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Anna Carey
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Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is out now. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
I’ve written another romcom! It’s about two scriptwriters who can’t stop arguing but have to work together to save a TV show. Also there is kissing. I loved writing it and you can pre-order it here! linktr.ee/LoveSceneAnn...
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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If you haven’t yet, you can still vote for our amazing shortlisted titles in this year’s Irish Book Awards!
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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absolutely raging that philip sutcliffe represents my area and I’m so sickened by his horrible spoiled vote/fucking zodiac killer hate scrawl that I’ve made a complaint to the dcc ethics registrar. the info is at the link below and he’s in direct contravention of section 9.4 of the code of conduct
October 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Our Song has been shortlisted for an Irish Book Award! It’s up for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year prize and you can (and should) vote for it here: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Ten of the best Irish books of 2025 so far
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October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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We'll be doing a live Arena show at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social celebrating 100 issues of @thedublinreview.bsky.social.

We'll have editor Brendan Barrington, contributors Sara Baume, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and @mrkocnnll.bsky.social.

Do come, it's going to be special...
The Dublin Review at 100 - Dublin Book Festival
The Dublin Review, Ireland’s quarterly magazine of essays, memoir, reportage and fiction, is celebrating its 100th issue. Join us for a special live broadcast of RTÉ Arena on Radio 1 in conversation w...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Very happy to be doing this live podcast recording next Friday (17th Oct) with @urchinette.bsky.social and Prof Paige Reynolds at @molimuseum.bsky.social in Dublin!

Will this be a MeetCute? Or a new love triangle? Will we get our Happy Ever After? Or just Happy For Now? 😜

moli.ie/events/happy...
Happy Ever After: Anna Carey & Sylvia Leatham | MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland
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October 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Is this the only credible solution to the global climate crisis?
Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century
September 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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I wrote about Stranded on Honeymoon Island which is a television program and possibly a state of mind www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Patrick Freyne: Davina McCall is firing a flare. On Stranded on Honeymoon Island, this means she’s ready to divorce
Stranded on Honeymoon Island isn’t a survival show so much as TV producers’ latest attempt to destroy the institution of marriage
www.irishtimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.
September 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
There is a reference not just to this film but to the dress in this photo in the book I’m writing right now…
September 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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This brilliant supernatural, romcom directed and cowritten by my brother David is debuting tonight at the Toronto Film Festival tiff.net/films/eternity
Eternity
Set in the afterlife, this stirring drama from director David Freyne (TIFF ’17’s <em>The Cured</em>) features Elizabeth Olsen (TIFF ’24’s <em>The Assessment</em>) and Miles Teller (<em>Whiplash</em>) ...
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September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I love my neighbourhood. ❤️❤️❤️
September 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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23 years ago when me and my friend Paul were devising silly musical schemes, Paul's flatmate Mick was in the next room organising Belong To & starting an LGBTQI+ youth movement. Mick Barron is a legend. I interviewed him about his new book on LGBTQI+ youth activism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
‘It was all about hurling... Being gay, ultimately, you were not masculine enough’
Cofounder of the LGBTQ+ youth organisation Belong To discusses the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric across the world
www.irishtimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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​We’re delighted to share that artist Ciara Kenny has created a stunning series of sketches celebrating Irish Traditional Crafts.

Her work will be on display at this year’s Dublin Maker Festival.

Find out more on our website: dublinmaker.ie/celebrating-...

#DublinMaker #MeetTheMaker
August 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM