@eleanorfitzsimons
Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
It’s never too late to start writing.
The Never Too Late Award celebrates writers aged 60+ and offers £500 to the highest-placed entrant in our poetry, short story, flash fiction or novel categories.
You don’t need to apply separately — simply tick the box when entering.
www.bridportprize.org.uk
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The incessant chatter at gigs these days is infuriating! I want to tell them to just go to a party if that’s where they want to be and save the (exorbitant) price of the tickets!
Join us to mark #IWD2026 with tours, talks, screenings & exhibitions celebrating women’s stories, creativity & impact across Irish history.
Explore Ireland’s cultural heritage through women’s experiences on Sun 8 March. #SpeirGorm #HerStory
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/I...
Books published by the Royal Irish Academy
Celebrate World Book Day with us on 5 March! Use the code WorldBookDay to get 20% off any current titles on our website. The code can be used on any books ordered from shop.ria.ie until Sunday, 8 March.
The 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist💚
Which book will you be reading first?
#WomensPrizeforFiction
I dust my house. My AI robot watches.
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
The legends are back! 🤩✨
From the sharp wit of #OscarWilde to the timeless grace of Audrey, Elizabeth and Marilyn 🎞️💎
These four definitive Sheridan Morley biographies are officially back in print! Which icon is joining your bookshelf first?
#publicationday #SheridanMorley
Historic Irish newsreels digitised and made available for free online
Free Director's Tour of the National Library of Ireland
📅 Thurs, 19 March at 6pm:
https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/directors-tour-national-library-ireland-10
Explore the National Library of Ireland with Director Dr Audrey Whitty.
🏛️ Meet in the Front Hall of NLI, 7/8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Prince Literary Agency logo, a moon emanating light and stars on a lilac background
New literary agency near Belfast, now open for submissions:
www.instagram.com/princelitera...
Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
Front cover of Melissa's book
Pre-order a SIGNED copy of "Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My 90s Rock Memoir" by Melissa Auf der Maur.
Hole's former bassist shares her incredible story.
Billy Corgan, Courtney Love, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe and more.
Order HERE
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Thanks! I actually followed the link & saw that you have European postage & placed my order for 2 copies. Gifts for my husband & son. Delighted!!
Is there any chance you post to Ireland? If yes I’ll buy 2 copies (+ postage).
Should you wish to become a 1950s reporter and/or fight crime, we have these essential flip notebooks
book cover on white background with black text and blue box
@childrensbooksireland.ie has joined with The O’Brien Press to give the opportunity for a young reader’s artwork to be featured on the cover of a book!
Visit our website and find out how Alan Nolan’s exciting adventure ‘Conor’s Caveman’ can be reimagined!
@alnolan.bsky.social
Did you know that 93% of adults in Ireland engage in some form of reading regularly? But many people want to read more, and #IrelandReads is the perfect opportunity to pick up a good book. There will be events in libraries across the country, so #dropin and see what's on near you
#spéirgorm
🚴♀️ Over 55 and ready to ride?
Join our FREE 8‑week Sofa to Saddle cycling course! Build confidence, refresh skills & enjoy the outdoors.
📅 Starts 23 March, 10:30am
📍 Red Stables, St. Anne’s, Raheny
👉 Registration essential – sign up today!
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Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. A blue sky day. In the foreground a blue rowing boat, paint peeling, sits on a mound of lime grass. A few metres behind, running horizontally across the painting, is a stream, or narrow inlet, half full of orange seaweed with dark rocks protruding. Along its far side is a line of rocks, black and brown where they meet the seaweed and pale grey on top. Above the bank is a large area of gorse, a dense dark green bush with small yellow blossoms. The gorse reaches over half way across from the left edge. Back a few more metres in the centre of the painting is a small outbuilding in a warm grey with a blue corrugated roof and two very small dark windows. Rocky hills stretch behind it with a house behind a small orange hill on the left, and back some distance behind dry-stone walls and ruins is a larger house further back on the right also nestled behind a mound. Both houses have dark trees immediately behind them. Larger rocky brown and green hills are behind them, and behind again is the bottom of a large mountain of sage green which slopes down from the top left corner then flattens out as it goes behind the far house on the right. At the back across the painting is a line of pale blue rocky mountains with jagged peaks. Signed bottom left in red, Liam Daly
Time for a west of Ireland #painting. "Connemara Boat" was painted a couple of years back. It came out of a day I'd been cycling around north Connemara thinking how ridiculous everything was, having been arranged for me to paint by whatever forces it is that arranges such things. #art #SpeirGhorm
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Exciting news. I’m heading across the pond for some book events. Check out these fantastic #FewAndFarBetween events in Scotland and England. All welcome.
(Nb will not be appearing at EIBF every night, thought I’m not, in essence, opposed to this idea. Just waiting to confirm the date)
Presenting the longlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.
Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026
Fossilized Goniatite shell, with it's internal flotation chambers, and their divisions, clearly displayed.
When alive these gas filled chambers enabled them to move up and down in the water column using similar physics to the submarines we have today.
County Clare, Ireland.
May Morris’s work is exquisite!
Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes.
Link below
Please share :)
A quartet of new books out from @theobrienpress.bsky.social, written/illustrated by Nicola Reddy & @roisinhahessy.bsky.social, Paddy Donnelly, Conor Forrest, @eoinkenobi.bsky.social & @estrelalourenco.bsky.social
Big shout out to Eoin MacRaghnaill from The Wicklow People and @Independent.ie for highlighting our urgent fundraising appeal here at World Bee Sanctuary.
m.independent.ie/regionals/wi...
Link to help us out:
gofund.me/4b0e3149b
🗣️ It's almost the last chance to send in first round entries for the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald - applications close on Monday at 11.59pm.
Apply at rhagallery.ie/rha-annual
#RHAAnnual #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther
