Niamh Boyce
@boycie.bsky.social
Irish Writer. Humourless Hag. Author of Her Kind, The Herbalist & Inside The Wolf
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Happy to have recently joined the board of Irish PEN and would encourage more writers to become members. Find out more here:
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October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Happy to have recently joined the board of Irish PEN and would encourage more writers to become members. Find out more here:
irishpen.com/become-a-mem...
irishpen.com/become-a-mem...
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Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪
October 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪
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Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
Prize — Galley Beggar Press
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
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Huge thanks to the Irish Independent for covering this, (I've just seen a BBC article about a musician this has happened to). For readers, the solution is to buy real books in independent bookshops, a win win for everyone and a lose for the scammers. If you prefer ebooks, be very careful out there 🤯
August 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Huge thanks to the Irish Independent for covering this, (I've just seen a BBC article about a musician this has happened to). For readers, the solution is to buy real books in independent bookshops, a win win for everyone and a lose for the scammers. If you prefer ebooks, be very careful out there 🤯
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📣 We’re recruiting!
• Bookseller/Barista position available
• 3-5 days a week
• Bookshop experience essential
• Email CVs and cover emails to shop@booksupstairs.ie by 15th August
• Bookseller/Barista position available
• 3-5 days a week
• Bookshop experience essential
• Email CVs and cover emails to shop@booksupstairs.ie by 15th August
August 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📣 We’re recruiting!
• Bookseller/Barista position available
• 3-5 days a week
• Bookshop experience essential
• Email CVs and cover emails to shop@booksupstairs.ie by 15th August
• Bookseller/Barista position available
• 3-5 days a week
• Bookshop experience essential
• Email CVs and cover emails to shop@booksupstairs.ie by 15th August
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Submissions are open for the International Debut Novel Competition
We’re celebrating past winners with their memories starting with @boycie.bsky.social whose winning novel, The Herbalist, winner of the Debut of the Year at The Irish Book Awards.
Details here irishwriterscentre.ie/internationa...
We’re celebrating past winners with their memories starting with @boycie.bsky.social whose winning novel, The Herbalist, winner of the Debut of the Year at The Irish Book Awards.
Details here irishwriterscentre.ie/internationa...
August 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Submissions are open for the International Debut Novel Competition
We’re celebrating past winners with their memories starting with @boycie.bsky.social whose winning novel, The Herbalist, winner of the Debut of the Year at The Irish Book Awards.
Details here irishwriterscentre.ie/internationa...
We’re celebrating past winners with their memories starting with @boycie.bsky.social whose winning novel, The Herbalist, winner of the Debut of the Year at The Irish Book Awards.
Details here irishwriterscentre.ie/internationa...
Thanks to Nicci and Mick for their work on this brilliant podcast
#bridgetcleary #alicekyteler #witchtrials #changeling
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#bridgetcleary #alicekyteler #witchtrials #changeling
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From Alice Kyteler To Bridget Cleary And The Modern Day Witch Hunt 27-06-25 19:00-20:30
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July 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thanks to Nicci and Mick for their work on this brilliant podcast
#bridgetcleary #alicekyteler #witchtrials #changeling
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#bridgetcleary #alicekyteler #witchtrials #changeling
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#publicationday
Thrilled skinny with The Herbalist, and it's sumptuous cover - released internationally this month, starting here today...
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Thrilled skinny with The Herbalist, and it's sumptuous cover - released internationally this month, starting here today...
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The Herbalist: A moving historical novel inspired by true events in 1930s Ireland: Amazon.co.uk: Boyce, Niamh: 9781738550630: Books
Buy The Herbalist: A moving historical novel inspired by true events in 1930s Ireland by Boyce, Niamh (ISBN: 9781738550630) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible ...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#publicationday
Thrilled skinny with The Herbalist, and it's sumptuous cover - released internationally this month, starting here today...
amzn.eu/d/aWs8ph6
Thrilled skinny with The Herbalist, and it's sumptuous cover - released internationally this month, starting here today...
amzn.eu/d/aWs8ph6
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Our statement on Gaza, signed by almost 400 Irish writers.
irishpen.com/2025/06/05/s...
Please share widely.
irishpen.com/2025/06/05/s...
Please share widely.
