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Ana K

@anakinsella.bsky.social
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Writer in Dublin, delusional optimist. My novel FRIDA SLATTERY AS HERSELF out May 2026!!! LOOK HERE (2022) anakinsella.com

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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Warning: The "man-bun musician" on Traitors looks A LOT like the reconstructed head of Clonycavan Man, the 2000-year-old bog body of a murdered man with man-bun that now resides in the National Museum on Kildare Street. Have we checked
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Sean Northridge @seannorthridge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
visualartists.ie/services/oco... Heads up from work for Dublin Peeps New pilot scheme going up for affordable artist studios on O'Connell Street
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O'Connell Street Artist Studios, Dublin
O’Connell Street Studios: A one-year pilot delivering 21 visual artist studios, designed to test a repeatable local-authority-and-sector-body partnership mode
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Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The fella from Sherry FitzGerald sells his house for under asking! Elena Kagan reads Land! The Irish international Rocket League team! Some jobs! It's: my column this week. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Overheard: Sherry FitzGerald chief’s own €3.75m Victorian house goes for 10% under asking
Plus: Maggie O’Farrell fan Justice Kagan, Micheál Martin’s gamer protegés and two jobs putting out fires
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Stephen Dilley @stephenjdilley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
156. Frida Slattery As Herself by @anakinsella.bsky.social I loved this novel following a creative partnership - and the sacrifices and betrayals it entails -across nearly two decades. A must-read for any theatre-lovers.
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Holy shit
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/06/2026
‘It isn’t enough simply to condemn attacks after they occur. A response centred solely on policing is treating the symptoms while ignoring the causes, and may even contribute to further alienation.’ Luqman Saeed in Belfast, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Luqman Saeed | In Belfast
It isn’t an exaggeration to say that we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/06/2026
Frida Slattery As Herself by Ana Kinsella review – will-they-won’t-they in a skilful theatrical romance
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Frida Slattery As Herself by Ana Kinsella review – will-they-won’t-they in a skilful theatrical romance
This impressive and charismatic debut novel revisits an actor and a director over various collaborations
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
it is amazing being read. people can interpret your book however they like. i love it. for every 'wtf whhhhyy another situationship story' there is someone who recognises the end of Catholic hegemonic power in modern Ireland in it. life's rich tapestry baby
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
also appreciated this review, which focuses on the social and economic world of FRIDA SLATTERY literaryreview.co.uk/hunting-for-...
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Will Fleming - Hunting for Madonnas
Will Fleming: Hunting for Madonnas - Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My novel is the Guardian's Book of the Day today www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Frida Slattery As Herself by Ana Kinsella review – will-they-won’t-they in a skilful theatrical romance
This impressive and charismatic debut novel revisits an actor and a director over various collaborations
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
actually miss the days when the big conversations were around the toxicity of a single headline in The Sun, for instance. and not a deluge, a literally endless deluge of poisonous violence and hatred in everyone's pockets at all time
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
only six years into algorithmic short-form infinite scrolling video rotting our brains and souls everyone. what happens in the next six years?
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Abernethy 100% superior to KG imo
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A-list couples and also ME
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ana Kinsella is in the window with Frida Slattery As Herself, smouldering away! Love, ambition, art, theatre, power, Dublin, London, New York, LA - it begins as a love story - it doesn’t end that way. Signed copies available! Ana K @gillhessassociates
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Holloway Road, June 2022
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The whole RTE's Kin crime drama was bad enough for our family name. Now the Kerry Dairy group...
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Sorry, this is too close to my surname for me. please have another go
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Notes on a Scandal! And The Sense of an Ending
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Deeply funny to me that my novel FRIDA SLATTERY AS HERSELF is one of THREE Irish novels about people making television published today. THREE! Please buy all THREE and spend your summer immersed in this strange microworld
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Today is publication day for my book, Prestige Drama. It's a funny, angry book about Derry, memory and Troubles-scented television. I think it's quite good, however I can *confirm* that it's quite short. But don't take my word for how great it is, look at all these lovely people saying that.
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
this brilliant, funny and romantic book about sexy, bickering writers is by @urchinette and is published today. you should all go out now and buy it
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I made a playlist for my novel for Largehearted Boy. I am listening to the playlist now and genuinely distraught over how much I love Revelator by Gillian Welch largeheartedboy.com/2026/05/05/a...
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Ana Kinsella’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Frida Slattery As Herself – Largehearted Boy
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Max Liu @maxjliu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Strange to wake up today in December 2019 and again see the sensible and serious throwing everything they can at a politician who wants to redistribute wealth because his politics are a bigger threat to their privates schools and second homes than the far right
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I think about this all the time.
@depthsofwiki

