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Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.

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Fire Draw Near @firedrawnear.bsky.social · 4h

Folkloric Pants; Tradition and Nationalism - an interview with Sara Parkman ‘When folk music is getting good again you know the world is in trouble’ The interview is now up in full on the patreons - campsite.bio/firedrawnear

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 4h

Very in the ballpark of The History of Skywriting. I eagerly await the Icelandic wind lecture... (it is really excellent news).

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 4h

What a work that is... So thrilled about this news.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 5h

Not the West Cork Performance, but here's the Lecture on the History of Skywriting www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F9x... @nobelprize.org

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Anne Carson: Lecture on the History of Skywriting

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 5h

Deservedly, Anne Carson has been awarded the @nobelprize.org for Literature. Such an inventive, risk-taking writer. I borrowed the title for 'A Wound Gives Off Its Own Light', from her. Photo from @wcorklitfest.bsky.social after AC had performed the brilliant Lecture on the History of Skywriting.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was replying to someone about this but might of interest to Dublin-based folk horror fans: Kier-La Janisse is giving a talk tomorrow at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social. Her Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror is brilliant and encyclopaedic www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq3F...

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Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2022) — Official Trailer

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't know if you're a folk horror fan, but the iconic Kier-La Janisse is giving a talk tomorrow at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social. Her Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror is brilliant and encyclopaedic (films from all around the world). www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq3F...

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Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2022) — Official Trailer

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watched Astrid Jorgensen teach a crowd to sing Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time in three-part harmony in just 15 minutes. Pure joy and such a laugh. She's bringing her 'one night stand with a song' Pub Choir to Dublin's Vicar Street tonight, with a different song... www.vicarstreet.com/component/th...

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Cyndi Lauper: Time After Time

ALT: Cyndi Lauper: Time After Time

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the most shared works from this year's Venice Biennale is Holzinger's Opening Étude: Seaworld Venihttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/BbM5pGBLw9g

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Florentina Holzinger climbs inside a bell, hangs upside down, and rings the bell with her own body

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Florentina Holzinger’s Tanz at @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social was unforgettable: wild, witchy, funny. A ballet class becomes a deconstruction of bodies, shame, folk tales and body horror, with aerial work, nude cast, motorbikes and an actor elevated after having hooks inserted (live) into her back.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A good week for proofs - so looking forward to this by Max Porter, about a once-famous TV actress. Out February 2027 with @faberbooks.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/828803...

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doing some research for a catalogue essay, and found this unannotated magazine cutting where Eavan Boland interviews Norah McGuinness. Would any #irishstudies / #irishpoetry people know when or where Boland edited an arts column? It is, of course, a brilliant exchange between these two women.

Newspaper Clipping reading 'The Arts, edited by Eavan Boland'

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new book from one of my favourite writers (and author of The Outrun), Amy Liptrot. An ecological memoir about seaweed, family, carework, the planet. The Tangles* is out in February 2027 with @canongate.co.uk *In Orkney dialect, 'Tangles' means seaweed canongate.co.uk/books/5280-t...

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I did an event last night and in the Q&A someone asked if the stake in Hagstone was based on something real. I told the audience all about The Martyr’s Stake, what a very special place Wigtown is and that they should all go to the festival! Wishing you all the luck, but I know it will be brilliant.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"She’s never made work about her partner, who convinced her to sign an agreement stating that, if she ever does create art about him, he has to leave her." Great interview by @chloeashby.bsky.social with the singular artist Sophie Calle. (also in the next book) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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‘Sometimes I do cruel things – and it’s worth it’: the fabulous shameless art of the great Sophie Calle

The French artist has stalked people, posed as a hotel maid to get into rooms, and filmed her mother’s last breath. Has she any regrets? Non! As a major UK show opens, she recalls her career highs

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's a stunning place - and that castle! It was just a few days but a total lifeline for my brain and my book.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rounding out a writing residency in beautiful Birr with an event at the town’s library this evening (a former church, with stunning stained glass). 7pm, all welcome, if you know anyone in Offaly…

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That is a lot. I’m so sorry for your loss. Reading has, at various times in my life - especially with illness - saved me. I’m glad to hear it’s been a force for good for you in a difficult year.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Really looking forward to it. My reading has fallen off a cliff (thanks to my own book…)

