. Things be a happening... #TyroneGuthrieCentre
June, Carol, Sam, Kanwal
Well clearly you do!
Oh God, that place. Good craic though. Dermot O'L. was the only one to grab a career from the BA in Writing & Publishing! And the local chipper always trying to flog you smokeables when all you wanted was a hummus kebab! I remember being very intimidated by your brilliant 'Writing Narrative' module!
The cruel passing of earth time! From left to right: The Botched Writer, The Divorce Solicitor, The Secondary School Teacher, The Social Anthropology Lecturer. #1992 #MiddlesexUniveristy #ThenVsNow Taken in a boozer at Wood Green Tube Station.
Bull Island, beginning of an adventure #WPWP. Dunlin, Oystercatcher, Bar-tailed Godwin, Teal, Pigeon, Knot, Curlew, Pintail, Turnstone, Shoveler, Redshank, plus the magic Marram grass.
*State, In Relation | Readings & Conversation* - Books Upstairs - Tuesday 5th May 2026 at 6:00pm. Featuring: Clare Bell, Oein DeBhairduin, Sonya Gildea, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Nithy Kasa, and my lovely wife Susan Tomaselli! booksupstairs.ie/all-events/s...
Nice shout in @irishtimes.com for the launch of The Coast of Everything by @guillermostitch.bsky.social in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social on June 17th.
Tickets here www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-for...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Shhhhhhhhh!
Thank you for buying The Long Gaze Back - this is the 2026 reprint, 11 (!) years after publication. Featuring @anakanaschofield.bsky.social, Maeve Brennan @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Mary Lavin @junec.bsky.social Norah Hoult @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @eimearryan.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social
That was a real *moment* for the short story in Ireland...I nearly threw in the towel when you casually mentioned Anne Enright and Eimear McBride were in it 😃!
What a way to end publication day! For the Guardian, I’ve written a piece on navigating the weird and wonderful word of Muriel Spark.
Read it, and do give my book a read, too.
LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is out right now! 🐈⬛
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Very much looking forward to June 17th in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social in Dublin. Tell your (Dublin or Dublin-adjacent) friends. Deepest thanks to @junec.bsky.social and @davidcollard.bsky.social for helping me with this. And many thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social
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Sounds great and I *love* the cover 💖
I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️
At #TheStingingFly podcast studio an hour early 🙌 👌
Every month, we bring you a round-up of opportunities for writers from around the world: from competitions to open submissions, bursaries and residencies.
Check out our website for April's opportunities digest: irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...
America’s intervention in Iran, Feb-April 2026
It is so hard to believe that on the same day humanity has travelled further than ever before, that prick ruined it for everyone by threatening nuclear war. This should be a day of wonder at human ingenuity, not terror at the evil we are capable of
🗣️Writers in the West!
David Butler brings his 2-hour masterclass on character & story to @GalwayMuseum ✨this Saturday✨
Book here: irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
She walk among the tulips
When we're back to language about the "deserving" disabled people vs the undeserving ones, from a random group like the AA, I fear it betrays how widespread anti disability rhetoric has become
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...
Brilliant poetry collection by Matthew Rice from Belfast, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and timestamped from old night shifts in a #plasticsfactory 👏
Today I'm wearing linen lemons in #Frigiliana. Here's an ickle piece I wrote about lemons as a creative writing exercise on a @badaude.bsky.social course some moons ago. I do really love 🍋 🍋 🍋 lespritliteraryreview.org/2022/04/13/l...
Yes, like the book I'm reading 😃
Agree, it's really annoying. And for every recycling machine that breaks down after eating only 5 plastic bottles, the shop owner should be beaten to death, politely.
Happy birthday to me, in Frigiliana.
I'm hopping on and getting it. #intrigued
