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RIP Jennifer Johnston, another of our greats gone away. I interviewed her @cuirtfestival a few years ago & read her for pleasure. I took this pic last year @glenvillepark delighted to find JJ's book in my bedroom with the house stairwell featured.

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Join us! Tix here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/remarkable...

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My Biddy Early poem, commissioned by @irishwriterscentre for Nollaig na mBan, has found a home in the Legion Issue of @abridgedmagazine Cheers to editor Greg & crew 🙌 #biddyearly #newpoetry #abridged #abridgedmagazine #irishliteraryjournals

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Literary gold or betrayal of trust? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Remembering Elizabeth Bowen on the anniversary of her death. 'With each death, the air of the place had thickened: it had been added to. The dead do not need to visit Bowen’s Court rooms - as I said, we had no ghosts in that house - because they already permeated them.' EB in Bowen's Court

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Unboxing! Always exciting to get the box of books. Meet Menagerie, my new poetry collection, out next month from #arlenhouse. Cover images by Elena Duff.

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Coming soon! Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Three months until official publication in the UK and Europe (22 July elsewhere), this anthology is up on the Bloodaxe Books website, with pre-orders via Amazon now available. www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

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‘The writer just needs to write the human experience in honest,realistic and imaginative ways.That’s all. Great language and something like a story.We’re all struggling; most of us haven’t a clue what we’re doing here, and we’re basically flawed and bonkers.’ robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/12-o...

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Sunday, 13th April 2025, 2:30pm Panel event @cuirtfestival. Tix available now. Wired (Y)Our Own Way with Nuala O’Connor, Naoise Dolan and Niamh Garvey. A new anthology by autistic Irish adults from #newislandbooks The Mick Lally Theatre / €16.00 | €14.00 tht.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nuala O'Connor / @nualaoconnor.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/12-o...

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Love this image: “…Drafts are like holey cardigans that eventually end up mended and quite wearable…”

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Looking forward to being on a panel with @nualaoconnor.bsky.social and @naoisedolan.bsky.social at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social this April 13th. So delighted to see the interest in Wired Our Own Way (pub. New Island Books), an anthology of #Autistic #Irish voices.

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"But I don’t think in themes or symbols as I begin a project – it’s just about the characters and what they’re dealing with." Big love for this interview with @nualaoconnor.bsky.social! Awesome questions @robmclennan.bsky.social! Thanks for sharing @kiklodge.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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"We’re all struggling; most of us haven’t a clue what we’re doing here, and we’re basically flawed and bonkers. We need to write that." Love this interview of @nualaoconnor.bsky.social by @robmclennan.bsky.social - great questions & honesty👏 👏 #writing robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/12-o...

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Interview: writer @robmclennan.bsky.social interviews me today in his 12 or 20 series, about writing process, plans, and so on. robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/12-o...

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💗 Happy Valentine's Day 💗 'First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.' Elizabeth Bowen The House in Paris

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Roses are red Violets aren’t blue They’re actually violet The name is a clue

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Our next free, online Bowen Reading Group is: Wed., March 26th, 2025, at 7pm GMT. Ticket link below. We are reading more Bowen short fiction, this time her collection ANNE LEE'S. www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...

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One Dublin One Book is an anthology this year, from @stingingfly.bsky.social and I have a wee story in it. Whoop! www.thejournal.ie/one-dublin-o...

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“You will never investigate yourself as vehemently as you do when you put one word after another, one thought after another, one revelation after another, in the pages that make up your memoirs, & you will suddenly realize the person you are instead of the person you thought you were.” ~ Neil Simon

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SAVE THE DATE! Our next online Bowen Reading Group is: Wed., March 26th, 2025, at 7 pm GMT We are reading ANNE LEE'S Link later. All welcome!

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We are on hiatus.

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As if I haven't been going on about Brigid enough this week I also did the illustration for the new series about her pilgrimage on RTÉ Radio 1 with Doireann Ní Ghlacáin

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'A stunning, life-changing piece of journalism, walking the liminal space between memoir and reportage in prose of glistening clarity.'

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Happy National Hedgehog Day! Here’s a list of meanings of words for a hedgehog in eight languages... Shrinking pig (Afrikaans) Furry pig (Hungarian) Thorned animal (Punjabi) Cow sucker (Luxembourgish) Adder eater (Polish) Ouch mouse (Bahasa Adama) Needle rat (Japanese) Horrible little thing (Irish)

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Áthas orm go bhfuil dán nua agam i Washing Windows V. Delighted to have a new poem in Irish in this great anthology of women’s poetry. Míle buíochas @arlenhouse.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Available to pre-order @booksupstairs.bsky.social 📚✨

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Happy 143rd b'day, James Joyce, born otd in 1882. 'What is the age of the soul of man? As she hath the virtue of the chameleon to change her hue at every new approach, to be gay with the merry and mournful with the downcast, so too is her age changeable as her mood.' Ulysses. (Pic of JJ by my Juno)

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Happy Imbolc 🌱

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The Irish saint and goddess entwined, Brigid is associated with blacksmiths, spring, and cattle, among others, and stories like blinding herself to repel men's unwanted attention. The three-armed cross here represents both the triple goddess and the trinity. Lá Fhéile Bríde shona daoibh 🌸

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Lá Fhéile Bríde/Happy St. Brigid’s day everyone 💐 Saint Brigid's day marks the end of winter, the first day of spring and new beginnings 🌞 This print has been digitised as part of the Virtual Trinity Library Cuala Press project at the Library of Trinity College Dublin. doi.org/10.48495/c24...

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Happy St Brigid's day - Lá 'le Bhríde faoi mhaise 💚

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Had a gorgeous time at Sligo Library and in Liber Books this week, talking Seaborne, time, autism, plot etc. With Niamh Mac Cabe. Sligeach abú 🙌

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This evening in Sligo 🙌

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One last reminder for our online Wednesday night Reading Group, 29th Jan., of EB's fantastic early stories in Encounters. Ticket link in previous post.

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Sligo event: The Word on Wednesday 29th Jan, 6.30pm, Sligo Central Library I will be interviewed by Niamh McCabe. With Mags Kilcoyne, Singer-Songwriter Poet based in Sligo. Audience Q&A Free and unticketed with limited seating. Stream on FB on the night: //www.facebook.com/SligoCountyLibrary/

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I've updated my website with some 2025 literary events, including next week's one in Sligo. nualaoconnor.com/events-in-ea...

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