Oona Frawley

What We’re Reading: July 2025 SEÁN CARLSON <br> Frawley revisits memory to anchor her love and affection for each of her parents as she knew them. With precision and tenderness, she flits between their real and imagined pasts, her...

What a treat to read and recommend Oona Frawley's achingly gorgeous new essay collection This Interim Time for @commonmag.bsky.social's "What We're Reading" series: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

Thank you so much for reading, Sean, and for such generous and thoughtful insights! 🙏😊

Maynooth's own Dr Oona Frawley recently published 'This Interim Time' featured in the Times' Best Books for Summer 2025. A well deserved acknowledgment! Get a copy & read.

Thank you so much! 🙏🙏

Congratulations one and all! 🥂🎊

The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top reads for the holidays

I was delighted to see This Interim Time in the @irishtimes.com's 'best books for summer 2025': www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...? Thank you @martindoyle.bsky.social & @jesstraynor.bsky.social 🙏🙏
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Thank you so much to all of the bookshops and readers - so grateful for your support! 🙏🙏 🥰

It's been just over a month since we launched THIS INTERIM TIME by @oonaf.bsky.social, so it feels like a good time to share some of the lovely things reviewers have said about it 🧡💛

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This Interim Time by Oona Frawley: Moving essays by the daughter of Irish actors in New York Rooted in the writer’s own experience, this collection offers the intriguing viewpoint of a person neither truly here nor there

So pleased to see a lovely review of This Interim Time in Saturday's @irishtimes.com (by the brilliant writer @jesstraynor.bsky.social no less). 🙏 🙏

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'A raw exploration of the past ... A beautiful, delicate, skilfully-meandering book.' - Irish Examiner

A gorgeous review over the weekend for This Interim Time by Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social ✨ Get your copy of this gorgeous book from your fave bookshop or direct from the Lilliput website!

Book review: Oona Frawley brings readers on a raw exploration of the past As both her parents are now dead, Frawley feels able to tackle the thorny subject of her father’s alcoholism, his struggles as an actor, and her mother’s reasons for enduring dysfunction for so long

So grateful for this generous and thoughtful review of This Interim Time. 🙏🙏 @irishexaminer.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social
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Seán also tells us about a recent book he loved: To Avenge a Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan @lilliputpress.bsky.social

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Music: Natalia Beylis @sunkenhum.bsky.social

Blúiríní was made possible thanks to the support of The Arts Council

Our new BA in Creative Writing and English was noted in an article in the @irishtimes.com as one of a series of new 'popular and novel courses' on offer for CAO applicants this year. We are so excited to get started! 🤩

Thank you so much! 🙏

Oona Frawley: My father’s friend who knew nothing about his alcoholism surprised us at his funeral I was overwhelmed by questions, including: how many people speaking does it take to articulate a human being?

Really pleased that there's an extract of This Interim Time in today's @irishtimes.com weekend magazine: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Huge thanks to everyone who turned up to Books Upstairs and made the launch of This Interim Time so special! @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social 🙏😊

Today's the day! 😊

Our last event of the term sees our brilliant Writer-in-Residence Catherine Prasifka in conversation with novelist Naoise Dolan this Thursday 8 May. 🤩
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With only a week to go until the launch of This Interim Time by @oonaf.bsky.social, we thought we'd share some of the wonderful things people have been saying about it 🧡💛

Come celebrate with us on Tuesday May 13 at @booksupstairs.bsky.social where we will be joined by guest speaker Emilie Pine 🎉

To mark the launch of our brilliant colleague Karl O'Hanlon's new book, Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State, @livunipress.bsky.social is offering a 30% discount. Pls spread the word&order this terrific book for yr library! @mulibrary.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
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Next Thursday 1 May 2.30pm, we're delighted to welcome @brianlangan.bsky.social & Edie May Hand. A graduate of our MA in CW, Edie won the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Novel Fair in '23. Join us to hear about their work together! @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social

Thanks so much!

Thrilled (& a bit terrified!) that this will be out soon. Grateful to all @lilliputpress.bsky.social, to @brianlangan.bsky.social for all of the support & encouragement, and to @jackflag.bsky.social for the gorgeous cover. 🙏

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Really looking forward to hearing Gavin McCrea and Colin Barrett on Thursday: free and open to the public!

Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 As an eighteenth-centuryist, I feel sort of obligated to read the 18th century legislation that is being used to round up people in the USA and transport them to gulags. The relevant legislation co…

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Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social

Really looking forward to this 😊