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Martin Tyrrell

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Author of From Class War to Cold War: Orwell’s Enduring Socialism, forthcoming from Athabasca University Press, spring 2026. Editorial Board, George Orwell Studies. Outside the Lines Writers’ Group.

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drb.ie/articles/mak... Grateful as always to Dublin Review of Books for featuring my review essay on The Great Gatsby marking its centenary year.

Making It, Faking It - DRB

Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, and the American Dream

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Martin Tyrrell

@outsidewriters.bsky.social

drb.ie/articles/mak... Grateful as always to Dublin Review of Books for featuring my review essay on The Great Gatsby marking its centenary year.

Making It, Faking It - DRB

Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, and the American Dream

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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM

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Nick Lloyd

@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

I'll be doing a couple of virtual Zoom presentations in December for my new book Travels through the Spanish Civil War, out with @HurstPublishers on 20 November. Let me know if you're interested. Pre-orders, reviews, etc here (or your local bookshop). www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels...

October 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM

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Nessa O’Mahony

@nessao.bsky.social

Hey there! I wanted to share an important campaign supporting Arlen House as they celebrate 50 years of publishing exceptional Irish writing. If you're able, please click the link below to donate or consider sharing it with others who might be interested. Thank you!

September 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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Nessa O’Mahony

@nessao.bsky.social

We’re raising funds for one of Ireland’s leading feminist presses - might you help? gofund.me/bd3cc32a2

Donate to 50 for 50 - Supporting Arlen House for its 50th birthday, organized by Nessa O'Mahony

Arlen House – Ireland’s leading independent literary publis… Nessa O'Mahony needs your support for 50 for 50 - Supporting Arlen House for its 50th birthday

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September 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM

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Arlen House

@arlenhouse.bsky.social

Many people have said they admire Arlen House, its books, its independent feminist ethos, & that they'd like to help progress our vision. Well, now you can!

@nessao.bsky.social & Eavan Casey have created a fundraiser:
www.gofundme.com/f/50-for-50-...

Thank you for any support you can give.

Donate to 50 for 50 - Supporting Arlen House for its 50th birthday, organized by Nessa O'Mahony

Arlen House – Ireland’s leading independent literary publis… Nessa O'Mahony needs your support for 50 for 50 - Supporting Arlen House for its 50th birthday

www.gofundme.com

September 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM

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Nessa O’Mahony

@nessao.bsky.social

Arlen House, the leading feminist press and high quality publisher of Irish writing, is celebrating its 50th birthday so we are fundraising to ensure it can continue its important work. Can you help? gofund.me/01a31a841

Donate to 50 for 50 - Supporting Arlen House for its 50th birthday, organized by Nessa O'Mahony

Arlen House – Ireland’s leading independent literary publis… Nessa O'Mahony needs your support for 50 for 50 - Supporting Arlen House for its 50th birthday

gofund.me

September 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...

August 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM

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Dr. David Clare

@davidclareabu.bsky.social

I'm very excited that my new book, IRELAND IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF C.S. LEWIS, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan! The book is quite dear (!) but there is a 25% discount going till tomorrow (21/8). Just use the discount code SNB2S25 at the following site:
link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Front cover of IRELAND IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF C.S. LEWIS, by David Clare, which features a picture of Dunluce Castle in Co. Antrim (said to be the model for Cair Paravel from Lewis's THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA).

Back cover of IRELAND IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF C.S. LEWIS, by David Clare, which features a summary of the book's content, the author's bio, and the following two endorsements:

“A gloriously profound engagement with CS Lewis. David Clare has researched meticulously and written a deeply nuanced and insightful book, scholarly, heartening and humane, illuminating of the man and of his work, and restoring him to the fullness of his Irishness in all its complexity.”
-Lucy Caldwell, award-winning, Belfast-born author

“In this uniquely sophisticated study, Clare shows the centrality of Ireland to C.S. Lewis’s thought and writing while refusing monolithic conceptions of national identity: Ireland was for Lewis a topological and linguistic mosaic whose lineaments his writing endlessly redrew and reconfigured. This book breaks new ground by examining Lewis’s afterlives on stage and screen and by tracing a thread of religious transcendence which Lewis shares with fellow Northern visionaries like Van Morrison, Stewart Parker, and Christina Reid. Tolerant of difference and opposed to all forms of jingoism and colonialism, the figure that emerges from this important and nuanced study is a salutary one for our times.”
-Dr. James Ward, University of Ulster-Coleraine

August 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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Irish Writers Centre

@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

Submissions are open for the International Debut Novel Competition until 14 September!

We’re celebrating past winners by looking back at their memories of the competition.

This is 2024/25 winner, Andrew Cunning, author of the upcoming novel 'Clara and Christina', to be released in May 2026! 🥳