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.
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social 
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.
@brenroche.bsky.social @brenroche.bsky.social 
Sue @choccycake.bsky.social I retired a while ago wished I’d done a degree in politics try to play golf and bridge. Love Ian Rankin enjoyed all 8 of the Slow Horses books!
@orladg.bsky.social @orladg.bsky.social Bit worried about the bees.
Sean Paul Bedell @seanpaulbedell.bsky.social father, husband, fountain pen user, horibell spelar, retired paramedic, former firefighter, lover of Canadian Literature. My novel, Shoebox, is coming soon to your favourite bookseller. www.seanpaulbedell.ca
Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social More justice and more peace. Loves a beautiful view.
Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine.
“In the shelter/shadow of each other the people live.”
Clean the Air, wear a mask. 
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Fred Stenson @ftstenson.bsky.social Author; SW Albertan; columnist at Alberta Views Magazine; novelist (The Trade, Who By Fire, The Great Karoo; Lightning)
Dilek Ozturk @dilekozturk.bsky.social Istanbul Technical University/Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
Contemporary Irish Drama, theories of space and place ❤️
hmmmphilly @hmmmphilly.bsky.social 
Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
elinor @ehappel.bsky.social Seattleite, teacher, reader, wife, mother, oldster.
Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social 'But doubts and loves/ Dig up the world' - Amichai
'It is not my nature to join in hate, but in love' - Sophocles
'stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch' - Camus
Honorary moon.
Makes stuff.
Av: A dog looks mournfully to left.
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Paul Sandars🏴 @paulsandars.bsky.social Born in England, but would much rather be a Celt. I only seek Celtic followers.Lives in Neath Port Talbot. Survivor of a brain haemorrhage. Plaid Cymru,was Labour cllr.
I shall always love my late partner Nikki Thomson and our late daughter Eilidh Thomson.
Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social
Author of LAKE OF URINE and THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Executive editor at www.exactingclam.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review-lake-of-urine-guillermo-stitch.html
Madra Uisce @madrauisce5.bsky.social Mom, biologist, Gaeilgeoir-wanna be, lover of life, fabric, yarn and dogs!
❤️☘️🏳️🌈☘️❤️
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan @chandrikanm.bsky.social Writer, Performer & Cultural Consultant, Multidisciplinary Messer, #STEAM dreamer. She/🤷🏾♀️🏳️🌈♾️ www.chandrika.ie
@bainteoir.bsky.social @bainteoir.bsky.social 
Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social Researching & developing tourism or editing conflict studies articles - activities not as dissimilar as they might seem to be. Professional enthusiast. She/her.
Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social Formerly a productive member of society. Denied a 2023 Hugo, probably.✒️
#journalist #writer
Occasionally here, but mostly https://mastodon.ie/@faduda
Recent(ish) project https://guth.ie/space-navigator/
• https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/space-navigator
Colman Jackson @collijackson.bsky.social Politics. Books. Media.
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
poparhi @poparhi.bsky.social What's the OPPOSITE of a role model?
she/her - umich and lomas grad - michigander in portland, or
@macroll.bsky.social @macroll.bsky.social - C @ctnolan.bsky.social @ctnolan.bsky.social
Anne O'Brien @whereisthesea.bsky.social Wasafiri 2021 Life Writing and Bath Short Story Award winner. Hennessy New Irish Writer. Stories in RA pindrop A Short Affair, The London Magazine, The Irish Times, Crannóg...
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 🏆
Rod & Clay @rodclay.bsky.social Dispatches from Ireland. Some observed, some leaked, none official. By a casual observers with no qualifications and a conviction that the obvious is more interesting than anyone admits.
@johnmcevoy.bsky.social @johnmcevoy.bsky.social 
@octaviakingsley.bsky.social @octaviakingsley.bsky.social A Londoner living in Catalunya. Staunch advocate of the comfort zone. Likes books, TV, art, birds, crisps
Anne K @annekenny.bsky.social I live in Chicago; my heart belongs in Ireland. I strive to be kind and brave; lots of room for improvement there. Doing what I can to fight this administration & help those who need it.
Nigel Kneale’s Crow @darkandlonelywater.bsky.social Folklore, folk-horror, Old English, Old Norse, runic transliterator, pre-Christian archaeology, mythology, counterculture, Lovecraft, Howard, Tolkien, Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, occulture, shamanism, psychogeography, Old Irish manuscripts, Chaos Magic, Kafka.
