'As a child I stammered in most situations. In shops, in the classroom, at home, on the bus, or anywhere when I was trying to answer a simple question. In front of strangers, but also with family and friends...' Mark Brennock is up first this morning #TheLastWaltz RTÉ Radio 1

A night at La Scala, a Springsteen gig on the breeze, Keats's Nightingale and what it's like to be the voice of the Luas. Sunday Miscellany is coming up 9.10am RTÉ Radio 1 Mark Brennock @CatherineFol Doireann Ní Bhríain Conall Hamill MaryKateOFlanagan Durgham Mushtaha Tune in! RTÉ

It's almost launch day & today on EatTheStorms the Poetry Podcast myself & Emma McKervey are reading from our new collections to be published by Turas Press next Wednesday & we're joined today by Elizabeth McSkeane Ross Hattaway & Eithne Lannon

Tune in from 5pm to Stay Bloody Poetic on most platforms

This looks a good move for the quay and street foodies.

Shipquay Street in #Derry was rocking today as participants attempted to break the world record for most people dancing to ‘Rock the Boat’ 🚣‍♀️💃

The event raised money for Mayor Derry Strabane charities - Foyle Hospice and Ryan McBride Foundation #5

Amazing sight on Shipquay street in #Derry just now as young and old attempt to break a ‘rock the boat’ world record for charity

In response to the government’s inhumane Rwanda policy, this project will help asylum seekers facing removal to Rwanda apply for immigration bail Maria McManus 🇪🇺
Therese Kieran Nandi Jola Aurélia Dondo Lia Mills English PEN CatherineDunneAuthor Neil Hegarty biduk.org/articles/bid-r…

It's here! Copies of Devotions by Míchéal McCann in store now The Gallery Press

On #WorldPressFreedomDay - all good wishes for a successful outcome from Irish PEN
Maria McManus 🇪🇺 Lia Mills CatherineDunneAuthor Laura Elliot John O'Donnell Viviana Fiorentino Neil Hegarty moyra_donaldson Padraig Hanratty Celia de Fréine

Dorian Gray is ready for his next meal.
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Next Thursday 9 is the Belfast launch, where we’ll be celebrating No Alibis and their beautiful limited edition hardback - and! look! it comes with an Openings tote bag! If you’d like to join us, tix are free but booking essential here: noalibis.com/event/lucy-cal…

To celebrate #Pride next month, we are awarding LGBTQIA+ writers with course bursaries!

Bursary recipients will receive course credit worth €165 towards a creative writing course at the Irish Writers Centre.

Deadline: Wed 8 May 2024, 5pm

Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride
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Up next. Thrilled to be a part of this The RSC Good Chance

I couldn't be more excited for this year's PrimadonnaFest. Such a great line-up including Sinéad Gleeson Monisha Rajesh 🍉 Chimene Suleyman Kat Brown Julia Hobsbawm Josephine Fairley Doon Mackichan, Jane Savidge, Michael Donkor & more. Joy! Truly the world as it should be, for one weekend

A new discussion paper from the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) has suggested a ‘federal cross-border tertiary education institution’ to boost university provision in Derry and the North West should be seriously considered. derryjournal.com/education/disc…

I can testify this is a wonderful position based in a prestigious university with the best colleagues CISS Otago and of course the stunning location!

Below are the names of inquests that won’t go ahead as of today. Details provided to Freya McClements The Irish Times by Lady Chief Justice’s Office. Doesn’t include case of Billy McGreanery as this inquest was just granted yesterday

Important article by Paddy Jack of the Times Higher Education review (Times Higher Education) on this week's Royal Irish Academy report recommending a cross-border North West University.

I'll be chairing this International Literature Festival Dublin event with the so-excellent Julia Armfield Julia Armfield & Caoilinn Hughes Caoilinn Hughes on 25 May: very much looking forward.
Come too!
#Dublin #books #festival

Wonderful #reader #review of Neil Hegarty fantastic #novel #TheJewel
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