Elaine Feeney

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I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25

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Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
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Photo of the book "Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way" by Elaine Feeney, balancing on the corner of a wooden table. In white text over the image reads: "History is never truly in the past: Interviewing Elaine Feeney, author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way."

New on The Bibliophile: An interview with Elaine Feeney on her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY. Publishing next Tuesday, Oct 7!

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"In Ireland, history has a habit of lingering at the kitchen table, and for the O’Connors that’s definitely true."

This week's @librariesni.bsky.social Bookcited! podcast features @elainefeeney.bsky.social Feeney!
Elaine talks about her home turf, Athenry, and how to bring stories to life in her own way.
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'I wrote plays and stories as a child and performed them for any willing audience ... It was usually just my siblings, but it set something on fire in me.' Elaine Feeney by Steve Pyke 📸

We are delighted to have Elaine Feeney - writer, poet, Galway queen - included in Scribendi.

Thanks ♥️

🚨 First of the New Arcana launches kicking off tomorrow in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway with the marvellous @elainefeeney.bsky.social🚨

Come join us for poems & chats & 🍷

@Bloodaxe

Beautiful reading — thanks Maggie x

Aw great — will try 🫶

Would love to listen back, but not sure I have access in ROI?

Thrilled to make this list!

Thanks to all the wonderful indie booksellers who voted ♥️🐎

Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way is out in North America in October with @biblioasis.bsky.social

Congrats to LPG members whose books have been selected for The Booksellers’ List, celebrating the top 20 books of the season as voted on by indie booksellers across Canada via @indiebookstores.ca!

Find the full list here: IndieBookstores.ca

‘Allow you to read from it’

This is bonkers!

This is wild!

I’ll pull a card for them

Hello new followers, I am a poet and this is my new collection coming September 2025 from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Solidarity with Galway legend @sarahmaintains.bsky.social joining the huge flotilla hoping to break the Siege of Gaza

The planned, murderous annihilation of the Palestinian people for decades is a genocide

Humanitarian aid must get in, governments need to act NOW

#FromEveryRiverToEverySea

Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Irish poet Sarah Clancy, is due to leave from Barcelona today to try to "break the illegal s...

Anyone who knows Galway poet @sarahmaintains.bsky.social knows that in her day job, writing and life. An activist to the bone; advocating for those in Direct Provision, LGBTQI rights, & against racism & fascism, She joins Greta Thunberg today on globalsumudflotilla.org

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Mariam Dagga, a journalist killed yesterday by the IDF left behind two sets of instructions: that her colleagues not cry at her funeral, and asked her 11-year-old son to make her proud.
Murdering journalists. Bombing hospitals. Causing a manmade famine. Slaughtering children. This horror has to end.

'I am a hardware shop of rope and paint and hinges'

- by Elaine Feeney

#poetry
#poemoftheday

We’re can’t wait to hear from these featured authors at the Vancouver Writers Fest, October 20–26!

Visit our website to browse the full lineup now. Event details for #VWF2025 will be revealed to VWF Members this week!

cover of Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by the brilliant Elaine Feeney ready by the pool loved it

wasn’t ready for the emotional punch of this, just beautiful by the brilliant @elainefeeney.bsky.social

Thanks — am glad it resonated ♥️

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

NEW WRITERS PRIZE 2025 - Nero Book Awards The Nero New Writers Prize in association with Brunel University of London seeks to uncover the best and brightest untapped writing talent and support them as they develop into the [...]

Delighted to share that the Nero New Writers Prize in assoc. with Brunel Uni is now OPEN for entries from unpublished writers in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children's Fiction. For full details visit nerobookawards.com/new-writers-... Good luck!

Thanks you for attending Rob! And all the very best with your short story writing

Thank you ♥️💚

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

‘I loved every day I worked with Seán and will miss him’: tributes paid to beloved RTÉ presenter Seán Rocks
Donal Ryan, Elaine Feeney, Sinéad Gleeson and more pay tribute to the Arena broadcaster and presenter
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The true horror of Ireland's machine of misogyny must never be forgotten | Elaine Feeney The landmark mother and baby home report underlines why we need to grapple with our country’s dark past, says poet and novelist Elaine Feeney

As excavation begins at the Tuam Site, thinking of all those affected directly and indirectly

Resharing this article I wrote some time ago

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The Institutions’ past and resources on teaching it is now also included on the National Curriculum