Jessica Grene
@jgrenewriter.bsky.social
Irish writer. Reader. Mother of redheads. Leftie nerd. She/her.
https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
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Hey @miseryvulture.bsky.social , nach mbeadh sé greannmhar dá tabharfá cic sa thóin di?
Irish is a 'gift' says President Connolly as she visits gaelscoil on first full day in office jrnl.ie/6871895
Irish is a 'gift' says President Connolly as she visits gaelscoil on first full day in office jrnl.ie/6871895
Irish is a 'gift' says President Connolly as she visits gaelscoil on first full day in office
As she arrived Gaelscoil Inse Chór this morning, students from the school chanted her name.
jrnl.ie
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hey @miseryvulture.bsky.social , nach mbeadh sé greannmhar dá tabharfá cic sa thóin di?
Irish is a 'gift' says President Connolly as she visits gaelscoil on first full day in office jrnl.ie/6871895
Irish is a 'gift' says President Connolly as she visits gaelscoil on first full day in office jrnl.ie/6871895
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There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
This is an excellent book. I highly recommend!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Flashlight by Susan Choi review – big, bold and surprising
Stretching from Indiana to North Korea, the US writer’s sixth novel is a study of absence, alienation and affection in a family rocked by tragedy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is an excellent book. I highly recommend!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
But the book is called GLORIOUS EXPLOITS.
This is great news! It’s a fantastic book.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
But the book is called GLORIOUS EXPLOITS.
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Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Heresies
Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Heresies
The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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This premise for a novel by @richycraven.bsky.social is easily the most fun thing to come out of this presidential election.
I'm going to write a Rom Com about a hot shot reporter who's sent to cover the Cavan-Monaghan constituency count and falls in love with the local schoolteacher as she's stuck there for the 3 weeks it takes to get the final result
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This premise for a novel by @richycraven.bsky.social is easily the most fun thing to come out of this presidential election.
Really enjoyed seeing Be Careful at the Project last night. Written and performed by Mallika Taneja.
October 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Really enjoyed seeing Be Careful at the Project last night. Written and performed by Mallika Taneja.
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The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow
Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.
www.rte.ie
October 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow
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It's publication day for our three brilliant September titles: @poetclare.bsky.social's Lives of the Female Poets, @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana, and @emiliejelinek.bsky.social's The Sky Around My Father, winner of the @mslexia.bsky.social Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024.
September 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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New statement from Irish foreign minister Simon Harris:
"There is a genocide taking place in Gaza and the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry earlier this week make clear that this is the case.
The need for action has never been more urgent. In fact, it is long past due."
"There is a genocide taking place in Gaza and the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry earlier this week make clear that this is the case.
The need for action has never been more urgent. In fact, it is long past due."
September 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
New statement from Irish foreign minister Simon Harris:
"There is a genocide taking place in Gaza and the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry earlier this week make clear that this is the case.
The need for action has never been more urgent. In fact, it is long past due."
"There is a genocide taking place in Gaza and the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry earlier this week make clear that this is the case.
The need for action has never been more urgent. In fact, it is long past due."
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Irish media reporting on road collisions too often dehumanises victims and hides driver responsibility. Cyclists and pedestrians are people first — the language we use matters.
Read our full statement below.
Read our full statement below.
September 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Irish media reporting on road collisions too often dehumanises victims and hides driver responsibility. Cyclists and pedestrians are people first — the language we use matters.
Read our full statement below.
Read our full statement below.
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Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?
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Kitty O'Brien: "The video of me being beaten went viral because I’m white, but the violence I experienced is just a drop in the ocean compared to what my Palestinian, Arab and other racialised comrades have endured at the hands of the German state police over the past two years.”
September 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Kitty O'Brien: "The video of me being beaten went viral because I’m white, but the violence I experienced is just a drop in the ocean compared to what my Palestinian, Arab and other racialised comrades have endured at the hands of the German state police over the past two years.”
