Giveaway Alert! ✨ We've teamed up with International Literature Festival Dublin to give two lucky winners a copy of Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

Ticketholders to the #ILFD2024 event What We Do in the Shadows on Wednesday 22 May will be entered to win! Book now at ilfdublin.com.

Help spread the word! 🎉🎉 Poetry Ireland Children's Books Ireland Munster Literature Centre Dublin City Council Dublin UNESCO Publishing Ireland The Stinging Fly Pavee Point The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Literature Ireland

Looking forward to hearing our #1Dublin1Book author from 2 years ago Nuala O'Connor whose Nora was a wonderful imagining of Joyce's family and his love, Nora Barnacle. Wishing Nuala great success for Seaborne.

Lovely to meet Catherine Martin TD at our NLI 'Celebrating Ireland's Booker Winners' series with current Booker winner Paul Lynch, & Belinda McKeon.

Catherine's energy, drive, dedication & determination to develop the arts in Ireland is to be lauded & supported.

Dr. Sinead McCoole

Good article featuring some tips from Nancy Pearl Seattle City of Lit , America's Librarian and creator of One Seattle One Book. Our #1d1b , Snowflake by Louise Nealon is inspired by her as are many similar citywide reading schemes.
Get a copy of Snowflake from your library/bookstore.

My interview with Women’s Prize shortlisted writer Claire Kilroy: ‘I haven’t met one mother who didn’t talk about failure’. The novelist on her first novel in more than a decade and the struggles of motherhood that had stopped her from writing for so long

irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Ahh, paperback publication eve. I shall feast on a hog roast, quaff champagne, dance under a full pink moon, etc etc... Until tomorrow, fair readers. We sail at first light. #TheLastLifeboat smarturl.it/TLL-pb

#OnThisDay 24 April 1916- The 'Proclamation of the Republic' was read by Patrick Pearse in front of the General Post Office at 12.45 pm on Easter Monday. The document was a formal assertion of the Irish Republic as a sovereign, independent state, and also a declaration of rights

My review Irish Times Culture of David Nicholls' moving new novel You Are Here, sure to be a big hit this summer - shorturl.at/lCQU4 Sceptre Books Elaine Egan

Happy Publication Day to Richy Craven #SpiritLevel Eriu

Signing copies of The Weather Girls for Halfway up the Stairs with my best buddies. Lucky and Poppy both feature in the book! Official publication date is Mon 29th April. Signed and dedicated copies from the shop.
I’ll be signing in lots of other shops too inc Dubray + indies.

Happy Poetry Day Ireland!

This evening at 6.30pm I'll be reading some of my poems in Pearse St Library with Eithne Lannon and Maeve O'Sullivan

It's free and all are welcome!

Dublin City Libraries Poetry Ireland #PoetryDayIRL

Women’s Prize for Fiction: Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy shortlisted. Delighted to see these Irish authors rightly recognised for their excellent novels The Wren, The Wren and Soldier Sailor, unaccountably overlooked by the Booker jury last year

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Women’s Prize for Fiction: Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy shortlisted irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

My galleys arrived for BLOOD OF THE OLD KINGS by Sung-Il Kim translated by me Tor Books (Check Mark) us.macmillan.com/books/97812508…

Respectful tribute to the 48 Stardust victims and their families at Dalymount tonight, as the PA plays They Never Came Home by Christy Moore to a silent crowd.

The Stardust was 5 minutes from my house – my dad went down to see if he could help that night.

Maggie Armstrong reads about a holiday gone sour in Old Romantics (extract the Dublin Review podcast: thedublinreview.com/podcast/episod…)

Lovely to see 'Emma, Disappeared' in the chart in my home town Eason Enniscorthy. Photo (c) my Mam!

A few tickets remaining for Snowflake, a celebration, Thursday 18 April at Samuel Beckett Theatre, 7pm. Booking :
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Thanks to Goethe-Institut Ireland for being spectacular hosts for our launch party earlier this week & to everyone who joined us to raise a glass to #ILFD2024 🥳 The biggest thanks of all to Dublin City Council, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon & Dublin UNESCO for making the festival possible!

📸 Joseph Carr