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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 19h

Heading to Galway to read (for the 1st time) from my new #poetry collection today: Westside Library at 3pm, with thanks to Rachel Coventry for the invite 🌊 It's also having a Dublin launch in Books Upstairs tomorrow afternoon 📚

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A reminder that next weekend, Ciarán O’Rourke will be reading from his new #poetry collection ‘Prophetstown’: - at 3pm on Sat 3 Oct, Galway Westside library (@poetryireland.bsky.social) - & at 2pm on Sun 4 Oct, @booksupstairs.bsky.social📚 All welcome! booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For any #poetry fans in Galway: @corourke91.bsky.social will be reading from his collection 'Prophetstown' in Galway Westside Library on Oct 3rd, followed by a discussion with Rachel Coventry 🎨 www.poetryireland.ie/news-events/... In partnership with @poetryireland.bsky.social 📚

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Please join us for the Dublin launch of ‘Prophetstown’ by @corourke91.bsky.social: 2pm on Sunday, Oct 4th, in @booksupstairs.bsky.social, introduced by Dr. Tom Walker 📚 All welcome! (Attendance is free, but pre-booking is advised) booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l... @poetryireland.bsky.social

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There's @corourke91.bsky.social back in stock after the first batch sold out almost instantly

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Reviewed some movies recently (with thanks as always to @brian-bowe.bsky.social & Sarah Cullen) 🎬 'Manhunter' headstuff.org/entertainmen... 'The Invite' headstuff.org/entertainmen... 'The Death of Robin Hood' headstuff.org/entertainmen... 'The Devil Wears Prada' headstuff.org/entertainmen...

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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

excited to start on this. best poetry from a living author I'm reading these days @irishpages.bsky.social

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“A radical humanitarian poet, O’Rourke exposes the futility of bloodshed with fierceness & unwavering empathy... ‘Prophetstown’ is as much an appeal to conscience as it is an exceptional literary achievement.” ~ @mollytwomey.bsky.social on ‘Prophetstown’, now available from all good bookshops 📚

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Higgins is a master of this kind of propulsive plainsong, deploying a conversational address that builds, gradually & almost casually, to a critique of the nation, brassy & stinging." My review of Rita Ann Higgins's latest (@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social) 📚 www.culturematters.org.uk/propulsive-p...

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thanks to Ciarán for stopping in! Signed copies of his new collection now in stock 👇

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Exciting to be able to pick this up from Louisa and Lily at @ravenbooks.bsky.social today: 'Prophetstown', my 3rd #poetry collection 📚 Thanks to them, to the crew at Irish Pages, & to my family/friends for their support 🌻 Published by @irishpages.bsky.social & distributed by Gill 🍃 ravenbooks.ie

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A #poem from ‘Prophetstown’ by @corourke91.bsky.social, a book that examines (in his words) “the relationship of the nature poem to patterns & infrastructures of exploitation that continue to fuel what most of us think of as civilisation”🌻 Now available: irishpages.org/product/prop... #Booksky

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Reviewing Karl Parkinson's new #poetry collection here 📚 “His poems are auguries, all fisted guts & scorching tears – elegising the dead while raising prayers to the harsh, beating fever-dream of life, a shadow moving “in the dark opal-hued morning light.”” www.ragpickerpoetry.net/prose/cultur...

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Song of the Fallen

Dublin poet Karl Parkinson emerges from the churning rubbish-heap of history, chanting his song like a new prophet, his vision stained and glorified by the grime of his city's streets. He is as heaven...

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“Like everything that Christopher Nolan does, 'The Odyssey'aims for magnificence and ends up somewhere else – landing mid-way between silly and spectacular. He is a forger of graceless epics, visually striking but hampered by conventions...” Wrote this 🎬 www.ragpickerpoetry.net/prose/cultur...

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The Odyssey

Like everything that Christopher Nolan does, The Odyssey (2026) aims for magnificence and ends up somewhere else – landing mid-way between silly and spectacular. He is a forger of graceless epics, vis...

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sorry to hear that Brenda Fricker has died 🎬 I wrote this review of her film ‘The Swallow’ last year (for @headstuff.bsky.social): “an imagined memoir, rippling with emotion even as it unfolds quietly, as though in meditation.” #RIP headstuff.org/entertainmen...

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The Swallow movie review | Tadhg O'Sullivan's absorbing exploration of mortality feels both intimate and inscrutable - HeadStuff

Ciarán O'Rourke reviews Tadhg O'Sullivan's The Swallow, his narrative feature film debut, starring Brenda Fricker

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Irish Pages author @corourke91.bsky.social joined the "Books for Breakfast" podcast recently to review 4 #poetry titles from @salmonpoetry.bsky.social (going strong at 45), & to talk about his own new collection, ‘Prophetstown’ 📚 Listen here: booksforbreakfastireland.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Thanks to Cassandra Voices for taking this new #poem, based on the 'Memoirs and Correspondences' of Robert Stewart ("Castlereagh") – a copy of which I was able to consult in @ucdlibrary.bsky.social special collections earlier in the year 📚 cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/a...

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“In the poem your butchers / fear to breathe, the murdered nurseries // are clean, the brimming / table-top restored...” ~ From a #poem i.m. Refaat Alareer, included in my new collection from @irishpages.bsky.social 🇵🇸 irishpages.org/product/prop... Full support to the @bdsmovement.bsky.social ✊️

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thanks to @ancloganmag.bsky.social for taking this piece: a tribute to the medical revolutionary Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955), who believed in “the abolition of privilege of every kind – privilege of birth, position, or possessions”. We can learn from her example: www.anclogan.ie/6a37db203ef5...

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Cherishing All the Children: Kathleen Lynn's Radical Medicine

As the National Children's Hospital saga sputters on, Ciarán O'Rourke revisits Saint Ultan's Children's Hospital and its guiding spirit, Kathleen Lynn — the socialist republican whose medical innovati...

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A #poem from Ciarán O’Rourke’s third collection “Prophetstown” 📚 Now available: irishpages.org/product/prop... #Poetry @irishlittimes.bsky.social @corourke91.bsky.social

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Got to write about the movie critic Melissa Anderson for @headstuff.bsky.social 🎬 Her book “The Hunger is a festival of intelligent insistence: Anderson demands our attention, and deserves it.” headstuff.org/entertainmen... Available here: www.filmdeskbooks.com/shop/p/the-h...

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Book Review | Melissa Anderson's interrogatory passion and undimmable screen-yearning is unique in The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2024 - HeadStuff

Ciaran O'Rourke reviews Melissa Anderson's The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2024, a collection of her writing from the last decade and a half.

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ragpicker Poetry now feat. new #poems - by Mary O'Malley (@carcanet.bsky.social) www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/mary-o-malley/ - by Maggie Hoppel www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/maggie-hoppel/ - & by Stewart Sanderson (@tapsalteerie.bsky.social) www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/stewart-sanderson/

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Maggie Hoppel

Three poems by Maggie Hoppel. Maggie is a poet and undergraduate student from Indianapolis, Indiana. She loves quilting, junk journaling, and her dog. She studied in Dublin for a semester in 2025 and ...

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Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Excited to hear my third #poetry collection, Prophetstown, is on the way from @irishpages.bsky.social: thanks to Chris and the crew for all their work behind the scenes 📚 I wrote about the collection here: www.ragpickerpoetry.net/prose/cultur... More details at irishpages.org/product/prop...

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