Statement on Gaza - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
‘If I must die, I want a resonant death… a death that the whole world will hear’Fatima Hassouna, writer, photographer, and journalist killed in Gaza on 16 April 2025 We, the undersigned writers of the...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Our statement on Gaza, signed by almost 400 Irish writers.
irishpen.com/2025/06/05/s...
Please share widely.
irishpen.com/2025/06/05/s...
Please share widely.
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Please consider supporting or joining my Virtual 'My Favourite Book' Coffee Morning that I'm hosting on Saturday July 5th at 11am IST/GMT) to help relieve the suffering in Gaza. Thank you so much! www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/C...
Support Rose Servitova's Page on iDonate.ie
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June 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Please consider supporting or joining my Virtual 'My Favourite Book' Coffee Morning that I'm hosting on Saturday July 5th at 11am IST/GMT) to help relieve the suffering in Gaza. Thank you so much! www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/C...
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Submission Slot ✍️
We're after stories and poems on the theme 'Blue' for our Issue 107 Showcase.
Send up to two stories (up to 2,200 words each) or four poems (up to 40 lines each) on the theme.
Deadline: 9 June 2025
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#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
We're after stories and poems on the theme 'Blue' for our Issue 107 Showcase.
Send up to two stories (up to 2,200 words each) or four poems (up to 40 lines each) on the theme.
Deadline: 9 June 2025
mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-...
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
May 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Submission Slot ✍️
We're after stories and poems on the theme 'Blue' for our Issue 107 Showcase.
Send up to two stories (up to 2,200 words each) or four poems (up to 40 lines each) on the theme.
Deadline: 9 June 2025
mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-...
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
We're after stories and poems on the theme 'Blue' for our Issue 107 Showcase.
Send up to two stories (up to 2,200 words each) or four poems (up to 40 lines each) on the theme.
Deadline: 9 June 2025
mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-...
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
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"Our yoga is about ensuring that our word-mind can respond as fully and fluently as possible to whatever our story-mind comes up with"
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May 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Our yoga is about ensuring that our word-mind can respond as fully and fluently as possible to whatever our story-mind comes up with"
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It's 1st May and #poetryday so I'm revisiting FIRE @arlenhouse.bsky.social and the stunning opening poem HERE @cristinleach.bsky.social @oonaghmontague.bsky.social alongside the beautiful artwork WINDOW @boycie.bsky.social
May words and pictures continue to shine light....
May words and pictures continue to shine light....
May 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's 1st May and #poetryday so I'm revisiting FIRE @arlenhouse.bsky.social and the stunning opening poem HERE @cristinleach.bsky.social @oonaghmontague.bsky.social alongside the beautiful artwork WINDOW @boycie.bsky.social
May words and pictures continue to shine light....
May words and pictures continue to shine light....
Delighted to have a poem in this Massive anthology of Irish women's poetry from the legendary feminist press @arlenhouse.bsky.social Congratulations to Editors by @alanhayes.bsky.social & @nualaoconnor.bsky.social
Beautiful cover art by Pauline Bewick #washingwindowsV
Beautiful cover art by Pauline Bewick #washingwindowsV
Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House
Forthcoming
*Washing Windows V*
First launch on
Saturday 3 May at 14.15
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
The most comprehensive anthology of contemporary Irish women poets ever published with over 300 contributors
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Forthcoming
*Washing Windows V*
First launch on
Saturday 3 May at 14.15
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
The most comprehensive anthology of contemporary Irish women poets ever published with over 300 contributors
BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/wash...
April 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Delighted to have a poem in this Massive anthology of Irish women's poetry from the legendary feminist press @arlenhouse.bsky.social Congratulations to Editors by @alanhayes.bsky.social & @nualaoconnor.bsky.social
Beautiful cover art by Pauline Bewick #washingwindowsV
Beautiful cover art by Pauline Bewick #washingwindowsV
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?
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March 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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This will be great! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/hist... @katmezzacappa.bsky.social @boycie.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
History That’s Not Musty Or Fusty: Masterclass with Martina Devlin - Irish Writers Centre
One-day intensive masterclass on writing historical fiction. In-person at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Saturday 8 March 2025.
