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Anna Carey
@urchinette.bsky.social
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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
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urchinette.bsky.social
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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theobrienpress.bsky.social
If you haven’t yet, you can still vote for our amazing shortlisted titles in this year’s Irish Book Awards!
Book on book stack
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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karynmoy.bsky.social
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
urchinette.bsky.social
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/
An illustration of a tall man with glasses looking at a woman in a pink shirt, leaning against the covers of this year’s nominees
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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wcorklitfest.bsky.social
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
www.rte.ie
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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rickoshea.bsky.social
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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patrickfreyne.bsky.social
I wrote about the new Victoria Beckham docuseries www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Patrick Freyne: I don’t want to see Victoria Beckham chatting over coffee. I want to see her in a rocket to space
There’s definitely a fascinating documentary to be made about the Beckham family. Maybe next time
www.irishtimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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sylvialeatham.bsky.social
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
urchinette.bsky.social
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.
junoryleejournalism.com Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · Oct 9
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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biscuitkitten.bsky.social
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca
October 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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patrickfreyne.bsky.social
I wrote about House of Guinness/Beamish/Buckfast

www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Today I will discuss House of Beamish. I think I remember the plot from history class, but we were all quite drunk
Much like Downton Abbey, House of Guinness is best treated as a delightful hallucinatory cheese dream
www.irishtimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
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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gralefrit.bsky.social
Is this the only credible solution to the global climate crisis?
hellafitzgerald.bsky.social Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · Sep 23
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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patrickfreyne.bsky.social
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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danielsugarman.bsky.social
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.
An excerpt from an interview with the director of The Graduate, Mike Nichols. "I interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands of men", Nichols admitted of the casting process per Vanity Fair, before his conversation with Redford turned out to be a short one. "I said, 'You can't play it. You can never play a loser'. And Redford said, 'What do you mean? Of course I can play a loser'. And I said, 'OK, have you ever struck out with a girl'. And he said, 'What do you mean?' And he wasn't joking."
September 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
urchinette.bsky.social
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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seamas.bsky.social
- 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
adrianandshane.bsky.social Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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patrickfreyne.bsky.social
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
urchinette.bsky.social
I love my neighbourhood. ❤️❤️❤️
September 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
urchinette.bsky.social
Truly she is the people’s princess.
September 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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patrickfreyne.bsky.social
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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lisaocarroll.bsky.social
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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dublinmaker.bsky.social
​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
​“Promotional graphic for Dublin Maker featuring artist Ciara Kenny (Ciaraioch). The top has the Dublin Maker logo and the title ‘Meet the Artist.’ Text explains that Ciara has created a series of sketches celebrating Irish Traditional Crafts to be showcased at Dublin Maker. Beside the text is a black-and-white portrait of Ciara with playful expression, framed in a yellow circle. Below is Ciara’s quote about the importance and vibrancy of traditional crafts in Ireland.”
August 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM