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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Máire @mairebro.bsky.social By day I work in research development, by night I mostly sleep. Somewhere in the middle I write fantasy fiction, play D&D and watch movies and tv. Inevitably this account will be full of pictures of my dog. Refugees always welcome. She/her 🇮🇪
Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Cauvery Madhavan @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social Novelist:Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling,The Tainted @hoperoadpublish @PenguinIndia, @AAKnopf @speakingtiger14. New Book: #TheInheritance Sept’24. ❤️Golf❤️
Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus
Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie.
Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social poems, mostly in Irish lit journals | trout and salmon, mostly still in the river | best efforts and tangents, the classroom
Limerick, Ireland
https://www.doirepress.com/books/poetry/in-spring-we-turned-to-water
https://michaeldooleypoetry.com/about/
Finola Cahill @finolacahill.bsky.social Writer/musician mostly in Mayo, often à Paris, and now in Belfast. 🥇 2023 Waterford Poetry Prize, 2024 Single Poem Award at Listowel Writers Week, 2025 Cúirt New Writing Poetry Prize.
www.finolacahill.com
Bebe Ashley @bebeashley.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/bebeashleywrites 🌻
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.
Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com Home to The Storms journal, now open for submissions, Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast and creator & writer Damien B. Donnelly
Amy Gaffney @amygaffney.bsky.social It’s me!
🧡🧡🧡
Feminist. Poet. Writer~SL Irish Book Awards Short Story 2019~SL Dalkey Creates 2020~SL Penguin Christmas Love Story 2021~Dooligan~Feminist ~Avon Books 2023 & 2024
Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social Writer of reflective essays on memory, music, and place. Attempting to live slower in the middle of the chaos. Irish living in West Yorkshire.
https://storiessongsseasons.substack.com
Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social Winner: Frazzled Lit Short Story Awards
Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award
Dennis O'Driscoll Literary Award
2x Pushcart Prize noms 2025
Non-fiction: Beijing for Beginners (Liffey Press)
Novel in progress
Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social Irish poet Winner Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2024 'Boy, Mother' published by Smith Doorstop
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/boy-mother/
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
Anja Murray @miseanja.bsky.social Ecologist, nature enthusiast, broadcaster, create #NatureFile @RTElyricfm, make radio docs, weekly column in The Examiner.
Author of Wild Embrace
Little Acorns Bookstore @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
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
Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social Poet & Writer | PhD non-naturalistic narratives of trauma | RNLI Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett & Markievicz Awards | Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
Gráinne O’Brien @grainneobrien.bsky.social Bestselling author with O’Brien Press. Solo coming April 2025 with Little Island. Bookseller with Kennys Bookshop. Rontu Literary Service. www.rontuliteraryservice.com
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 
An Siopa Leabhar @ansiopaleabhar.bsky.social Leabhair. Litearthacht. Litríocht.
📍66 Sráid Camden Íochtarach, D02 X201
🚪Oscailte Luan go Satharn 10.00-17.00
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Emer McL @emerthescreamer.bsky.social I wish I hadn't committed to EmerTheScreamer as my Twitter handle in 2007, but here we are.
Writer
Dublin, Ireland 
Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social 🚨LIBRARY OF BROTHEL MAY 2026 Knopf Canada Jan 2027 NYRB
“tips it off the cliff” Globe
“One of the most adventurous writers working in English today”
“sui generis”
Award winning author of Bina, Martin John & Malarky
www.anakanaschofield.com
Wylie
Hoops
Writers Guild of Ireland @writersguildirl.bsky.social The representative organisation for writers of stage, screen & radio in Ireland. www.script.ie
Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social Writer, and that
Flail again. Flail better. 
Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social
Writer, cancer survivor, Green Party member, software dev and avid cyclist on my e-bike.
The Milk House @themilkhouse.bsky.social Literary journal of rural writing and experience, edited by @penofryandennis.bsky.social
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
The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social Ireland's leading independent publisher, founded in 1984. Proudly supported by The Arts Council. Our Stoneybatter bookshop is open 9.30am-5pm on weekdays.
www.lilliputpress.ie
Dingle Literary Festival @dinglelit.bsky.social Arguably the best book festival in the west!
#DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
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/
Muiread O’Hanlon @muireadohanlon.bsky.social Irish Writer, lover of books, hiker of mountains ✍️📚
* Shortlisted Historical Writers Association / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Prize 2024
* Shortlisted Doris Gooderson Short Story Award 2024
* Longlisted Bedford Writing Competition 2023 
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)
Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social Irish poet, cricket fan, book reviews, Bob Dylan.
