Collage of authors coming to West Cork Literary Festival 2026. Sara Baume, Jung Chang, Jonathan Coe, Paddy Donnelly, Elaine Feeney, Karl Henry, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Anton Hur, Charlie Mackesy, Dearbhla Mescal, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Laureate for Irish Fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Miriam O'Callaghan, Louise O'Neill, Katriona O’Sullivan, Ian Rankin

And we're live! Check out our 2026 line-up. Priority booking for Festival Friends opens 10am on 7 April. General booking for workshops at the same time and then general booking for all other events at 10am on 14 April. Hope to see you all in Bantry 10-17 July 📚❤️
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Brilliant news and so EXCITING! 🫶🥂

I love her too! She’s a mighty woman, and I’m so excited to get stuck into your proof asap ♥️

I have been very lucky to read some proofs this year, and this is up there as one of the very best, and maddest (my favourite thing) — just brilliant writing!

Anakana is definitely one of the most original Irish writers working today

🛶 ♥️♥️

🔥The one and only Elaine Feeney is the latest guest on Burning Books 🔥
And that's a wrap for 2025! It's been some year. Huge thanks to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, @wordwellbooks.bsky.social—and of course you, for listening.

🔔Have yourselves a merry little Christmas, and see you next year🔔

FREUDENFREUDE - pleasure derived from observing someone’s good fortune.

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: meet the characters from the golden age of children's TV. @barryhoulihan.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social on the Irish children's shows, rrom Daithi Lacha & Wanderly Wagon to The Den & Bosco that have shaped us www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Thanks so much Jen xx

And to you 🫶

Aw thanks so much x

Congratulations 🥂

The LAI Author of the Year Award was presented to Elaine Feeney by UCD Library Deputy Librarian and President of the LAI Lorna Dodd.📘

Lovely review of my (first ever😱) short story in great company as part of @tramppress.bsky.social beautiful An Alternative Irish Christmas anthology in yesterday's @irishtimes.com
Very humbling & gratifying to see these kind words about the work. ✨️

Thanks so much Sinead 💚

Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices

Some great choices here. Mine are: Maggie Nelson, Yiyun Li, Ed Atkins, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, David Park, @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Leanne Shapton, and our Nero Fiction shortlist of Ben Woods, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Damian Barr and Ian McEwan. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... #Booksoftheyear

Thanks so much xx

So delighted to win Author of the Year 2025 at Irish Book Awards

Thanks to Libraries Association of Ireland & An Post

Thanks so much Jack xx

The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is...

@elainefeeney.bsky.social

#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs

We have 7 books on the Globe 100 list! Congrats to all the authors! 🔥 @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social

Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91 Tributes have been paid in Galway to artist, Aosdána member and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who died on Sunday at the age of 91.

Sad news from Galway:

Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91

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Shoutout to Elaine Feeney for her fascinating new multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, and learning to live with the past, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, which is a Fall Selection for The Booksellers’ List!

It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.

THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊

Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin

🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.

More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/

Lovely to see you Jack, what a lovely event ♥️

“In her latest novel, Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, the prolific poet and novelist Elaine Feeney showcases quite nicely the aptitude of the form in bringing memory to life.”

Excerpt from D.W. White’s review of Feeney’s new book. Full review below:

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#writingcommunity

So good to see you and thanks for the lifts, chats and good Scottish humour