MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social I ❤️ satire & sarcasm, not everyone gets it. I'm not a journalist, more of an opinionated commentator. From #NYC, now in #Seattle. I'm into #Art #Travel #Photography, #Activism #Music #Deadhead #Knicks #Seahawks #Samoyed owner. Married. Father. 🇬🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Paul Murray @renebatt.bsky.social Artist, feeder of two cats,walker of my wife’s dogs, love art, poetry, James Joyce, St.Patrick’s Athletic, Leinster Rugby ( why are my teams so far away from where I live???) I live in Sligo, Nth West of Ireland: where W.B.Yeats is buried.
JoBW @jobw.bsky.social Works for the guys in wigs, lover of food, wine and bad singing. Ex-Londoner but far happier as a Dub (when it's not raining). She/her
Sinéad Crowley @sineadcrowley.bsky.social Reader, writer, talker, listener. New novel loading
@entirelygill.bsky.social @entirelygill.bsky.social Short. Weird but nice. OCD person.
A seedling in a derelict shed in an abandoned turnip field.
Church | Equality | Christian Culture | TEA.
Currently following the #spycops inquiry and you should too!
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social Arts journalist. Event moderator. Arena, RTÉ Radio 1. Dublin, Ireland.
Mike Spillane @spillanemike.com Cork
Love cycling, cargo bikes, public transport, beer, pizza, bread, cheese
Brendan @brendan69.bsky.social Watching my small plot in Co Armagh rewild itself. Knows less and less about more and more.
Profile pic is me, a lifetime ago. Header is the backup and garden.
Book Nerd @booknerdy.bsky.social Make better choices,dammit.
😀🇨🇦❤️
Read books.
Choose kindness.
Practice empathy.
Did I say read books?
Especially the ones idiots ban. Read those twice.
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
ardyth @natrazny.bsky.social 🇨🇦 mother, feminist, partner, mother of feminists, teacher, SWer, quasi philosopher, educator, and politically invested, oh, and cooking enthusiast
🚫NO DM’s
The Card @thecard.bsky.social Creator of depressing comics. Liver of a depressing life. Writer of depressing bios.
https://ko-fi.com/thecard
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 😉
Harriet Lane @harrietlane.bsky.social Author of ALYS, ALWAYS; HER; and OTHER PEOPLE’S FUN (W&N/Little, Brown, 2025)
Amy Bond @amylouisebond.bsky.social Librarian and writer
Alice Slater @aliceslater.bsky.social damn girl that looks yummy as fuck. what’s your email address?
Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social
Dav @davidmcgurrin.ie
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social In 2025 my ex-publishers Unbound imploded, taking many many £1000s of my earnings, for seven (yes, seven) books, into hell with them. I am here primarily as an attempt to recover from that disaster. if you buy/read/recommend one of my books, it helps.
Saoirse de Paor @saoirsedepaor.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Librarian at Maynooth University Library | LAI, Social Media Officer | Tá Gaeilge agam | #freepalestine 🇵🇸
Laura Purcell @spookypurcell.bsky.social Writer of Gothic fiction, mother of guinea pigs. The horrors persist but so do I.
Jo @awedandflawed.bsky.social compulsive/procrastinator, bleeding heart would-be...
Fan of sea/sky pictures and crappy arting and crafting
Ambrose Parry @ambroseparry.bsky.social Wife and husband writing team of Dr Marisa Haetzman and
@brookmyre.bsky.social. Authors of The Way of All Flesh, The Art of Dying, A Corruption of Blood and Voices of the Dead. It's probably Marisa posting.
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social Actor, comedian and entire Indie Band.
Derry Girls, No Worries If Not!, Lunchtime with Michael Fry
https://linktr.ee/bigdirtyfry
Wendy @londonesque.bsky.social Chronic illness, moderate nerdiness, mostly here to look at your pets. londonesque_ at the Other Place.
Tim Kinsey @tekinsey.uk Mystery Writer. Dreadful Drummer. Proudly responsible for the Lady Hardcastle series.
https://www.tekinsey.uk
Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese
PhD student of Scottish mountaineering history and culture.
He/Him
https://medium.com/@GreedyRunner
Julia Dahl @juliadahl.bsky.social Novelist, NYU journalism prof, boy mom, knifemaker’s wife. Born in Fresno, now the Hudson Valley.
www.juliadahl.com
Jen Schnabel @jschnabel23.bsky.social Crime fiction scholar, English librarian @ Ohio State, meatball maker. Philly grown.