Interesting to read Adam Roberts’ review of ‘The Rest of Our Lives’ by Ben Markovits.
I've read another of the Booker 2025 longlist: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/ben-markov...
Ben Markovits, ‘The Rest of our Lives’ (2025)
Rabbit, Tom
profadamroberts.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Interesting to read Adam Roberts’ review of ‘The Rest of Our Lives’ by Ben Markovits.
Audible’s ‘AUTHORS SIMILAR TO Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’ are Damilare Kuku, William Shakespeare, and Yael van der Wouden.
I mean, I *could* write an essay about the commonality of themes in their work, but it’s not leaping out at me.
I mean, I *could* write an essay about the commonality of themes in their work, but it’s not leaping out at me.
September 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Audible’s ‘AUTHORS SIMILAR TO Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’ are Damilare Kuku, William Shakespeare, and Yael van der Wouden.
I mean, I *could* write an essay about the commonality of themes in their work, but it’s not leaping out at me.
I mean, I *could* write an essay about the commonality of themes in their work, but it’s not leaping out at me.
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We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
August 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
An upside to the Salt Path kerfuffle is that it's been a catalyst for getting some well-reasoned and relevant essays about chronic illness, disability, writing and publishing, into the public eye.
Polly Atkin writes about the expectation of a narrative featuring inspirational recovery.
Polly Atkin writes about the expectation of a narrative featuring inspirational recovery.
@pollyrowena.bsky.social on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
buff.ly
August 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
An upside to the Salt Path kerfuffle is that it's been a catalyst for getting some well-reasoned and relevant essays about chronic illness, disability, writing and publishing, into the public eye.
Polly Atkin writes about the expectation of a narrative featuring inspirational recovery.
Polly Atkin writes about the expectation of a narrative featuring inspirational recovery.
I’ve just discovered these reviews of the Booker longlist by Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social . Really insightful, based on close reading.
I read Andrew Miller's "The Land in Winter" (2025): profadamroberts.substack.com/p/andrew-mil...
Andrew Miller, "The Land in Winter" (2025)
A "Call the Midwife" episode scripted by Samuel Beckett
profadamroberts.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I’ve just discovered these reviews of the Booker longlist by Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social . Really insightful, based on close reading.
#spéirgorm #gaeilge
In school, did the teacher tell you to ‘Go to sleep!’ as gaeilge, (Rest your head on your folded arms)? If so, how did they phrase it? Was it ‘Bí ina codladh?’ ‘Dul a chodladh’? Thanks, it’s for a Thing.
In school, did the teacher tell you to ‘Go to sleep!’ as gaeilge, (Rest your head on your folded arms)? If so, how did they phrase it? Was it ‘Bí ina codladh?’ ‘Dul a chodladh’? Thanks, it’s for a Thing.
August 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#spéirgorm #gaeilge
In school, did the teacher tell you to ‘Go to sleep!’ as gaeilge, (Rest your head on your folded arms)? If so, how did they phrase it? Was it ‘Bí ina codladh?’ ‘Dul a chodladh’? Thanks, it’s for a Thing.
In school, did the teacher tell you to ‘Go to sleep!’ as gaeilge, (Rest your head on your folded arms)? If so, how did they phrase it? Was it ‘Bí ina codladh?’ ‘Dul a chodladh’? Thanks, it’s for a Thing.
Not before time.
LGBTQ literature prize 'paused' this year after mass boycott over inclusion of John Boyne
LGBTQ literature prize 'paused' this year after mass boycott over inclusion of John Boyne
August 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Not before time.
LGBTQ literature prize 'paused' this year after mass boycott over inclusion of John Boyne
LGBTQ literature prize 'paused' this year after mass boycott over inclusion of John Boyne
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in ireland, we don't say 'serial killer', we say 'he's a divil for the aul' murder' & i think that's beautiful.
August 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
in ireland, we don't say 'serial killer', we say 'he's a divil for the aul' murder' & i think that's beautiful.