An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social An Taisce — the National Trust for Ireland
Heritage | Nature | Climate | Community
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social Everything and anything to do with books. 📚
Plus, I'm an avid Arsenal fan. ⚽️
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social Poet. Limerick. Ireland.
Background image by Susan Forrest Castle.
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
https://stingingfly.org/product/summer-2026/
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 😉
Salmon Poetry @salmonpoetry.bsky.social Salmon Poetry, established in 1981, is Ireland's most prolific poetry publisher.
Directors: Jessie Lendennie & Siobhan Hutson
Salmon Poetry established The Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre, Ennistymon, Co.Clare, Ireland, in 2012
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. 23rd novel, Second Chances, out now. Thinking about next.
Be kind, it's easy.
Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social Corkonian-in-exile in the Pale. Lawyer. Liúdramán. He/him.
Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social An advocacy coalition of Irish environmental groups, working together to promote environmental protection, a sustainable economy and a just society
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
Brian Leddin @brianleddin.bsky.social Urban designer, engineer, runner, rower, former politician.
www.brianleddin.ie
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
Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social Queer Muslim. Author of five books. Father of two boys. Latest: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr 🇱🇧🇹🇷2170
Scott Gibson @scottgibson.bsky.social 🇮🇪/🇫🇷Reluctant computer knower. Cork, Ireland.
Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks
(She/they) ♿️🏳️🌈
Andrew Cooper @rickynow.bsky.social Older bloke from Nottingham. Politically closer to the left than the right. Likes (in no particular order) cats; roots reggae; woodworking; dad jokes. I'm very sociable unless you're a fascist. Proud MDant. #NFFC
Pete Cabanna @petecabanna.bsky.social I’m sorry but it is you, it’s absolutely not me and yes, it most definitely is personal.
Pusher of the gay agenda 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, does anyone have AOB?
Mr Thursday @mr-thursday.bsky.social English Irish Man, Husband, Dad, PC Gamer, and other stuff.
Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social No DMs, not giving ID to a US gaming firm
Climate, Sustainability. Ex-DFID, RCCClimate, BirdLife, Earthwatch Europe, WildCRU University of Oxford
Photo is of my two daughters' shadows above Loch Leven, a shallow lake seriously affected by climate change
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
Rudy Hellzapoppin' @rudyhellzapop.bsky.social He/him. Dublin. Trek. Bluegrass. Nonsense. Moment haver, chancer, Policy Wonk, Founder, Friend of DeSoto and all round jammy fla. Getting away with it in general. Etc.
Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social She/Her 🇮🇪
Trans ADHD
🏴refugees welcome✊sex work is work☂️Traveller rights🔴join a union🏳️⚧️protect trans kids🏳️🌈no cops at pride
https://linktr.ee/lilithcarroll
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
RTÉ Radio 1 @rteradio1.bsky.social The official Bluesky home of RTÉ Radio 1 ☘️ 📻
Mark Henry @drmarkhenry.bsky.social Insight into progress and well-being in Ireland and around the world from the author of ‘In Fact: An Optimist’s Guide to Ireland at 100’. Optimism and positivity abound.
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Sarah @baboig.bsky.social Stop start runner who doesn’t quite identify as a runner yet
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction.
That #strawhouse guy.
Fixing mistakes @ built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert
Tipp For Choice @tippforchoice.bsky.social We are a rural collective campaigning for abortion rights and reproductive justice. Based in Co Tipperary, Ireland.
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
Roger @rogger.bsky.social Product manager. Food blogger. Dreadful champagne socialist woofter.
Food blog: https://www.louchegastronomique.com
Tara @theblueststar.bsky.social She/Her
Award Losing Radio Presenter.
Same size hands as Joe Pesci.
Bisexual. Trans Rights are Human Rights.
Leslie Grantham blocked me on The Bad Place and now he's dead.
#PUSB
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon @artscouncilireland.bsky.social The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon is the national government agency for funding, developing and promoting the arts in Ireland.
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Noreen Dalton 🌱🍉 @nordaltsee.bsky.social Jacq of all Trades, mother of some
Botanist, Gardener, Seed saver, Cooking, Fermenting, Foraging, Organics, Climate, #offgrid ninja, works at fruithillfarm.com
#NewYork born #Tralee reared #WestCork life #SpeirGorm #CMAT fan and you know it
User 521,396
Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social "Spouting my nonsense into the wind" Catalyst for the curious. Fan of Strategic Mischief, Books and the sea. Former lifeguard, still pulling people in.
