Thanks for coming, Rónán, and the kind words

Congratulations to @martindoyle.bsky.social on the launch of A Hosting,a career spanning collection of 60 interviews with Irish writers over 35 years. A phenomenal achievement. What a great record of Irish writers and writing. Will be widely read and studied I'm sure.

Heads up. If you’re one of the many many people I’ve tried to convince to come to Belfast for the book festival, now’s the time to make that dream come true. The programme is live and it is cracking belfastbookfestival.com/festival-pro...

Ahead of tonight’s launch at Hodges Figgis, my friend and colleague Ronan McGreevy made this video to promote my new book, A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 (Lilliput Press)

My feature for the Irish Post on the Irish writers born in Britain featured in A Hosting eg Paul Howard, Mike McCormack, Catherine O’Flynn, Martin McDonagh, Eugene McCabe and Bridget O’Connor and British-based ones such as Roy Foster and Martina Evans
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Great stuff, Julian. Looking forward to meeting you

Thanks Julian, I hope you can make the launch on Tuesday

A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 – A good listener’s illuminating, engaging conversations The 60 authors in this ‘career retrospective’ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry

A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 – A good listener’s illuminating, engaging conversations. Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish literature and drama at UCD, reviews A Hosting, my new book

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Irish Novel of the Year shortlist revealed Books newsletter: tomorrow’s pages previewed; Ballyscullion Park Book Festival; Cork International Poetry Festival; book deals; Encore Award and Walter Scott Prize shortlists; new Waterstones

Irish Novel of the Year shortlist revealed

Books newsletter: tomorrow’s pages previewed; Ballyscullion Park Book Festival; Cork International Poetry Festival; book deals; Encore Award and Walter Scott Prize shortlists; new Waterstones

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8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film.

So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

Fiction needs friction—interviews need it too - Books Ireland A Hosting is a brilliantly illuminative journey into piercing literary minds.

What a wonderful review to wake up to on publication day. Thanks to Rosemary Jenkinson for such a close reading of my work and to Books Ireland for running it booksirelandmagazine.com/fiction-need...

Thank you!!

Those of ye in the Western Metropolis should get into @kennysbookshop.bsky.social for the launch at 6pm, 16th April , tickets are free.

My hand holding a copy of A Hosting , with cover art from Louis Le Brocquy's The Táin, Army Massing. Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026, to be published 16th April 2026.

Just arrived today, (with an excellent cover from Louis le Brocquy no less) is A Hosting from @martindoyle.bsky.social via @lilliputpress.bsky.social - interviews with the cream of Irish writers over 35 years. #speirgorm

Thrilled to have @martindoyle.bsky.social in to sign copies of his new book A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 out this Thursday! 🙌

Catch Martin at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social ennysbookshop on Thursday, or in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social s on Tuesday 21 April-

I had a great conversation with Rob Doyle, Louise Nealon and Patrick Holloway at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast last Saturday organised by the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin.

My book launch in Kenny’s in Galway this Thursday is free but you can reserve your seat here. Hope to see you there. www.kennys.ie/events/books... @kennysbookshop.bsky.social

Buzzy, starry-eyed YA titles argue for the importance of the arts YA fiction reads for April from Caryl Lewis, Méabh Collins, Derek Landy, Susie Nadler and a debut from Stephen Daly

📖📖📖 April YA reviews
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Thanks Emma, same here!

It comes across clearly how very much I enjoyed this long and expansive chat with @martindoyle.bsky.social

Poem of the Week: Joseph: A brother, aged seven
A heartbreaker by Hayden Murphy
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Author Emma Donoghue: ‘I grew up very normal, yet had this secret side that I thought everyone would consider foul’ The writer on literary reputation, emigration and ‘the crushing weight of being the only gay in the village’

Author Emma Donoghue: ‘I grew up very normal, yet had this secret side that I thought everyone would consider foul’

It is from my new book, A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025, which will be published by Lilliput Press on Thursday, April 16th

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Strokestown poetry prize shortlist revealed Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

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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I wrote an essay about my early life in Irish books for SJPLit’s Substack. You can read it here!

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Dublin Literary Award 2026 shortlist: ‘Literature at its most international, most ambitious, and most humane’ Award-winning Scottish author Ali Smith, Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong and a Croatian debutant feature on a list with a strong French accent

Dublin Literary Award 2026 shortlist: ‘Literature at its most international, most ambitious, and most humane’

Award-winning Scottish author Ali Smith, Vietnamese-American writer Ocean Vuong and a Croatian debutant feature on a list with a strong French accent

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Author Susannah Dickey: ‘With each book I find myself more invested in writing Ireland’ In the author’s Donegal-set third novel Into the Wreck the vessel of the title ‘represents in some ways the plethora of suppressed histories harboured by families’ across the island

My Q&A with Into the Wreck author Susannah Dickey: ‘With each book I find myself more invested in writing Ireland’

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Author Jan Carson: ‘I Googled what would happen if you drained Lough Neagh’ Author’s fourth novel, Few and Far Between, is inspired by a politician’s madcap scheme

My interview with Jan Carson about her latest novel, Few and Far Between, inspired by Terence O’Neill’s madcap plan to drain Lough Neagh and turn into another county. It is included in A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026, published by Lilliput Press
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