We fully support this recent statement from PEN International, calling for peace and opposing injustice and violence in all its forms.

Lia Mills Therese Kieran Padraig Hanratty John O'Donnell Celia de Fréine moyra_donaldson Maria McManus 🇪🇺 Laura Elliot

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Dublin, 7 December
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First 10km of Marathon in a Month in aid of Irish Cancer Society done! 😎
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'A year on, it remains a terribly lonely image: a 49-year-old man, alone in the winter garden of his childhood home in northeast Ukraine, acknowledging to himself that he was about to be taken and seeking to leave something imperishable behind.' twitter.com/MartinDoyleIT/…

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#Ukraine : PEN International is devastated to learn that writer, PEN Ukraine member and human rights defender Victoria Amelina, was seriously injured in a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk on 27 June 2023. Our thoughts and prayers are with Amelina, her family, and everyone at…

Irish PEN is appalled and deeply saddened by the devastating news that our dear friend and colleague Victoria Amelina has been seriously injured in a horrific attack while acting as a guide to visiting writers from South America pen-international.org/news/writer-an…

Irish PEN joins PEN International in condemning in the strongest possible terms ' the continued threats and harassment of writer and academic Jovo Bakić. The sheer violence faced by independent voices in Serbia is utterly shocking'.
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#Afghanistan : We are alarmed to learn that poet Haseeb Ahrari has been detained by the Taliban as part of their ongoing crackdown on peaceful expression. Our statement ⬇️ #FreeAhrari
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And... done! 😎

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Ready to launch 🤗

Every day I write the book.
#NotEveryDay #IrishWritersCentre
Photo by: Christopher Byrne

After the longest wait, the longest day is here.

Dublin book launch takes place on 21 June at Irish Writers Centre!
After that, we head to New York, Paris, and Peckham...

Today, Irish PEN calls on Egyptian President Abdelfattah Elsisi to uphold his pledge to accept political dialogue and release imprisoned poet #GalalElBehairy who remains in arbitrary pre-trial detention in #Egypt . PEN International, and English PEN in a Twitter storm today, #FreeGalal !

PEN International calls on the #Egypt Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt MFA Spokesperson to uphold the country’s human rights commitment & release imprisoned poet #GalalElBehairy held in pre-trial detention. Galal's life is on the line as he escalates his hunger strike today. #FreeGalal

#GalalElBahairy , an Egyptian poet who has been imprisoned for five years for poetry critical of the government, has been on a hunger strike since March 5.

Let's urge Egypt to free Galal right away because he has intensified his hunger strike by refusing fluids.

#FreeGalal