Greg Dinner
@gregdinner.bsky.social
Published author & Produced screenwriter for almost 40 years, former film exec/teacher/mentor. Lives now in West of Ireland. PENIreland, BAFTA, WGA, WGGB. Visit www.gregdinner.com
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Greg Dinner
@gregdinner.bsky.social
· Oct 3
My reply to Irish PEN, where am member, on flotilla interception statement. Theirs is personally offensive, at times factually incorrect, divisive, hurtful, coming on Yom Kippur and events in Manchester. If slightest sense of decency board should consider positions www.gregdinner.com/ruminations/...
Last week readings that touched the heart and soul. First in Dublin a session on ‘Conflict and Creativity’, including my Ukrainian friend Natalya Korniyenko, Syrian writer Suad Aldarra , Iranian artist, and filmmaker Atoosa Pour Hosseini and Irish poet Ciaran O’Rourke...
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Last week readings that touched the heart and soul. First in Dublin a session on ‘Conflict and Creativity’, including my Ukrainian friend Natalya Korniyenko, Syrian writer Suad Aldarra , Iranian artist, and filmmaker Atoosa Pour Hosseini and Irish poet Ciaran O’Rourke...
Readings of incredibly moving wartime poems in London by remarkable Ukrainian @Yaryna Chornohuz, @PENUkraine member, soldier, former frontline medic, mostly a brilliant writer. And friend. Her work spans a world of love, pain, loss, strength, anger, life, death… and hope. May her voice touch all..
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Readings of incredibly moving wartime poems in London by remarkable Ukrainian @Yaryna Chornohuz, @PENUkraine member, soldier, former frontline medic, mostly a brilliant writer. And friend. Her work spans a world of love, pain, loss, strength, anger, life, death… and hope. May her voice touch all..
Wonderful news
Leila Aboulela, winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2025, has announced writer, journalist and human rights activist, Stella Gaitano, as this year’s Writer of Courage.
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Leila Aboulela shares PEN Pinter Prize 2025 with Stella Gaitano - News & Events - English PEN
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October 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wonderful news
Woman I know from my community here, Israeli born, lived here for years, raised son here, Irish husband died here, was yesterday refused service at Limerick restaurant because Israeli. Welcome to antisemitism Irish style at 7 October remembrance.
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Woman I know from my community here, Israeli born, lived here for years, raised son here, Irish husband died here, was yesterday refused service at Limerick restaurant because Israeli. Welcome to antisemitism Irish style at 7 October remembrance.
My reply to Irish PEN, where am member, on flotilla interception statement. Theirs is personally offensive, at times factually incorrect, divisive, hurtful, coming on Yom Kippur and events in Manchester. If slightest sense of decency board should consider positions www.gregdinner.com/ruminations/...
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
My reply to Irish PEN, where am member, on flotilla interception statement. Theirs is personally offensive, at times factually incorrect, divisive, hurtful, coming on Yom Kippur and events in Manchester. If slightest sense of decency board should consider positions www.gregdinner.com/ruminations/...
October 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My reply to Irish PEN, where am member, on flotilla interception statement. Theirs is personally offensive, at times factually incorrect, divisive, hurtful, coming on Yom Kippur and events in Manchester. If slightest sense of decency board should consider positions www.gregdinner.com/ruminations/...
As good an analysis as can be found. Thoughful, considerate. Wonder if anyone will consider beyond a wall of present day hate?
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September 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
As good an analysis as can be found. Thoughful, considerate. Wonder if anyone will consider beyond a wall of present day hate?
everydayhate.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
everydayhate.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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Joint Statement
We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Egyptian government to immediately end its campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists – specifically Egyptian journalist @basmamostafa.bsky.social.
Read the full Statement: penberlin.de/basma-mostafa/
We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Egyptian government to immediately end its campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists – specifically Egyptian journalist @basmamostafa.bsky.social.
Read the full Statement: penberlin.de/basma-mostafa/
June 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Joint Statement
We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Egyptian government to immediately end its campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists – specifically Egyptian journalist @basmamostafa.bsky.social.
Read the full Statement: penberlin.de/basma-mostafa/
We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Egyptian government to immediately end its campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists – specifically Egyptian journalist @basmamostafa.bsky.social.
Read the full Statement: penberlin.de/basma-mostafa/
I have two photographs in this exhibition, photographs Bearing Witness from my time in Ukraine, if anyone is in Scarriff from 17th June.
June 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I have two photographs in this exhibition, photographs Bearing Witness from my time in Ukraine, if anyone is in Scarriff from 17th June.
@irishpen.bsky.social
On 4.6 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann put out a statement on Gaza to the media, inviting members, and all writers, to sign and endorse. It was a statement I had hoped I could sign. It was a statement that I could not sign. Here are my reasons for not doing so. www.gregdinner.com/ruminations
June 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
@irishpen.bsky.social
On 4.6 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann put out a statement on Gaza to the media, inviting members, and all writers, to sign and endorse. It was a statement I had hoped I could sign. It was a statement that I could not sign. Here are my reasons for not doing so. www.gregdinner.com/ruminations
June 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
On 4.6 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann put out a statement on Gaza to the media, inviting members, and all writers, to sign and endorse. It was a statement I had hoped I could sign. It was a statement that I could not sign. Here are my reasons for not doing so. www.gregdinner.com/ruminations
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"Please don’t be deluded by Trumpian false claims of protecting Jews on campus. The real bull’s-eye is on education and on democracy itself," writes former university president Elaine Maimon.
