After yet another person telling me 'but sure we are all a bit on the spectrum', I decided to write a little blog post on the correct language to use when talking about autism. Here it is:

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
#Autistic
#Neurodiversity

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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

Absolutely brilliant 1st event in our NLI 'Celebrating Ireland's Booker Winners' series.
Paul Lynch, current Booker winner, with Minister for Arts Catherine Martin TD, Dr Audrey Whitty, NLI Director, novelist Belinda McKeon, Dr Sinead McCoole & I (as series curator) in the Art Room

Today on the blog I review three recent Irish novels including Megan Nolan Nuala O'Connor
and Catriona Shine 💚
New Island Books
The Lilliput Press 746books.com/2024/04/24/thr…

The 6 spellbinding novels that make up the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist capture between their pages the enormous breadth of the human experience.

Congratulations to all the authors!
Audible UK 🎧 Baileys

Delighted my micro 'Flash - The Ladybird Lesson' will appear on the FlashFlood journal at around 20:40 (BST) on Saturday, the 15th of June 2024 (National Flash Fiction Day 2024). Thanks National Flash Fiction Day 🐞

Tonight on RTÉ Radio 1 from 7pm:

Nuala O'Connor Lucy Caldwell and Glenn Patterson will talk to Sean from the Cúirt Festival

TV Reviews with Jenn Gannon and Chris Wasser

A special evening in the Druid Theatre to launch Nuala O'Connor's spelllbinding latest novel SEABORNE at the official opening of Cúirt Festival, thanks to EDEL COFFEY 👩🏼‍💻 for her wonderful introduction. #AdventureAwaits #Seaborne #NualaOConnor #AnneBonny #BookLaunch

I'm on RTÉ Radio 1 Arena with Seán Rocks tonight at 7pm IST, talking about #Seaborne and Anne Bonny. I'm first up, so tune in early!
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So excited for the Elizabeth Bowen Conference in Bedfordshire on May 11th. My first time to go. Draft programme now available.

We are delighted to announce that we have a draft programme for our upcoming conference, Locating Elizabeth Bowen. 11th May 2024 ~ University of Bedfordshire (Bedford Campus)
bowensociety.com/conferences/

This gorgeous book (inside and out!) is out in the world thanks to its Cúirt Festival launch yesterday. Nuala O'Connor Nuala O'Connor will be at WCLF on 12 July. Tickets and info in our bio #ReadIrishWomenChallenge24

What #bookpost I received today from the wonderful Nuala O'Connor and New Island Books #Seaborne Can't wait to get reading! #Irishwriters #novels # #amreading

Never underestimate the power of gold foil. ⁦ #Seaborne Nuala O'Connor⁩ ⁦New Island Books⁩ ⁦UTA⁩

We had a gorgeous evening at The Mick Lally Theatre launching Seaborne Cúirt Festival. Thanks a mill to EDEL COFFEY 👩🏼‍💻 for launching & to everyone who came out 🙌

Saolta Arts 🌱 The Stinging Fly Nuala O'Connor Emily Cooper Doire Press Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉

Yet another stunning cover from Ireland's original feminist press Alan Hayes : Arlen House with an intro/ edited by Nuala O'Connor' I'm m delighted to have a poem in this anthology and can't wait to read the work of other the women featured.

👏👏
Such a fantastic adventure 🌊
#Seaborne 🏴‍☠️

Thanks Cammy Harley The Southern Star for this list of Top 10 WCLF reads: Cathy Sweeney, Colin Barrett, David Nicholls, Dani Robertson, Jan Carson, Mark O’Connell, John Connell, Oein DeBhairduin ✨, Nuala O'Connor, Lego Lost At Sea. All books available from BantryBookshop
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