Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social Lawyer/Poet. Poems appear or are forthcoming in EPOCH, Washington Square Review, Indiana Review, New Letters, Shenandoah, Southeast Review, and elsewhere.
Chicago Reader Union @chicagoreaderunion.bsky.social Official editorial union of the Chicago Reader, organizing with @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social. Established 2015.
The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ all views my own except those im paid to express by the global jewish conspiracy, obvz
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor.
“Still bringin’ satin for them draws, velvet for the mic and got a pound for the cause.”
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn @bullseye.maximumfun.org A public radio show about what's good, from @npr.org and @maximumfun.org
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social Correspondent at @NPR covering tech. Now focusing on prediction markets.
Signal: ballyn.77
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
Sara Benincasa @sarajbenincasa.bsky.social Author, TV/film writer, actor. Writing about our tallest president.
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Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social Author of Idiopathy, Perfidious Albion, and Come Join Our Disease
Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social reading books, writing books, defending books
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Ryan Vine @ryanvine.bsky.social poet | prof | deep north | books: The Cave (Best Poetry Books of 2025, California Review of Books), To Keep Him Hidden (Northeastern Minnesota Book Award), WARD & Distant Engines (Weldon Kees Award) | poems: APR, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, NPR ...
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social Cartoonist & author
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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social Small Harbor Publishing is a non-profit organization that houses a press and online magazine. Our goal is to address gender parity and marginalization in publishing. We are committed to giving diverse voices a home.
Mark O’Brien @obrienpmark.bsky.social Executive / Co-Director of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre. Like a bit of Theatre, Music, Books, Film, TV, Football, Hurling, Man Utd and a bit of whatever you’re having yourself.
All views my own… I think.
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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Eoghan @eoghantpoe.bsky.social Journalist, production @ Irish Examiner, Irish music and podcast stuff @ The Point of Everything
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Examiner arts/culture: https://linktr.ee/oseoghan
Dylan Brennan @dylanbrennan.bsky.social Poet, teacher | Ireland/Mexico | Let the Dead available from Banshee Press.
The Irish For @theirishfor.bsky.social Smithereens of the Irish language, curated for your pleasure by Darach. 
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social Author of award-winning bestseller An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. Over 17 years rewilding our 73-acre farm on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork. In love with Earth's biosphere.
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social Campaigning for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people. R/T does not equal endorsement
Film In Dublin @filmindublin.bsky.social The fair city of film and beyond.
News. Reviews. Pretty Deadly Films.
www.filmindublin.ie
Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc). Was a Booker judge in 2025.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social Professor in Popular Literature with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & the work of Shirley Jackson. Views own.
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/
Elaine Farrell @elainefarrell.bsky.social Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. 19th-century Irish social history, gender, crime, gossip and secrets. #BadBridget co-lead with Leanne McCormick @badbridgetbook 
Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en& 
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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social BAIS is the national network for those with an interest in the study of Ireland. Posts by our comms team and council members.
https://irishstudies.co.uk/
Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
@brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social Historian, podcaster 'Dirty War in Dublin' & 'Brothers in Pain'; it is possible to disagree in good faith, but let's be honest we won't do it.
Dr Alison Garden @notsecretgarden.bsky.social Writing about love & politics at Queen's University Belfast 💘 | Writing in UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | PI on 'Acts_of_Union' | All views personal.
Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social Historian at TCD, interested in Ireland and Empire, Public History, and lots of other things. Co-lead for Trinity's Colonial Legacies. 
New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social An author-interview #podcast channel in the NewBooksNetwork
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Margaret Ward @marg50.bsky.social Feminist historian. Latest book ‘Rebel Women: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim 1914-1924’ - contact publishers info@beyondthepalebooks.com.
Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com Dublin's independent local newspaper, since 2015. Reader-funded through subscriptions. Wednesdays and Fridays online, monthly in print.
RTÉ Documentary on One @rtedoconone.bsky.social Multi Award Winning Audio Doc & Podcast unit
RTE Radio 1 Winner of 400+ awards.
Latest series:
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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
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social "Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
Irish Literary Society @irishlitsoc.bsky.social Established in London in 1892 and meeting since. Founders: Yeats and other leaders of the Literary Revival. Open to all, come along. Tá fáilte roimh chách!
Film Ireland @filmireland.bsky.social Your one stop resource for cinema on the island of Ireland.
FilmIreland.net
School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec @canadianirish.bsky.social Learn about contemporary world issues through the lens of Ireland & the Irish in this multidisciplinary program in Montréal. Major, minor, double-major, certificate & graduate programs offered with unique funding opportunities & research in Ireland.
Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social Boston College Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books. Irish studies, Jesuitica, British Catholic authors, Boston history, and more
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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social Ireland's leading independent publisher, founded in 1984. Proudly supported by The Arts Council. Our Stoneybatter bookshop is open 9.30am-5pm on weekdays.
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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social The Irish Studies program at Boston College offers a richly interdisciplinary study of Irish and Irish-American culture, history, and society.
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/morrissey/sites/irish.html
Hodges Figgis Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social Ireland's oldest bookstore, established 1768.
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Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social 📝 Worldwide creative writing comp
📝 Over £20K prize pot
📝 Alumni inc Kate Atkinson
📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal
📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre
The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize.
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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social Archives The Women's Library Hall-Carpenter Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social
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Eve Patten @evepatt.bsky.social Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social Writer, galoot, sunscreen aficionado
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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social Most recent books: IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, PAPER CROWN: Poems
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social Writer. Featured in Rolling Stone, WIRED, NBC News and elsewhere. I write about politics, tech and society.
Words: madness.ghost.io
Video: youtube.com/@readmadness
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for retrovirology (Pitt 2026). Preorder here: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822968351/
Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social Rhetoric prof, social movement scholar & author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social
https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights.
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com Author, dad, professor, doodler, loafer
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April Gibson @aprilgibson.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Professor.
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