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Don't Spoil the Story on Instagram: "You're invited to a Poetry Performance for Gaza
Wednesday 22nd October, 7-8pm
Gutter Bookshop, Cow's Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin 8
An evening of experimental poetry...
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Wednesday 22nd October, 7-8pm
Gutter Bookshop, Cow's Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin 8
An e...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Great post from @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social here: www.independent.ie/opinion/comm... @irishpen.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social @peninternational.bsky.social
Martina Devlin: Remembering a hero who gave her life to speaking out against the evils of war
It is not open warfare but nor can it be called peace. Vladimir Putin is prosecuting a hybrid war in Europe, amid an escalation of Russian drone infiltration, and fears have heightened about infrastru...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Tead Irish PEN @irishpen.bsky.social statement re abduction of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social & other Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla illegally intercepted and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters approx 70 nautical miles from Gaza irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
Global Sumud Flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
2 October August 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the abduction of poet Sarah Clancy, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The flotilla was ...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Tead Irish PEN @irishpen.bsky.social statement re abduction of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social & other Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla illegally intercepted and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters approx 70 nautical miles from Gaza irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
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Please read and reshare our statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla. We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann offer solidarity in this time of crisis.
irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
Global Sumud Flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
2 October August 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the abduction of poet Sarah Clancy, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The flotilla was ...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Please read and reshare our statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla. We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann offer solidarity in this time of crisis.
irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...
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Thinking of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social and the other Irish citizens who are part of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social, and have been detained by the IDF who illegally intercepted them in international waters.
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
October 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thinking of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social and the other Irish citizens who are part of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social, and have been detained by the IDF who illegally intercepted them in international waters.
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
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Global Sumud Flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
2 October August 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the abduction of poet Sarah Clancy, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The flotilla was ...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Virginia Woolf had doubts too
This is why I love reading diaries, letters and (good) biographies of writers. This morning, I came across this quote from a letter Virginia Woolf wrote to Violet Dickinson in the early 1900s: No one really takes very much interest, why should they, in my scribblings.…
This is why I love reading diaries, letters and (good) biographies of writers. This morning, I came across this quote from a letter Virginia Woolf wrote to Violet Dickinson in the early 1900s: No one really takes very much interest, why should they, in my scribblings.…
Virginia Woolf had doubts too
This is why I love reading diaries, letters and (good) biographies of writers. This morning, I came across this quote from a letter Virginia Woolf wrote to Violet Dickinson in the early 1900s: No one really takes very much interest, why should they, in my scribblings. Do you think I shall ever write a really good book? There's hope for all of us.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Virginia Woolf had doubts too
This is why I love reading diaries, letters and (good) biographies of writers. This morning, I came across this quote from a letter Virginia Woolf wrote to Violet Dickinson in the early 1900s: No one really takes very much interest, why should they, in my scribblings.…
This is why I love reading diaries, letters and (good) biographies of writers. This morning, I came across this quote from a letter Virginia Woolf wrote to Violet Dickinson in the early 1900s: No one really takes very much interest, why should they, in my scribblings.…
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Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says
Last week’s attack was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East” ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”
irishpen.com/2025/09/17/s... @englishpen.bsky.social @peninternational.bsky.social @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social
Statement on drone attacks against the Global Sumud Flotilla - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann expresses its grave concern about the recent drone attacks and threats directed against the Global Sumud Flotilla as it sails toward Gaza. These acts of intimidation against ...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools
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Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools
And everyone and their pet canary wants me to "comment."
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September 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools
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Irish Writers Join Global Summit Flotilla for Gaza - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
Irish writer Naoise Dolan has announced that she will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Read more from Dan Sheehan on Lit Hub here. Poet Sarah Clancy has also announce...
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August 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Irish PEN condemns the recent Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. Among 20+ people killed in the strike on 25 August were five journalists: Mohammad Salama, Hussam al-Masri, Mariam Abu Daqqa, Ahmed Abu Aziz, and Moaz Abu Taha. READ MORE HERE:
irishpen.com/2025/08/29/s...