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March 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Carmel Harrington: ‘I was 40 before I dared to start querying agents. After 47 rejections I decided to self-publish’. The writer on her new novel, The Stolen Child; being chosen to write an official Cold Feet tie-in; and her Dean Koontz motto for life
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Author Carmel Harrington: ‘I was 40 before I dared to start querying agents. After 47 rejections I decided to self-publish’
The writer on her lastest novel, The Stolen Child; being chosen to write an official Cold Feet tie-in; and her Dean Koontz motto for life
www.irishtimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Carmel Harrington: ‘I was 40 before I dared to start querying agents. After 47 rejections I decided to self-publish’. The writer on her new novel, The Stolen Child; being chosen to write an official Cold Feet tie-in; and her Dean Koontz motto for life
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine: An interview with editors Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan (PART 2 of 2)
FIRE Part 2: COLLABORATION AND PRACTICALITIES This is a continuation of an interview first posted on 26/02/2025 (The first question is repeated) Lia: I’m interested in the fact that you are both in…
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February 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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I feel very fortunate to have had her come into the shop a few times, a gentle soul and always a pleasure to talk to. Solas na bhFlaitheas dá h-anam uasal.
We send our sincere condolences to the family of the esteemed Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston, who died on 25 February.
There will be a public commemoration ceremony this Saturday 1 March at 2pm in the Public Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
There will be a public commemoration ceremony this Saturday 1 March at 2pm in the Public Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
February 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I feel very fortunate to have had her come into the shop a few times, a gentle soul and always a pleasure to talk to. Solas na bhFlaitheas dá h-anam uasal.
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Thanks to @liamills.bsky.social for the generous and thoughtful questions about #Fire anthology which I co-edited with @boycie.bsky.social. Great to revisit our process and thoughts around themes and call out on #Brigid publication funded by Brigid1500 #kildarecountycouncil
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine: An interview with editors Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan (PART 1 of 2)
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of…
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of…
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine: An interview with editors Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan (PART 1 of 2)
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of Brigid (Goddess for some, saint for others) from Irish and international writers and artists. Curated and edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan, it is described by Niamh Wycherley as ‘a deeply personal, evocative and at times blissfully painful testimony to Brigid’s enduring legacy.’
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February 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Thanks to @liamills.bsky.social for the generous and thoughtful questions about #Fire anthology which I co-edited with @boycie.bsky.social. Great to revisit our process and thoughts around themes and call out on #Brigid publication funded by Brigid1500 #kildarecountycouncil
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Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine: An interview with editors Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan (PART 1 of 2)
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of…
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of…
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine: An interview with editors Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan (PART 1 of 2)
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of Brigid (Goddess for some, saint for others) from Irish and international writers and artists. Curated and edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan, it is described by Niamh Wycherley as ‘a deeply personal, evocative and at times blissfully painful testimony to Brigid’s enduring legacy.’
libranwriter.wordpress.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine: An interview with editors Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan (PART 1 of 2)
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of…
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of…
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I just posted an interview with brilliant editorial team Niamh Boyce & Shauna Gilligan about collaborating on their anthology Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine:
libranwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/f...
libranwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/f...
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine: An interview with editors Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan (PART 1 of 2)
Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of Brigid (Godde…
libranwriter.wordpress.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Interview from the wonderful Lia Mills about Fire 🔥 anthology of writing inspired by Brigit, Goddess, Saint & the sacred feminine
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Libran Writer (Lia Mills)
Occasional notes on writing & life
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February 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Interview from the wonderful Lia Mills about Fire 🔥 anthology of writing inspired by Brigit, Goddess, Saint & the sacred feminine
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We've started a podcast. We invite you to settle in & listen to engaging discussions with authors about their work, inspirations, & the stories behind their books. Whether you missed these talks the first time around or want to relive the experience, give us a listen open.spotify.com/show/62t0eaH...
Kildare Reads
Podcast · Kildare Reads Podcast · Kildare Reads is a monthly podcast bringing you captivating conversations with renowned authors, straight from the heart of the Kildare Readers Festival. Join us as w...
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February 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We've started a podcast. We invite you to settle in & listen to engaging discussions with authors about their work, inspirations, & the stories behind their books. Whether you missed these talks the first time around or want to relive the experience, give us a listen open.spotify.com/show/62t0eaH...
The boys being Bob & Sylvie in kilkenny #acompleteunknown
February 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The boys being Bob & Sylvie in kilkenny #acompleteunknown