Tim Hannigan
@timhannigan.bsky.social
Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
A perfect pairing of consistently excellent publisher (@littletollerbooks.bsky.social) with reliably brilliant and humane writer (@horatioclare.bsky.social), We Came by Sea is highly recommended. Best thing you could read on the so-called "migrant crisis" of the last few years...
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
A perfect pairing of consistently excellent publisher (@littletollerbooks.bsky.social) with reliably brilliant and humane writer (@horatioclare.bsky.social), We Came by Sea is highly recommended. Best thing you could read on the so-called "migrant crisis" of the last few years...
Academic books don't often have covers worth revealing, but this one is pretty good. Samia Ounoughi & I have been working on this for about 100 years, but we've just sent the final proofs, so here's the cover & contents. Writing on the Move, due out from Berghahn early 2026. #travelwriting studies
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Academic books don't often have covers worth revealing, but this one is pretty good. Samia Ounoughi & I have been working on this for about 100 years, but we've just sent the final proofs, so here's the cover & contents. Writing on the Move, due out from Berghahn early 2026. #travelwriting studies
The BBC's "Anatomy of a Cancellation" podcast provokes a terrible weariness for someone who watched the whole business unfold in real-time back in 2021. Yes, they've attempted to give space to some on the receiving end of the worst of the aggressive pushback against criticism of K*te Cl*anchy. 1/
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The BBC's "Anatomy of a Cancellation" podcast provokes a terrible weariness for someone who watched the whole business unfold in real-time back in 2021. Yes, they've attempted to give space to some on the receiving end of the worst of the aggressive pushback against criticism of K*te Cl*anchy. 1/
Heading west. Nice bit of rain overnight...
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Heading west. Nice bit of rain overnight...
The Granite Kingdom at the edge of winter.
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Granite Kingdom at the edge of winter.
Great evening at Heligan last night chatting about Cornwall, history and more with @matthewmshaw.bsky.social and a lovely audience. Also got to see the spectacular Lowarnes fox sculpture by Sue and Pete Hill, a gargantuan presence leaping through the woods, worth the trip to Heligan just to see it!
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Great evening at Heligan last night chatting about Cornwall, history and more with @matthewmshaw.bsky.social and a lovely audience. Also got to see the spectacular Lowarnes fox sculpture by Sue and Pete Hill, a gargantuan presence leaping through the woods, worth the trip to Heligan just to see it!
Has any writer radically changed their style in mid career? I don't mean changed *genre*; I mean changed their poetics, the aesthetic of their prose, dramatically, between one book and the next?
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Has any writer radically changed their style in mid career? I don't mean changed *genre*; I mean changed their poetics, the aesthetic of their prose, dramatically, between one book and the next?
Stone circling on a dank October afternoon.
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Stone circling on a dank October afternoon.
This Wednesday evening I'll be at the Lost Gardens of Heligan chatting about Cornwall-related things, if anyone's in the vicinity...
www.heligan.com/events/event...
www.heligan.com/events/event...
Homecoming Presents: Tim Hannigan
Homecoming Presents: Tim Hannigan
www.heligan.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This Wednesday evening I'll be at the Lost Gardens of Heligan chatting about Cornwall-related things, if anyone's in the vicinity...
www.heligan.com/events/event...
www.heligan.com/events/event...
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Next week peers will vote for or against swift bricks to be incorporated into all new builds. To help please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏 Such a small thing.
October 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Next week peers will vote for or against swift bricks to be incorporated into all new builds. To help please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏 Such a small thing.
Ambition for next year's Liffey Descent: work on my facial expressions. (Me in the blue boat, Straffan Weir.)
October 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ambition for next year's Liffey Descent: work on my facial expressions. (Me in the blue boat, Straffan Weir.)
All set for the #liffeydescent. Not much water in the river this year - the weirs are going to be a bit scrapey I reckon...
October 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
All set for the #liffeydescent. Not much water in the river this year - the weirs are going to be a bit scrapey I reckon...
Very much looking forward to this. On 29 October I'll be at The Lost Gardens of Heligan to talk to Matthew Shaw about The Granite Kingdom as part of their autumn "Homecoming Presents" series. Doors open at 5.30pm, tickets available online.
www.heligan.com/events/event...
www.heligan.com/events/event...
Homecoming Presents: Tim Hannigan
Homecoming Presents: Tim Hannigan
www.heligan.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Very much looking forward to this. On 29 October I'll be at The Lost Gardens of Heligan to talk to Matthew Shaw about The Granite Kingdom as part of their autumn "Homecoming Presents" series. Doors open at 5.30pm, tickets available online.
www.heligan.com/events/event...
www.heligan.com/events/event...
