Rónán Hession
@ronanhession.bsky.social
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Rónán Hession
@ronanhession.bsky.social
· Mar 14
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
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Honoured that Leonard and Hungry Paul has been included in the @irishtimes.com 100 best Irish books of the 21st century (so far), at 38. Thanks so much to the contributors who selected it.
(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)
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(Ps. I was a contributor but didn't nominate or upvote my own book.)
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I think I got nine out of eleven on Joyce Carol Oates list of not being Elon Musk. I fell down on not posting about petting animals or history.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I think I got nine out of eleven on Joyce Carol Oates list of not being Elon Musk. I fell down on not posting about petting animals or history.
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Hey Dublin, you have a chance to see an absolutely astonishing movie on the big screen next week, and I'm hosting the director Q&A afterwards with Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who has only made four films in her lengthy career but they are all stunning:
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FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE ICE TOWER + Q&A - Irish Film Institute
(LA TOUR DE GLACE) Jeanne (Clara Pacini), a 16-year-old runaway, takes refuge in a film studio where she falls under the spell of the enigmatic Cristina (Marion Cotillard), who is starring in an adapt...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hey Dublin, you have a chance to see an absolutely astonishing movie on the big screen next week, and I'm hosting the director Q&A afterwards with Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who has only made four films in her lengthy career but they are all stunning:
ifi.ie/film/french-...
ifi.ie/film/french-...
My teenage son and his friend currently debating why Liverpool should be independent but Cornwall shouldn't. (My son is in favour of Cornish independence because he's a fan of Richard Trevithick.)
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My teenage son and his friend currently debating why Liverpool should be independent but Cornwall shouldn't. (My son is in favour of Cornish independence because he's a fan of Richard Trevithick.)
I've enjoyed a lot of Sam Pink this year, novels and poetry.
Here are two more that just arrived:
- Hurtest Others, short stories,
- 99 Poems – Cops of Life
He's great at punching through the stuff of life in a smash and grab of quick dirty insight.
Here are two more that just arrived:
- Hurtest Others, short stories,
- 99 Poems – Cops of Life
He's great at punching through the stuff of life in a smash and grab of quick dirty insight.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I've enjoyed a lot of Sam Pink this year, novels and poetry.
Here are two more that just arrived:
- Hurtest Others, short stories,
- 99 Poems – Cops of Life
He's great at punching through the stuff of life in a smash and grab of quick dirty insight.
Here are two more that just arrived:
- Hurtest Others, short stories,
- 99 Poems – Cops of Life
He's great at punching through the stuff of life in a smash and grab of quick dirty insight.
If I had a black belt in kickboxing I'd use my skills to hit the button on pedestrian crossings without taking my hands out of my pockets.
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If I had a black belt in kickboxing I'd use my skills to hit the button on pedestrian crossings without taking my hands out of my pockets.
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Thanks to @cdrose.bsky.social (author of WE LIVE HERE NOW from @melvillehouse.bsky.social , winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social ) for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social 's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING:
C.D. Rose Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Thanks to C.D. Rose, author of WE LIVE HERE NOW — winner of the 2025 Goldsmith Prize — for reading this passage from THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo Sti...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Thanks to @cdrose.bsky.social (author of WE LIVE HERE NOW from @melvillehouse.bsky.social , winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social ) for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social 's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING:
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Many thanks to all the brilliant booksellers @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
For their continued support of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
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For their continued support of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Many thanks to all the brilliant booksellers @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
For their continued support of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
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@nybooks.com
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For their continued support of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com
@nybooks.com
@nytimes.com
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Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
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Yesterday I was on BBC Points of View giving my point of view on the TV adaptation of @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
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Points of View
The show that lets you air your views on the BBC's television programmes.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Yesterday I was on BBC Points of View giving my point of view on the TV adaptation of @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Is any country other than America allowed into the Discover feed?
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Is any country other than America allowed into the Discover feed?
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Though I can't find it online, this actor, Kevin Lloyd, died the same day as the first openly gay footballer Justin Fashanu, and one of the tabloids ran the headline:
Tosh
Fash
Dead
Tosh
Fash
Dead
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Though I can't find it online, this actor, Kevin Lloyd, died the same day as the first openly gay footballer Justin Fashanu, and one of the tabloids ran the headline:
Tosh
Fash
Dead
Tosh
Fash
Dead
If Darwin was so good at evolution how come he couldn't turn himself into a monkey and back again whenever he wanted, eh?
