Dr Siobhán O’Gorman @siobhanmogorman.bsky.social Head of Department of Design & Visual Arts, IADT. Loves culture, canines, deep chats and craic :)
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social translator Монгол/Hungarian to English, occasional poet, adoptee
Funeral, and Other Stories, by Edina Szvoren, Seagull Books, 2026
Zsömle Is Gone, by László Krasznahorkai, New Directions 2027
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Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social I am a poet and novelist from Dublin. I’ve edited anthologies and teach creative writing
Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social
Writer, cancer survivor, Green Party member, software dev and avid cyclist on my e-bike.
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
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/
Carrie Griffin @carriegrif.bsky.social Creative Work in FrazzledLit, Transa, Ropes, The Madrigal/An Áitiúil. Shortlisted for the Fish memoir prize '25.
"This present time ends with the imminence of the stars/the freshness of frost and the comfort of a time/we can always relive"
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social Poet, editor, critic
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/
https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/
https://thamesandhudson.com/paula-rego-the-art-of-story-9780500021378
Ellen McWilliams @ellenmcwilliams.bsky.social Writer and Academic
West Cork to Blame for Any Views
New Book: RESTING PLACES: ON WOUNDS, WAR AND THE IRISH REVOLUTION (Beyond the Pale Books) https://www.ellenmcwilliams.com/
Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
UCD College of Arts & Humanities @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social Official account for the College of Arts & Humanities at UCD, Ireland. Follow us to keep up with College news and events #HelloUCD
@mkearney678.bsky.social @mkearney678.bsky.social 
@kirbypeadar.bsky.social @kirbypeadar.bsky.social 
Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social Landscape with Question (Carcanet Press, 2026).
Before You (2012) & Some Lives (2020) are published by Dedalus Press.
(she/they)
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social Litteraria Pragensia is a peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-listed international academic journal, founded in 1991. In print & open access: https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
International Literature Festival Dublin @ilfdublin.bsky.social Ireland's premier literary event, #ILFD celebrates international and Irish writing. Returns 14 - 23 May 2027.
linktr.ee/ilfdublin
Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social Historian interested in O'Connellite politics and the emergence of a north-south frontier, 1824-44. Former @researchireland.ie Scholar, @historytcd.bsky.social. pduffy1@tcd.ie
orcid.org/0000-0002-6049-1089
irishhistorians.ie/members/patrick-barry-duffy/
Dr Taylor Follett @taylorfollett.bsky.social Tutor & Occasional Lecturer in English @ UCD
Contemporary Irish literature, trans novels, and general tomfoolery
He/him/sé
Nicole Louie @nicolelouie.bsky.social Writer & Translator. Curator of works by and about women 📙 Author of Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children, published by Dialogue Books & House of Anansi. linktr.ee/nicolelouie
Abbey Theatre - The National Theatre of Ireland @abbeytheatre.bsky.social Ireland's national theatre. Proudly funded by the Arts Council. RCN:20038984
🎭Up Next: ANIMALS, visions
Ciaran McDonough @metamedievalist.bsky.social Postdoc on ‘Classical Influences and Irish Culture’ ERC project @clic-erc.bsky.social, Aarhus University
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social Campaigning for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people. R/T does not equal endorsement
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
Research Repository UCD @rru-ucd.bsky.social Research Repository UCD collects, preserves and makes freely available publications created by UCD researchers. https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Dr Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado @drdawnmiranda.bsky.social Academic: Queen's University Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies & Ulster University, School of Law
Markievicz Award Winner https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/46faa-film-music-theatre-and-traditional-arts-represented-among-markievicz-award-2023-recipients
Therese @theresecah.bsky.social 
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Dr Helene O'Keeffe @heleneokeeffe.bsky.social PhD, historian of 19th & 20th century Irish History. Research Officer, University College Cork. Researcher #AtlasIrishRev, co-editor 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives'. 
Gordon Ó Riain @gordonoriain.bsky.social Ollamh, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
Professor, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
https://www.dias.ie/celt/celt-staff-and-scholars/celt-prof-gordon-o-riain/
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 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
Elke D'hoker @elkedhoker.bsky.social Professor of modern English literature at KU Leuven
Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies 
Hubert Butler Essay Prize @hbep.bsky.social “A splendid thing, both a tribute to one of the very greatest exponents of the form, and a venture aimed at ensuring the continued health and vivacity of the form itself. Montaigne would approve, and so would Orwell. Write on!” John Banville.
Claire Dunne @clairedunne.bsky.social Library Assistant @ UCD Special Collections / National Folklore Collection. Books. Archaeology. Crafts. Cats.
Not necessarily in that order. She/her.
@thegreenlefty.bsky.social @thegreenlefty.bsky.social Tall lad with a tendency to ask people to vote Green!
Lindsey Boyle @lindseyboyle.bsky.social Lawyer | Technology, Intellectual Property, Media and Commercial Law (Kings College + Queen Mary College London) | Mum 👩 | lover of history, art, theatre, music, reading and vegan for the 🐖🐑🐄🐔🌱🌎
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
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
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
Martin Conneely @martinconneely.bsky.social My life is based on a true story. West Galway once, Waterford for a while, Dublin for decades. Today is my favourite day.
Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation.
#artscouncilsupported
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.
