@helenfallon.bsky.social
Poetry Ireland Introductions 2022; John Hewitt Summer School Bursary recipient 3024
An Autumn day I can get on board with. Lovely to see the lighter sky and stunning colours on campus @maynoothuniversity.ie
17.10.2025 10:42 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
MU Library is the first library in Ireland to achieve the Athena Swan Ireland Bronze Award 👏 It highlights our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. Read more here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
17.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Three people in Malawi Prisons uniforms stand in a library. A woman in the foreground reads an open book on a wooden table, while two men stand behind her, smiling and holding books. Shelves filled with books line the background.
A man in a tan uniform stands in front of a chalkboard, smiling and pointing to a physics textbook he is holding. In front of him, a table is stacked with boxes of exercise books and piles of school textbooks, including titles on chemistry, mathematics, geography, and English grammar
Two people stand smiling inside a shop. A woman in a cream and black dress holds a ream of paper, while a man in a tan uniform and cap also holds it. Shelves behind them display stationery, electronics, and office supplies
New on Libfocus: @helenfallon.bsky.social writes about her current project supporting prison libraries in Malawi.
A powerful reminder of how libraries transform lives.
www.libfocus.com/2025/09/pris...
I'll be at the International Literature Festival in Dublin this Saturday 24th May doing a Memoir Workshop in the afternoon and talking about my new novel in the evening. Come along, I'd love to see you there :)
Details in link.
Our colleague @oonaf.bsky.social's new book has been published with @lilliputpress.bsky.social and an extract was in this weekend's Irish Times ⬇️😊
18.05.2025 19:25 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@siffnews.bsky.social SIFF-ting through cinema, day 2: Playing today at the Seattle International Film Festival...BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY (4pm at AMC Pacific Place). Recommended! My review:
denofcinema.com/siff-2025-bl...
18.05.2025 19:54 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our 27th county poet for #PoetryDayIRL on the #poetry #podcast is Puca for Louth
Puca is nearly there with their first poetry collection & has many poems in publications coming out later this year.
Tune in 1 May
32 poets, 32 poems, 32 poems
@poetryireland.bsky.social
On most platforms
See you tonight at 6pm in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop for The Cúirt Poetry Sessions, in association with Poetry Ireland featuring Eilish Martin and Sam Furlong @cuirtfestival.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/the...
On Sunday I'll be reading alongside two incredible artists whose work I really admire.
31.01.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It means the world to be reading at this celebrated festival.
Wednesday 14 May at 4pm, Cork City Library with fellow @doirepress.bsky.social poet Jennifer Horgan, moderated by @deanbrowne.bsky.social. @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
www.corkpoetryfest.net/wednesday.html
The Cúirt Poetry Sessions are back!✨
Hear from six exciting voices in poetry across three evenings at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop. Don't miss it! ⚡️
Learn more: www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/the...
Presented in association with Poetry Ireland. @cuirtfestival.bsky.social
Really lovely to have work included here in such brilliant company ✨️
02.04.2025 11:46 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0In partnership w/Kildare Library and Art Services, we're looking for a Writer-in-Residence for 2025-26: application deadline 4 May. Pls spread the word!
universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni... @maynoothuniversity.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social @irishlittimes.bsky.social
On Tuesday! @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social @ 6pm--the launch of a stunning anthol of short stories by 6 writers from this island. Catch our form, a sense of wicked humour, tragedy+a touch of the erotic. @tanyaf.bsky.social @rosemaryj77.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @geraldinemills.bsky.social
23.03.2025 10:16 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
I'm doing a series of articles on writing poetry for @rte.ie and the first one is up now - click through for thoughts on dreams, the logic of 3yos, & the burning questions posed by Pink Pony Club 💕
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Happy St Patrick’s Day from Bangkok ☘️☘️☘️
17.03.2025 08:20 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lots of fun & brilliant connections made in great company with lovely Irish publishers at the London Book Fair. It was wonderful for @bansheepress.bsky.social to be able to attend - huge thanks to Culture Ireland & Literature Ireland for supporting ✨️
13.03.2025 22:07 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A packed house for Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody discussing his book The Forest To the Path. A book about grief and his father’s death, it detours through loneliness & creativity; unsaid questions and conversations. Made me think of: “Give people their flowers now’, instead of waiting for eulogies.
13.03.2025 10:45 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The Velveteen Rabbit opens today. Woke up feeling like it was Christmas morning. I know it’s probably not always like this but writing for theatre has been one of the least stressful, most fun experiences I’ve ever had as a writer. So excited to see everyone on stage tonight.
14.03.2025 08:39 — 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
New Arcana proofs from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social are here ✨️🔮✨️
Can we get a vibe check on my epigraphs
This looks interesting - a name from my school days, Martín Ó Direáin. I learned about him as a poet but Spring Seaweed includes his essays. Translated by Micheál Ó hAodh, who seems to be at the heart of many efforts to ignite interest in Irish language authors.
www.mercierpress.ie/books/spring...
Wonderful workshop at celbridge public library yesterday. I made these two St. brigid’s crosses
30.01.2025 11:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
