Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Philip Lynch @philintassie3.bsky.social Reader, writer and worrier. Ex-Ireland. Living in Tasmania.
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
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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/
Carmel Mc Mahon @carmelmcmahon.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Free Palestine.
In Ordinary Time (Duckworth, 2023)
Essays & reviews: The Guardian, The Irish Times, Longreads, Humanities Review etc.
Bernadette Murphy @bernadetmurphy.bsky.social Author at Spiegel & Grau + others. NYT-bestselling collaborative writer. First/bio mom, advocating for reproductive justice.
Zoë Miller Books @zoemillerauthor.bsky.social Irish novelist~suspense~psychological thriller
*THE GIRLS' TRIP
*THE BIRTHDAY WEEKEND
*THE PERFECT SISTER & more...
www.zoemillerauthor.com
Loves: books~walking~photography ~nature~music
No DMs Tx
Pub:Hachette Ireland
Rep:Sheila Crowley,Curtis Brown
Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social Novelist. Author of EXCITING TIMES (2020), THE HAPPY COUPLE (2023), third novel coming 2027 ⁊ ag scríobh an 4ú ceann i nGaeilge
linktr.ee/naoisedolan
Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social Poet, author, editor: new fiction and poetry titles forthcoming in 2027, from Salt Publishing and Doire Press. Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
www.amandabell.ie
David Butler @davidbutlerbray.bsky.social Novelist, poet, short-storyist, playwright, also writes as Dara Kavanagh
The Caterpillar Magazine @thecaterpillarmag.bsky.social Annual Caterpillar Poetry Prize and art & lit mag for children (2013-2023), still available online. Younger sibling of @themothmagazine.
Nell Regan @nellree.bsky.social Poet, non- fiction writer, sea lover www.nellregan.com 
Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air', 'Coracle' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019, 2023 &2026) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Martina Devlin @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social Book lover, novelist, reader, newspaper columnist, occasional lecturer in literature, Irish www.martinadevlin.ie
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/ 💫
Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social Tiny but mighty indie press specialising in poetry books and magazines. Hyena! by Fran Lock was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN Heaney Prize. Grab a copy here https://thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop/
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Marie Gethins @mariegethins.bsky.social Flashy Writer, Workshop Leader, Critiques, Flash Editor Banshee, Co-editor Splonk; Best Microfictions, Best Small Fictions, Hawthornden Fellow
Dylan Brennan @dylanbrennan.bsky.social Poet, teacher | Ireland/Mexico | Let the Dead available from Banshee Press.
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!
Niamh Boyce @boycie.bsky.social Irish Writer. Humourless Hag. Author of Her Kind, The Herbalist & Inside The Wolf 
Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher based in the west of Ireland.
Free worldwide shipping on all orders over €60.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Claire Allan Author @claireallan.bsky.social Writer of thrillers ✍️
Derry Girl ☘️ Izzy’s Human 🐾
aka FREYA KENNEDY, when I'm feeling romantic. 💕
Powered by ADHD, HRT & Maltesers 🤯🥵🍫
Published by @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
New thriller: 📕The Perfect Mother 😱🔪🎈- February '25
Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social Writer w work in Irish Times, Stinging Fly & more | 2026 Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow at SHC | Rep'd by Sophie Scard | https://linktr.ee/emma.devlin.writer
Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í
Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored
Research interests: sex and death
Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Northwestern Ireland.
Also Instagram, and X.
https://niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite
Dean Kelly @deankelly.bsky.social Irish, creative sort • painting, poetry, photography • own notions https://www.deankelly.ie
Niamh Donnelly @niamhdonnelly.bsky.social Writer / journalist / critic
niamhdonnelly100@gmail.com
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.
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.
Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social John McGahern Literature Award | DLR Emerging Writer In Residence 2024 | Poetry Ireland Introductions | Cúirt New Writing Fiction Award | Art Council Literature Bursary Award |
sonyagildea dot com
Caoilinn Hughes @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social Irish writer.
Novels: THE ALTERNATIVES, THE WILD LAUGHTER and ORCHID & THE WASP. Short stories about the place.
Aingeala Flannery 🇵🇸 @aingealaflannery.bsky.social Writer and broadcaster.
Author of 'The Amusements'.
Deputy publisher @thedublinreview.bsky.social
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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
Susan Cahill @susancahill.bsky.social 🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Edel Coffey @edelcoffey.bsky.social Author and journalist
https://linktr.ee/edelcoffey
Liz Nugent @liznugent.bsky.social No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister.
Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt.
The Truth About Ruby Cooper in all good bookstores in Uk, Ireland and Commonwealth except Canada now. North America Sept 1st.
www.liznugent.com
Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is out now. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur (May 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at Janklow Nesbit
Róisín Lanigan @roisinlanigan.bsky.social 
Olivia Fitzsimons @oneflawediris.bsky.social Writer. 
Aimée Walsh @thereadparts.bsky.social Irish writer. Author of Exile (a novel) & Writing Resistance (a monograph)
Commentator of the Year finalist 2025 @ Media Freedom Awards.
Columnist and U35 Deputy Editor @ the Mirror.
