Adam Hanna @adamhanna.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature at University College Cork
Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/ @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Cork based non-profit arts organisation promoting Irish and international literature since 1993.
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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
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
Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social As seen/read/heard at: Second Wind | The 250 | Irish Independent | NewsTalk | Q102 | Polygon | The Escapist. He/Him.
NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place, Writing Planet, UCD & iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' exhibition, MoLi 2020-2021 | 📖 Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://papervisualart.com/product/pva-17/
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 Historian, feminist, academic (UCD) - #EYA Ambassador 2024-25 / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social Lecturer in English at UCC, teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature and Crime Fiction. Mama to Dylan. Arsenal fan.
🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social Film correspondent and general blowhard for The Irish Times. Bias so-called 'critic'. You're the tray of nice things I upset yesterday. https://www.irishtimes.com/author/donald-clarke/
Louise @selkies.bsky.social Illustrator & melt of Dublin, now in Brussels.
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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.
Cork Greens @corkgreens.bsky.social Cork Greens, the Cork City & County branch of the Green Party/An Comhaontas Glas
The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social Lecturer in Modernism, University College Cork
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
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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
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
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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/
Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.
Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Writer and so forth
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
Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social Professor of Digital Culture & Cultural Analytics at University College Cork. Researcher, educator, essayist, and small-time publisher. Curmudgeonly Corkonian with malfunctioning heart.
Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social poems, mostly in Irish lit journals | trout and salmon, mostly still in the river | best efforts and tangents, the classroom
Limerick, Ireland
https://www.doirepress.com/books/poetry/in-spring-we-turned-to-water
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Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social Writer
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025)
Nominated for Booker Prize
Lectures: University of Galway
Agent: Peter Straus RCW Lit Agency
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Dr. Hilary Lennon @hilarylennon.bsky.social Literary historian, teacher of literature, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie.
Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
Yiyun Li @appletwigli.bsky.social Fictioneer
Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social Writer. Hold Over Fire (2026) coming soon from Veer2.
Pacemaker (Banshee Press, 2022). Northly (Turas Press, 2019). Writing recently in Magma, DRB, aswirl, Banshee, Gorse.
🇮🇪 living in 🇳🇴.
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social bon vivant
Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social Filmmaker/Writer
ALL ABOUT THE MONEY - SUNDANCE 2026
BlUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY - TIFF 2024
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A MOTHER BRINGS HER SON TO BE SHOT- L Lia MIlls @liamills.bsky.social writer
Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
Marie Gethins @mariegethins.bsky.social Flashy Writer, Workshop Leader, Critiques, Flash Editor Banshee, Co-editor Splonk; Best Microfictions, Best Small Fictions, Hawthornden Fellow
HOWL New Irish Writing @howlwriting.bsky.social New Irish writing from home and abroad | Subs now closed | https://linktr.ee/howlwriting
Molly Hennigan @mollyh.bsky.social Writer | The Celestial Realm
Writer in Residence University of Galway
Banshee nonfiction editor
Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social After Party (Picador, 2025)
Kitchens at Night (Smith|Doorstop, 2022).
https://www.deanbrownepoetry.com
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Susanne Stich @lilysimage.bsky.social Writing in*The Stinging Fly*Winter Papers*Banshee*The Pig’s Back*Ambit*New Irish Writing* and elsewhere - German woman in Ireland - Shortlisted for Bristol Short Story Prize & RTÉ Short Story Prize - More info: www.susannestich.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social Arts Council supported poet. ‘Raised Among Vultures’ & 'Chic to be Sad' published by The Gallery Press. Host of ‘Just to Say’ international poetry event. https://mollytwomey.com/ 💫
Susannah Dickey @susannahdickey.bsky.social does books
Tennis Lessons (2020)
Common Decency (2022)
ISDAL (2023)
Forthcoming: to pieces (2026) 
Cormac Kinsella @cormackinsella.bsky.social Publicity. Posts mainly about books, sometimes food. Eats mainly food ... https://www.instagram.com/cormac.kinsella/
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@edelsemple.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies @ UCC, Ireland • Shakespeare on screen • Women in early modern drama • Shakespearean biofiction • Cat-owner, cake-lover, books, plants • she/her
Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social Often reading - sometimes writing.
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The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
Aingeala Flannery 🇵🇸 @aingealaflannery.bsky.social Writer and broadcaster.
Author of 'The Amusements'.
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Arnold Thomas Fanning @arnoldtfanning.bsky.social Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018).
https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning
Dylan Brennan @dylanbrennan.bsky.social Poet, teacher | Ireland/Mexico | Let the Dead available from Banshee Press.
The Dublin Review @thedublinreview.bsky.social Essays, memoir, reportage, short fiction.
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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social An annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond.
www.winterpapers.com Supported by the Arts Council
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Karen Kilgariff @karenkilgariff.bsky.social TV/VCR Repair
Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social Irish Writer. Art Critic. Author, art/divorce memoir Negative Space; RHA From Ten Till Dusk. Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: RTÉ Culture, Irish Arts Review, Winter Papers. Hybrid texts, collaborations. 20yrs ✍🏻 Sunday Times. https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
Rory Gleeson @rorygleeson.bsky.social Writerfella: Rockadoon Shore | Blood in the Dirt | Psychic
Print, Screen & Audio stylings for BBC, Granta, RTÉ, Dublin Review.
I was on The Chase.
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Bradford Morrow @bradfordmorrow.bsky.social The Forger's Requiem, final novel in Forgers Trilogy, is out this year @groveatlantic.bsky.social.Writer, founder/editor of literary journal @conjunctions.bsky.social. Bibliophile. Lover of cats and birds. Kind to animals. www.bradfordmorrow.com
Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
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Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019 & 2023) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
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