Bernadette Murphy @bernadetmurphy.bsky.social Author at Spiegel & Grau + others. NYT-bestselling collaborative writer. First/bio mom, advocating for reproductive justice.
Mac Giolla Fhearga @cumannachasgaelach.bsky.social Tá Gaeilge agam! Labhair líom! | Landback | Saoirse don Phalaistín. 🇵🇸 | Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 | Oileán an Turtair.
Proudly anti-AI. If you can't make art or write yourself, then that's a skill issue.
CailleachPortach @fiadhwild.bsky.social Bog hag (sí/í)
Leftist Artist
dnd
Aspiring Gaeilgóir, Saoirse don Phalaistín
Trade unionist dreaming of becoming a set builder
Is sóisialaí mé
Déghnéasach
Aonarán
A gaze in a trenchcoat
AuntyFiadh@mastodon.ie
Upscrolled @fiadhwild
No TERF/AI/ML/bots
Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social Entrepreneur-in-residence. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos
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.
Ali Isaac @aliisaac.wsocial.eu Author of Imperfect Bodies, a memoir published by Héloïse Press.
Agent: Charlotte Seymour.
Founder of H A G, a Substack publication arising from the intersection of literature and landscape. I live in the house on the hill in the heartlands of Ireland.
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Sarah Davy @sarahdavywrites.bsky.social Writer, Mentor, Facilitator, Climber.
Usually writing short stories & scripts or watching telly.
https://linktr.ee/sarahdavywrites
Grievous Devious @furikake-pancake.bsky.social 
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Silver Locust Press @silverlocustpress.bsky.social A new press from Ireland publishing poetry and flash-fiction chapbooks with bespoke cover art. Est'd. 2026. Available at www.silverlocust.press
Noemí @literaryasturian.bsky.social TEFL
BA English Lit, MEd, MA Women's Studies
Interested in stylistics, literary linguistics, critical theory, women's writing, health, trauma, motherhood
Textiles
Susan Park @susanfirghilpark.bsky.social writer, poet, nature lover and complete book geek living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by forest, birds, squirrels, chipmunks and chickens. Member SCBWI.
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Kevin MacDonell (he/him) @kevinmacdonell.bsky.social Writer, essayist, lifelong diarist. Nova Scotia, Canada. Recent/forthcoming: Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain, Dalhousie Review, Camel, Riddle Fence, Antigonish Review, Globe & Mail. Site: kevinmacdonell.com
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
@campbellisms.bsky.social @campbellisms.bsky.social 
Julianne Regan @julianneregan.bsky.social Songs, book chapters, and journalistic pieces. Nature, 2nd-generation Irishness, melancholy & joy! Survived the great All About Eve miming disaster.
Rush Festival of Writing @rushfestofwriting.bsky.social A new literary festival by the sea in North County Dublin. The inaugural edition took place on April 25th 2026. www.rushfestivalofwriting.com
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
Seán - Cicada Wave @cicadawave.bsky.social Horror gamer, book lover, occasional YouTube guy. Mostly shouting into the void.
Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/cicadawave
Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social Visual artist | Painter
Represented by Molesworth Gallery, Dublin | Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Too many books, and proud of it
🆓🇵🇸
https://www.helengblake.com/
Marijuana Records @marijuanarecords.bsky.social Marijuana Records is a record label and digital record store based in Denver, Colorado. #ASCAP
https://www.ebay.com/usr/marijuanarecords www.instagram.com/marijuanarecords
Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social Songwriter, Musician, Interdisciplinary Artist
Visiting PhD Student, CDH, @cam.ac.uk •
@Leverhulme.ac.uk Trust #AuralDiversity (Autism & Music) • @BAFTA.org Scholar Alumna
Transdisciplinary #ArtsBasedResearch
xsara.co.uk/academic
TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson @eotwrites.bsky.social One of those poets.
