Eimear Ryan
@eimearryan.bsky.social
Lecturer in creative writing @ucc.ie | PhD student @unioflimerick.bsky.social | editor @bansheepress.bsky.social | 📚 Holding Her Breath (2021) & The Grass Ceiling (2023) 📚
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Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with:
🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com
🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social
🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show
🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com
🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social
🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show
🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with:
🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com
🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social
🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show
🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com
🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social
🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show
🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
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November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
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Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writer’s block!
Love when a CEO undermines the work that their company produces www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
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October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writer’s block!
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Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
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Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
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October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
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Tonight - please join us to celebrate this brilliant book ✨️
We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨
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Celebrate the launch of Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press
We hope you can join us to raise a glass to Filly , the beautiful new verse novel by acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor, in Books Upstairs on Wednesday 15 October! Banshee poetry editor Jessica…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Tonight - please join us to celebrate this brilliant book ✨️
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A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday
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October 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Thinking of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social and the other Irish citizens who are part of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social, and have been detained by the IDF who illegally intercepted them in international waters.
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
October 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thinking of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social and the other Irish citizens who are part of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social, and have been detained by the IDF who illegally intercepted them in international waters.
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
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The bees have discovered Brutalism
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The bees have discovered Brutalism
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Latest jewel in the crown of Marina Park; the Elevated Tree Walkway leading to Barrington’s folly, woodland walks and picnic areas. Access from the Cork Harbour Greenway beside the playground and slides. Spin out also onto the Marina Prominade and (shortly) the Atlantic Pond. #Cork
September 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Latest jewel in the crown of Marina Park; the Elevated Tree Walkway leading to Barrington’s folly, woodland walks and picnic areas. Access from the Cork Harbour Greenway beside the playground and slides. Spin out also onto the Marina Prominade and (shortly) the Atlantic Pond. #Cork
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We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨
bansheepress.org/read/celebra...
bansheepress.org/read/celebra...
Celebrate the launch of Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press
We hope you can join us to raise a glass to Filly , the beautiful new verse novel by acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor, in Books Upstairs on Wednesday 15 October! Banshee poetry editor Jessica…
bansheepress.org
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨
bansheepress.org/read/celebra...
bansheepress.org/read/celebra...
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Our Secondhand Superstar David took Aoife Barry’s article (@sweetoblivion.bsky.social) & Sinéad Gleeson’s anthology (@SineadGleeson.bsky.social) & went searching through the shelves to find …
September 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Our Secondhand Superstar David took Aoife Barry’s article (@sweetoblivion.bsky.social) & Sinéad Gleeson’s anthology (@SineadGleeson.bsky.social) & went searching through the shelves to find …
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"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it."
From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕
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From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕
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‘The Two of Hearts’ by Niall McArdle — Banshee Press
The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck. ‘She has her heart in her throat,’ my mother always said. It…
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September 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it."
From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕
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From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1777:
Everything you experience informs your work. In summer, write about the heat; the vegetation; the scent of the sea. In winter, write about the cold; the darkening sky; the onset of snow. Use everything you feel: grief, anxiety, joy, love, pain. It's all good.
Everything you experience informs your work. In summer, write about the heat; the vegetation; the scent of the sea. In winter, write about the cold; the darkening sky; the onset of snow. Use everything you feel: grief, anxiety, joy, love, pain. It's all good.
September 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1777:
Everything you experience informs your work. In summer, write about the heat; the vegetation; the scent of the sea. In winter, write about the cold; the darkening sky; the onset of snow. Use everything you feel: grief, anxiety, joy, love, pain. It's all good.
Everything you experience informs your work. In summer, write about the heat; the vegetation; the scent of the sea. In winter, write about the cold; the darkening sky; the onset of snow. Use everything you feel: grief, anxiety, joy, love, pain. It's all good.
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"The feed no longer surprises but sedates, and in that sedation, something quietly breaks, and social media no longer feels like a place to be; it is a surface to skim."
@jamesosullivan.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
@jamesosullivan.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"The feed no longer surprises but sedates, and in that sedation, something quietly breaks, and social media no longer feels like a place to be; it is a surface to skim."
@jamesosullivan.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
@jamesosullivan.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
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We have an exciting opportunity for a visiting fellow in Irish Studies at UL! Sponsored by the Irish American Cultural Institute, the O'Malley Fellowship will bring exceptional Irish Studies scholars currently affiliated with US universities to UL for a 12-week stay.
September 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We have an exciting opportunity for a visiting fellow in Irish Studies at UL! Sponsored by the Irish American Cultural Institute, the O'Malley Fellowship will bring exceptional Irish Studies scholars currently affiliated with US universities to UL for a 12-week stay.
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Delighted to be reading at Ó bhéal go béal in Cork next Monday. Poems from the new and newest books, featuring some Seán Ó'Ríordáin and some birds
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Delighted to be reading at Ó bhéal go béal in Cork next Monday. Poems from the new and newest books, featuring some Seán Ó'Ríordáin and some birds
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'When a honeybee bumps against glass,
and silences noise your room,
when masonry settles
and a knock at the door is harm ...'
'When You Unravel' by @eleanorhooker.bsky.social – poetry from issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019) 🧵
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and silences noise your room,
when masonry settles
and a knock at the door is harm ...'
'When You Unravel' by @eleanorhooker.bsky.social – poetry from issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019) 🧵
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‘When You Unravel’ by Eleanor Hooker — Banshee Press
When a honeybee bumps against glass, and silences noise your room, when masonry settles and a knock at the door is harm, when your fingertips bleed and you cannot let go, when your boat arrives…
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August 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
'When a honeybee bumps against glass,
and silences noise your room,
when masonry settles
and a knock at the door is harm ...'
'When You Unravel' by @eleanorhooker.bsky.social – poetry from issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019) 🧵
bansheepress.org/read/when-yo...
and silences noise your room,
when masonry settles
and a knock at the door is harm ...'
'When You Unravel' by @eleanorhooker.bsky.social – poetry from issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019) 🧵
bansheepress.org/read/when-yo...
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Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝
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Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press
Banshee Press will be accepting book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps…
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August 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝
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❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin.
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
August 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin.
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
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I can't get over how many writers have chosen to dedicate so much of their time and energy into transphobia rather than writing? Or like if you're going to be an activist, there's a literal genocide. And if you claim to care so much about women being abused, there's a literal genocide.
August 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I can't get over how many writers have chosen to dedicate so much of their time and energy into transphobia rather than writing? Or like if you're going to be an activist, there's a literal genocide. And if you claim to care so much about women being abused, there's a literal genocide.
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'There is a halo of yellow far off, where green meets the zone of habitation. Boughs and branches move, leaves seethe and shiver. The night has its mouths.'
From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- fiction by David Hayden 🌔
@seventydys.bsky.social
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From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- fiction by David Hayden 🌔
@seventydys.bsky.social
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August 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
'There is a halo of yellow far off, where green meets the zone of habitation. Boughs and branches move, leaves seethe and shiver. The night has its mouths.'
From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- fiction by David Hayden 🌔
@seventydys.bsky.social
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From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- fiction by David Hayden 🌔
@seventydys.bsky.social
bansheepress.org/read/taints-...