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Statement on Israeli attack on the Nasser Hospital, Gaza. - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann condemns the recent Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. Among the more than 20 people killed in the strike on 25 August were five journalists: Mohammad...
irishpen.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Irish PEN condemns the recent Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. Among 20+ people killed in the strike on 25 August were five journalists: Mohammad Salama, Hussam al-Masri, Mariam Abu Daqqa, Ahmed Abu Aziz, and Moaz Abu Taha. READ MORE HERE:
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Closing date: Thursday 4 September 2025 , 1pm
DLRCC Arts Office offer 5 artist studies opportunities to award for 1 year. ... online briefing session 11am, Thursday 21 August. email arts@dlrcoco.ie with the subject heading BAS25 to book.
Closing date: Thursday 4 September 2025 , 1pm
DLRCC Arts Office offer 5 artist studies opportunities to award for 1 year. ... online briefing session 11am, Thursday 21 August. email arts@dlrcoco.ie with the subject heading BAS25 to book.
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August 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Closing date: Thursday 4 September 2025 , 1pm
DLRCC Arts Office offer 5 artist studies opportunities to award for 1 year. ... online briefing session 11am, Thursday 21 August. email arts@dlrcoco.ie with the subject heading BAS25 to book.
Closing date: Thursday 4 September 2025 , 1pm
DLRCC Arts Office offer 5 artist studies opportunities to award for 1 year. ... online briefing session 11am, Thursday 21 August. email arts@dlrcoco.ie with the subject heading BAS25 to book.
Normal People? open.substack.com/pub/jeanette... @irishpen.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social @peninternational.bsky.social @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social
Normal People?
Sally Rooney has blown up a storm around herself since she wrote a piece in the Irish Times against genocide in Gaza, and more specifically, pro the now banned Palestinian Action Group.
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August 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Normal People?
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Normal People?
Sally Rooney has blown up a storm around herself since she wrote a piece in the Irish Times against genocide in Gaza, and more specifically, pro the now banned Palestinian Action Group.
open.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Normal People?
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Brave, principled piece by Sally Roonet in Saturday's @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @irishpen.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
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August 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Brave, principled piece by Sally Roonet in Saturday's @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @irishpen.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the new Laureate for Irish Fiction
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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is new Laureate for Irish Fiction
The writer takes over the laureateship from author Colm Tóibín
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July 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the new Laureate for Irish Fiction
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are disturbed to hear this news:
Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi has received a series of serious threats to her safety and life from agents affiliated with the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence.
narges.foundation/threat-looms...
Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi has received a series of serious threats to her safety and life from agents affiliated with the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence.
narges.foundation/threat-looms...
Threat looms over Narges Mohammadi amid ongoing intimidation from state-affiliated actors
Woman, Life, Freedom
narges.foundation
July 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are disturbed to hear this news:
Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi has received a series of serious threats to her safety and life from agents affiliated with the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence.
narges.foundation/threat-looms...
Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi has received a series of serious threats to her safety and life from agents affiliated with the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence.
narges.foundation/threat-looms...
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We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are very glad to host this event:
Looking at Women Looking at War: a War and Justice Diary, by Victoria Amelina.
@booksupstairs.bsky.social Books Upstairs, Dublin, 29 July, 6pm.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
Looking at Women Looking at War: a War and Justice Diary, by Victoria Amelina.
@booksupstairs.bsky.social Books Upstairs, Dublin, 29 July, 6pm.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
July 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are very glad to host this event:
Looking at Women Looking at War: a War and Justice Diary, by Victoria Amelina.
@booksupstairs.bsky.social Books Upstairs, Dublin, 29 July, 6pm.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
Looking at Women Looking at War: a War and Justice Diary, by Victoria Amelina.
@booksupstairs.bsky.social Books Upstairs, Dublin, 29 July, 6pm.
booksupstairs.ie/events/