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Thanks again to judge @nualaoconnor.bsky.social for her kind words and to the organisers of the #Allingham Arts Festival for all their hard work. Congratulations to the other winners especially Shona Doyle-Woods and @kiklodge.bsky.social
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Exhibition on Irish nurses opens this week!
Free entry, Whittington Hospital, Archway 3-18 Dec
Features Photos by Fiona Freund + 1st-hand testimonies gathered by Professor Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi, authors of Irish Nurses in the NHS
https://ow.ly/ZmBj50XxByV
Free entry, Whittington Hospital, Archway 3-18 Dec
Features Photos by Fiona Freund + 1st-hand testimonies gathered by Professor Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi, authors of Irish Nurses in the NHS
https://ow.ly/ZmBj50XxByV
How Irish nurses helped NHS keep running for seven decades
An exhibition opens next month at the Whittington Hospital in Archway with stories of the Irish nurses taken on to help in the new National Health…
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November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Exhibition on Irish nurses opens this week!
Free entry, Whittington Hospital, Archway 3-18 Dec
Features Photos by Fiona Freund + 1st-hand testimonies gathered by Professor Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi, authors of Irish Nurses in the NHS
https://ow.ly/ZmBj50XxByV
Free entry, Whittington Hospital, Archway 3-18 Dec
Features Photos by Fiona Freund + 1st-hand testimonies gathered by Professor Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi, authors of Irish Nurses in the NHS
https://ow.ly/ZmBj50XxByV
Thanks again to judge @nualaoconnor.bsky.social for her kind words and to the organisers of the #Allingham Arts Festival for all their hard work. Congratulations to the other winners especially Shona Doyle-Woods and @kiklodge.bsky.social
www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thanks again to judge @nualaoconnor.bsky.social for her kind words and to the organisers of the #Allingham Arts Festival for all their hard work. Congratulations to the other winners especially Shona Doyle-Woods and @kiklodge.bsky.social
www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...
Bealach na Bó Finne (Way of the White Cow)
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Bealach na Bó Finne (Way of the White Cow)
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Spectrum was a Science/Tech/Engineering mag from Queen's University in Belfast. It included some 'Science Fiction' so falls into our remit. This issue is from 1967 so may be of interest to tech nostalgists also! See it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/20 for free!
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Spectrum was a Science/Tech/Engineering mag from Queen's University in Belfast. It included some 'Science Fiction' so falls into our remit. This issue is from 1967 so may be of interest to tech nostalgists also! See it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/20 for free!
These are so useful and worth a repost as we come to the end of the year. Thank you Anne.
New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...
Irish literary journals 2025/2026
By far the most-read post on this blog has been a very simple one – a list of Irish literary magazines. The original post I compiled in 2022, and an updated version in 2023, have clocked up o…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
These are so useful and worth a repost as we come to the end of the year. Thank you Anne.
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The rise and fall of Ballyshannon port. The port's international connections brought much prosperity to the Co Donegal town from the 15th century onwards, but the good times didn't last, writes @angela-historian.bsky.social @ria.ie @dib.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The rise and fall of Ballyshannon port
The port's international connections brought much prosperity to the Co Donegal town, but the good times didn't last
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November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The rise and fall of Ballyshannon port. The port's international connections brought much prosperity to the Co Donegal town from the 15th century onwards, but the good times didn't last, writes @angela-historian.bsky.social @ria.ie @dib.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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We are pleased to announce that Peatsmoke is now paying contributors! Contributors will receive $10 per piece (though we wish it was one million because that's how much we love you)!
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We are pleased to announce that Peatsmoke is now paying contributors! Contributors will receive $10 per piece (though we wish it was one million because that's how much we love you)!
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Applications are open for the third year of the Paul McVeigh Residency!
This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland.
Get more info here: paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland.
Get more info here: paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Applications are open for the third year of the Paul McVeigh Residency!
This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland.