Hugh Linehan @hlinehan.bsky.social Irish Times writer, editor. I also present the Inside Politics podcast. irishtimes.com/podcasts/inside-politics
The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland @cmcireland.bsky.social All-island archive & resource organisation for Contemporary Music. 40 years supporting New Music from Ireland. Find us on 19 Fishamble St, Dublin 8. Visit www.cmc.ie. Listen to our podcast #amplify
#ArtsCouncilSupported #ACNISupported
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Benedict Schlepper-Connolly @benedictsc.bsky.social 
Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat… | ManderleyPress.com
Insta @manderleypress
Latest book: manderleypress.com/shop/p/moonismaking
Eastwood Books @eastwoodbooks.bsky.social A book-publishing imprint of The Wordwell Group. We publish history books.
Archaeology books through our sister imprint, Wordwell Books.
www.eastwoodbooks.com | www.wordwellbooks.com | www.historyireland.com | www.archaeologyireland.ie 
Centre for Irish-German Studies @ulcigs.bsky.social Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland. Encouraging and supporting research in Irish-German relations since 1997.
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
Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social Historian @Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Cemeteries Trust / Glasnevin Cemetery since 2015. Researching 19th and 20th century Irish history especially death, burial and poverty. Also Public History
Kildare Readers Festival @kildarereaders.bsky.social Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2025
Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.eurosky.social 🇪🇺🇮🇪 Cork born, fan of smaller countries. Academic Secretary of University College Cork @ucc.ie Member of Senate, National University of Ireland Ex Welsh Gov; WDA; ADAS group. Views own. Photo: Monumental Reckoning by Dana King, Golden Gate Park, SF
Emmet Kirwan @emmetkirwan.bsky.social Playwright & Actor
Reps. Writing: Curtis Brown. Acting: United UK & Lisa Richards IRL
https://linktr.ee/Emmetkirwan?fbclid=PAAaat-_vsdAnFapXO9hCuc6FR70ksrDJw7l-m7w4
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.
Shirley Temple Bar @shirleybar.bsky.social Performer/Broadcaster/Creator
Declan Buckley
www.declanbuckley.com
Shirley Temple Bar
www.shirleytemplebar.com
Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
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
Lenny Abrahamson @lennyabrahamson.bsky.social Filmmaker, Dublin
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social Arts journalist. Event moderator. Arena, RTÉ Radio 1. Dublin, Ireland.
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
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
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
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
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
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
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🫙 Tip Jar: https://www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar
🍺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/
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
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain. Richard Heart Julianne out in summer 2027
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
CMAT @cmatbaby.bsky.social short irish woman who made those two amazing albums that everyone loves
Mark O’Halloran @markohalloran.bsky.social Tofu eating wokeratist! 🏳️⚧️
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Peggy Hughes @hughespeg.bsky.social Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
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...
Naoise Nunn @naoisen.bsky.social Food, Boats, Festivals: http://mindfield.ie at Electric Picnic | Kilkenomics | Kilkenny Animated | Wild Atlantic Law | Chair , Dublin Youth Theatre http://schweppecurtisnunn.com
Nialler9 | Niall Byrne @nialler9.com Professional Listener.
New music on Nialler9, Ireland since 2005
DJ, podcaster, album listening parties, Indie Sleaze Disco, gig enjoyer.
David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social song and dance man
Aideen Barry @aideenbarry.bsky.social Visual Artist
https://linktr.ee/aideenbarry?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e1752587-d23a-41c2-9784-f2e72ab98e4e
Steve Boylan @steveboylan.bsky.social Screen - Sounds - Shelves 📚
he/himbo 🇮🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ✊️
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist
National Fucking Treasure
Ireland
Agent: Aoife Rice : pantibliss@gmail.com
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
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan @chandrikanm.bsky.social Writer, Performer & Cultural Consultant, Multidisciplinary Messer, #STEAM dreamer. She/🤷🏾♀️🏳️🌈♾️ www.chandrika.ie
TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
Conor Horgan @conorhorgan.bsky.social Artist photographer and writer, Ireland. I make portraits of interesting people. Supported by Arts Council Ireland, Founder Member Island Photographers Group https://linktr.ee/conorhorgan
James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie Art with machines; design at Publicis; enthusiastic cat herder.
www.pilcrow.ie
Michael Waldron @michaelwaldron.bsky.social curator @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social,
art historian, writer, cat dad
curious about collections, mad about modernism
my own views and musings
he/him 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇮🇪
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.
Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social Artist and theatre director based in Dublin, Ireland.
www.eoghancarrick.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
David Donohoe @dvddnh.bsky.social artist, composer, recordist, designer, improviser, birdwatcher/listener.
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*
Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social Composer & performer working across the Hibernian archipelago. Ad Astra Fellow, Assistant Professor in UCD. Likes acoustic & electronic sound, minimal & experimental stuff. Formerly Senior lecturer in music at RBC
EL Putnam @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social artist-philosopher; performer; creative coder www.elputnam.com
Sarah Webb @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social Award-winning Irish children's author, children’s book reviewer, book events programmer and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs Children’s Bookshop
Founder of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SarahWebbWriter
Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
Karen J McDonnell @karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Broadcaster | Bookish | West of Ireland | This Little World, TIDAL, (Doire Press) | Irish Poem of the Year shortlist | artscouncil.ie award | karenjmcdonnell.com
Cauvery Madhavan @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social Novelist:Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling,The Tainted @hoperoadpublish @PenguinIndia, @AAKnopf @speakingtiger14. New Book: #TheInheritance Sept’24. ❤️Golf❤️
Sinéad Crowley @sineadcrowley.bsky.social Reader, writer, talker, listener. New novel loading