One of the first Irish cuckoos tagged as part of the National Parks and Wildlife Service has returned home after a winter that took him as far as the rainforests in the Congo basin

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Happy birthday Izz Cafe 🇵🇸❤️👊🏼🎉

Thanks for making our City a much better place over 5 fantastic years
#FreePalestine

The legend that is John Connolly in Waterstones Cork this evening- full house and standing room only as ever for an entertaining and insightful interview by John Breen #Cork #irishauthor #theinstrumentsofdarkness

My fifth book is out next week! Life has been so mad lately that I keep forgetting to talk about it, but I would be super grateful if you felt like preordering a copy - it really helps! ❤️ You can from Waterstones here: shorturl.at/ciCOY HQ Stories Darley Anderson Agency

You wait years for one book about SpikeIslandCork and two come along in the same week 🥳🥳congrats Alice Bell on #displeasureisland 🔥and John Crotty on #spikeisland 🔥and to the queen 👸of Spike Island Literary Festival and #cobhnoir #michelledunne on #thegoodgirl 🔥 #CrimeFiction #History 📚

The Killing Kind is starting on RTÉ2 tonight at 10.30! youtu.be/32fbgdElVSA?si…

A new John Connolly just in time for the long-weekend! Never misses and can't wait to get stuck into this one ... Instruments of Darkness in shops now!

We have launched Cork Stories! Huge thanks to everyone involved. ⁦Doire Press⁩ @corkworldbookfestival

I’ve just finished Displeasure Island by Alice Bell and it’s fucking delightful. The mystery trips you up every ten pages, the characters feel like mates, and it’s effortlessly funny - which is so hard to do. I adored this. It deserves to be enormous!

Mightnt be a popular take but I don't see this as an improvement. €50k was set aside for this when it needed no intervention at all, at best maybe a slight tidying of the edge. In a time when we need as much wildness and green as possible, gravel is not the answer.

So sad to have to unfollow Eurovision Song Contest but there's no way I can watch it this year #Gaza #BoycottEurovision2024

When ppl ask me what's the high bar I'm trying to reach as a writer I will say books like Devil In A Blue Dress or 54 Pick-up but if you ask me what book represents the bar I don't think I'll ever reach ill say DARKNESS TAKE MY HAND,
A beautifully written descent into Hell .

Happy publication day to the wonderful Robert Rutherford and #SevenDays ! This brilliant thriller is out TODAY! Buy your hardback now… rb.gy/ssw6cu 🔥🔥🔥Hodder Fiction David Henry Headley

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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Congratulations to John Mee - it's a great book!

Book on One broadcasts at 11.20pm weeknights during RTÉ Radio 1 Late Date. I’m reading five extracts from Negative Space all this week. #memoir #irishwriting All episodes also available online for four weeks following their broadcast, #listen here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/b…

Isn’t it great drying weather out today?

First Common Swift of the year over the Camden Quay in Cork City this morning whilst watching Sand Martins nest building and a singing Rock Pipit National Parks and Wildlife Service BirdWatch Ireland Cork City Council

I wrote a thing! Obviously a book, but also a thing about weather in the Regency. ⛈️📚😉

😅 C’mon the Déise 💪