Agent: Eleanor Birne @ RCW
The Pig's Back @thepigsback.bsky.social The Pig's Back is a literary journal based in Donegal. Edited by Dean Fee + Emily Cooper. Produced by the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
Bernie McGill @berniemcgill.bsky.social Writer. Writing Fellow with Royal Literary Fund. Mentor at Irish Writers' Centre. Rep'd by Aitken Alexander. Winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Prize for This Train is For, available at https://noalibis.com/product/this-train-is-for-signed-paperback-edition/
Writing.ie Online Writing Magazine @handle.invalid Award winning magazine for writers at all levels http://www.writing.ie - based in Ireland but for writers everywhere. Featuring book and writing news, tips, technique, competitions, submission opportunities and much more. We want to help! 📚💙
Máire T. Robinson @momomightymo.bsky.social Writer living in the West of Ireland. Most recent work in Banshee, Trasna, and on Sunday Miscellany 💚
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, b. 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Writer/editor/translator. Work in in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, Courrier International, Cormorant, Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire ...
Suzanne Walsh @zanbreathnach.bsky.social Irish artist (performance and audio), and writer, ag foghlaim Gaeilge arís, sometimes bird rescuer, they/them, siad/iad, Wexford/Dub
Www.suzannewalsh.ie
Emma Walsh @walshiewrites.bsky.social Reading, writing, rambling & growing things by the sea in Dublin. Half Dub, half Nordie. Getting more pagan in my old age. PR pro. News nerd. LUFC fan for my sins. She/Her.
Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social I am a poet and novelist from Dublin. I’ve edited anthologies and teach creative writing
S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025).
https://scflynn.com
Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @byddi.bsky.social Irish Writer - 📚 fiction, 🎭 stage and 🎬 screen. Writes about nature, climate, and local history. Sometimes funny - usually unintentionally. Love my cats and my garden.
📖 Read my latest book & more www.ByddiLee.com
Christine Breen & Niall Williams in Kiltumper @christinebreen.bsky.social In Kiltumper, we write, we garden, we read, we make art…Niall Williams’ most recent novel is ‘Time of the Child’
Four Letters of Love is out mid July
Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
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.
The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, armchair sportswoman. Secrets Between Friends out 26 March 2026
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...
Claire Hennessy @chennessybooks.bsky.social Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator.
Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press).
Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/
Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/
Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social IRISH writer, repped by Brian Langan, Storyline Literary Agency. Winner, All-Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Award (public caterory), Novel Fair '23. Shortlisted, Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards '23. Words in many places.
TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social Slow. Learner.
Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD
🏆 Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021
🏆 iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019
🏆 Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize
www.thisiswordbox.com
https://linktr.ee/wordbox
sarah maria griff @griffski.bsky.social don’t do anything i wouldn’t do 😎
now: eat the ones you love 🌱
next: strange is the light 👁️✨
& then: everything not saved🐅
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...
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
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 - ORGANIC MATTERS
Writer - Good Folk Café
Martina Durac @mdurac.bsky.social Film, Music, Writing, Running. Documentary film maker and artistic director of Ennis Book Club Festival, Ireland
Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social Writer, galoot, sunscreen aficionado
north by northwest
sheila armstrong @sheelanogig.bsky.social Writer & dog botherer
armstrongsheila.com
The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social Subs 1 Mar - 1 Apr or 1 Aug - 1 Sept | New literary magazine & blog (print & digital) | Art Writing Scripts & More | Feedback & Classes | EIC @hannaswork.bksy.social | linktr.ee/thebelfastreview
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
Niamh Garvey @niamhgarvey.bsky.social Autistic Author, Irish.
Books published with New Island Books, and Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Rep'd by Jessica Killiney at the Bks agency, London.
She/her
niamhgarvey.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
Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social WiP: TRACES (novel in essays) | former writer-in-residence at Maynooth 2020/21 | current editor gorse journal & Gorse Editions. She/her.
*Won't follow you back if you have zero posts or no profile, sorry*
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
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
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' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
hollowaywriter.bsky.social @hollowaywriter.bsky.social The Language of Remembering, my debut novel, out in February 2025. Work in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner. Winner of Bath Short Story Award 2023. Agent Eleanor Birne, RCW
https://bio.site/patrickholloway
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.
Jessica Grene @jgrenewriter.bsky.social Irish writer. Reader. Mother of redheads. Leftie nerd. She/her.
https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
https://humag.co/prose/the-egg-that-split
Sarah Davis-Goff @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social Tramp, dweeb
she / her
Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social Writer & Researcher
Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
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 🏆
Brendan Kennelly Literary Trust (BKLT) @bkltrust.bsky.social The BKLT celebrates & promotes the life & work of Brendan Kennelly, one of Ireland's foremost poets, educators, & writers. Our vision is to ensure that his poetry & literary scholarship continue to inspire twenty-first-century audiences around the world.
Luke Butterly @lukejbutterly.bsky.social Journalist at @thedetailtv.bsky.social.
Got a story? Email: lbutterly@thedetail.tv / Signal: lukejbutterly.48
Cormac Kehoe @coramazov.bsky.social Investigative Correspondent at The Fence
Investigative Reporter for London Centric & BBC Radio 4 - "The Naked Week."
Fellow Centre for Investigative Journalism 23'.
@thedetailtv.bsky.social @thedetailtv.bsky.social The Detail is an award winning investigative news and analysis website
https://thedetailni.substack.com/
BlackVelvetBand @myirish.bsky.social Mother Friend Trade Unionist .Activist till I die I repost things that interest me not because I always agree with them. Belfast City She/Her Sí/í
Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Host of Sunday Salons | Rights of Nature 🌍 Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Irish in NYC / Ardee | Born @331ppm | Climate Justice
Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social Author. The Last Ditch, paperback coming out in May.
Freelance writer. Lapsed novelist. Cinephile. Substack coming soon.
Interesting writing gigs in the politics or arts line gratefully considered.
𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social Woods. Words. Birds. Birch. Beech. Bach.
Reviewer of translated fiction for
@irishtimes.bsky.social
Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square.
@circlingpoetry.bsky.social