Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
@niamhsquared.bsky.social
Writing and freelance comms 🏳️🌈🍉
ORDINARY SAINTS is out now! https://linktr.ee/NiamhSquared
ORDINARY SAINTS is out now! https://linktr.ee/NiamhSquared
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Huge congratulations to CBC alumni @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social & @nussaibah.bsky.social, and @womensprize.bsky.social #Discoveries shortlisted @niamhsquared.bsky.social who have all made the Book Are My Bag #ReadersAward Fiction Shortlist! 🥳
The Books Are My Bag #ReadersAwards are one of a kind. They're the only book awards with shortlists curated by bookshops, and winners voted for by readers, like you!
Vote for your favourite books for the chance to win a £100/€120 National Book Token.
Vote now: buff.ly/U5ylHv9
Vote for your favourite books for the chance to win a £100/€120 National Book Token.
Vote now: buff.ly/U5ylHv9
October 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Huge congratulations to CBC alumni @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social & @nussaibah.bsky.social, and @womensprize.bsky.social #Discoveries shortlisted @niamhsquared.bsky.social who have all made the Book Are My Bag #ReadersAward Fiction Shortlist! 🥳
Such an honour to have Ordinary Saints nominated in two categories in the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. Winners are decided by readers - you can vote at the link below!
The Books Are My Bag #ReadersAwards are one of a kind. They're the only book awards with shortlists curated by bookshops, and winners voted for by readers, like you!
Vote for your favourite books for the chance to win a £100/€120 National Book Token.
Vote now: buff.ly/U5ylHv9
Vote for your favourite books for the chance to win a £100/€120 National Book Token.
Vote now: buff.ly/U5ylHv9
October 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Such an honour to have Ordinary Saints nominated in two categories in the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. Winners are decided by readers - you can vote at the link below!
Autumn leg of the Ordinary Saints roadshow! Would love to see you there - all tickets at the link in my bio.
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Autumn leg of the Ordinary Saints roadshow! Would love to see you there - all tickets at the link in my bio.
Dodgy pics, but loved finding this excellent programme of anti-fascist films advertised at Eden Court, Inverness over the weekend. Great to see a civic arts institution unequivocally stepping up to play its part in the fight.
September 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Dodgy pics, but loved finding this excellent programme of anti-fascist films advertised at Eden Court, Inverness over the weekend. Great to see a civic arts institution unequivocally stepping up to play its part in the fight.
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Gurnaik will be part of the New Voices Spotlight panel at
Cheltenham Festival this year, along with authors
Christina Fonthes, @niamhsquared.bsky.social and @spacedolphin93.bsky.social, compèred by Liv Little.
📍 Cheltenham Festival
📅 Thurs 16th Oct
🕡 6:30pm
🎟️ £15 via link
Cheltenham Festival this year, along with authors
Christina Fonthes, @niamhsquared.bsky.social and @spacedolphin93.bsky.social, compèred by Liv Little.
📍 Cheltenham Festival
📅 Thurs 16th Oct
🕡 6:30pm
🎟️ £15 via link
New Voices Spotlight | Cheltenham Festivals
Join us as we celebrate some of this year’s hottest debut fiction in our New Voices Spotlight. Christina Fonthes (Where You Go, I Will Go), Niamh Ní Mhaoil
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org
September 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Gurnaik will be part of the New Voices Spotlight panel at
Cheltenham Festival this year, along with authors
Christina Fonthes, @niamhsquared.bsky.social and @spacedolphin93.bsky.social, compèred by Liv Little.
📍 Cheltenham Festival
📅 Thurs 16th Oct
🕡 6:30pm
🎟️ £15 via link
Cheltenham Festival this year, along with authors
Christina Fonthes, @niamhsquared.bsky.social and @spacedolphin93.bsky.social, compèred by Liv Little.
📍 Cheltenham Festival
📅 Thurs 16th Oct
🕡 6:30pm
🎟️ £15 via link
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Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Author statement on the Polari Prize longlist
We are writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who stand in solidarity with the trans community. We are profoundly disappointed by the Polari Prize’s decision to include John Boyne on the longlis...
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August 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Recent reads in the column this week - a brilliant debut short story collection from Shane Tivenan, wonderful novel from @niamhsquared.bsky.social, and the latest in a long line of wonderful books by Annie Ernaux.