Senior editor @rhinopoetry.bsky.social
Views are my own, and maybe a bit like yours.
https://linktr.ee/EOTwrites
Samuel Verdin @samuelverdin.bsky.social Editor | Writer | Freelance
www.samuelverdin.com
Blue Wave Alxs 🌸🏳️⚧️📚🍥✨ @bluewavealxs.bsky.social She/Her/Hers, Feminist, Democrat, Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBT, Agnostic, Artist, Writer, Actor, Traveller, introspective aesthete, Human Rights Activist, Trans Rights Advocate, Ambassador, Mental Health Matters, Autistic,ADHD, Music Lover, Book enthusiast.
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
@themickfinucane.bsky.social @themickfinucane.bsky.social 
Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.
@kandit57.bsky.social @kandit57.bsky.social 
aghostofanidea.bsky.social @aghostofanidea.bsky.social Notes on life, culture, and whatever lingers, over on Substack.
https://substack.com/@aghostofanidea
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts @tulcafestival.bsky.social An annual platform for contemporary art in Galway, Ireland, presenting exhibitions, commissions, and public programmes.
www.tulca.ie
Michael Janairo @mjanairo.bsky.social Writer, reader, and I once jammed with The Washington Squares
Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social Translator. Raitán. Swappin' yarns tae cowe the gowan.
Native Dialogs in Irish @nativedialogsga.bsky.social Practice your #Gaeilge by chatting to virtual humans.
@katesteele.bsky.social @katesteele.bsky.social 
West Waterford Arts Group @westwaterfordag.bsky.social A cross-pollinating community of artists meeting in West Waterford with a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity.
#waterford #ireland #arts #poetry #visualarts #novelists #photoartists #collage #playwrights #musicians #songwriters #sculpture #speirgorm
A.J. O'Toole @scribblerotoole.bsky.social Writer - working on short fiction and my novel "Half A Lie".
Good listener, quiet talker, part-time drinker.
Black Country state of mind.
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social Lives near that river, in Ottawa, Canada. Has been known to edit & work in arts orgs. Appreciates your book posts.
Idoreyin Utibe @idoreyinutibe.bsky.social Motivation, healing, confidence, discipline, and growth. Discover inspiring lessons to strengthen your mind and thrive.
Click below to visit our YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@IdoreyinUtibe
Councillor Donna Cooney Dublin City @donnacooney1.bsky.social I'm an Artist, Activist, @greenparty.ie spokesperson on Arts and Culture
@dubcitycouncil Councillor and former Deputy Lord Mayor. Bicycle Mayor. #ClimateAction #Nature #Heritage #History #socialspaces #SocialEnterprise
Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalsh.bsky.social Scribbler, doodler, scroller.
Sure look, this is it.
He/him
Cork
Liz Moran Art @lizmoranart.bsky.social Artist & Sea Lover 
Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social writing ~ mapping ~ walking ~ snapping
clew~ (Hesterglock Press) Villiers Path, Sward, Amniotic City 2nd ed. (Sampson Low)
Setting Sundays lucyfurlong.substack.com
Amniotic City film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E25IOgfD4Q
www.lucyfurlong.com
Pint of Stoat @pintofstoat.bsky.social Biblically accurate
@andrewmaguire.bsky.social @andrewmaguire.bsky.social - H hugh @hughdidthis.bsky.social
Foof @andgoseek.bsky.social Functionary 🤟🏼
Wine Mom Wrote a Mystery @winemommystery.bsky.social I wrote a cozy mystery at 50.
THE DEVIL WIND MURDERS
Link below⬇️
BOOK LINK: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-devil-wind-murders-a-vi-sandoval-mystery/id1804920377
#crime #crimenovel #humor
#California
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
Subs Closed.
@tvc15ma.bsky.social @tvc15ma.bsky.social 
Frankie [they/them] @frankiegolucky.bsky.social Fat, disabled, lesbian who loves to yap 💁🏻
Writer, Reader, and a hodgepodge crafter.
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
@jalexwood.bsky.social @jalexwood.bsky.social 
Niamh @niamhpuirseil.bsky.social Pessimism of the intellect
Optimism of the will
Keep your eye on the donut
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Dublin
ellamay @ellamay.bsky.social Academic and practitioner - interested in everything.
All views strictly my own.
Aine @awnya.bsky.social 
Beth Fowler - Translator @bethfowler.bsky.social Translator (Portuguese/Spanish to English) | Literary translation | Art, Museum & Cultural Tourism translation
D'Ana @ruudidi.bsky.social 
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.