Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social Jon Link and Mick Bunnage
London exhibition 14 Aug - 6 Sept
Tickets here:
https://trk.email.moderntoss.com/l/01KWRXD733ECG51A6RXZF81E13_10
www.moderntoss.com- C Cyril Dunnion @cyrildunnion.bsky.social
Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Carlo Magliocco @carlomagliocco.bsky.social Big wheel down at the cracker factory.
Will Lawless @willlawless.bsky.social AoS, slowly and not that well. Other stuff, like trying to be a halfway decent human being, big fan of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance. B.I.H.* Lisan al-Gaib. #YNWA.
*Big Irish Head
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Lloyd Cole @lloydcole.bsky.social Him. Recording Artist. Rattlesnakes to On Pain.
Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social Writer, comedian, illustrator, blogger and international woman of mystery. Sworn enemy of the Swedish Yule Goat. Writer of jokes in The Beaverton and Cracked. 🇨🇦
Louise @louiseann.bsky.social Put the needle on the record
Host on https://www.lovewillsavetheday.fm/
https://www.mixcloud.com/loutoal/
Belfast (mostly)
@sarabourke.bsky.social @sarabourke.bsky.social 
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Tom Doorley @tomdoorley.bsky.social Food and wine writer, gardener, bibliophile, ALDI brand ambassador, living on Cork/Waterford border. Opinions solely my own! tomdoorley.substack.com
andrea @andreacleary.bsky.social Researcher & Writer | Culture, Media, Gender & Social Change | PhD Candidate | Aspiring Flâner and/or Bon Vivant
Murali Suriar @suriar.net 
Daithi @daithig.bsky.social I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That's a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social Opinion Editor, Irish Examiner |
Host, The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast | Mother of three.
Interested in news, books, politics, culture, science, climate and life in Ireland - and everywhere else. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.
BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social 
Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social Sincerely Anonymous • Open mind • Robust disputation • Politics/History/Economics/Art/Sociology/Human Rights • Gaeilge nó Béarla • Éire💡🕊️
📕📖📚 Read the essays:
🔗 https://forlouth.medium.com
Vanessa Stockard @nessle.bsky.social Artist 
Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social bad news from the zone, tumbleweeds
catholic socialist & smalltown journalist
in the valley near Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary
leftinthelurch.net | thesundae.net
@acoholan.bsky.social @acoholan.bsky.social 
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.
Ellis Pratt @ellispratt.bsky.social By day: Director at Cherryleaf. We make your documentation reliable for developers, customers, and AI systems: reducing support load, improving onboarding, and enabling accurate automation.
By night: Flashdance.
Kip Conlon @kipconlon.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jl254wzevuyus2qdi7awzs5a/feed/aaallxif7tq52
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Conor Mahood @conorvoice.com Dubliner in Europe.
Moderately severe introvert.
Decade+ Cane user
Voiceovers:
https://conorvoice.com
Discord: conor1977
He/Him
Trans rights.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Old movies, TTRPGs, Bowie, photographs.
PFP: Old white dude in B&W
Banner: Nobody's Perfect
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social Plays guitar. Hates fascists. Just confused by life.
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
kelly @earley.bsky.social co-host of For Tech's Sake & columnist at The Journal
personal writing: kellysrubbish.substack.com
Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social Former internet celebrity. Former journalist. Current human author and @apiln.bsky.social Supreme Leader. Ally. fizzandnonsense.bsky.social completes me.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Susan Daly @susandaly.bsky.social Pranced, dancer, chancer.
Managing Editor of Journal Media.
Auntie O'Grimacey @bubblenoma.bsky.social Where were you during the Easter Rising, citizen? #DecrimForSafety #FreeSafeLegalLocal #EndDP #FreePalestine #TeamVin
https://letterboxd.com/Bubblenoma/
Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social small duck energy
Simisker @simisker.bsky.social UI Designer (i.e. nothing tangible or valuable). Collector of musical instruments & dust. Ferret adorer. Pop-crazed youngster. Scent liker. Don't let the profile image fool you: I'm not a defendant.
una008.bsky.social @una008.bsky.social 
Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social Tries to write book. Reads book instead.