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If Darwin was so good at evolution how come he couldn't turn himself into a monkey and back again whenever he wanted, eh?
Watford FC Dressing Room, 1953 by Hubert Andrew Freeth (1913-1986).
(Yes, Watford used to have a blue home kit.)
(Yes, Watford used to have a blue home kit.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Watford FC Dressing Room, 1953 by Hubert Andrew Freeth (1913-1986).
(Yes, Watford used to have a blue home kit.)
(Yes, Watford used to have a blue home kit.)
I ran 5km for the second day in a row. Averaging 1,825 kms a year over the past two days.
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I ran 5km for the second day in a row. Averaging 1,825 kms a year over the past two days.
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The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!
The Barbellion Prize | A prize recognising literary representation of chronically disabled lives.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!
Editing tip:
Best to edit on paper, not screen. Hold a good old fashioned wooden ruler under each line as you read. Amazing how it focuses the eye.
Best to edit on paper, not screen. Hold a good old fashioned wooden ruler under each line as you read. Amazing how it focuses the eye.
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Editing tip:
Best to edit on paper, not screen. Hold a good old fashioned wooden ruler under each line as you read. Amazing how it focuses the eye.
Best to edit on paper, not screen. Hold a good old fashioned wooden ruler under each line as you read. Amazing how it focuses the eye.
Book post!
Two novels by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer, who died in 1970.
The Loft, translated by Amanda Prantera,
The Wall, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Two novels by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer, who died in 1970.
The Loft, translated by Amanda Prantera,
The Wall, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Book post!
Two novels by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer, who died in 1970.
The Loft, translated by Amanda Prantera,
The Wall, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Two novels by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer, who died in 1970.
The Loft, translated by Amanda Prantera,
The Wall, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
My brother sent me this ages ago about my grandmother's brother (I think?) John Martyn who fought with the Connaught Rangers. He died in WWI aged 21, having previously escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Commemorated by the Basra memorial in Iraq though I'm not exactly sure where he died.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
My brother sent me this ages ago about my grandmother's brother (I think?) John Martyn who fought with the Connaught Rangers. He died in WWI aged 21, having previously escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Commemorated by the Basra memorial in Iraq though I'm not exactly sure where he died.
Putting my book away because this poet deserves to be read well rather than only being read because I'm resisting the sleep I so obviously need.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Putting my book away because this poet deserves to be read well rather than only being read because I'm resisting the sleep I so obviously need.
This painting is hanging in the window of Adams auctioneers as part of the forthcoming auction of fine asian art. I have a birthday coming up if anyone is minded to buy it for me.
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This painting is hanging in the window of Adams auctioneers as part of the forthcoming auction of fine asian art. I have a birthday coming up if anyone is minded to buy it for me.
This evening's reading: Dawn Chorus, prose and poems by Mary Guckian about her childhood on a farm in Leitrim.
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This evening's reading: Dawn Chorus, prose and poems by Mary Guckian about her childhood on a farm in Leitrim.
Sorry to be posting so much bad news but just found out that Quentin Willson has died. He used to present Top Gear & wrote about cars for years. His tightly crafted writing with wry humour was the template for Jeremy Clarkson and pretty much all car reviewers since.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVUs...
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Do you remember this car? Old Top Gear and Saab 900
YouTube video by ClassicCars Videos
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November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Sorry to be posting so much bad news but just found out that Quentin Willson has died. He used to present Top Gear & wrote about cars for years. His tightly crafted writing with wry humour was the template for Jeremy Clarkson and pretty much all car reviewers since.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVUs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVUs...
Oh hey! Thanks to Kevin Smith for a nice mention of the "ticklish deadpan" in Ghost Mountain in today's
@irishtimes.com
Hat tip
@sarahgilmartin.bsky.social 🙏
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@irishtimes.com
Hat tip
@sarahgilmartin.bsky.social 🙏
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Author Kevin Smith: ‘Whenever I leave the North I do feel a pull – a hankering for that coded familiarity’
The writer on his latest novel, Injury Time; his favourite funny writers; and the book that always makes him cry
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November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Oh hey! Thanks to Kevin Smith for a nice mention of the "ticklish deadpan" in Ghost Mountain in today's
@irishtimes.com
Hat tip
@sarahgilmartin.bsky.social 🙏
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
@irishtimes.com
Hat tip
@sarahgilmartin.bsky.social 🙏
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...