Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social Established 1976. Reviews, news, features on Irish books and writing, database of all upcoming books each month. Podcast #BurningBooks. Editor
Ruth McKee.
Renard Press @renardpress.com 🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press.
renardpress.com
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Lynda La Plante @lyndalaplante.bsky.social Lynda La Plante, CBE. Author of 40+ bestselling books. Creator and screenwriter of over 170 hrs of television, including Prime Suspect & Widows. http://lyndalaplante.com
The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social Classics news, resources & more. A hub for Classics teachers. http://theclassicslibrary.com | http://ow.ly/A70L304v7U9
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social 🌱 IrishAsian Forager & Author
🗣️ Irish Language Creator. Artist.
📚 Writing Books. Writing for Games
⚔️ Game Master. Resident Bisexual. TTRPGer.
Award-Winning Game Dev https://unaminh.itch.io/
Creative Director - PROJECT TOGRA
Writer - Good Folk Café
Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social Illustrator. Cartoonist.
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social An annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond.
www.winterpapers.com Supported by the Arts Council
Posts by Olivia.
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Dead Ink Bookshop @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop exclusively stocking independent publishers, based on Smithdown Road in Liverpool.
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbookshop
Catherine Gough @catgough.bsky.social Editor of books
Formerly HarperCollins Ireland | Gill Books
catherinegough.ie (she/her)
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Satan @thedevil.bsky.social It's really cute that you're gonna "defeat me with the power of friendship and all," but again, I am the devil from the Bible
fascists not welcome
Better than the one on twitter.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
An Post Bookshop of the Year 🏆
Helen Corcoran @hcor.bsky.social QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS and DAUGHTER OF WINTER AND TWILIGHT from The O’Brien Press | Agent: Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary | 🇮🇪🏳️🌈 she/her
helencorcoran.com
Jacq @bibliojacq.bsky.social book rep by day, book dragon by night 
Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social Joy Bringer. Writer/Artist/Fashion Activist/Creative Producer/Occasional performer. TEDx speaker. Married 8 times (7 to the same person). Also find me on substack taryndevere.substack.com
She/They
Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social Publisher, Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social. The best new Irish writing for young readers.
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
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.
Jackie O’Neill @jackieoneill65.bsky.social Books are my favourite but I’m also fond of family, friends, food and occasionally getting away from it all. Book reviews on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CdjHr79LVW_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link so hope to see you there too! 📚 🍷 ✈️
Kitty Cath Murphy @kittymurphy.bsky.social Reads everything but the room. Bi/queer 🏳️🌈
Writes as C L Murphy, Kitty Murphy, Catherine Murphy and Kit Laine.
💀👠Death In Heels, Death In The Dark, Death In The Holidays out now 👠💀
She/her
Eleanor Fitzsimons @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social 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.
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Sarah Doran @sarahisnothere.bsky.social Sarah is here. Previously there at Radio Times and ITV. Comms. TV. Pop culture. Dogs. Books. Squirrels. Irish gal in LDN 🇮🇪 Views my own and occasionally my mammy's.
Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Olivia Fitzsimons @oneflawediris.bsky.social Writer. 
Bookaneer808 @bookaneer808.bsky.social Avid reader, bookseller, likes birds and puns
She/her
Creator of annual #ReadIrishWomenChallenge - runs every April
https://www.instagram.com/bookaneer808/profilecard/?igsh=NjMxM3A3dWxnNmJ
📖 We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman 🛩
Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social I am a poet and novelist from Dublin. I’ve edited anthologies and teach creative writing
Sarah Davis-Goff @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social Tramp, dweeb
she / her
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social Irish/Cork Book Reviewer/Blogger 💙 📚☘️ FeedSpot Top 25 Irish Book Blog / Goodreads Top 5% Reviewer 2025
https://linktr.ee/maireadhearne
Dig. Mkting/PA for writingIE/Murder One International Crime Festival (Views my own)
Ger Holland @ghollandphoto.bsky.social Freelance photographer, Galway born, based in Dublin.
🏳️🌈 She/Her
☕ Coffee lover
☀️ Sunrise/sunset chaser
📸 Portraits & all things literature!
www.gerhollandphotography.com
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
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...
Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social English books in Berlin. New & 2nd-hand.
Lausitzer Platz 17, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg.
T. 030-25093220
Co-owner David does the posting.
Browse and order online at www.curiousfoxbooks.com
Ann Murtagh @annmurtagh.bsky.social Writes historical fiction for children. The Climbing Boys (2023) The Kidds of Summerhill (2021) The Sound of Freedom (2020) by
@OBrienPress
Colm O'Regan @colmoregan.bsky.social Comedian, author (Bolloxology AnnDevine Three Irish Mammies Books Climate Worrier) broadcaster, MC event host, TV narrator/voiceover, Irish Examiner columnist podcaster The Function Room Podcast
Quick Book Reviews Podcast @quickbookreviews.bsky.social I’m Philippa, I love books & biscuits. I host the CHART-TOPPING Quick Book Reviews Podcast, with author interviews & honest book reviews - no spoilers.
Email: quickbookreviews@outlook.com
Alex Dunne @alexdunnewrites.bsky.social 🇮🇪 author in 🇨🇦
THE BOOK OF SECRETS (2022)
THE HARP OF POWER (2023)
Winner: Eilís Dillon Award @ KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2023
she/her
sarah mixtapes @sarah-mixtapes.bsky.social Part-time bookseller.