In Saturday's @independent.ie Review section or:
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
In Saturday's @independent.ie Review section or:
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
Rick O’Shea: This book comes in at 25 cent a page, which is steep, but it will stay with you for a lifetime
What they don’t tell you about turning 50 is that if you give yourself a year or two, you’ll find yourself on an early Thursday evening in the IFI at a screening of the 1939 Marlene Dietrich/Jimmy Ste...
www.independent.ie
July 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Recent reads in the column this week - a brilliant debut short story collection from Shane Tivenan, wonderful novel from @niamhsquared.bsky.social, and the latest in a long line of wonderful books by Annie Ernaux.
In Saturday's @independent.ie Review section or:
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
In Saturday's @independent.ie Review section or:
www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
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Woo hoo! Love this book! Congratulations @niamhsquared.bsky.social, such brilliant news! 🥳
We're thrilled to share that @niamhsquared.bsky.social's Ordinary Saints has been shortlisted for the @waterstones.bsky.social Debut Fiction Prize 2025!
Thanks to all the booksellers who voted for this miraculous story of Catholicism & queer identity in Ireland.
www.waterstones.com/category/cul...
Thanks to all the booksellers who voted for this miraculous story of Catholicism & queer identity in Ireland.
www.waterstones.com/category/cul...
June 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Woo hoo! Love this book! Congratulations @niamhsquared.bsky.social, such brilliant news! 🥳
Could not be more honoured and delighted that Ordinary Saints has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize! Thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social and to all the booksellers who voted for it. Huge congrats to the other authors!
June 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Could not be more honoured and delighted that Ordinary Saints has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize! Thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social and to all the booksellers who voted for it. Huge congrats to the other authors!
Loved chatting to Chloe about Ordinary Saints, creative process, debut life, and writing community. Have a listen!
Today I'm talking to @niamhsquared.bsky.social about her contemporary novel Ordinary Saints, why she deleted her first 20k words and how entering a competition to give herself a deadline changed her life @manillapress.bsky.social
🎧 bit.ly/COADNniamh
🎧 bit.ly/COADNniamh
June 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Loved chatting to Chloe about Ordinary Saints, creative process, debut life, and writing community. Have a listen!
Such a lovely evening - wonderful chair, gorgeous audience, and all in a bookshop ten minutes from my house. So grateful to have such a brilliant local!
Some books purchased at the wonderful @argonautbooks.bsky.social yesterday! It was a pleasure to chair @niamhsquared.bsky.social's reading of #OrdinarySaints last night - a brilliant novel in a brilliant bookshop! 📚😍
May 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Such a lovely evening - wonderful chair, gorgeous audience, and all in a bookshop ten minutes from my house. So grateful to have such a brilliant local!
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This Thursday @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith! I'm so excited to be talking about @niamhsquared.bsky.social's wonderful debut novel #OrdinarySaints. Hope to see you there!
Very pleased to be in conversation with @niamhsquared.bsky.social about her stunning debut novel #OrdinarySaints at @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith, Edinburgh, on Thurs 15th May. We'll be talking about faith, doubt, popes and saints in modern fiction! argonautbooks.co.uk/product/15th...
15th May – ‘Ordinary Saints’ by Níamh Ní Mhaoileoin w/ Victoria Mackenzie: Faith & Doubt in Modern Fiction – 7pm
‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’ Ordinary Saints: Faith and Doubt in Modern Fiction with Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Victoria MacKenzie Joi…
argonautbooks.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This Thursday @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith! I'm so excited to be talking about @niamhsquared.bsky.social's wonderful debut novel #OrdinarySaints. Hope to see you there!
New post from me on John Prevost and his little brother, Pope Leo XIV. Turns out you simply can't over-hype conclave. There's nothing like it. furyoryearning.substack.com/p/i-want-to-...
I want to make him laugh about something
On John Prevost and his little brother, Pope Leo XIV
furyoryearning.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
New post from me on John Prevost and his little brother, Pope Leo XIV. Turns out you simply can't over-hype conclave. There's nothing like it. furyoryearning.substack.com/p/i-want-to-...
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Happy publication day to @niamhsquared.bsky.social for Ordinary Saints (which I just finished this morning)
It's completely original and unexpected and it's some kind of kismet how timely it is
I cannot wait for more people to read it so I can talk more about it!
#BookSky
It's completely original and unexpected and it's some kind of kismet how timely it is
I cannot wait for more people to read it so I can talk more about it!
#BookSky
April 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Happy publication day to @niamhsquared.bsky.social for Ordinary Saints (which I just finished this morning)
It's completely original and unexpected and it's some kind of kismet how timely it is
I cannot wait for more people to read it so I can talk more about it!
