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Established 1976. Reviews, news, features on Irish books and writing, database of all upcoming books each month. Podcast #BurningBooks. Editor
Ruth McKee.
Rosemary Jenkinson discusses the thrilling prospects of a playscript and her new publication Manichea: A Play on Cancellation @arlenhouse.bsky.social
booksirelandmagazine.com/rosemary-jen...
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
❤️Gill Perdue is the latest guest on Burning Books!❤️
🔥Tune in, wherever you listen🔥
@gillperdue.bsky.social @ruthmckee.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
⭐Well, she's arrived—the 2026 Irish Writers Handbook⭐
Find yours here ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️ and in all good bookshops imminently!
wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
@stomaselli.bsky.social @janecasey.bsky.social @niamhgarvey.bsky.social @oliviahopewriter.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is our latest guest on Burning Books 📕
Find it wherever you listen
Supported by the @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
⭐️Our lists of new releases for November are out! ⭐️
Check out this month's new titles in our fully searchable data base First Flush—or look back to see what you've missed!
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booksirelandmagazine.com/new-releases/
@newislandbooks.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social @daleneireann.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The lovely Brendan Mac Evilly is the latest guest on the Burning Books podcast — tune in, wherever you listen 🔥
@ruthmckee.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
📕Lots of new releases coming in October!
Here is just a small sample (of over 150 titles)—check out our fully searchable database First Flush 📕
booksirelandmagazine.com/new-releases/

@bansheepress.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Dublin Book Festival has some gorgeous FREE activities and readings from beautiful books—a lovely line-up for all the family on Sunday 03 August 📕🎨🎼

Find out more over on Books Ireland: tinyurl.com/2x8dyyft
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie @leonaforde1.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's that time of year again folks...you can start pulling your hair out over your synopsis (why are they so hard?) from the start of August. Good luck! 📕
(Read more here: surli.cc/wvfqjg)
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @writershq.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
‘...when community is lost, landscape is left with little choice but to throw shade and speak for itself.’

Seaghan Mac an tSionnaigh reviews the new collection by Diarmuid Johnson 📗
booksirelandmagazine.com/traditional-...
@leabharbreac.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Nuala O’Connor reviews A Crumpled Swan, by David Collard (Sagging Meniscus Press)

(We like our Bloomsday connections on the oblique side 😊)

Read it in full here: booksirelandmagazine.com/rare-and-mar...

@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
⭐ Our monthly bestseller charts are out! ⭐
See the top ten here:
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booksirelandmagazine.com/irishbestsel...
@omahonysbooks.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
⭐️A report on the Basic Income for the Arts has been published today⭐️

Read the full story here: shorturl.at/PHjch
May 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Rosemary Jenkinson talks about not being able to find the university library(!), living up to her Wikipedia page, and her experiences in Ukraine—and of course her debut novel, The Memorisers @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Find it on all podcast platforms 🔥
May 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Tune in to the latest episode of Burning Books with guest @chennessybooks.bsky.social as she talks about life, the universe and everything—and her new collection of short stories, In the Movie of Her Life (Doire Press) 📕📕📕
🔥Find it on all podcast platforms🔥
May 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Sean O’Reilly delivers a masterclass in narrative perspective at the @yeatssocietysligo.bsky.social as part of the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Writers in the Regions initiative 📗📕📗
booksirelandmagazine.com/who-tells-th...
May 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Read the full review here:
booksirelandmagazine.com/take-six-a-r...
May 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
May 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
⭐️Wordwell Books seek a part time bookkeeper⭐️
booksirelandmagazine.com/wordwell-gro...
#jobfairy @eastwoodbooks.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
(iykyk). Read an extract from Gatsby: Death of an Irishman by Patrick O’Sullivan Greene: booksirelandmagazine.com/alcohol-woul...
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @eastwoodbooks.bsky.social @historyireland.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
April 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Sarah Kilcoyne, author of The Lost Treasure of Clew Bay, talks about her life and work as an illustrator 🎨
booksirelandmagazine.com/keep-develop...

@halfwayupbooks.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM