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LAUNCH DAY - come celebrate Ireland's hellmouth! #NellOnEarth #WorldBookDay @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to debut writer Gethan Dick! If you haven't picked up #WaterInTheDesertFireInTheNight this is your sign – it is *riveting* (and prize-winning!)

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Unsettle Down: 8 Creepy Post-Apocalyptic Novels The post-apocalyptic novels are downright unsettling.

Every now and then #LastOnesLeftAlive pops up on a reading list and it makes me so happy, especially when it's in company like this over at @bookriot.bsky.social bookriot.com/creepy-post-...

Gethan Dick is shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award for her debut novel Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night. It's funny and hopeful, check it out!

Scifi/fantasy: Dave Rudden’s Sister Wake a politically charged epic that draws on Irish history Plus Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R Weaver, The Killing Time by Elly Griffiths, and more

'The fantasy elements are terrific ... but Rudden is also excellent at peeling back layers of history to excavate the human cost of colonisation'
How about this Irish Times rave for #SisterWake!
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Revealed: Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv

Takes the @theguardian.com to report that Ireland twice facilitated extraordinary rendition of Palestinians in the past two weeks.

And prominent commentators in Ireland have the gall to ask why we wouldn't trust our Govnt if the Triple Lock was removed?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Literary hunk @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social is on @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social right now talking about his cultural faves and I LOVE it #SisterWake

Éire to Everywhere: Stories Without Borders with Gethan Dick - EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin | Official Site An Evening with Gethan Dick: Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night Join debut novelist Gethan Dick at EPIC for an evening of conversation, creativity, and storytelling as part of our Éire to Everywhe...

Take a break from watching the world ending and come listen to the brilliant Gethan Dick at EPIC! 5:30 this evening epicchq.com/event/eire-t... @tramppress.bsky.social #WITDFITN

Did you make yourself a little resolution to get out more this year? How about coming down to Grafton St and supporting a local artist, writer @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social today - it’s free, there may be wine, and everybody is really welcome #SisterWake

This book is utterly amazing, and genuinely original.

This was a lovely chat with the fantastic @eithneshortall.bsky.social about all things SISTER WAKE, Sam, and a dinner party argument about why, no, colonialism was not a 'mixed bag...'

Dave Rudden: ‘If stuck for a villainous phrase, I’d look up a thing said by someone from the British Empire’ If there was ever a time to attempt a sprawling fantasy novel featuring 200-foot gods and an intricately developed, alternate version of Ireland’s colonial history, then the pandemic – and accompanyin...

'Books and Sam' – extremely proud of @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social whose STUNNING Irish fantasy is out on Thursday #SisterWake www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery.

www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...

This year the British establishment covered up this new #Banksy.

Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! RT!

‘The feeling came back, the one I had been successfully avoiding for so long: shame’ Christmas Number One, a short story from the award-winning Greek-Irish author Soula Emmanuel

Proud and delighted to see Soula Emmanuel's brilliant story 'Christmas Number One' in the Irish Times today www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

David Walliams dropped by publisher over alleged inappropriate behaviour Successful children’s author denies allegations after he was reportedly accused of harassing junior female staff

Great now do an Irish literary creep we all know about

Some savvy broadcaster out there should do counterprogramming about the actual state of feminism, what is working, what needs improvement, with a diverse panel of smart women. It would be awesome. Anyway. I’m around.

A grey cat with text: “Our beloved Ernie is missing. Richmond road/clonliffe road. Reward if found, call 0892533727 Please share”

#speirgorm if you are in the Clonliffe Road area please keep an eye out for our lovely former foster boy Ernie

This looks amazing

Low sex drive, brain fog, exhaustion: Is testosterone the quick fix for women in midlife? It is being widely touted anecdotally as a solution to everything, but experts are wary of prescribing as a quick fix

'Davis’s team has documented the decline in women’s quality of life at mid-age. Despite a huge amount of cultural discourse focusing on the so-called male loneliness epidemic, the documented mental health struggles of middle-aged women remain unacknowledged.' www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

Read an extract from short story anthology ‘An Alternative Irish Christmas’ | IMAGE.ie A collection that celebrates the darker season with the best and most exciting Irish writers, we’re sharing Sue Rainsford’s Feast of Sparrows.

Read an extract from @suerains.bsky.social's extraordinary story in #AnAlternativeIrishChristmas right here: www.image.ie/living/read-...

FULL SET Independent publisher of non-fiction books in all formats (print, ebook, audiobook). Business and current affairs. First list in 2026. Irish based publisher of global authors.

Irish & UK Non-Fiction Writers & fans - there's a new indie publisher in town! #FULLSET has just launched. Run by Blathnaid Healy & Eoin Purcell - two hugely experienced (& lovely) people. You can follow them on Insta here www.instagram.com/fullsetbooks/ & check out their info here fullsetbooks.com

You see anyone acting the fuckin' fool on this matter - give 'em the facts and nothing else.

Trans rights are human rights, no matter how hard these people try to create spectacle, confusion and distraction.

#speirghorm #ireland #transrights

OUR NEXT BOOK with incredibly talented Juliano Zaffino – coming out in April @tramppress.bsky.social
Jacket design by @feekra.bsky.social