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Congrats to all the authors shortlisted for the 2025 @Postvox Irish Book Awards. I'm thrilled to see debut author Caragh Maxwell shortlisted in the Newcomers category for Sugartown. 👏🎉
Don't forget to vote for your favourite!: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
Don't forget to vote for your favourite!: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Congrats to all the authors shortlisted for the 2025 @Postvox Irish Book Awards. I'm thrilled to see debut author Caragh Maxwell shortlisted in the Newcomers category for Sugartown. 👏🎉
Don't forget to vote for your favourite!: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
Don't forget to vote for your favourite!: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
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Such an incredible evening celebrating the launch of our podcast with @molimuseum.bsky.social 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland' in #TrinityLongRoomHub
Warm thanks to #DrPhilMullen,#EoinMcNamee, #CaelainnHogan & the participants who shared their stories. Available soon on all platforms!
Warm thanks to #DrPhilMullen,#EoinMcNamee, #CaelainnHogan & the participants who shared their stories. Available soon on all platforms!
October 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Such an incredible evening celebrating the launch of our podcast with @molimuseum.bsky.social 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland' in #TrinityLongRoomHub
Warm thanks to #DrPhilMullen,#EoinMcNamee, #CaelainnHogan & the participants who shared their stories. Available soon on all platforms!
Warm thanks to #DrPhilMullen,#EoinMcNamee, #CaelainnHogan & the participants who shared their stories. Available soon on all platforms!
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Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
Debut novel is about a twentysomething woman returning to her small-town home after years in London
www.irishtimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
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Caragh Maxwell: ‘Adolescent cancer really sped up my maturity’
Caragh Maxwell: ‘Adolescent cancer really sped up my maturity’
The Sugartown author on invincibility, mother-daughter relationships and baring her soul in return for publicity
www.irishtimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Caragh Maxwell: ‘Adolescent cancer really sped up my maturity’
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Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
Debut novel is about a twentysomething woman returning to her small-town home after years in London
www.irishtimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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“His life’s work is like a dark, glittering, ethereal yet earthy river of thought, full of angels, ghosts, nocturnes, animals. These are books as brimming with spirit & light as they are with eroticism & violence”
—Seán Hewitt on John Burnside’s poetry & prose
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
—Seán Hewitt on John Burnside’s poetry & prose
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Where to start with: John Burnside
Seán Hewitt, who introduces a new edition of the Scottish author’s final memoir, guides readers through his landmark works a year on from his death
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“His life’s work is like a dark, glittering, ethereal yet earthy river of thought, full of angels, ghosts, nocturnes, animals. These are books as brimming with spirit & light as they are with eroticism & violence”
—Seán Hewitt on John Burnside’s poetry & prose
💙📚
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
—Seán Hewitt on John Burnside’s poetry & prose
💙📚
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Summer fiction: I Can Do Rude by Maya Kulukundis www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Summer fiction: I Can Do Rude by Maya Kulukundis
A new short story by Maya Kulukundis
www.irishtimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Summer fiction: I Can Do Rude by Maya Kulukundis www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Very much enjoyed my conversation with Eoin McNamee at Cairde in sunny Sligo last night.
And thanks to a great audience.
And thanks to a great audience.
July 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Very much enjoyed my conversation with Eoin McNamee at Cairde in sunny Sligo last night.
And thanks to a great audience.
And thanks to a great audience.
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Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! 💛🧡
Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.'
@gphibbett.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.'
@gphibbett.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Gustav Parker Hibbett wins John Pollard Prize
Books newsletter: a roundup of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages
www.irishtimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! 💛🧡
Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.'
@gphibbett.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.'
@gphibbett.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
'The Bureau' by Eoin McNamee. Out now.
March 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
'The Bureau' by Eoin McNamee. Out now.
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This week I wrote about vigilance, and how I'm less interested in litigating whether Garron Noone is a racist, than in whether what he said was true or not. It wasn't. And people are right to be alarmed that he said it, and to wonder why he did.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: I think anti-racists are right to be on high alert
I’m less concerned with why Garron Noone said what he said, than with whether it’s true or not
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March 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This week I wrote about vigilance, and how I'm less interested in litigating whether Garron Noone is a racist, than in whether what he said was true or not. It wasn't. And people are right to be alarmed that he said it, and to wonder why he did.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Irish Times. The Bureau, published March 27th.
March 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Irish Times. The Bureau, published March 27th.
The film was The Right Stuff about the first men sent into space which seemed to Lorraine to be apt to this high, remote country
The Bureau, March 27th
The Bureau, March 27th
March 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The film was The Right Stuff about the first men sent into space which seemed to Lorraine to be apt to this high, remote country
The Bureau, March 27th
The Bureau, March 27th
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The Bureau, coming March 27th
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Bureau, coming March 27th
The Bureau, coming March 27th
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Bureau, coming March 27th
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Pollard poetry prize shortlist revealed www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Pollard poetry prize shortlist revealed
Books newsletter: Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Irish Writers Centre events; ACIS award for Arlen House; Cló Iar-Chonnacht and Cúirt turn 40; Seachtain na Gaeilge
www.irishtimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Pollard poetry prize shortlist revealed www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
I wrote this on arts funding, and the queasy feeling that it'll be Irish artists who end up paying for yet another government procurement scandal.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Arts funding rows hurt artists who struggle to break even
"...it is hard to avoid the sense that the Government’s newfound notions of austerity will skip right past the men in suits and pass directly to the artists who rely on government funding to pursue th...
www.irishexaminer.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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I wrote this on arts funding, and the queasy feeling that it'll be Irish artists who end up paying for yet another government procurement scandal.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Arts funding rows hurt artists who struggle to break even
"...it is hard to avoid the sense that the Government’s newfound notions of austerity will skip right past the men in suits and pass directly to the artists who rely on government funding to pursue th...
www.irishexaminer.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I wrote this on arts funding, and the queasy feeling that it'll be Irish artists who end up paying for yet another government procurement scandal.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Rhiannon Giddens singing a song associated with the civil rights movement as part of the "insane" "woke" Irish "musical" funded by USAID (actually a US embassy event). It's great. As written about by @hlinehan.bsky.social here: www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8R...
Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - I Shall Not Be Moved | Live at Other Voices Dignity (2022)
YouTube video by OtherVoicesLive
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February 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Rhiannon Giddens singing a song associated with the civil rights movement as part of the "insane" "woke" Irish "musical" funded by USAID (actually a US embassy event). It's great. As written about by @hlinehan.bsky.social here: www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8R...
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Apropros of nothing, here's me from exactly one month ago today, on how much I fucking hate the AI hype bubble and everything it represents.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
The Gist: AI, a talking dog for the 21st Century.
Séamas O'Reilly on the year's biggest con, AI. This is a Christmas Cracker Gist.
www.thegist.ie
January 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Apropros of nothing, here's me from exactly one month ago today, on how much I fucking hate the AI hype bubble and everything it represents.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
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I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
www.irishexaminer.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...