Keith Ridgway

RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest  – About RTÉ RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest “At the General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in July, a number of EBU members raised concerns about the participation of Israel in the ...

"RTÉ feels that participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza. RTÉ is also deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, and the denial of access to international journalists to the territory, and the plight of the remaining hostages.”

RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part...

Absolutely the right decision.

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C In 2015, the world agreed to limit global heating to 1.5°C. Ten years later, temperatures are spiralling beyond this and climate chaos is wreaking havoc across the globe. How did we end up here? And...

This is very good. Covers the same sort of ground as the Carton/Malm books.

"The decision comes after "40 years of fellowship and sisterhood with those women", [Melissa Green, chief executive of the National Federation of Women's Institutes] told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour."

40 years of inclusion ended by deep dark misogyny, anti-queer atavism, and wads of wizard money.

When will those Labour MPs who don't support the exclusion of trans people from society get together and tell the Cabinet 'Not In Our Name'?

Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som

Women's Institute to ban transgender members after Supreme Court ruling Chief executive Melissa Green said the decision "does not change our firm belief that transgender women are women".

The abject campaign of exclusion and hate waged against trans people - especially trans women - by writers and journalists, by politicians and judges, by people in sport and in the arts, is one of the most shameful episodes in recent British public life.

"Anti-imperialism with solidarity at home" w/ Ali Abunimah

Great conversation on Makdisi Street with Ali Abunimah

Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.

Thank you, that's very kind.

Roger Casement's grave in Glasnevin cemetery

Glasnevin Cemetery, O'Connell's tower with a Celtic cross in front of it.

A lot of rain on a car windscreen

In Dublin with the dead and the rain.

The Penguin Viking UK edition of Olga Ravn's novel The Wax Child

Contemporary Danish fiction is very weird and very wonderful. Solvej Balle, Harald Voetmann, Olga Ravn. My head is spinning.

This is fantastic. "Someone must take the punishment, when punishment is handed down."

Beautifully translated by Martin Aitken.

The Dublin flag colours - sky blue and sea blue.

The cover of the forthcoming (June 2026) Fitzcarraldo Editions edition of Dooneen by Keith Ridgway.

Dublin flag. Sea blue and sky blue, with the Áth Cliath (Dublin) crest in the middle.

The cover of the forthcoming (June 2026) New Directions edition of Dooneen, by Keith Ridgway. Design by O.O.P.S. Sea blue at the top, sky blue at the bottom, X marks the horizon.

A Dublin palatte

The cover of the forthcoming (June 2026) New Directions edition of Dooneen, by Keith Ridgway. Design by O.O.P.S.

Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.

@ndbooks.bsky.social

it's long been mine as well 🙏

November 18th. Have yourself a weird and upsetting Calculation Of Volume Day.

"It is too late to give up" they say. Honestly, I don't know what not-giving-up looks like. But we need to work it out pretty quick. Reading this book (and Overshoot) will at least inform you of what's at stake. It's everything. Everything is at stake.

Persuasive analysis of the mirage of adaptation, the potentials and absurdities of CO2 removal, and the nightmare of geoengineering (fossil capital's apparent logical endpoint). All symptom-treatments, all substitutes for the one (first) thing that needs to happen - an end to emissions. Now.

The Long Heat, by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm, from Verso Books.

Utterly compelling, deeply alarming. Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's The Long Heat (following Overshoot from last year) sets out the extent to which we are fucked. The planet is overheating. Fossil-fuel capitalism is doing it, and it is not stopping. From @versobooks.bsky.social

Well done Wendy!

Congratulations, and happy launch day. Looking forward to reading it!

"I’ve never seen so many fascists and assholes as there are in film and theatre."

Sad story, the whole thing.

Fitzcarraldo Editions edition of Claire-Louise Bennett's novel Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.

Enjoyed this immensely. Such a sensual, subtle book. Beautifully puzzling at times, and the language always up to something. I am embarrassed to say that I fell slightly in love with Xavier. Awful man.
From @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social of course, Peckham's finest.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡

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Aren't they just??? Thanks Trish!

Thank you Karl!

Thanks Steve

Thanks David.

Thanks Ben - and congrats on the Expansion reviews. Hope you're enjoying it!

Thanks So!

I know, I'm sorry. Maybe treat yourself to some books?