Eamonn Duffin

We’ll be announcing contributors for our upcoming Issue 5 (Winter/Spring 2026) in just a few days. It’s due out 7th December, with lots of original work and amazing voices for our readers.

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I fucking love that tune. Insane drums. RIP Ozzy

Censoring art backfires. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! #Glastonbury #kneecap #bobvylan

YouTube video by Stoked BATMAN / JUDGE DREDD | And You Thought Batman Was a Fascist?!

#comicbooks fans, I've got a new video out! Taking a look at the four #Batman and Judge Dredd crossover comics. Reposts appreciated!

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Good to see this is all over the BBC news.
Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

JFK
with @4hundredblows.bsky.social
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Submissions are already rolling in!

Here’s a quick breakdown of our categories and word limits (minus the typo in our last post, whoops)

Spotlight on Issue 3 contributor @eamonnduffin.bsky.social Full issue from our stockists & online www.the4facedliar.com/shop @writing.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social

Delighted to have my story, ‘Too Late for the Alliums’ in the 2025 Blackbird, new writing from ⁦‪@HeaneyCentre‬⁩ along with some wonderful writers. Get yourselves a copy #reading #irishbooks #books

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If nothing else, at least we will have Space Force.

Paul Lambert: ‘Zinedine Zidane just looked at me and said “bloody hell”’ Broke and out of contract at Motherwell, the Scot took a risk in seeking a trial at Dortmund only to become an European Cup winner within 12 months, as he tells Michael Butler

What a great story. Paul was a great player.
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Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality

I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.

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On Joe Rogan’s podcast — where male brain cells go to die — he recently decried Facebook’s old fact-checking policies as “like something from 1984”, and railed against his platform’s censorship of covid-19 misinformation. This he did with all the easy patter of someone taking part in a memory test, reciting each buzzy talking point as if it was a mnemonic he’d been taught to remember the names of Henry VIII’s wives. Has there ever been a less convincing agitator for his own interests than Mark Zuckerberg? Even now, dressing in XXXL tees and gold necklaces and hair his small army of stylists and design consultants have decided should make him look exactly like a Bafta, he seems as robotic and mannered as he ever did.

Musk speaks like a man who believes his own insane conspiratorial guff, because he does. For years, we’ve watched as the most malodorous portions of the internet have fully infected his brain and transformed his entire personality. Zuck avoided this fate by not having a personality to begin with. It is difficult to imagine him holding a strong view on anything, for much the same reason it is difficult to imagine him enjoying a poem or a sandwich. It would be like attributing sentiment to a set of venetian blinds. There is simply nothing there.

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It’s a rabbit out of a hat: On magick, fantasy and pretty much everything else, with Alan Moore In October of this year, I spent a balmy evening talking with Alan Moore on the week that he had two — count ’em!— new books on the…

In October, I had a very long chat with Alan Moore. On magick, sci-fi, the perils of ecological doomerism, the joy of occultist pranks, the psychogeography of Stoke Newington, the invention of the taser - and much more!

As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.

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You have to love Alan Moore. What a fabulous interview.

Why are more people not talking about this show? It is magnificent, with two amazing performances by Guy Pearce and Damien Lewis. Cannot recommend enough @ITVX

So bad, hah. This reads like drunken notes on an iPhone you’ve typed in while pissed on the way home from a Christmas do and copied and pasted into a thread on Twitter and forgot about as you were too lit on the bus.

I’m printing this out and rolling a joint with it

Delighted to have my story, Holly, featured in issue 3 of @the4facedliar.bsky.social
Holly tells the story of Christmas for a family trying their best.
Thank you to the wonderful editorial team. Get yourself a copy you hallions. A brilliant Christmas present for the readers in the house.

God bless the 70s record executives on what must have been awesome cocaine for them to green light eclectic, odd and eccentric gems like this.
Mustard (Expanded Edition) open.spotify.com/album/02mA0zHn…

Let Christmas stay special, by keeping it at Christmas… Eamonn Duffin is a local writer based in Belfast. His work has been featured in The Belfast Review and The Honest Ulsterman. A recent piece of analysis in The Guardian informs us that Christmas creep ...

Something I wrote for Slugger O’Toole. A lighthearted piece on Christmas Creep sluggerotoole.com/2024/11/13/l...