Dr Shauna Gilligan
@shaunagilligan.bsky.social
Writer, Educator, Feminist, full of heart, cats, literacy for all. Awards incl Jack Harte Bursary 2025 and 2024 Brigid1500. Latest Pub: Co-editor of anthology of art & writing
https://www.kennys.ie/shop/fire-brigid-and-the-sacred-feminine-9781851323289
https://www.kennys.ie/shop/fire-brigid-and-the-sacred-feminine-9781851323289
Three bright green succulents set in a garden of green. Layers of beauty and complexity. Paying a small bit of attention to nature helps the mind in these difficult times.
October 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Three bright green succulents set in a garden of green. Layers of beauty and complexity. Paying a small bit of attention to nature helps the mind in these difficult times.
Join us! Rosemary Jenkinson, Ger Reidy, Celia de Fréine, @alisonwellswriter.bsky.social, TCArkle read from new work @arlenhouse.bsky.social 50 years celebration @booksupstairs.bsky.social Sunday 5th October at 4pm!
October 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Join us! Rosemary Jenkinson, Ger Reidy, Celia de Fréine, @alisonwellswriter.bsky.social, TCArkle read from new work @arlenhouse.bsky.social 50 years celebration @booksupstairs.bsky.social Sunday 5th October at 4pm!
Gorgeous #bookpost from @stingingfly.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading Liadan Ní Chuinn's "Every One Still Here"
Looking forward to reading Liadan Ní Chuinn's "Every One Still Here"
August 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Gorgeous #bookpost from @stingingfly.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading Liadan Ní Chuinn's "Every One Still Here"
Looking forward to reading Liadan Ní Chuinn's "Every One Still Here"
I am very grateful to The Tyrone Guthrie Centre and @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social for the Jack Harte 2025 Bursary which enabled me to immerse myself in writing surrounded by other creatives - for a glorious week. Thank you also to those who run the Centre and look after the artists so well.
July 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I am very grateful to The Tyrone Guthrie Centre and @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social for the Jack Harte 2025 Bursary which enabled me to immerse myself in writing surrounded by other creatives - for a glorious week. Thank you also to those who run the Centre and look after the artists so well.
Along with almost 400 writers I have signed the Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Statement on Gaza. See full statement here: irishpen.com/2025/06/05/s...
Please consider joining Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann.
Please consider joining Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann.
June 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Along with almost 400 writers I have signed the Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Statement on Gaza. See full statement here: irishpen.com/2025/06/05/s...
Please consider joining Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann.
Please consider joining Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann.
It's 1st May and #poetryday so I'm revisiting FIRE @arlenhouse.bsky.social and the stunning opening poem HERE @cristinleach.bsky.social @oonaghmontague.bsky.social alongside the beautiful artwork WINDOW @boycie.bsky.social
May words and pictures continue to shine light....
May words and pictures continue to shine light....
May 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's 1st May and #poetryday so I'm revisiting FIRE @arlenhouse.bsky.social and the stunning opening poem HERE @cristinleach.bsky.social @oonaghmontague.bsky.social alongside the beautiful artwork WINDOW @boycie.bsky.social
May words and pictures continue to shine light....
May words and pictures continue to shine light....
Such an engaging, warm, and hopeful read; all of humanity here, and a wonderful evocation of place and time #Vienna
The Café with no Name by Robert Seethaler TR: Katy Derbyshire
The Café with no Name by Robert Seethaler TR: Katy Derbyshire
April 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Such an engaging, warm, and hopeful read; all of humanity here, and a wonderful evocation of place and time #Vienna
The Café with no Name by Robert Seethaler TR: Katy Derbyshire
The Café with no Name by Robert Seethaler TR: Katy Derbyshire
Reflections in sunlight. Keep the light on hope.
April 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reflections in sunlight. Keep the light on hope.
March 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
February 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Yellow flowers. Let them put a smile on your face.
February 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yellow flowers. Let them put a smile on your face.
Exciting Announcement! Just in time for Brigid's Day 2025, with thanks to our publisher Arlen House and Syracuse University Press Fire: Brigid and The Sacred Feminine is now available in USA. press.syr.edu/supressbooks...
Thanks again to Kildare County Council for Brigid1500 funding.
Thanks again to Kildare County Council for Brigid1500 funding.
January 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Exciting Announcement! Just in time for Brigid's Day 2025, with thanks to our publisher Arlen House and Syracuse University Press Fire: Brigid and The Sacred Feminine is now available in USA. press.syr.edu/supressbooks...
Thanks again to Kildare County Council for Brigid1500 funding.
Thanks again to Kildare County Council for Brigid1500 funding.
Nollaig na mBan reading treats from The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin @maevedos.bsky.social
#irishpoetry #haiku #booker
#irishpoetry #haiku #booker
January 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Nollaig na mBan reading treats from The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin @maevedos.bsky.social
#irishpoetry #haiku #booker
#irishpoetry #haiku #booker
Delighted to represent @irishpen.bsky.social w/Celia de Fréine @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Nollaig na MBan: women,witchcraft,tarot, scientific achievement w/ @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Anne Tannam, Marianne Lee, Sophie White, Chandrika Marayanan-Mohan,Zoé Basha.
January 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Delighted to represent @irishpen.bsky.social w/Celia de Fréine @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Nollaig na MBan: women,witchcraft,tarot, scientific achievement w/ @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Anne Tannam, Marianne Lee, Sophie White, Chandrika Marayanan-Mohan,Zoé Basha.
Signing off socials for some rest, and end of year reflection. Thinking of elsewhere, hoping that the goodness of humanity will shine in these dark times. 🙏 ✨️
December 20, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Signing off socials for some rest, and end of year reflection. Thinking of elsewhere, hoping that the goodness of humanity will shine in these dark times. 🙏 ✨️
I am delighted to announce that I have won the Jack Harte Bursary 2025 for professional writers.
With sincere thanks to the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Photograph by @ghollandphoto.bsky.social used with kind permission
With sincere thanks to the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Photograph by @ghollandphoto.bsky.social used with kind permission
December 12, 2024 at 3:38 PM
I am delighted to announce that I have won the Jack Harte Bursary 2025 for professional writers.
With sincere thanks to the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Photograph by @ghollandphoto.bsky.social used with kind permission
With sincere thanks to the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Photograph by @ghollandphoto.bsky.social used with kind permission
I am always comforted by the sound of moving water.
December 5, 2024 at 9:39 AM
I am always comforted by the sound of moving water.
Tell us your birth year by sharing the cover of an album that was released the year you were born.
November 25, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Tell us your birth year by sharing the cover of an album that was released the year you were born.
It's always good to slow down and notice details around us. Today, a flower: such colour and symmetry and, of course, that which our society worships: beauty 🌼
November 24, 2024 at 9:54 AM
It's always good to slow down and notice details around us. Today, a flower: such colour and symmetry and, of course, that which our society worships: beauty 🌼
Great to experiment with other art forms...like collaboration, I feel it can open up new avenues to explore with particular attention and focus on the process rather than outcome.
November 16, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Great to experiment with other art forms...like collaboration, I feel it can open up new avenues to explore with particular attention and focus on the process rather than outcome.
Thoroughly enjoying John McPhee's The Patch. Miscellaneous essays, one of which begins "Three hundred years ago, a notion was a thought."
November 14, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Thoroughly enjoying John McPhee's The Patch. Miscellaneous essays, one of which begins "Three hundred years ago, a notion was a thought."