Get more info here: paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
This is an amazing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction writers living in the UK and Ireland.
Get more info here: paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/10/17/t...
Application deadline: 30th November, 2025
That's part 1 of the usual Valentine's day conundrum solved.
If anyone would like to pre-order my next, here's how: linktr.ee/SecondChance...
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
That's part 1 of the usual Valentine's day conundrum solved.
It's been a great week.
Read at an Arts Festival.
Finally cracked hole-y bread. The secret turned out to be hydration and to do as little as possible with the dough
Made a rather one sided friendship with a crow and got the badly scarred worktops sanded down and oiled.
Read at an Arts Festival.
Finally cracked hole-y bread. The secret turned out to be hydration and to do as little as possible with the dough
Made a rather one sided friendship with a crow and got the badly scarred worktops sanded down and oiled.
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
It's been a great week.
Read at an Arts Festival.
Finally cracked hole-y bread. The secret turned out to be hydration and to do as little as possible with the dough
Made a rather one sided friendship with a crow and got the badly scarred worktops sanded down and oiled.
Read at an Arts Festival.
Finally cracked hole-y bread. The secret turned out to be hydration and to do as little as possible with the dough
Made a rather one sided friendship with a crow and got the badly scarred worktops sanded down and oiled.
Great day with writers and poets at #Allingham Arts Festival in #Ballyshannon yesterday. Thank you to all the organisers and @nualaoconnor.bsky.social who judged the flash fiction competition honouring the memory of James Keane, local writer and patron of the Arts
www.allinghamfestival.com/news
www.allinghamfestival.com/news
News — Allingham Festival
www.allinghamfestival.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Great day with writers and poets at #Allingham Arts Festival in #Ballyshannon yesterday. Thank you to all the organisers and @nualaoconnor.bsky.social who judged the flash fiction competition honouring the memory of James Keane, local writer and patron of the Arts
www.allinghamfestival.com/news
www.allinghamfestival.com/news
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Honoured and thrilled to make the shortlist for The New Irish Writing Best Short Story Award at the 2025 @irishbookawards.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Honoured and thrilled to make the shortlist for The New Irish Writing Best Short Story Award at the 2025 @irishbookawards.bsky.social
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Two events for me on Saturday Nov 8th Allingham Arts in
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
*Literary Lunch, 11.30am, Dorrian's Hotel*
Public announcement of the winners of the flash (which I judged) and poetry comps.
*Dónal Ryan Interview, 3.30pm Abbey Arts Centre* I'm interviewing Dónal.
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
*Literary Lunch, 11.30am, Dorrian's Hotel*
Public announcement of the winners of the flash (which I judged) and poetry comps.
*Dónal Ryan Interview, 3.30pm Abbey Arts Centre* I'm interviewing Dónal.
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Two events for me on Saturday Nov 8th Allingham Arts in
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
*Literary Lunch, 11.30am, Dorrian's Hotel*
Public announcement of the winners of the flash (which I judged) and poetry comps.
*Dónal Ryan Interview, 3.30pm Abbey Arts Centre* I'm interviewing Dónal.
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
*Literary Lunch, 11.30am, Dorrian's Hotel*
Public announcement of the winners of the flash (which I judged) and poetry comps.
*Dónal Ryan Interview, 3.30pm Abbey Arts Centre* I'm interviewing Dónal.
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Cork to Ballyshannon! I'll be bringing stories and readings from my childhood memoir - This Boy's Heart - to the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon on Sunday next Nov. 9th. Book signing & chat with Sean Perry. Can't wait! Tickets here - www.allinghamfestival.com/news/2025/8/...
November 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Cork to Ballyshannon! I'll be bringing stories and readings from my childhood memoir - This Boy's Heart - to the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon on Sunday next Nov. 9th. Book signing & chat with Sean Perry. Can't wait! Tickets here - www.allinghamfestival.com/news/2025/8/...