It is 1.15am and I have just finished the indexing for this cursed edited collection that has been haunting me for a hundred years ahead of tomorrow's deadline. I hope someday someone actually does go looking in there for "geopoetics" on page 151, I really do...
October 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
It is 1.15am and I have just finished the indexing for this cursed edited collection that has been haunting me for a hundred years ahead of tomorrow's deadline. I hope someday someone actually does go looking in there for "geopoetics" on page 151, I really do...
Sad to hear of the death of Manchán Magan, a one-off who was somehow able to bring his authentic enthusiasms to a wide public. A shame there'll be no more of it, but I was glad this morning to be able to send a student starting a project on history, place and poetry in the direction of his books...
October 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sad to hear of the death of Manchán Magan, a one-off who was somehow able to bring his authentic enthusiasms to a wide public. A shame there'll be no more of it, but I was glad this morning to be able to send a student starting a project on history, place and poetry in the direction of his books...
My mid-c20th European history is a bit shaky, but the socially liberal folks hanging around in cabaret clubs were the baddies in this narrative - right?
The Spectator now lurching towards fascism by analogy, including an interview with Andrew Tate (they’ll regret that). Of course, the Weimar comparison is daft. There’s no interesting culture for a start.
September 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
My mid-c20th European history is a bit shaky, but the socially liberal folks hanging around in cabaret clubs were the baddies in this narrative - right?
Thirty years on and still getting heavy rotation in this house... (I still marvel at the complex cultural transfer process that brought this sound from California via Australian surf videos all the way to the far west of Cornwall in the mid 90s.)
September 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thirty years on and still getting heavy rotation in this house... (I still marvel at the complex cultural transfer process that brought this sound from California via Australian surf videos all the way to the far west of Cornwall in the mid 90s.)
So, I've been using a CMAT song ("Have Fun") in a 1st-yr "intro to lit-crit" class on the Death of the Author for the past 2 yrs, and none of them have ever heard of her. But clearly this year they will have, & I'm going to look like a sad old dude trying too hard to be down with the kids, aren't I?
September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
So, I've been using a CMAT song ("Have Fun") in a 1st-yr "intro to lit-crit" class on the Death of the Author for the past 2 yrs, and none of them have ever heard of her. But clearly this year they will have, & I'm going to look like a sad old dude trying too hard to be down with the kids, aren't I?
Obligatory box of books photo. Not sure what I'm going to do with all these, but there's some really good stuff in here - if you're into that sort of thing...
September 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Obligatory box of books photo. Not sure what I'm going to do with all these, but there's some really good stuff in here - if you're into that sort of thing...
I despair over countryside access in Ireland. This report on the 7km Bray cliff walk could easily apply to much of the entire SW Coast Path around Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, and no one is closing that. 1/2
amp.rte.ie/amp/1531228/
amp.rte.ie/amp/1531228/
Report raises safety concerns over Wicklow cliff walk
amp.rte.ie
September 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I despair over countryside access in Ireland. This report on the 7km Bray cliff walk could easily apply to much of the entire SW Coast Path around Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, and no one is closing that. 1/2
amp.rte.ie/amp/1531228/
amp.rte.ie/amp/1531228/
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A fitting read while I’m parked up in a downpour at the end of the land
#vanlife
#booksky
#Cornwall
@timhannigan.bsky.social
#vanlife
#booksky
#Cornwall
@timhannigan.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A fitting read while I’m parked up in a downpour at the end of the land
#vanlife
#booksky
#Cornwall
@timhannigan.bsky.social
#vanlife
#booksky
#Cornwall
@timhannigan.bsky.social
Solving the Cornish housing crisis with planning noncompliant dwellings in parents' gardens since the 1980s.
(Upcycling too - slate & timber came off shed roof in a winter storm, bricks from a collapsed chimney, window from a refit of my dad's fishing boat, and underlay an old shower curtain.)
(Upcycling too - slate & timber came off shed roof in a winter storm, bricks from a collapsed chimney, window from a refit of my dad's fishing boat, and underlay an old shower curtain.)
September 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Solving the Cornish housing crisis with planning noncompliant dwellings in parents' gardens since the 1980s.
(Upcycling too - slate & timber came off shed roof in a winter storm, bricks from a collapsed chimney, window from a refit of my dad's fishing boat, and underlay an old shower curtain.)
(Upcycling too - slate & timber came off shed roof in a winter storm, bricks from a collapsed chimney, window from a refit of my dad's fishing boat, and underlay an old shower curtain.)
Homeplace in heartbreak season, the bridging days between August and September that can twist little love knots in your soul.
August 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Homeplace in heartbreak season, the bridging days between August and September that can twist little love knots in your soul.