Jessica Fletcher fan.
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
PhD candidate: Barbara Hepworth,
Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
Agent: Laetitia Rutherford at WatsonLittle.
Niecy O’Keeffe @niecyokeeffe.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Short-listed for Sean O’ Faoláin Short Fiction Prize, Cúirt New Writer of the Year, long-listed for Fish Publishing Prize. Bit sweary. @niecyokeeffe on twitter.
Http://niecyokeeffeonline.wordpress.com
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social Half man, half-wit.
Dublin, Ireland.
I have a book.
https://linktr.ee/richycraven
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Seána @grantsana.bsky.social Interested in law, human rights, healthcare policy, shiny things, millinery and the occasional crown.
@foreheadfilms.bsky.social @foreheadfilms.bsky.social
Adam Clarke @taribear.bsky.social Oh God oh geez.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social Author. Series Editor Open Door books. Half Dub half culchie. Loves Wickla and country life. Hates book snobbery. Also on @patriciascanlanauthor@mastodon.ie
Sasha Mullally @sashamlly.bsky.social History Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of New Brunswick. Specializing in the social history of medicine, spatial humanities. Love to garden. 🪴🌸🌳 Striving to be a good scholar, mentor, friend out here under the blue skies.
Mind @mind.org.uk Fighting for mental health – for support, for respect, for you ✊
Helen O’Rahilly @helenorahillytv.bsky.social Former telly executive in BBC & RTÉ. Live central Dublin after 30 years London. Politics, books, gardens, art, cats, travel, poetry. Friendly & approachable unless riled. No bots/trolls/MAGAs/Fascists/Anti-Vaxx please.
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social Sleep Researcher and Professor. Views very much my own.
Crowland’s Silver Jubilee Committee-fancier.
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Adrian Kirwan @adriankirwan.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar, exploring the intersection of Science, Technology and Society, including AI in Education. Teaches Critical Skills, Maynooth University.
Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social I write comedy and kid's stuff & also do various workshops with people of all ages.
Galaxy Fest, Storytime Takeover, Ranger Rae, The Skewer, News Quiz, Now Show & more
2024 - 2027 Arts Council Ireland YPCE Bursary
https://www.aidanfitzmaurice.com/
ffion @sisterapple.bsky.social 26, permanently going insane over evil women
Eli McCann @elimccann.bsky.social New dad. Lawyer/Writer/America’s Grandma. Humor columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune. Creator of the Strangerville podcast. Humor essays here: https://linktr.ee/Elimccann
Nicholas Booth @nicholasbx.bsky.social
Twonks @twonks.bsky.social Cartoons and comics by Steve Nelson.
Manager: michael.krell@sixteenth.com
https://linktr.ee/twonkscomics
Mona R @fairymr.bsky.social Avid crime fic reader/resesrcher, researcher in American Studies, Critical theory, Literary Studies. Currently obsessed with archives, bodies, and the US justice system. Based in 🇩🇪
🍺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/
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
wendyvision @wendyvision.bsky.social Join a union
Lou @louwalsh.bsky.social She/her
Viriconia @viriconia.bsky.social Navangelist
⭐️Star⭐️ @starcurl.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️Darkly inclined. An anomaly. She/Her. Woke AF. Always show me your pet photos. 🏳️⚧️
Cover photo http://sarahelsapinon.com
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.
Ellen McCarthy @emccarthywriter.bsky.social Waterford writer of crime books and short stories. Pushcart Nominee.
MA in #CreativeWriting from the University of Limerick.
A Philobiblist, Librocubicularist, Dissectologist, running on coffee.
Franca Leitner @francaleitner.bsky.social PhD candidate in Irish Studies, Uni Mannheim, working on Precarious Spaces. Likes (crime) fiction, tea, and hand lotion. (she/her)
Scousegrrl @scousegrrl.bsky.social Lisa. I'm Scousegrrl on twitter and various other social media sites.
Siobhán M @nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social A Social Media addict and here I am on another app where will it all end?
Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social Literature academic type| she/her | Likes crimes (fictional) and dogs (real) | Unprofessional capacity
Dr Sean Travers @seanjetravers.bsky.social PhD in Trauma, Popular Culture and Postmodernism. Published with Palgrave Macmillan. Illustrator. Horror, movies, TV, games, cats. #mutantfam she/her
Dr Liz Savage @drlizsavage.bsky.social PhD in Dickensian robots & the uncanny | Dog mom | Ghostly & Stagey Special Collections Assistant @theul.bsky.social | Fledgling archivist | Avid crafter | Horror lover | Sondheim worshipper | 🏳️🌈 She/They | Views mine
linktr.ee/drlizsavage
Aaron Grant @aarongrantdj.bsky.social DJ, biology grad, mini painter, Celtic 🍀
Co founder and resident for Club Domhanda
https://linktr.ee/aarongrantdj
Richard @frontastic.bsky.social Tired, so very tired. Office drone. Highly infrequent (like functionally non-existent at this stage) word writer/podcast host-er/be-er on-er. (He/him) 🏳️🌈
Adam Devine He/Him @admdvn.bsky.social Co-Chair of Óige Ghlas
Drogheda born and bred 💜💙
Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social Biologist working in science communication (research: community involvement; practice: art-science and podcasts). Big fan of The X-Files and Star Trek.
#QueerinSTEM (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work: shaunoboyle.org
X-Files Podcast: heydannyitsmulder.com
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social Law lecturer. Political theory, constitutions, republicanism, France. Dad of two. An 'autism parent'. Interested in athletics, politics, wine.
Debbie M @heavenstobetsie.bsky.social Scottish. Ace. Green.
Wittering on about: European song contests; Heated Rivalry; Drag Race; Strictly; Doctor Who; Italian pop; history; classic films; mental health; Scottish/Green/UK/International politics; other stuff
She/Her
Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social Intersectional feminist and neuroaffirmative researcher & educator | Media Studies & Education | MU | Neurospicy Nerd | She/Her | Views are your ma's.
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long eighteenth century | Gothicist | Game Studies | she/her
Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
Molly Hennigan @mollyh.bsky.social Writer | The Celestial Realm
Writer in Residence University of Galway
Banshee nonfiction editor
Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social 'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently subbing agents w/ a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him 🇮🇪 linktr.ee/bobjohnstonbooks
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Leathbhádóirí @leathbhadoiri.bsky.social Baidín fheimineach
Baidín fhrith-faisisteach
Baidín radacach
Baidín Leathbhádóirí
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Marie Duffy @donegalabu.bsky.social Creeslough and Donegal woman, Mental health advocate, Arsenal fan, reader, writer and lover of notebooks.
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social 🇿🇦 PhD in contemporary literature • utopianism, critical theory, sff, decolonisation, queer revolution • she/her 🏳️🌈🍉
James McShane @jamesmcshane.bsky.social Wannabe Writer from Dublin, Ireland. Lover of books, movies, all things pop culture, a bit of politics, equality in all things, Manchester United (for my sins), and, of course, my beautiful wife.
Kidney transplant recipient, July 2023.
B coma @markdelafuente.bsky.social Recordist in Los Angeles for animation, videogames and more || he/him
Mel Farrell @melfarrell.bsky.social Historian, mostly of Ireland,1912-37. New book, 'Vying for Victory', on the 1923 election, co-edited with Elaine Callinan & Thomas Tormey https://tinyurl.com/4jtm4ndb . Also a big Villa fan & music lover. Any views, are my own.
Adrian Hermann @anitchang.bsky.social Professor Univ. of Bonn. Director at FIW 🏛🌎🎓 and Study of Religion (he/him). Religion/cultural studies/documentary film/Southeast Asia/TTRPGs.
Kieran @321kieran.bsky.social ✨✨Specialist Music Broadcaster of the Year with RadioNova // 🎸Songwriter & Singing with Driven Snow & Delorentos // 🎙️Joy with Music Generation //⚽️ Amateur footballer // terrible at accents
Myles na gCup O'Lean. @executivesteve.bsky.social A meteorite of desire, plummeting through the Irish zeitgeist. Broadcaster. DJ. Badman from early. Big shot on the East Coast. He/Him.
Rebecca Mills (PhD) @drmllz.bsky.social Literary geography, crime fiction, literature and medicine, comedy of complicated life choices. Surviving the c-words. 🏳️🌈🇫🇮🇬🇧🇪🇺 Lecturer but views own. Loves all the cats except one. Formerly doombiscuits. Masked-up af.
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.