Loves unusual and obscure music, test cricket, retreating into history.
Not one to grouse.
BlueDragonLandlady @ms-lupin.bsky.social Dickensian character and occasional binocularist.
Mrs MoonCakes. @helsmels.bsky.social Here for a good time, not a long time.
Takes photos, grows plants, makes gardens.
House is a feeling. 🪩
MARRIED.
DMs are for friends.
🏳️🌈
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Chris Parker @wendron.bsky.social Stuff and things
Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie PhD candidate @hertieschool.bsky.social // 🔍 nuclear weapons and strategic stability // editorial fellow @thebulletin.org // Irish in Berlin // He/they // All views my own but willing to share
jackkennedy.ie
linktr.ee/jack_kennedy
Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social Arts appreciator, bad runner, follower of unsuccessful sports teams, Laoiseach • Climate action, sustainable transport, parking • Board member @ Laois Arts Theatre Company
🌍 Dublin
Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social London. Book-related (sells, reads, hoards, writes). Macaroni cheese. Trans rights are human rights. Fix your hearts or die. Redhaired stepchild. Proud slop despiser. Punch up.
https://www.moonflowerbooks.co.uk/news
https://www.thebksagency.com/lucyfisher
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
Cook's Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition @fartsandwich.bsky.social Celebrity chef. Worst food writer ever at The Takeout. Also: Serious Eats, Thrillist, Bon Appétit, Dill, and I'm not actually a celebrity chef. Bye
Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social low flying panic attack
Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social Jen Keane - she/her. Thoughts about migraine, cakes, sewing, and occasional spicy political rants.
https://jenniferkeane.ie for long-form thoughts.
https://paygap.ie/ for my Irish Gender Pay Gap data portal
https://ko-fi.com/zenbuffy to support my work
Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social Precarious, work-hungry academic. PhD from Maynooth University exploring hybridity, ambiguity and uncertainty in Teju Cole's intermedial body of work
Catherine Stocker @catzstocker.bsky.social 
joe @joeyp.bsky.social Registered Bowsie
Baz @braymeo.bsky.social Dad, husband, ADHD, short form poet, arts & theatre worker, production/stage manager and set builder. Strong beliefs in right to repair, decriminalisation/legalisation of drugs.
Everyone should be allowed a few mistakes. It's how we grow and learn.
The Crackdown Cat @the-crackdown.bsky.social Hello. I am a cat who maintains an idiosyncratic and occasionally updated Dublin listings spreadsheet called The Crackdown. Whenever I update it I post a link to it here.
@beinmysolo.bsky.social @beinmysolo.bsky.social 
@bugpressure.bsky.social @bugpressure.bsky.social 
Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social 
Eimer McAuley @eimermcauley.bsky.social Journalist with RTÉ Radio One - from Carnlough
Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social Cartoonist for The New Yorker
Paul Crampin @crampino.bsky.social Barrister. Music, books, comedy, cycling, outdoors, indoors. Early Doors.
Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Literary Agency.
RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social Ross. Writer. Poet. I believe in repetition and Carly Rae Jepsen. Refill the Nor Loch! All hail the sun! He/Him
R Del @delexical.bsky.social Veering westerly. Strong coffee, salt water, heather-bedded hillside.
Europe West
These conversations have been edited and condensed for clarity and brevity.
eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social I paint pictures. Cycled across continents. Like walking when not limping. Loved a dog. Writing a book. #art #cyclist #Dublin #efc Liam Daly he/him
Website: https://liamdaly.com/
Prints: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-liam-daly/shop/prints
Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social Gateshead-born London-dwelling arts journalist, film reviewer for The Crack Magazine, MDANT, leftist, cyclist, reference understander, fox enthusiast, toiler at the content coalface, severyanin, liker of nice things, ‘good hair'.
Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah.bsky.social wayward harridan who speaks to plants and animals. everything stays right where you left it
📍Salt Lake City, UT
https://linktr.ee/sarahmarvelous
horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social Massive human raccoon, broad spectrum nerd, 6ft 1 of ADHD chaos, a cishet she/her of mayhem, used to be a SFF bookseller.