See my blog: https://ellipticalmovements
#speirgorm
"I give as examples Billy Mills, Susan Howe and J.H. Prynne, although the assumption that they write for themselves is entirely my own" J.C.C. Mays
Andrea Carter @andreacarter.bsky.social Ex-lawyer turned crime writer. Inishowen Mysteries. Agent David Headley. The Artists Partnership for TV & Film. There Came a-Tapping. Little, Brown UK. Lurcher loving veggie.
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan @chandrikanm.bsky.social Writer, Performer & Cultural Consultant, Multidisciplinary Messer, #STEAM dreamer. She/🤷🏾♀️🏳️🌈♾️ www.chandrika.ie
Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
@epoquepress.bsky.social @epoquepress.bsky.social époque press is an independent publisher of contemporary literary fiction - books you will love to read.
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
Mercier Press @mercierpress.bsky.social Independently Publishing Extraordinary Books since 1944. Cork, Ireland
Jay Spencer Green @jayspencergreen.bsky.social “Everything went downhill after the invention of the wheel.”
Dublin-based writer, Dadaist, and layabout. Genre-bending comic novels a specialty. New work, DESCANSO, out now. He/Him https://jayspencergreen.com/
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/
Belfast Books @belfastbooks.bsky.social Only working class bookshop in Belfast. Out of print books about 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland at our tiny York Rd store and new books are at www.belfastbooks.co.uk with audiobooks at https://libro.fm/belfastbooks and author services at willmybooksell.com
Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social Author of The Frozen Man // Autistic // Doesn't Feed the Trolls
Tina O'Toole @isdoighliom.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher of literature @unioflimerick.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social Solicitor, consultant, artist, writes TheGist.ie newsletter.
Visiting Lecturer. Law Society External Examiner in Data Protection law.
Lou Hall(ow) Author @louhallauthor.bsky.social Author of fiction, non-fiction & short stories. Currently writing #cozyfantasy as Lou Hallow.
Rep’d by @gaiabanks.bsky.social
Sheil Land Associates, London
www.louisehallauthor.com
Colmcille Press @colmcille.bsky.social Publishing house in northwest Ireland, celebrating 1500 years of great writing from Derry and Donegal. Gaeilge agus fáilte.
SUMMER 2025: The Handy Wee Guide to Derry (digital edition) is available for just a quid from: colmcillepress.com
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann @irishpen.bsky.social Defending readers and writers. A partner of PEN International.
Gary Grace @gary-grace.bsky.social Writing in The London Magazine, Irish Examiner and The Pig's Back.
📖 Rep'd by Steven Evans at Eve White Literary Agency.✍️
Debut novel forthcoming.
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social 
Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Trying to learn the ukulele.
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.
Arlen House @arlenhouse.bsky.social New Writing from Ireland for the World
Children's Books Ireland @childrensbooksireland.ie Children's Books Ireland is the national charity & arts organisation that champions every child's right to develop a love of reading.
Charity Reg. No. 20039822
#EveryChildAReader
Eithne Shortall @eithneshortall.bsky.social Writes books, wrangles children
The James Joyce Centre @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social The official account of the James Joyce Centre, a museum and cultural institution dedicated to promoting the life and work of James Joyce.
Plan your visit at www.jamesjoyce.ie.
📍35 N. Great George’s St., Dublin
🚪Tuesday to Saturday, 10.30am to 4.30pm
Gutter Dalkey @gutterdalkey.bsky.social Dalkey branch of The Gutter Bookshop at 20 Railway Road (opp. Finnegan's). Local bookshop with books, gifts & stationery. Marta & May post randomly.
beyond the pale books @btpbooks.bsky.social Beyond the Pale Books publishes books on Irish society, politics and culture. We are a not-for-profit business. Belfast/Edinburgh.
www.beyondthepalebooks.com
Hodges Figgis Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social Ireland's oldest bookstore, established 1768.
Follow us here to keep up with the day to day going-ons within the shop, our newest store features, as well as projects and news of the greater book community.
Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social Irish ornithologist & wildlife sound recordist.
http://www.irishwildlifesounds.com/
Using bird sound as a tool to spread love for Irish nature.
Albums:
-Wild Silence
-Hope
Book: Nature Boy (Irish biography of the year 2024)
Doc: Birdsong
Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social She/Her. Dublin. Recent PhD: Transition from School to Adult Life: perspectives of young adults with intellectual disabilities, families & service leaders. Interests: Inclusive Research, Social Justice, Choir, Gaeilge, Poetry https://linktr.ee/edepaor
Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
Granard Booktown Festival @granardbooktown.bsky.social A National Booktown in the Heart of Ireland
April 17 - 19, 2026
Proudly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland and Longford County Council
granardbooktownfestival.ie
#books #festival #ireland #literature #writers
Síobhra Aiken @siobhraaiken.bsky.social Léachtóir Sinsearach/ Senior Lecturer @ Ollscoil na Banríona, Queen's University Belfast. Member of Young Academy Ireland. Legacies of Irish revolution | modernist & contemporary Irish literature | ✍🏼📖 on urban Gaeltacht communities in US at turn of 20c
The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social The Four Faced Liar is an Irish literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative non fiction, art, photography and work in translation from all over the world.
