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Elaine Feeney

@elainefeeney.bsky.social
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Writer Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025) Nominated for Booker Prize Lectures: University of Galway Agent: Peter Straus RCW Lit Agency

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Second Tuesday Series with Claire Kilroy 🌸🌸🌸 Our Second Tuesday Series returns with an in-conversation event between novelist, Claire Kilroy and our publisher Declan Meade on Tuesday September 8th from 7pm to 8.15pm. stingingfly.org/product/seco...
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Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We will be launching The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances by Roisin Kiberd on Friday 28th August at 6pm in Hodges Figgis, introduced by Elaine Feeney. We hope to see you all there!
Image is of an invitation to the launch of The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances by Roisin Kiberd. We will be launching The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances by Roisin Kiberd on Friday 28th August at 6pm in Hodges Figgis, introduced by Elaine Feeney. We hope to see you all there!
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Warlund @handle.invalid · 18/08/2026
Thank you @elainefeeney.bsky.social for #letmegomadinmyownway The perfect title for signaling how the protagonist deals with herself, her generational trauma. (And once again, brilliant settings. This will be another Feeney book that stays with me in my thoughts)
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Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are delighted to share the cover for THE MOST NORMAL WOMAN: ESSAYS ON APPEARANCES by Roisin Kiberd, forthcoming August 27th! Designed by Elisha Zepeda What is normal, anyway? Find out more and pre-order here: tramppress.com/product/the-...
Image shows font cover of book titled The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances by Roisin Kiberd. Image is of collage style fragments of a picture of a white woman's face. She has make-up, appears to have make up on and lip filler, and her eyes have unnatural sparkles. She's not smiling.
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Warlund @handle.invalid · 31/07/2026
The closer I got to the end of this great novel, the slower I read. I now need all my friends to read it because there's so much to talk about: curragh, O'Toole, chaos, lines and curves, masculinities, Tadhg's island, loss, Jaimie and the ocean... Thank you to @elainefeeney.bsky.social
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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Climate Changemakers: The group helping farmers to restore nature on their land. ReFarm uses blended finance and straightforward schemes to show farmers are central to biodiversity restoration, and to counter negativity about farming and nature. www.independent.ie/lifestyle/cl...
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Climate Changemakers: The group helping farmers to restore nature on their land
ReFarm uses blended finance and straightforward schemes to show farmers are central to biodiversity restoration, and to counter negativity about farming and nature
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Mary Costello writing about Palestine today in @liberation.fr www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...
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The Book Vault @thebookvault.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New books coming in all the time, another parcel arrived as I started to type... New release from @veronicarothbooks.com with designed page edgings. The first in a new epic romantic fantasy series. Alongside Dani Francis, Broken Dove. One already gone, with red page-edgings. #booksky
Photo of new books as per the post. Also with a few new paperbacks in view, Katee Robert, Elaine Feeney, Edward St. Aubyn in front of the two hardbacks.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/05/2026
‘They’re trying to narrow the worldview of young people’: how book bans are on the rise in the US
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‘They’re trying to narrow the worldview of young people’: how book bans are on the rise in the US
Rising tide of censorship is spreading, reshaping what students are permitted to read, learn and think
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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And we're live! Check out our 2026 line-up. Priority booking for Festival Friends opens 10am on 7 April. General booking for workshops at the same time and then general booking for all other events at 10am on 14 April. Hope to see you all in Bantry 10-17 July 📚❤️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/literary-fes...
Collage of authors coming to West Cork Literary Festival 2026. Sara Baume, Jung Chang, Jonathan Coe, Paddy Donnelly, Elaine Feeney, Karl Henry, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Anton Hur, Charlie Mackesy, Dearbhla Mescal, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Laureate for Irish Fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Miriam O'Callaghan, Louise O'Neill, Katriona O’Sullivan, Ian Rankin
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Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I have been very lucky to read some proofs this year, and this is up there as one of the very best, and maddest (my favourite thing) — just brilliant writing! Anakana is definitely one of the most original Irish writers working today
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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🔥The one and only Elaine Feeney is the latest guest on Burning Books 🔥 And that's a wrap for 2025! It's been some year. Huge thanks to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, @wordwellbooks.bsky.social—and of course you, for listening. 🔔Have yourselves a merry little Christmas, and see you next year🔔
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
FREUDENFREUDE - pleasure derived from observing someone’s good fortune.
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: meet the characters from the golden age of children's TV. @barryhoulihan.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social on the Irish children's shows, rrom Daithi Lacha & Wanderly Wagon to The Den & Bosco that have shaped us www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The LAI Author of the Year Award was presented to Elaine Feeney by UCD Library Deputy Librarian and President of the LAI Lorna Dodd.📘
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Lovely review of my (first ever😱) short story in great company as part of @tramppress.bsky.social beautiful An Alternative Irish Christmas anthology in yesterday's @irishtimes.com Very humbling & gratifying to see these kind words about the work. ✨️
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Some great choices here. Mine are: Maggie Nelson, Yiyun Li, Ed Atkins, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, David Park, @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Leanne Shapton, and our Nero Fiction shortlist of Ben Woods, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Damian Barr and Ian McEwan. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... #Booksoftheyear
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Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites
Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices
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Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
So delighted to win Author of the Year 2025 at Irish Book Awards Thanks to Libraries Association of Ireland & An Post
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An Post Irish Book Awards @irishbookawards.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is... @elainefeeney.bsky.social #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
We have 7 books on the Globe 100 list! Congrats to all the authors! 🔥 @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social
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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Sad news from Galway: Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91 www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
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Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
Tributes have been paid in Galway to artist, Aosdána member and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who died on Sunday at the age of 91.