'Ever'.
carcosa-based lifeform. UK.
@EwaSR on twitter
DID NOT INTENTIONALLY KILL OPTIMUS PRIME
Caoimhe Lavelle (aka Kwoo) @kwoovo.bsky.social https://www.mixcloud.com/kwoovoid/
Kellie Turtle @kellieturtle.bsky.social Policy influencer. Trade unionist. Equality & rights. Health & social care. Faith & abortion. Reproductive Justice. Antiracist community-building. Trans rights. Free Palestine. Opinions expressed in a personal not professional capacity. she/her
Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social Writer, cyclist, biscuit connoisseur. A bit much.
Latest book: ‘The Good Liar’, about junk forensic science and moral responsibility
Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social Columnist, board member, learner,
dreamer, scribbler, Gaelic Games fan, Left leaner, cat servant 🐈🐈⬛️
📍Mayo, Ireland
👩🦰 She/her
🔐 Views my own
Poor Creature @poorcreaturemusic.bsky.social Ruth Clinton (Landless)
Cormac Mac Diarmada (Lankum)
John Dermody (The Jimmy Cake)
Zara Hedderman @zarahedderman.bsky.social Listens to albums & writes (mostly) & talks (sometimes) about them in The Quietus, Aquarium Drunkard, Northern Transmissions, RTÉ Arena, The IMRO Podcast.
📩: heddermanzara@gmail.com
Newsletter: The Bad Arts
Grace Pritchard Burson (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social Twitter's official Dorothy L. Sayers stan account, 2018-24, now on Bluesky. New Englander in Quebec. Eph '00/YDS '04. Mom, priest (the sweary kind), writer (ask me about my musical!), doula. Yes, my grandma shot a Nazi. Born at 335ppm. She/her. INTJ/5w4.
MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social One of the “coolest women in food” - Stylist magazine (no, they really did say this).
Also writer, author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, tired af.
https://linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MandalayBook
Póg mo Joan 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😷 @clickhere.bsky.social Mastodon enjoyer. Find me there: https://mastodon.ie/@clickhere
Data protection practitioner. Big fan of The Hibernian Menace. Huge.
🐈⬛ • 🚲 • ⚖️
Unsolicited DMs = block.
Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Matt Ashton @matthewjashton.bsky.social MUSIC with @theleaflibrary.bsky.social / The Form Group / Sun Drawing / Mirrored Daughters / Basic Design / Sea Glass etc
DESIGN + ILLUSTRATION stuff for sale at https://ashtoninspace.bigcartel.com/
He/him
Ré Dubhthaigh @redubhthaigh.bsky.social design / data / dad / dublin
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Emma Gilleece @emma-gilleece.bsky.social Architectural historian with a passion for early to mid 20th century Irish architecture. Read my series 100 Buildings for Culture section of @rte.ie website
Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Does social psychology & qualitative methods, interested in identity in diaspora. Lives in Cork. Spends more time on the N20 than is good for me.
An Frúidíneach @froodie.bsky.social Bespectacled, not respectable
Merseyside via Shannonside
GenAI Luddite
Helen Finch @helencfinch.bsky.social Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds; queer and Holocaust studies; she/her
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Dan McPainInOneSpecificKnee @danmckee.bsky.social HALF NAKED, GIN IN HAND AND CORONATION STREET LOOMING ON THE HORIZON.
Coney Island Sound @coneyislandsound.bsky.social Music Making. Portstewart via Belfast, Hull, Gateshead & North Shields. Electronic Music/Archiving/The Sea. www.coneyislandsound.com
or for more https://linktr.ee/coneyislandsound
Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social Lives in Ireland, likes jazz, cycling and software development. Opinions my own only and don't reflect anyone I work for, know, am related to, make eye contact with.
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie Freelance graphic designer, http://EMCreative.ie | Cycling & active travel | Sport | GAA | Calcio, football graphics at Forza27 | AS Roma | @navancycling.ie