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Poet and memoirist Afric McGlinchey will lead an immersive creative writing workshop at the 2025 Allingham Festival on “Setting and Weather as Metaphor”.
The two-hour workshop for 15 participants will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 am in Kilbarron House, Ballyshannon on Saturday morning, November 8.
The two-hour workshop for 15 participants will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 am in Kilbarron House, Ballyshannon on Saturday morning, November 8.
August 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Poet and memoirist Afric McGlinchey will lead an immersive creative writing workshop at the 2025 Allingham Festival on “Setting and Weather as Metaphor”.
The two-hour workshop for 15 participants will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 am in Kilbarron House, Ballyshannon on Saturday morning, November 8.
The two-hour workshop for 15 participants will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 am in Kilbarron House, Ballyshannon on Saturday morning, November 8.
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Authors to give talks at the Allingham Arts Festival, the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Festival and the Frances Brown Literary Festival.
Colmcille Press authors to guest at Donegal Litfests
Autumn is becoming the season for literature in Donegal and we're delighted to say that our authors will be giving readings and lectures at the county's three keynote festivals over the next couple of...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Authors to give talks at the Allingham Arts Festival, the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Festival and the Frances Brown Literary Festival.
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Is Was — my new exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs — is now live on the Kenny Gallery website.
Over forty new works, made from the streets, light and shifting memory of Galway.
www.thekennygallery.ie
Over forty new works, made from the streets, light and shifting memory of Galway.
www.thekennygallery.ie
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Is Was — my new exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs — is now live on the Kenny Gallery website.
Over forty new works, made from the streets, light and shifting memory of Galway.
www.thekennygallery.ie
Over forty new works, made from the streets, light and shifting memory of Galway.
www.thekennygallery.ie
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The finale of this year's RTE Short Story Competition is coming up:
Friday 25 Oct at the Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire - and live at 7pm on Arena, RTE Radio One, with @rickoshea.bsky.social.
What a pleasure it has been! - and thanks to fellow judges @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and Tristan Rosenstock.
Friday 25 Oct at the Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire - and live at 7pm on Arena, RTE Radio One, with @rickoshea.bsky.social.
What a pleasure it has been! - and thanks to fellow judges @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and Tristan Rosenstock.
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The finale of this year's RTE Short Story Competition is coming up:
Friday 25 Oct at the Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire - and live at 7pm on Arena, RTE Radio One, with @rickoshea.bsky.social.
What a pleasure it has been! - and thanks to fellow judges @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and Tristan Rosenstock.
Friday 25 Oct at the Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire - and live at 7pm on Arena, RTE Radio One, with @rickoshea.bsky.social.
What a pleasure it has been! - and thanks to fellow judges @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and Tristan Rosenstock.
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I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Homing by Marie-Louise McGuinness
A seemingly ordinary day inspires a woman to reflect on what led her to this life.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I've been so excited about this! My short story "Homing" will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on 7th November, Read by Charlotte McCurry
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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You should come out and join me for a live show next Friday night...
We have @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social, @neilhegarty.bsky.social, Tristan Rosenstock, live music from David Kitt, and live readings from a host of Irish actors...
www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
We have @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social, @neilhegarty.bsky.social, Tristan Rosenstock, live music from David Kitt, and live readings from a host of Irish actors...
www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
RTÉ Arena Live | Fri 24 Oct, 6.50pm - Pavilion Theatre
Join Arena and the RTÉ Short Story Competition judges for insights into the art of the short story, live music and performances from this year’s shortlist, and the announcement of the top prizes.
www.paviliontheatre.ie
October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
You should come out and join me for a live show next Friday night...
We have @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social, @neilhegarty.bsky.social, Tristan Rosenstock, live music from David Kitt, and live readings from a host of Irish actors...
www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...
We have @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social, @neilhegarty.bsky.social, Tristan Rosenstock, live music from David Kitt, and live readings from a host of Irish actors...
www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...