Part-time antique dealer.
Full-time greyhound pal.
Lorraine Levis @lorrainelevis.bsky.social 📚Head of Sales for Bloomsbury in Ireland 📚 Author of ‘Once Upon A Reader: Raising your Children with a Love of Books'
📚 Big Ol’ Nerd 
Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, armchair sportswoman. Secrets Between Friends out 26 March 2026
Cormac Kinsella @cormackinsella.bsky.social Publicity. Posts mainly about books, sometimes food. Eats mainly food ... https://www.instagram.com/cormac.kinsella/
Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Pub by Hachette Ireland and Sphere Books UK. 23 novels with my name on them - never gets less astonishing. Teasing out next.
Be kind, it's easy.
UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social We publish the best contemporary non-fiction writing. Peer-reviewed. Representation US @UChicagoPress Australia @WileyGlobal
www.ucdpress.ie
https://linktr.ee/ucdpress
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Sarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social Artist, illustrator and writer of children's books, based in Devon.
I’ve made lots of books with pictures, including the Adventuremice series with my co-author Philip Reeve: jabberworks.co.uk/books / Adventuremice.com / youtube.com/@jabberworks
Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social Art from the Tate Collection.
Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
https://www.tate.org.uk/
gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | New issues: gorse 12: Language; gorse 13: Taboo | Forthcoming: gorse 14: Form | Gorse Editions 3: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
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/
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
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
David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social song and dance man
British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
First Ten Pages Programme: https://british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Elys Dolan @elysdolan.bsky.social Illustrator, author and all round good egg. Lecturer on the MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art. 
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Joanne - Portobello Book Blog @portybelle.bsky.social Scottish #bookblogger, chatting about the #books I've loved. Nature watcher, keen cook, always on the go and love living by the sea!
www.portobellobookblog.com
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Kate Morrison @katecmorrison.bsky.social Author. Debut novel 'A Book of Secrets' published by Jacaranda Books in 2019. Rep'd by Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton.
https://katecmorrison.com/
Andrea Mara @andreamara.bsky.social Sunday Times, Irish Times, and Kindle bestselling author. Someone in the Attic, No One Saw A Thing, All Her Fault out now with Transworld. Agent: Diana Beaumont.
Cailean Steed @caileansteed.bsky.social Pronounced ‘Kaylin’ | #TheMirrorHalls coming 2026 in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 |
#Home🏚️ out now from Bloomsbury Raven | Writer, teacher & dog owner | Agent Oli Munson AM Heath | They/them | Host @balancingthebooks.bsky.social | 🏴🏳️⚧️
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social Independent press publishing the best new Irish writing for young readers. Supported by Arts Council Ireland. Repped in UK by Bounce Sales & Marketing.
Books create waves.
cat 😊 @cats.bsky.social cat club🐈⬛❤️
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social Cartoonist/Illustrator/Doodlemonger | Sí/í/YerWan | "Keer-ee-uhk" | 🇮🇪
📨 Work Queries: ciaraioch.art@gmail.com
🎨 Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
📜 Newsletter: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
🫙 Tip Jar: https://www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar
Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social Cartoonist, scientist. I draw cartoons for newscientist. I wrote a book once. 
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
Halfway up the Stairs @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Children’s Bookshop, Greystones, Co Wicklow, Ireland
www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
Mon - Sat 10-5:30. Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays 
Sheelagh na Gig: Books Coffee Gifts Wholefoods in Cloughjordan @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social https://ghoulish.rip
Weirdo transgressive horror fiction for perverts. Based in Minneapolis.
Howling Pages @howlingpages.bsky.social Chicago's destination for the coolest graphic novels, indie comics, and printed art. A home for the art of comics.
www.howlingpages.com
king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social Order books online or shop in-person at Canada's hardest to find indie bookstore, co-operatively run in Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring $5 flat rate shipping across Canada!
www.linktr.ee/kingscoopbookstore
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social Virgin Media News Correspondent but these are my own views and not those of my employer.
Ireland.
Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪
Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social Presenter of RTE's Arts show Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Quizzer.
Rarely here...
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social Tech editor, Irish & Sunday Independent. Podcaster. Photographer. Dublin, Ireland.
Fionn Davenport @fionndavenport.bsky.social Travel writer, radio hack, managing editor F&B Dublin 
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Colm O’Gorman @colm.bsky.social Human Rights. Refugee Resettlement and Community Welcome. Cook. Recipe Development and Cookery Writer. Views expressed are my own. He/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇮🇪
Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social Book blogger since 2011. YA, MG, Classics, Fantasy, Discussions. Account run by Briana.
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 79/100
📚 Graveyard Gladiators
📺 Skeleton Knight In Another World
📺 The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social Author of memoir Call Mother a Lonely Field. Haiku poet (first collection Belfast Twilight just published by Salmon Poetry). Director of IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge/Irish-language Literature Festival.
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social https://waterfordwhispers.shop/
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
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https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
RHA Gallery @rha-arts.bsky.social One of Dublin's leading public art galleries. Founded in 1823. Home to the RHA School. Visit the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. rhagallery.ie
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.
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Elaina Ryan @elainaryan.bsky.social CEO of Children's Books Ireland. Co-artistic director of Towers and Tales Children's Book Festival. I swear I like things that aren't children's books too...
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.