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Trump and the far right don’t fight antisemitism. They exploit it | Opinion
As one Democratic lawmaker asked his GOP colleagues: “Do you condemn Trump’s pardoning of the Jan. 6 felon who praised Hitler?” | Opinion
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May 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Please don’t be deluded by Trumpian false claims of protecting Jews on campus. The real bull’s-eye is on education and on democracy itself," writes former university president Elaine Maimon.
www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
Available from your local independent bookseller or online bookstore. A journey from the Pale of Settlement to WWII Poland, from Sarejevo in the 1990s to Jersusalm and the Polish/Ukraine border today. A story of memory. Of what is lost... and what is found.
May 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Available from your local independent bookseller or online bookstore. A journey from the Pale of Settlement to WWII Poland, from Sarejevo in the 1990s to Jersusalm and the Polish/Ukraine border today. A story of memory. Of what is lost... and what is found.
Agreed. Wholeheartedly.
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OPINION: Lost for words, torn between silence and sorrow - Jewish News
British Jews feel the pain of Israel’s trauma and moral weight of Gaza’s suffering – and are struggling to voice both
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May 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Agreed. Wholeheartedly.
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#EU: We join Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and partners in urging the #EU to issue an effective and bold response to the Erdoğan government’s major blow to the rule of law and human rights in #Türkiye.
Read our statement: www.pen-international.org/news/eu-open...
Read our statement: www.pen-international.org/news/eu-open...
EU: Open letter on the assault of human rights in Türkiye — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
16 May 2025: The jailing by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government of a key political opponent is a blatant repudiation of the rights to political association and participation, 58 rights, media,...
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May 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#EU: We join Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and partners in urging the #EU to issue an effective and bold response to the Erdoğan government’s major blow to the rule of law and human rights in #Türkiye.
Read our statement: www.pen-international.org/news/eu-open...
Read our statement: www.pen-international.org/news/eu-open...
Wonderful, if sad, news.
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Книжка Victoria Amelina Looking at Women, Looking at War ввійшла до короткого списку The Orwell Prize. Так би хотіла, щоб ця новина розвіяла твої несправедливі сумніви щодо сили твого таланту і...
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May 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Wonderful, if sad, news.
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#USA: PEN International shares deep concern over ongoing threats to free expression in the U.S. under the Trump administration. We stand with @PENAm in urging action.
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A Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech - PEN America
No federal administration has moved as swiftly to exert broad new controls over what people can say, read, learn, research, and think.
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May 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#USA: PEN International shares deep concern over ongoing threats to free expression in the U.S. under the Trump administration. We stand with @PENAm in urging action.
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Out today in paperback and ebook, as well as in hardback. Readers, take a look... More info at www.gregdinner.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Out today in paperback and ebook, as well as in hardback. Readers, take a look... More info at www.gregdinner.com
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We were deeply moved to hear Tomi Reichental at our Yom HaShoah ceremony in assoc with the Jewish Rep Council last Sunday.
Honoured to have Nuria Zyden, Uyghur Community Leader in Irl, light a candle for the 5m non Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
We remember & mourn all victims of the Holocaust.
Honoured to have Nuria Zyden, Uyghur Community Leader in Irl, light a candle for the 5m non Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
We remember & mourn all victims of the Holocaust.
May 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We were deeply moved to hear Tomi Reichental at our Yom HaShoah ceremony in assoc with the Jewish Rep Council last Sunday.
Honoured to have Nuria Zyden, Uyghur Community Leader in Irl, light a candle for the 5m non Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
We remember & mourn all victims of the Holocaust.
Honoured to have Nuria Zyden, Uyghur Community Leader in Irl, light a candle for the 5m non Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
We remember & mourn all victims of the Holocaust.
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#Ukraine/RussianFederation: We condemn the horrific torture of #Ukraine journalist Viktoria Roshchyna.
As #Russia continues to act with impunity, we urge justice and accountability for Viktoria and Ukrainians held in Russian captivity.
Read more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/ukraine...
As #Russia continues to act with impunity, we urge justice and accountability for Viktoria and Ukrainians held in Russian captivity.
Read more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/ukraine...
Ukraine/Russian Federation: Investigate torture and death in custody of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
“PEN International utterly condemns the horrific torture of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who died in Russian custody. As the Russian authorities are trying to cover up their crimes and con...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#Ukraine/RussianFederation: We condemn the horrific torture of #Ukraine journalist Viktoria Roshchyna.
As #Russia continues to act with impunity, we urge justice and accountability for Viktoria and Ukrainians held in Russian captivity.
Read more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/ukraine...
As #Russia continues to act with impunity, we urge justice and accountability for Viktoria and Ukrainians held in Russian captivity.
Read more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/ukraine...
Release Jose Gabriel Barrenechea We offer support and solidarity. #JoseGabrielBarrenechea, #WPFD, #WPFD25, #WorldPressFreedomDay, @irishpen.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Release Jose Gabriel Barrenechea We offer support and solidarity. #JoseGabrielBarrenechea, #WPFD, #WPFD25, #WorldPressFreedomDay, @irishpen.bsky.social
I cannot recommend Richard Powers @richardepowers.bsky.social new novel PLAYGROUND enough. Writing, story, imagination and possibility conjoin in a brilliant work of humanity and humanism. His talent bowls me over.
April 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I cannot recommend Richard Powers @richardepowers.bsky.social new novel PLAYGROUND enough. Writing, story, imagination and possibility conjoin in a brilliant work of humanity and humanism. His talent bowls me over.