Eoin Rogers @eoieoin.bsky.social Programme Manager @ The Stinging Fly
Professional Goblin
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
@michaelmagee.bsky.social @michaelmagee.bsky.social Novel: Close to Home
The Fence @thefence.bsky.social Facts, features, fiction, etc. Buy a subscription to the UK's Only Magazine here: https://www.the-fence.com/shop/
The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social The UK's oldest literary journal: a review of literature and the arts, est. 1732, published bi-monthly.
thelondonmagazine.org
https://linktr.ee/thelondonmagazine
Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social experimental / formally hybrid / intercultural / recovered poetries
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & Shared Island Civic Society Fund, DFAT machapress.com
Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social Irish writer, performer, keeper of creatures, Leitrim/Fermanagh border. Roscommon New Writing Award ‘22, ACNI Support ‘22/23. Trishbennettwriter.com. Debut Collection-Stench, Arlen House at https://www.kennys.ie/shop/stench-bennett-trish-9781851323302-1
Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social Irish poet. Collections include Heat Signature & Cross-Talk (Seren). Co-ed Eavan Boland Inside History. Researches CW practice in post-conflict & social care. Awards in Templar, Troubadour, National etc.
Michael Scott Author @flamelauthor.bsky.social Author of the New York Times' bestselling series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel http://dillonscott.com 
Dr. Hilary Lennon @hilarylennon.bsky.social Literary historian, teacher of literature, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social Journalist, Sunday Independent. Author "Tony 1O"
Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social Writer/fancy ape
damienowens.com
Latest book, Duffy and Son: https://shorturl.at/6oF6O
Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
Wayne Talbot @waynetalbot.bsky.social TTRPG & Comic Book Writer and Colourist. Dungeon Master for Sorcery & Shenanigans over at The Pubcast (He/Him)
Linktree: https://t.co/BD627Wu4rp
profiles @profilesjournal.bsky.social Publishing portraiture in prose and visual art
https://linktr.ee/profilesjournal
Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
Blackstaff Press @blackstaffpress.bsky.social Founded in 1971, Blackstaff Press is regarded as one of Ireland’s foremost publishers and is a leading publisher of quality Irish books.
https://blackstaffpress.com
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social Connecting Poetry and People. Proudly funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding. www.poetryireland.ie
Colourpoint Books @colourpointbooks.bsky.social Northern Ireland publisher of non-fiction specialising in history, biography, memoir, contemporary and topical interests. Also provides distribution services.
The O’Brien Press @theobrienpress.bsky.social Ireland's leading general publisher of both adult and children's books.
Cassie Smith-Christmas @cassiesmithxmas.bsky.social Academic. Writer. Fiddler. Appalachian Shape Note Singer. Part Selkie.
keev @krvbyrl.bsky.social writer of bits | gaeilgeoir, aiteach srl.
Oonagh Montague @oonaghmontague.bsky.social Writer. Solo parent. Lecturer. Trainer. Exjournalist. Mostly nice, unless you kick the dog.
An Post Irish Book Awards @irishbookawards.bsky.social 🍀 Ireland's biggest celebration of Irish books & authors. Follow on #APIBA
linktr.ee/irishbookawards
Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social An indie comic book shop in Stoneybatter! D07 KC80 Bringing small press comics to Ireland since 2019! By Matt Melis, founder of DCAF, The Dublin Comic Arts Festival
https://littledeercomics.ie
The Dublin Review @thedublinreview.bsky.social Essays, memoir, reportage, short fiction.
https://linktr.ee/thedublinreview
thedublinreview.com
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Premier book festival showcasing and celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers. Flagship festival 4 - 8 November with year-round events. Supported by the Arts Council.
https://linktr.ee/dublinbookfestival
Dublin City Libraries @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Dublin City Libraries & Archives. libraries@dublincity.ie +353 12224800.
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/DCL-newsletter-sign-up SM Policy: http://dcpla.ie/sm-policy
https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/libraries
Stephen Reid @reidstephen.bsky.social Publishing Manager at The Lilliput Press. Editor of books and so on and so forth and so on. 
Love Leabhar Gaeilge @loveleabhargaeilge.bsky.social Cuireann Love Leabhar Gaeilge le Foras na Gaeilge leabhair Ghaeilge chun cinn ar fud na hÉireann. Aimsigh an scéal is ansa leat 📚