#BookSky
It's completely original and unexpected and it's some kind of kismet how timely it is
I cannot wait for more people to read it so I can talk more about it!
#BookSky
So excited for this conversation with Victoria, whose work I absolutely love. We'll be chatting religious drama - probably against the backdrop of the Conclave?? Come along!
Very pleased to be in conversation with @niamhsquared.bsky.social about her stunning debut novel #OrdinarySaints at @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith, Edinburgh, on Thurs 15th May. We'll be talking about faith, doubt, popes and saints in modern fiction! argonautbooks.co.uk/product/15th...
15th May – ‘Ordinary Saints’ by Níamh Ní Mhaoileoin w/ Victoria Mackenzie: Faith & Doubt in Modern Fiction – 7pm
‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’ Ordinary Saints: Faith and Doubt in Modern Fiction with Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Victoria MacKenzie Joi…
argonautbooks.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
So excited for this conversation with Victoria, whose work I absolutely love. We'll be chatting religious drama - probably against the backdrop of the Conclave?? Come along!
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This by @niamhsquared.bsky.social about the Pope is a very good set of thoughts about his legacy furyoryearning.substack.com/p/i-didnt-ki...
I didn't kill Pope Francis
But I do have a lot of feelings about him
furyoryearning.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This by @niamhsquared.bsky.social about the Pope is a very good set of thoughts about his legacy furyoryearning.substack.com/p/i-didnt-ki...
I've finally started a Substack, with some thoughts about ambivalence and Pope Francis. furyoryearning.substack.com/p/i-didnt-ki...
April 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I've finally started a Substack, with some thoughts about ambivalence and Pope Francis. furyoryearning.substack.com/p/i-didnt-ki...
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She's a BBC Radio 2 bookclub pick! 💚
#OrdinarySaints @niamhsquared.bsky.social @manillapress.bsky.social
#OrdinarySaints @niamhsquared.bsky.social @manillapress.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
She's a BBC Radio 2 bookclub pick! 💚
#OrdinarySaints @niamhsquared.bsky.social @manillapress.bsky.social
#OrdinarySaints @niamhsquared.bsky.social @manillapress.bsky.social
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@niamhsquared.bsky.social 's amazing novel Ordinary Saints is nearly here (and out in paperback already!!!)
April 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
@niamhsquared.bsky.social 's amazing novel Ordinary Saints is nearly here (and out in paperback already!!!)
So excited to be launching Ordinary Saints at the beautiful and perfect Portobello Bookshop. Edinburgh folks - come along!
We have the pleasure of hosting @niamhsquared.bsky.social next month for the launch of her debut novel, Ordinary Saints! 🕯️
The event will be chaired by the wonderful Sasha de Buyl.
You can sign up via the link here to join us in-person or online! www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/niamh...
The event will be chaired by the wonderful Sasha de Buyl.
You can sign up via the link here to join us in-person or online! www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/niamh...
March 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
So excited to be launching Ordinary Saints at the beautiful and perfect Portobello Bookshop. Edinburgh folks - come along!
Ordinary Saints is an absolute steal this weekend! Pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social and you'll get 25% off - today, tomorrow and Monday only. A bargain for the gorgeous (if I say so myself) hardback edition, and a well-deserved treat for future you.
February 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Ordinary Saints is an absolute steal this weekend! Pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social and you'll get 25% off - today, tomorrow and Monday only. A bargain for the gorgeous (if I say so myself) hardback edition, and a well-deserved treat for future you.
Some old and new friends launching books today. Have already read This Immaculate Body and it's spectacular. Very excited for the other two.
February 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Some old and new friends launching books today. Have already read This Immaculate Body and it's spectacular. Very excited for the other two.
Such a dream to have people connect with the book this way, and particularly brilliant writers like Sarah.
WOW! Pre-order this novel. It’s absolutely magnificent. Stayed up late to finish it. Congratulations @niamhsquared.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Such a dream to have people connect with the book this way, and particularly brilliant writers like Sarah.
Some cracking novels by great people officially out in the world today!
January 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Some cracking novels by great people officially out in the world today!
Three months until my debut, Ordinary Saints, is out in the world! Marking the day with a little mood board - just some of the art that influenced the novel, which you can pre-order now! geni.us/OrdinarySaints
January 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Three months until my debut, Ordinary Saints, is out in the world! Marking the day with a little mood board - just some of the art that influenced the novel, which you can pre-order now! geni.us/OrdinarySaints