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Established 1976. Reviews, news, bestseller charts, events and features on Irish books and writing. Podcast #BurningBooks. Editor @ruthmckee

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"I run a tight ship and there is always pressure—but it takes hard work and pressure to drive growth" —Conor Graham celebrates 50 years of Irish Academic Press 📕 @MerrionPress @PublishingIRL @ivanobp @BrooksidePubSrv @MartinDoyleIT @RuthMcKee booksirelandmagazine.com/a-leap-of-fait…


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So excited to be announcing the NEW poetry workshop from The Stinging Fly — poets will work with @NiChurr across 4 months to develop their work. That I know of, no one else in the country is offering this kind of development opportunity for poets! Applications are open now!

NEW: announcing our 2025 Poetry Workshop with @NiChurr This new workshop will help poets working on developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (January to May 2025). Applications are now open and will close at 5pm on Monday 9th December. More information:…

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'My pelvis began to separate earlier than it needed to and I couldn’t walk further than a kilometre without being in pain.' Coming Apart—non fiction by Emma Dwyer @greywood_arts @DublinCityofLit @artscouncil_ie booksirelandmagazine.com/coming-apart-n… via @booksirelandmag


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Tomorrow evening!

Tues, Nov. 12th @ 7pm @dlrLexIcon Please come & join @trumpetandbell @oneflawediris & myself for a celebratory reading & in-depth conversation about writing All are welcome✨ Free, registration link below. @dlrArts Writers Residency eventbrite.ie/e/sonya-gildea… @eventbritehelp



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Honoured to say that I will be interviewing International Booker winner Georgi Gospodinov on 1 December at 12pm in MoLI in Dublin. Tickets €5 via the attached link. Do come! moli.ie/events/georgi-…


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Last tickets remain to join us ⬇️ bit.ly/48jqZOV

Today at 2pm at @DublinBookFest with our @mld_lk



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Back in @fingallibraries next week as part of The Write Time 2024 to ask writerly Qs of the brilliant Claire Kilroy. Free but ticketed, bookable at link here, a handful still left at time of posting: eventbrite.ie/e/claire-kilro…


Full house for The Irish Writers Handbook event! A knowledgeable publishing panel, and really great questions from a super-engaged audience! Thanks to our panellists @Gill_Books @RIAdawson @wordwellbooks @eriu_books—and huge thanks to the ever-amazing team @DublinBookFest ♥️📕♥️

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She’s in the window of ⁦@Hodges_Figgis⁩! ❤️

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Join Ronan Colgan @wordwellbooks, Deirdre Nolan @eriubooks, Ruth Hegarty @royalirishacademy, and Patrick O’Donoghue @gillbooks, at 11am on Saturday @DublinBookFest for insights and advice on getting published ⬇️⬇️⬇️ dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-iris…

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Who’s coming to our Festival Hub in The Printworks, @dublincastleOPW with events kicking off from tomorrow? Check out our website to find out more and book in to join us! ✨ #DBF24

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Thanks to @booksirelandmag for this lovely profile of yours truly in the week that we celebrate fifty years in business @OBrienPress booksirelandmagazine.com/industry-profi…


Industry Profile—Ivan O’Brien, Managing Director of @OBrienPress 📕 Join The O’Brien Press for a celebration of 50 years of independent publishing @DublinBookFest! Tickets here: shorturl.at/8CEsI @ivanobp @PublishingIRL booksirelandmagazine.com/industry-profi…


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Join us tomorrow evening for 2 great events as @markcousinsfilm discusses his new book with @Grainne_H and then introduces his film, I am Belfast, alongside the film’s main character, actor Helena Bereen, who will also be joining us! @IFI_Dub

Dublin this week: THURS 6.30pm talking abt my book Dear Orson Welles: dublinbookfestival.com/event/dear-ors… 8.30pm introducing my I am Belfast with leading actor Helena Bereen: ifi.ie/film/dublin-bo… FRI 6pm presenting my new film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things: web-booking.lighthousegroup.ie/Ticketing/visS…

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✨ Happy Festival Day! ✨ We can’t wait to meet many of you over the coming days to celebrate Ireland’s brilliant authors, illustrators, poets, publishers and more! 📚❤️

We’re thrilled to reveal the full line up for #DBF24! Join us for 5 wonderful days of literary and creative events in venues all across Dublin. With thanks to @artscouncil_ie and all our wonderful funders, sponsors and partners who make it possible! 🎟️ bit.ly/46ixJu1

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'Sometimes poetry involves a kind of encephalic rewiring in order to access the unconscious mind.' A characteristically witty piece by @rosemaryj77 on a leap from prose to her poetry collection Sandy Row Riots @ArlenHouse @ArtsCouncilNI @ACNIWriting booksirelandmagazine.com/one-blind-leap…


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