David McCullagh @mcculld.bsky.social Journalist with RTE, presenter of the Today show, Springsteen and Leinster fan, views mine not RTE's. RTs are not an endorsement. Get my new book here linktr.ee/mcculld
Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social Poet, Community Worker, LGBTQIA+ Politics, Climate Action
FREE PALESTINE 
kelly @earley.bsky.social co-host of For Tech's Sake & columnist at The Journal
personal writing: kellysrubbish.substack.com
Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social Talking tech, science and media. Journalist and broadcaster. Host of @fortechssakepod.bsky.social and Connected AI Podcast.
For Tech’s Sake @fortechssakepod.bsky.social A podcast from @elaineburke.bsky.social and @earley.bsky.social taking a side-eye view of tech developments.
Teresa Collins @queen-crafty.bsky.social She/Her Dreamer of dreams, socialist and sociable. Nature, crochet, rewilding, history and animals hold my interest. Former migrant, now back in Ireland.
Truth is the daughter of time.
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Ella Maillart @ellamaillart.bsky.social It is always our own Self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that Self, the better.
Connacht Publishing @connachtpublishing.bsky.social Helping authors, professionals and experts bring their books to life.
Cllr Elisa O’Donovan @elisaodonovan.bsky.social Social Democrats Councillor for Limerick City West. Speech and Language Therapist. Animal Lover. Fitness advocate. Feminist 💚
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
Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social Mostly a journalist. Mostly RTÉ Radio and Television (Ireland). Mostly climate, farming, nature. Never said no to a Ginger Snap biscuit.
Paul Carroll @paulcarroll.bsky.social Books about magic & Death | Editor of TURNING ROADS, DOWN BELOW & FRACTURED REALMS | Co-founder of Cupán Fae, IrishComics.ie & Limit Break Comics 🏳️🌈
Website: http://paulcarrollwriter.com/
Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social Geographer, Sligo Rovers fan, writes books, union member
@taramorr.bsky.social @taramorr.bsky.social 
Aoife Ní Chéilleachair @aoifeeibhlis.bsky.social Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile
Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social Archaeologist at Abarta Heritage & Tuatha Ireland. Passionate about public archaeology and enthusiastic about old ruins.
Author of guidebooks to the #WildAtlanticWay & #IrelandsAncientEast
Explore Ireland with me at
@tuatha.ie
@postmac.bsky.social @postmac.bsky.social 
The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social Writer-teacher supporting writing communities and providing bespoke CPD in schools. 🧡
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-izibili-aa765254/
Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social Talks way too excitedly about niche topics, mostly agricultural, politics and environmental. Formerly a lot of things. Currently minding a robot who milks cows
Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social PhD. Head of Advocacy for An Taisce. Water floats my boat. 🚲 powered. Views are my own. 
Baz @barryodonovan.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.
Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social Law graduate (LLB), Children's Rights and Family Law (LLM), Non practicing RGN (BSc), Children's Rights, Disability Rights and Mental Health advocate. Loves Music and Books.
Michele Neylon @mneylon.social @mneylon in most places
Frequent traveler, gardener, cook, film fan and internet geek.
Irish.
Blogging at https://michele.blog mostly ...
Founder / CEO @blacknight.social
Fixated with a lot of things.
Currently trying to spend more time offline ... 
AshFliesWithRavens @flieswithravens.bsky.social 30-something metal guitarist and composer. Anti-fascist. Nerd shit. TTRPG slut. They/them 💛🤍💜🖤
Susan G @susangriff.bsky.social 🇮🇪From & in Limerick. Previously in Wales & Cork. Likes film, good tv, books, music, Munster Rugby. Wife, mother, dog mama, ex-academic. Retired early. Living with Heart Failure. Anti-racist. Anti-fascist. Sometimes tired. Optimist (struggling).
Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social Irish environmentalist with a day job in make believe, fantasy fiction and speculative stories. Lesbian on main talking ecology, mental health, queer politics, audiobooks, ttrpgs and Gaeilge
sí/iad she/they
orlanidhuill.com
Edel Brosnan @edelb.bsky.social Back in that Dublin after a looong time in that London. Writer, strategiser, reader, ranter. Reposts not an endorsement, all opinions my own. As this my personal account, there will also be cat pics: don’t @ me, cats are great.
