@lorrainehaigney.bsky.social @lorrainehaigney.bsky.social 
@mattmattewofficial.bsky.social @mattmattewofficial.bsky.social 
Adam Hanna @adamhanna.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature at University College Cork
John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social Poetry: New Irish Writing, Live Encounters, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrid Review, Flare, The High Window, Poem Alone, Poems for Protest, Smashing Times, StepAway Magazine.
Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Albedo One.
Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social Author of The Casualties, China's Forgotten People, et al. Shortlisted for Novel Prize. Rep'd by Pew Literary https://www.the-tls.com/authors/nick-holdstock www.nickholdstock.com Porcupine, a novel, out in December. Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az
Rush Festival of Writing @rushfestofwriting.bsky.social A new literary festival by the sea in North County Dublin. The inaugural edition took place on April 25th 2026. www.rushfestivalofwriting.com
nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social don't dream it's over • 🇨🇦🇮🇪 mamaí (she/they) • Writer. Photographer. Settler. Kjipuktuk | SSHRC CGRS M Winner • MFA Creative Writing (2026) • MA Photojournalism & Doc Photography (2021) | ✨noli timere✨ b.322ppm linktr.ee/nancyforde
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social Writer of reflective essays on memory, music, and place. Attempting to live slower in the middle of the chaos. Irish living in West Yorkshire.
https://storiessongsseasons.substack.com
Lindsay J Sedgwick @lindsayjsedgwick.bsky.social Author. Screenwriter.
Paddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social PhD in food consumption and self-starvation in 20th-21st century Irish fiction at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies 🥔
Eoghan @eoghantpoe.bsky.social Journalist, production @ Irish Examiner, Irish music and podcast stuff @ The Point of Everything
TPOE podcast/newsletter: https://linktr.ee/thepointofeverything
Examiner arts/culture: https://linktr.ee/oseoghan
Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social I was that @theirishfor guy on Twitter.
"Calling 353" on @thejournal.ie
Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him. Wink in bio 😉
@sor456.bsky.social @sor456.bsky.social 
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
https://carolineclark.carrd.co/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
@colm-keegan.bsky.social @colm-keegan.bsky.social 
Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
@gibbakebba.bsky.social @gibbakebba.bsky.social Proverbs 11:25 — when we give, even a little, God makes sure we’re taken care of too. Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
and He will reward them for what they have done. Proverbs 19:17
@Cross_theIine @cross-theline.bsky.social The Human race has a serious Control Freak problem
@Cross_theline and YOU are going to resolve that
I support the Iranian people 🇮🇷
#EndWar #EndTyranny #Cross_theline
Maria Dylan @mariadylan50.bsky.social 
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at UCC. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Writing about Irishmen, education, and empire.
@jackstevenson95.bsky.social @jackstevenson95.bsky.social 
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓪 @villenuv27.bsky.social I am against war and violence. Real security comes from diplomacy, understanding and cooperation.
Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com Media Engineering x Experimental Music.
https://linktr.ee/stephenroddy
Mariah Whelan @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social Poet, Teacher & Editor at @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
@faoileanngrinmhar.bsky.social @faoileanngrinmhar.bsky.social Gaelic-socialist, lover of visual puns.Genuine boat/marine/water obsessive.Raised by spaniels from Cork......My views are (unfortunately) all my own
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 / gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Brigitte de Valk @brigittedevalk.bsky.social Winner of the Cúirt New Writing Prize (adjudicated by Claire-Louise Bennett) & the Royal Holloway Art Writing Competition.
brigittedevalk.com
Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social Lecturer in English at UCC, teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature and Crime Fiction. Mama to Dylan. Arsenal fan.
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Haru Seldon @haruseldon.bsky.social 
Cllr Honore Kamegni, Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social Former Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork, Green Party Councillor for Cork City South East, and formerly the postman in Douglas and Rochestown for 14 years.
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Cork Greens @corkgreens.bsky.social Cork Greens, the Cork City & County branch of the Green Party/An Comhaontas Glas
Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social Lecturer in Modernism, University College Cork
(she/ they)
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc- M Maitiú Ó Caiside @maiticaiside.bsky.social https://substack.com/@maiticaiside
Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social This Interim Time out with Lilliput Press May '25. Assoc Prof at Maynooth University. 
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Anita Goveas @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, cat convert, spoonie
links to stories at
https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/
Flash collection at Reflex Press
https://www.reflex.press/product/families-and-other-natural-disasters/