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indiebookstores.ca @indiebookstores.ca · 17/11/2025
Shoutout to Elaine Feeney for her fascinating new multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, and learning to live with the past, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, which is a Fall Selection for The Booksellers’ List!
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊 Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin 🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin. More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
“In her latest novel, Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, the prolific poet and novelist Elaine Feeney showcases quite nicely the aptitude of the form in bringing memory to life.” Excerpt from D.W. White’s review of Feeney’s new book. Full review below: buff.ly/maDluzZ #writingcommunity
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Remembering that time (tonight) I hung out at The Manx Pub with Irish writers Eimear McBride and Elaine Feeney, along with our pal Tina, after a grand event via the Ottawa International Writers Festival,
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indiebookstores.ca @indiebookstores.ca · 24/10/2025
Are you ready to discover a new read to add to your (never-ending) physical TBR? Bookseller Michael T. Hamm from Bookmark Halifax shares why he thinks Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way should be your next read this fall.
[Having read How to Build a Boat in 2023, I now consider the author one of the premier contemporary writers in the English language. I will follow Elaine Feeney anywhere in her career. I am so excited to place this novel in the hands of people wanting a book with a strong narrative written in a delicately beautiful style.]
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Join us at Sacred Heart University next week to hear Elaine Feeney read from and discuss her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY www.sacredheart.edu/offices--dep...
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I wrote about culchure www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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As a culchie, I know culchies. Here’s my definitive guide to culchie culture, aka culchure
Dublin Jackeens will quake as a new series of The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In takes over our TV screens
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Huge congrats to Elaine Feeney and her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY for making the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year shortlist! www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/let-...
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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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Ten of the best Irish books of 2025 so far
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Hamza Jahanzeb (isn't here, contact via email) 🚫 Kindly NO DM 🚫 @hamzajahanzeb.co.uk · 18/10/2025
The Trio of Irish Authors are here! Welcome Elaine Feeney, Seán Hewitt and Wendy Erskine. @wimbookfest.bsky.social 🧡🤍💚
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Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 09/10/2025
Oct 24, Tara McGuire conducts back-to-back interviews with Elaine Feeney (Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way), Ian Williams (You’ve Changed), and Jack Wang (The Riveter). writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... Elaine Feeney’s attendance made possible thanks to the generous support of Culture Ireland.
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The Booksellers’ List is Canada’s newest way to discover must-read books, chosen by the people who know them best—independent booksellers. The independent presses featured on the List this season are excited to team up and present you with: your favourite indie’s favourite indies!
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
An excerpt of Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY on Lit Hub! lithub.com/let-me-go-ma...
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Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
After Mother’s burial in a freakish sunshine that was followed by a violent purple hail, Brian and Conor filled in the grave with two long spades. They cast the black earth into the hole. Father wa…
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Sally T 🎞️ + 📺 + ⌨️ @sallyjaybee.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
So good!
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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Worth noting that 1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin 2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out. 3) They do deliver internationally booksupstairs.ie
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Books Upstairs | Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop
Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25
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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
New on The Bibliophile: An interview with Elaine Feeney on her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY. Publishing next Tuesday, Oct 7! digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/history-is... "In Ireland, history has a habit of lingering at the kitchen table, and for the O’Connors that’s definitely true."
Photo of the book "Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way" by Elaine Feeney, balancing on the corner of a wooden table. In white text over the image reads: "History is never truly in the past: Interviewing Elaine Feeney, author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way."
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Justjillian @justjillian.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This week's @librariesni.bsky.social Bookcited! podcast features @elainefeeney.bsky.social Feeney! Elaine talks about her home turf, Athenry, and how to bring stories to life in her own way. Clicknto listen www.podbean.com/ea/pb-nd4uk-...
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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
'I wrote plays and stories as a child and performed them for any willing audience ... It was usually just my siblings, but it set something on fire in me.' Elaine Feeney by Steve Pyke 📸 We are delighted to have Elaine Feeney - writer, poet, Galway queen - included in Scribendi.
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚨 First of the New Arcana launches kicking off tomorrow in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway with the marvellous @elainefeeney.bsky.social🚨 Come join us for poems & chats & 🍷 @Bloodaxe
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Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Thrilled to make this list! Thanks to all the wonderful indie booksellers who voted ♥️🐎 Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way is out in North America in October with @biblioasis.bsky.social
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lpgcanada.bsky.social @lpgcanada.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Congrats to LPG members whose books have been selected for The Booksellers’ List, celebrating the top 20 books of the season as voted on by indie booksellers across Canada via @indiebookstores.ca! Find the full list here: IndieBookstores.ca
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hello new followers, I am a poet and this is my new collection coming September 2025 from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
'I am a hardware shop of rope and paint and hinges' - by Elaine Feeney #poetry #poemoftheday
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Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 25/08/2025
We’re can’t wait to hear from these featured authors at the Vancouver Writers Fest, October 20–26! Visit our website to browse the full lineup now. Event details for #VWF2025 will be revealed to VWF Members this week!
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