Praxis the Artists' Union of Ireland @praxisunion.bsky.social Empowering artists power in their places of work and committed to improving their living and working conditions.
Join: https://www.praxisunion.ie/join/
Info: info@praxisunion.ie 
Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & new book 'This is Also a Love Story'.
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.
Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social Editor, co-founder @dublininquirer.bsky.social.
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
Eoin Harmon @eoin-harmon.bsky.social 34-year-old freelance journalist from Dublin. Main interests include: sports, comedy on TV, video games etc. (He/Him).
@stpatsfc.com Season Ticket Holder.
Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social Independent poetry publisher 📧press@outspokenldn.com
https://linktr.ee/outspokenpress
Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Educator & Performer.
Sixth pamphlet ‘Patient L1’ out Feb 2025.
Debut collection with Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026.
https://linkin.bio/simonmaddrell
Dagmar Fischer @dagmarfischer.bsky.social Trying to channel my frustration with the state of our planet into green activism
creator & curator of http://anyone4german.com, a free-of-charge, non-commercial interactive workbook for learners of German #MFLBluesky
#DeutschalsFremdsprache
Dublin/Ireland
CorkBeo.ie @corkbeo.bsky.social Munster's most-read 24/7 news site 👈
Got a story, photo or video to share? Tag us or get in touch - news@corkbeo.ie ✍️
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Janet Horner @janetphorner.bsky.social Green Party Councillor for Dublin's North Inner City.
🌳🚲💚
www.janethorner.ie
Anthea West - Dustbunny Queen @antheawest.bsky.social I'm a queer (she/her) comic artist & writer. Creator of Fate, The Earthbound God, Sleep Tight and Dustbunnies. An Irish convention veteran. Don't squish the Dustbunnies, they're sensitive! CERTIFIED AI HATER.
Links: https://linktr.ee/anthea_west
Geraldine Herbert @gerherbert.bsky.social Journalist and cat lover ...
Transport, Motoring and Consumer
Motoring Editor & Columnist at the Sunday Independent.
Contributor - Irish Independent, Euronews and Good Housekeeping
TV - RTE, Virgin Media,
Radio - Newstalk, TodayFM, RTE and BBC
Lenny Jyons @jennylyons.bsky.social I research sustainable food systems. Generalist & transdisciplinary skippety flitter. Snacks. Sofa-picnics.
Art-garden.
Read.
Like cats.
(Sí/í)
Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency. 
Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too.
https://www.tuffyinspringfield.com
James @jhshelley.bsky.social Leixlip, Ireland. Forever a Dub.
Not wealthy enough to be considered eccentric, just getting through life as best as one can.
Posts generally good things, and sometimes reactions to bad.
Images unless reposted or otherwise stated are all taken by myself.
Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Irish author.
Fic/non-fic. The "Finfarran" novels Standalone novel #OnceAYear Hachette 2025
Keynote speaker
London UK/Corca Dhuibhne Irl (Gaeilge 7 fáilte)
Lit rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK
Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
Over There @coreilly.bsky.social Awkward cranky unpaid carer
Occasional blogger, old leftie, still curious
She/her 😷
https://oftencalledcathy.wordpress.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.
Katie McDermott @katiemcd.bsky.social Reading, writing, etc.
https://katiemcdermott.com/
She/her 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈
Iris Nua Corcaigh @irisnuacorcaigh.bsky.social Leftist journal
Lynn O'K @lynnok.bsky.social Galway Gardener, garden design and maintenance. Lefty environmentalist, love good public parks, and biodiversity.
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Róisín 🏳️🌈 @rdisc0mb0bulate.bsky.social Me plus 3. 🔴LiverBird🔴 Leaba Lover 🏳️⚧️ Trans Rights are Human Rights. Other opinions and nonsense are my own. #OzempicTales . Dublin born, Wexford Living, Mayo Heart.
#SpeirGorm
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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.
Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social Twitter migrant. Dublin City Councillor for Clontarf. Also on mastodon, but rarely: https://mastodon.ie/@karlstanley
John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social Campaigning journalist & author. THE LIE OF THE LAND was Shortlisted for 2025 Book Of The Year. Published by Penguin.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/464166/the-lie-of-the-land-by-gibbons-john/9781405972338
#ClimateEmergency. ThinkOrSwim.ie
Anne Horgan @kerryanne123.bsky.social Random musings from the Deep South of Ireland.
Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social Tech editor, Irish & Sunday Independent. Podcaster. Photographer. Dublin, Ireland.