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Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some news: my novel The Mending Room will be published by @saltpublishing on 18 January 2027. Dublin, 1943 – Annie waits for word of her son, lost somewhere in war-torn Burma. A story told in letters, about what endures. Pre-order here: www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

Book cover with an image of a curtained room with a table in the foreground, on which is a box of buttons, needle and thread, a bundle of letters tied with string, and a magnifying glass. The book title is The Mending Room, and the author is Amanda Bell.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“Humanity goes before the sport - it's that simple." Former Palestine captain Imad Zatara wants to send a message to Irish football - boycotting the games against Israel would send a powerful message to the world. Full interview & video here: philipoconnor.com/humanity-goe... #SpeirGorm

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very strong @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Great to see M John Harrison on there, and darling Douglas Stuart. May We Feed the King is in the TBR pile.

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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This Saturday is the first Dublin screening of All About The Money as part of @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social Documentary Festival with @mrkocnnll.bsky.social I know much less about the Fergie Chambers extradition case but hope he can return to his family soon. ifi.ie/films/doc-fe...

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The account of her final month in particular is so moving, but also brutal.

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Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland @screenireland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our huge congratulations to David Turpin, Samson Films and the team behind Ancestors, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at TIFF 2026! 👏💚 This award is dedicated to emerging filmmakers, awarding one exceptional debut feature film which made its World Premiere in TIFF’s Discovery programme. #IrishFilm

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Even bigger congrats to David Turpin as Ancestors has won the FIPRESCI prize for Best First Feature at Toronto International Film Festival. #TIFF www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... @screenireland.bsky.social

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Many times in these pages O'Brien - ill, frail - keeps on writing, grabbed by new ideas. A touching meditation on the relationship between parent & son as writers, but also aging, care work, drive - and how Edna loved to watch football... www.newisland.ie/shop/p/no-on... @newislandbooks.bsky.social

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No One Tells You - The Last Years of Edna O'Brien — New Island Books

by Carlo Gébler An unguarded, deeply humane memoir about the cost of genius, the labour of care and the loss we’re never prepared for. ISBN: 9781835940570 / Hardback / 224pp / Publication Da...

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At last night's Q&A for The Lost Children of Tuam, director Frank Berry said he wants people to see the film and "get angry". Catherine Corless' dogged pursuit of why 796 infants were dumped in a septic tank at a M&B home is rage-making. In cinemas 25/9. TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6A7...

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"''Each student of the ferns,'' I once read, ''will have his own list of plants that for some reason or another stir his emotions.'' from The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Such a huge loss. Dillard was one of the greatest essayists. Read The Writers Life - and her brilliant essay about a solar eclipse (I always teach this in workshops) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...

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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Welcome to Ireland, Ed.

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Dave O'Grady @davegildedalm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

RADIE PEAT announces debut solo album No Human Tongue Can Tell out 13.11.26 on @roughtraderecords.bsky.social + shares new single ‘The Moon And Stars’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmR... LIVE 20th November - Vicar Street, Dublin

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“If you live and work and pay taxes here, there’s an ever-tougher obstacle course. But if you’re Irish in a vaguely genetic sense, come into the parlour, there’s a welcome here for you”. @fotoole.bsky.social on the two routes to Irish citizenship and the racism therein. archive.is/dcddi

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Congratulations David Turpin on premiering Ancestors, his debut film at #TIFF. A story of young, queer Irish men in London during the AIDS crisis. Stars Éanna Hardwicke, Jack Wolfe, Rupert Everett, Christina Hendricks, (proud of @stephenshannon.bsky.social for his score) @screenireland.bsky.social

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's an incredible image. She photographed Misty many times. I got to see The Ballad of Sexual Dependency in Berlin and there's a wonderful book to go with it.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Vivienne in the green dress, NYC, 1980 by Nan Goldin This is Vivienne Dick, the Irish feminist experimental artist and filmmaker - writing about this in the next book)

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC (1991) by Nan Goldin, #BOTD in 1953

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Have you seen Enys Men? An eerie masterpiece.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Breaking: Donald Trump says “I’d love to see Ireland unified…. I think it would be a great thing. How could it be bad?” Oh my word.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

. @marghjenkin.bsky.social makes atmospheric, time-bending films I love (Bait, Enys Men). Next month at @lighthousecinema.bsky.social, Jenkin is performing a live score of Rose of Nevada (starring Callum Turner) with analog synths, field recordings & tape. www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/rose-of...

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