Neil Hegarty

Join us for our festival opening night for a special evening of conversation and culture to celebrate the 100th issue of The Dublin Review in a live broadcast with @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena 🎟️ bit.ly/3KgYZDD

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

I did not believe Israel would reach the point of starving people to death.
I did not believe it would, on average, erase a classroom of children every single day for two whole years.”

- Orly Noy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Books Upstairs is a fine store with a particularly excellent poetry section. Why not support them by ordering your books online instead: booksupstairs.ie

It's true: you were first on the scene with the nooze, Hugo.

Global Sumud Flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann 2 October August 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the abduction of poet Sarah Clancy, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The flotilla was ...

Please read and reshare our statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla. We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann offer solidarity in this time of crisis.

irishpen.com/2025/10/02/g...

Blue light on stone.

A month to go! The deadline for entries to this edition of the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award is 31 October.

Wonderful launch for The Hare's Corner on Friday evening. It was a celebration of the book but more importantly everyone who is looking after Irish nature.
Thanks @newislandbooks.bsky.social @burrenbeotrust.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social Jane Carkill Catherine Cleary

Pizdyets: On the morning after the parliamentary elections in Moldova, I read this brilliant essay by Philip Ó'Ceallaigh in @thedublinreview.bsky.social The Dublin Review 98.

Oscar and his friends today (at Père-Lachaise).

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Fiona O’Rourke is a Pushcart nominated author/Arts Council Ireland funded writer. Her work has been published in journals and anthologies, broadcasted & translated. fionaO.substack.com
 
The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

1. Shout out to @neilhegarty.bsky.social for the kindness of sending me a copy of his debut novel. I do enjoy getting a package from back home. The hospital in the foreground is where my father, a general surgeon trained at Queen's in Belfast, practiced for his career.

Perspective - 'Some wounds have never been allowed to heal': Author Martin Doyle on the Troubles The author of a new book which tells the story of the troubles in Northern Ireland that spanned three decades has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how his aim was to create a microhistory of the period by ho...

Discussing Dirty Linen on France 24 ahead of my evrnt with Neil Hegarty at the @centreculturelirlandais on Thursday as part of my month’s residency. If you’re in Paris , come along www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

Very glad to have first glimpse of my essay 'Beach Trip to Gaza', in the latest issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social.

At the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris.

'Engrossing and supremely witty ... Smith has given us a poignant study of masculinity - and a penetrating portrait of a world under tremendous strain.' - Neil Hegarty, Irish Times

A brill review of INJURY TIME, the latest novel from Kevin Smith 🍷🎉

Emily in Paris.

Congratulations to all 10 brilliant writers on this shortlist. We had an absolute blast reading your work and talking at length about how varied and intriguing your stories are.

Very glad to have judged this year's RTE Short Story Competition, alongside Jan Carson and Tristan Rosenstock: the shortlist is now published. Great writing this year.

The winners are announced on 24 October.

@rteradio1.bsky.social @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social

A room with a view.

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

Only Dublin could treat the provision of public toilets as if they were being asked to land people on Mars.

100 ISSUES OLD TODAY! The new issue of The Dublin Review features work by Nathan O’Donnell, Laura Morris, Tara McEvoy, Molly McCloskey, Conor Dawson, alongside the mighty Colm Tóibín who also appeared in our very first issue 25 years ago. NUMBER 100 is out now in bookshops, or at thedublinreview.com

Arrival in Paris, and settling into a month's writing residency.

Thank you to Centre Culturel Irlandais for this wonderful opportunity.

Country diary: Mussels and salmon in a most fragile harmony | Mary Montague Owenkillew River, County Tyrone: Vital populations of freshwater pearl mussels survive here, cleaning the water, encouraging the return of their ‘host’

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, Mary Montague describes a beautiful freshwater ecosystem at risk from gold mining.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

'Super Trouper' is blazing away today.

Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature In Farthest Seas; Blurred; Cécé; Diablo’s Boys; and Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide reviewed

My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers.

Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza.

Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature

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