Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 11: An author whom you’ve read multiple books by - Kate O’Brien
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We love to see the scene growing in Ireland and reckon Tara's course at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social is gonna be class craic as well a real opportunity for speculative writers to improve their craft and get novels publication sharp.
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 10: A book you discovered at a book event - A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 9: A book about sound or listening - Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson
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Living through the horrors has inspired me to top up my horror book collection - this time it's Fleischerei and Wax and Wane, both by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social 🩸
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A stack of six New Island books sits on a wooden table in front of a softly blurred window view of houses and trees. The colourful spines are visible, including All the Old Clocks by R. P. O’Donnell, To Walk the Way: One Pilgrim’s Camino by Mike Timms, An Asylum for My Affections edited by Molly Hennigan, Home Economics by Caitríona Lally, Essential Irish by Garry Bannister, and Stop Your Shenanigans by Micheál Ó Conghaile. The New Island bicycle logo appears beneath the stack.
Spring is stacking up nicely. 🙌🏼
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 7: A book with singular character -Solo by Gráinne O’Brien
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 6: A book with LGBTQ+ themes - Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
Shortlisted for The Kate O’Brien Award 2026
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 4: A book that features fire - Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick
Winner of The Kate O’Brien Award 2026
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 3: A book about renewal or transformation - Foster by Claire Keegan
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 2: A book that deals with mental health or neurodivergence - How to build a boat by Elaine Feeney
Previous Kate O’Brien Award winner in 2021
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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
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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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My latest blogpost: charlesfrenchonwordsreadingandwriting.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/w... #Writers #Ireland #WritingCommunity #Irishwriters
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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
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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
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A lovely piece about a hell of a writer and an excellent human @diane.dianeduane.com #Spéirgorm #IrishWriters 💙📚
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Delighted to see my poem "Raindrops of Jupiter" published in the N&H Journal Issue 1!
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity #irishwriters
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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
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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
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Brendan Behan, considered by many as the "enfant terrible" of 20th century Irish literature, was born 103 years ago #OnThisDay
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#IrishHistory #IrishWriters #Literature #IrishBiography #GlobalIrishNation #SpéirGhorm
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