Eleanor Fitzsimons

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'A charming festive story with a warm heart'
'Ultimate feelgood fiction'

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Barbara Scully - 'Because Im Worth it!" - Sandycove Yard - Nov 5 Dún Laoghaire Comedy Festival presents Barbara Scully in "BECAUSE I’M WORTH IT" - Work in Progress Show.  Following on from the success of her first one woman show – ‘Older Bolder Wiser’ – Barbara Scu...

NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT.

‘Because I’m Worth It’ having its first test drive as a ‘work in progress’ at Dun LAOGHAIRE Comedy Festival on Nov 5th

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On the show today; Starvation in Gaza; @henrymckean.bsky.social on rude people; @barbarascully.bsky.social & @declanbuckley.bsky.social are nearly beyond caring; A dozen years heroin-free; the World Porridge Championship...

You might like to listen to my interview about Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde (mother of Oscar) with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social here: newbooksnetwork.com/speranza-poe...

Right we're off Why not do something nice and sponsor these lovely hard working dogs while we do the 100k #WalkiesforWellbeing with #Samaritans this month. Follow this link and thaaaaaaaank youuuuuuuu #JoeytheDog #TonytheDog #PennytheDog
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Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press Banshee Press is open for book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps…

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚

Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!

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Join us for a powerful morning of conversation with authors Evelyn Conlon, Sinéad Gleeson and Clodagh Finn, exploring the impact of women activists in Ireland through the decades, and some of the great writing that captures their stories 🎟️ bit.ly/4mFkhbu

Kevin Street Library

Open Call for Storyteller in Residence for Children

The closing date for applications is Fri, 17 Oct.

Dublin City Council are hiring a Storyteller in Residence for Children.

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Happy publication day to ‘Wild Dublin - Exploring Nature in the City’ by Éanna Ní Lamhna 🦋
 
With photographs by Anthony Woods and illustrations by David Daly.
 
Available in all bookshops!

Obie, the idiot dog, managed to surprise a lizard on our afternoon walk. Irish lizards shed their tails when surprised to distract predators as they make their escape... It will grow a new one but it does take a while... In the meantime, here's a wiggly lizard tail... #IrishFauna #Lizards

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Reina Roja by Juan Gómez-Jurado

Poetry Ireland is recruiting a new Director to lead the Poetry Ireland team.

Applications for this role are being managed by CCI Executive Search.

For further details visit www.charitycareersrecruitment.ie/vacancy/159

I love Ouida! She knew Wilde well & her work influenced his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. She had an extraordinary life. For more read my book Wilde’s Women.

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Details of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV in today's Irish Independent. It starts on Friday 17th October at 9pm on BBC One.

Do tune in!

Free ISL tour of Eileen Gray: The Making of Modernism 📅 Sun 28 Sept, 15:30 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks

Join us for a guided tour of Eileen Gray: The Making of Modernism with #IrishSignLanguage interpretation
Discover one of the most influential 20th Century designers and architects.
📅 Sun 28 Sept, 15:30
📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
🎟️ No booking required
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🚨Launch details for New Arcana!🚨

I'll be in Galway, Dublin, Belfast & online. Please do come along if you can, & spread the word.
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Now I’m even more inclined to watch it! Well one episode anyway 😬

The six shortlisted books for this year's Booker Prize. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovitz Flesh by David Szalay Audition by Katie Kitamura The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Flashlight by Susan Choi

The Booker Prize shortlist was announced an hour ago.

And in that time, i've had my tea (meatballs), and added this wild offer onto my website, where you can get ALL SIX of the shortlisted books at a big discounted price!

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Oh that sounds interesting! One of those English train enthusiasts (not Palin) travelled across Ireland once & wondered why it was so empty 🙄

That sounds amazing! Most authors on the shortlist are unknown to me although I do love Andrew Miller’s books.

Landscape format in loose painterly acrylics on canvas. With an horizon over halfway up the painting the majority of the area of the painting is the river, rendered in lots of short wide strokes of different shades of turquoise with two darker narrow horizontal bars and lots of little flecks of peach and pink. The Poolbeg peninsula of dark blue with a jagged horizontal top suggestive of a tree line, comes out from the right edge nearly halfway down and on it are the two chimneys, with their plain concrete bottom halves rendered in peach, and their top halves in red and white bands. Further back is another peninsula running fully across the gap between the Poolbeg Peninsula and the left edge of the painting. It is in dark turquoise but paler than the nearer dark blue Poolbeg one. On it are four narrow tall chimneys in peach, maybe half the height of the red and white chimneys. There are also the tops of some oil container shapes in peach. Behind them in the distance is the profile of a landmass in pale blue showing the peaks of the Sugar Loaf and the Little Sugar Loaf and the beginning of a large mountain at the right edge. The sky is a very pale impressionistic teal except for a band along the top which is a dark smokey magenta cloud on blue with some pale pink highlights along the bottom of that dark cloud. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly

"Dublin Bay Chimneys", a new #painting that sold earlier this month. For many, seeing the chimneys when arriving into Dublin port or Dublin airport, means simply one thing. Home, that word home, with all its flaws and its joys, it means you’re home. So I paint them. #SpeirGorm #Stunday #ArtYear

Cover of Great Irish Wives

“If they were alive, all 10 would certainly salute this gifted writer who has done so much to restore women to our lopsided historical narrative.”

Thank you to Clodagh Finn for such a brilliant piece on Nicola Pierce’s newest title.

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We're really looking forward to this Dublin Book Fair event in November with Evelyn Conlon (author and UCD Press co-editor of After the Train) and author Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with author and journalist Clodagh Finn!

Saturday, 8 November
11 am
IMMA, RHK

🎟️ Get your tickets: bit.ly/dbf-att

Got mine (+ goodies) & I love ‘em! 👏

Good morning.

Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book

The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.

40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.

You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

I find the Talkpal app very good for practicing speaking. I’m also learning Spanish.

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