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
tucked at the end of this is my one great idea to save the UK. Ok I'll just say it. We should nationalise Nigella anakinsella.substack.com/p/seven-thin...
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Seven things I liked this week, 22nd April
And one single thing I can't stop thinking about
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I love the 1926 census. I love this period of Irish history! I love the fervour with which people translate their English names into Irish. I love when people write 'single' for their baby's marital status and then frantically cross it out. I love finding a woman with a job that isn't domestic help
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
My main takeaway from the past week is that I really love living in a high-tax society that allows things like agriculture and the arts to be subsidised! (genuine and earnest tweet)
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
my heart says it's completely fine to dick around on the BIA if that's what it enables you to do... my head says I am also definitely curious to see some of the finished artworks that are yet to emerge from the pilot, if/when they emerge
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
are you gonna have time to make any good art if you're so busy being concerned with whether or not your housemate is engaged in active artistic practice? www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
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Basic income for arts scheme ‘causing segregation’ and open to abuse, officials told
One artist says housemate is availing of the scheme even though they do ‘not appear to be actively engaged in any creative practice’
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
perhaps a small group of self-employed people dissatisfied with their profession's trade unions and organisations shouldn't be able to shut down the city centre for days on end... perhaps...
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Myles na gCup O'Lean. @executivesteve.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Fun to see all the reactionary elements the government has spent years stoking in order to destroy any chance of a united opposition to the housing crisis turning on the government because of the fallout of a war the government refused to really condemn. Politics eh?
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If climate protesters had blocked roads for as long as the fuel protesters did, there would be people on the radio demanding the army be called in to shoot them all
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I'm also going to be at Hay in May :) on my wedding anniversary :) www.hayfestival.com/p-25381-ana-...
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Ana Kinsella and Maria Semple talk to Steve Jones - Hay Festival
Two writers champion the books they believe will define this summer in their search for the big holiday read of 2026.
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I'm gonna be at ILFD in May :) ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
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Intimate Collaborations Sarvat Hasin & Ana Kinsella
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
what people sound like when they say i asked claude
@Nemzsi

thank you black mold. thats a wonderful idea black mold
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I love the Unhedged podcast. 25 mins of doom about how death raining from the skies is impacting the markets and then "... and now it's time for Long/Short. This week I'm LONG on shorts in the office and SHORT chewing gum."
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I'm delighted to see more and more voters in the UK wake up to the fact that the Green Party is a well-organised, big thinking, progressive party - a real party!!! - that represents their interests. Go on Hannah Spencer!
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The meme of three white men at a bar/pub table with pints only the men have various bugs for faces

'Here comes trouble' says a long horned beetle
'Looks like they'll let anyone in here' - a fly
'There he is' - a green cricket
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This week you can get 25% off your preorder of my forthcoming novel from Waterstones. 25% off! With code FEB26 www.waterstones.com/book/frida-s...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The Internet, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 03/02/2026
exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"if you feed this stag we will kill him"
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I also think Fáilte Ireland should be involved, there's a clear responsibility there. God I'm so annoyed and worried about this. I need to get a life. But leave the deer alone, please!!!
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It definitely seems that some visitors to Dublin believe that feeding the deer in Phoenix Park is allowed and perhaps even encouraged - it is absolutely not! The OPW's inertia on this issue is damaging our city's wildlife and soon there'll be no turning the clock back.
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I (former comms strategy person) would not use vague idiomatic language for any sign that is communicating something so important - the confusion is not worth whatever cutesy benefit you think you're getting. And the deer are suffering! Their antlers are getting smaller through eating chocolate!
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Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
currently the signs use confusing idiomatic language along the lines of 'the buck stops here - don't feed the deer' which is vague and unclear even to English speakers
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