A lovely visit for us today from Stephen Daly, who signed copies of The Last Death Poet for us! A haunting, compelling YA debut with Belfast at its heart and even better, it has the author’s signature inside! Stephen Daly 🏳️🌈 Rock the Boat #APIBA #IrishWriters
We are now taking submissions for Aneas until the 30th April. All the information and how to submit your entry are on our website: munsterlit.ie/aneas-glaoch...
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Mallory Square You are sad. Would it help to know there are crowds watching the sunset with popcorn at the most southerly point? I’ve seen it. Multicoloured toenails swinging from a pier - A small stranger’s - gently grazing my mother’s pedicure. “Being eight is really great!” She says She’s afraid of sharks but not afraid of dinosaurs. Says she’ll be an architect one day. We all agree it looks so much better in real life. Pictures taken and thought of – all abandoned for lack of judiciousness! And Crowds miraculously falling silent. And Screens miraculously falling to laps. And The sun falling even redder as it sets. Not a soul slighting the stray cloud slicing it, Or the boat sailing past it, As it adds to the feel of it all. Makes it look nicer somehow. And when the horizon takes one final gulp and swallow, The crowd claps and cheers As if it’s not done every day.
"Mallory Square"
a poem for when you can't make it there
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People of Dublin & Cork, join us to launch Have I Got Your Attention? with authors Mike & Ailín and some special guests 📢👀
All welcome!
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In 1992, New Island launched its publishing journey with Sea Legs: Hitch-Hiking the Coast of Ireland Alone by Rosita Boland — our very first book!
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Happy St Patricks Day - and special guest - Evie Woods!
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☘️ Irish writer quotes and some recommended #writing books--including your truly (blush). #Irishwriters #immigrantauthors
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If you have read any of Naill Williams’ novels, you know that he is a wonderfully lyrical writer who sprinkles his storytelling with the spiritual and the mystical. “As It Is In Heaven” is no exception. This 300-page novel is the story of a couple of unlikely lovers— Stephen Griffin, a quietly shy, 32-year-old history teacher who has spent his life growing up in Ireland lost in books, and Gabriella Castoldi, a beautiful, temperamental and talented classical violinist who has chosen to expiate herself from her native Venice to live in a mountain village on the western coast of Ireland. Their views of the world and their interaction with each other is shaped by the two vastly different fathers who raised them — one a loving, giving father who is physically present in the first half of the novel and the other a selfish, angry, unloving father who presence is known only through Gabriella’s troubled memories. Like Williams’ “This Is Happiness,” this is a story about loss, grief, hope and healing.
I finished reading “As It Is In Heaven,” by Irish writer Niall Williams, this past week. Very very enjoyable book. See my mini review in ALT. #BlueBrewBooks #Reading #Books #NiallWilliams #IrishWriters
I went to Catholic school in the USA and read The Picture of Dorian Gray in grade 8 at the age of 12. There are few weeks that go by in my LONG life that I don’t think of it. #OscarWilde #conscience #sociopathy #psychopathy #BPD #PayingThePiper #IrishWriters #goodreads #BookSky
A lovely piece about a hell of a writer and an excellent human @diane.dianeduane.com #Spéirgorm #IrishWriters 💙📚
Delighted to see my poem "Raindrops of Jupiter" published in the N&H Journal Issue 1!
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I love this quote from William Trevor’s 1983 novel, “Fools of Fortune: “Incidents remain, isolated in my memory for reasons of their own. Moments and the mood of moments make up that distant childhood.” #Irishwriters #irelandreads
BC Boys BY EDEN HOEY For those in the know, They wear toques or baseball caps Inside or out. Not unique to BC, of course, You know boys who insist on doing this too. Insist on hiding things. Two of them we spent time with In a bar, heat rising Yet the hats were last to be taken off. Long after we left the bar, And only after their shirts and pants. Until that time We met them at the Legion - Imagine our surprise to find them there, Baldly playing pool! Until we learned The five dollar entry is waived - If you remove your hat as a show of respect To fallen soldiers.
Some local know-how on what's hidden under hats (for those in the know!)
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Where and when did you fall in love with reading and stories? For me, it happened in a VW van in my native County Mayo, Ireland. #Booksky #Irishwriters #irelandreads
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Delighted to have renowned Irish Children's Author Ann Murtagh @annmurtagh.bsky.social answering the Jabugo Book Club's questions today. www.patrick-doherty.net/jabugo-book-... #irishwriters #irishliterature #kilkenny
Brendan Behan, considered by many as the "enfant terrible" of 20th century Irish literature, was born 103 years ago #OnThisDay
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'Selected Stories' by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
A beautiful collection of short stories that demonstrates the breadth of the Laureate For Irish Fiction's achievement across her writing career.
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The front cover of All The World’s A Page: An Anthology of Sonnets by Various Authors. Compiled by Quillkeepers Press.
Delighted to get my copy of All The World’s A Page from Quillkeepers Press, featuring my poem “A Sonnet on Betrayal”!
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A vertical poem titled 'Caretaking' by Eden Hoey. It follows an Irish poet's father who, in retirement, becomes a school caretaker. Excerpts included: My father begins his retired years back at school. Weekday mornings he trudges next door, to adjoining lands Hard worn by small feet. Rain or shine, he opens the gates, Unlocks the doors. Caretaking While more hours than the agreed fifteen Elapse on an iPhone timer. Another way of clocking in and out until you die. My father left school at 17. Breaking free From Christian Brothers beating the life out of young boys. A handful of discontinued coins glued to a belt. The ring of it on your arse still. Even when you’re sitting In the driver’s seat of the car you bought. And local radio telling you The man who swung it hard against your bare skin Has died. The fucker is dead. At last! He’ll never live to strike another. But the hazards are on And you’ve raced off the side of the road to scream at the sky. To wish the dead man an eternity of fire. Burn in hell! Your wife’s hand on your arm, shocking you to the sun’s fire falling Over neat rows of council houses. Three kids in the backseat, silent for once. You know how people sometimes say: ‘This teacher changed my life.’ Filing into Tony Eaton’s funeral, I knew him as the closest thing to that. The first to say: ‘You can do it.’ If you have a seven stranded cable, rather than a solid cable, Take one strand round, wrap it back into three strands, Then twist it clockwise, cut off the excess, make sure the screw turns in the hoop. That I still call a Tony Eaton Hoop. Every time I go to do it. He was right. Funeral full of former apprentices Attesting to that. Lads from a bygone generation, Once told what to say and do and Believe about ourselves.
Caretaking is a poem for my father, set against the Irish education system—one that left many like him bruised and the one he now unlocks every morning.
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If you've ever wondered what a dystopia where even sleep is eliminated in the name of productivity would look like, then check out my story in @crypticfrogpub.bsky.social! Featuring spider-people and rooms made of teeth!
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Some Irish American writing for your Wedneday from Fitz-James O’Brien compliments of @swanriverpress.bsky.social
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Thank you, @paragraphplanet.bsky.social, for publishing my #flashficction piece, "No Goodbye." #writingcommunity #Irishwriters #amwriting #microfiction
Always lovely to get book post from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #PRHIreland ... What could it possibly be?... #NewBooks #CrimeWriting #CrimeFiction #IrishWriters (thank you @liznugent.bsky.social !) 'The Truth About Ruby Cooper' is out in March '26 & you can preorder at your local bookshop NOW!
Big thanks to @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social for publishing a few of my first forays into the world of Haiku in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social! #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #irishwriters
4 Samuel Becketts and 4 Seamus Heaneys...
Just passing the time while #WaitingForGodot...🎭
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