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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 07/10/2026
The Comets — condensed, bitingly efficient short fiction by Eoin McNamee ft.trib.al/4JX4fQd
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The Comets — condensed, bitingly efficient short fiction by Eoin McNamee
In a collection of two novellas and 15 tightly pared-down tales, the Northern Irish writer plunges the reader into a world of danger, seediness and alienation
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A world of Ballardian abandoned aerodromes and Shakespearean body counts, where everyone has a terrible time except the reader. Me on Eoin McNamee’s The Comets, which might appeal to fans of David Peace, James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy;
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The Comets — condensed, bitingly efficient short fiction by Eoin McNamee
In a collection of two novellas and 15 tightly pared-down tales, the Northern Irish writer plunges the reader into a world of danger, seediness and alienation
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Trinity graduate wins Women’s Prize for Fiction www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Trinity graduate wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
www.penguin.co.uk/books/481331... Out Today
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The Haunted Road & more
A collection of suspenseful dramas from award-winning Northern Irish writer Eoin McNameeEoin McNamee is the author of 19 novels, two trilogies for young adults and three thrillers written under the ps...
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Next Tuesday evening (14/04), I shall be assuming into Heaven from Belfast's steadfast No Alibis Bookstore @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/no-alibis-bo...
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Sharon Keely @sharonkeely.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Read this review, and I guarantee you will want to read the book! www.culturematters.org.uk/hunger-queue...
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Bean-spillage in today's Sunday Independent (Ireland)
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Mary Ellen @maryellenuk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
January reads 📚💙 Favourite was Tehanu 💚
Collage of book covers: Untangled by Lisa Damour; The Bureau by Eoin McNamee; The Twelve by Stuart Neville; Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell; Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy; The Sirens by Emilia Hart; On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle; Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov; Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Tehanu by Ursula K Le Guin; The Iliad by Homer.
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Eoin MacNamee - Lime Tree Theatre
Eoin McNamee is a novelist and screenwriter. His novels include Resurrection Man the Blue Trilogy, The Ultras and The Vogue.  He wrote the screenplay for the
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Me on The Bureau:
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Juliet Mabey @jule9.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Congrats to all the authors shortlisted for the 2025 @Postvox Irish Book Awards. I'm thrilled to see debut author Caragh Maxwell shortlisted in the Newcomers category for Sugartown. 👏🎉 Don't forget to vote for your favourite!: scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Such an incredible evening celebrating the launch of our podcast with @molimuseum.bsky.social 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland' in #TrinityLongRoomHub Warm thanks to #DrPhilMullen,#EoinMcNamee, #CaelainnHogan & the participants who shared their stories. Available soon on all platforms!
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20/09/2025
Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
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Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
Debut novel is about a twentysomething woman returning to her small-town home after years in London
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13/09/2025
Caragh Maxwell: ‘Adolescent cancer really sped up my maturity’
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Caragh Maxwell: ‘Adolescent cancer really sped up my maturity’
The Sugartown author on invincibility, mother-daughter relationships and baring her soul in return for publicity
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
Debut novel is about a twentysomething woman returning to her small-town home after years in London
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/08/2025
“His life’s work is like a dark, glittering, ethereal yet earthy river of thought, full of angels, ghosts, nocturnes, animals. These are books as brimming with spirit & light as they are with eroticism & violence” —Seán Hewitt on John Burnside’s poetry & prose 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Where to start with: John Burnside
Seán Hewitt, who introduces a new edition of the Scottish author’s final memoir, guides readers through his landmark works a year on from his death
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Summer fiction: I Can Do Rude by Maya Kulukundis www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Summer fiction: I Can Do Rude by Maya Kulukundis
A new short story by Maya Kulukundis
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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Very much enjoyed my conversation with Eoin McNamee at Cairde in sunny Sligo last night. And thanks to a great audience.
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! 💛🧡 Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.' @gphibbett.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Gustav Parker Hibbett wins John Pollard Prize
Books newsletter: a roundup of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
'The Bureau' by Eoin McNamee. Out now.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This week I wrote about vigilance, and how I'm less interested in litigating whether Garron Noone is a racist, than in whether what he said was true or not. It wasn't. And people are right to be alarmed that he said it, and to wonder why he did. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: I think anti-racists are right to be on high alert
I’m less concerned with why Garron Noone said what he said, than with whether it’s true or not
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Irish Times. The Bureau, published March 27th.
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The film was The Right Stuff about the first men sent into space which seemed to Lorraine to be apt to this high, remote country The Bureau, March 27th
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Bureau, coming March 27th
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Bureau, coming March 27th
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Pollard poetry prize shortlist revealed www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Pollard poetry prize shortlist revealed
Books newsletter: Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Irish Writers Centre events; ACIS award for Arlen House; Cló Iar-Chonnacht and Cúirt turn 40; Seachtain na Gaeilge
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I wrote this on arts funding, and the queasy feeling that it'll be Irish artists who end up paying for yet another government procurement scandal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Arts funding rows hurt artists who struggle to break even
"...it is hard to avoid the sense that the Government’s newfound notions of austerity will skip right past the men in suits and pass directly to the artists who rely on government funding to pursue th...
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Rhiannon Giddens singing a song associated with the civil rights movement as part of the "insane" "woke" Irish "musical" funded by USAID (actually a US embassy event). It's great. As written about by @hlinehan.bsky.social here: www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8R...
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Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - I Shall Not Be Moved | Live at Other Voices Dignity (2022)
YouTube video by OtherVoicesLive
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Apropros of nothing, here's me from exactly one month ago today, on how much I fucking hate the AI hype bubble and everything it represents. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
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The Gist: AI, a talking dog for the 21st Century.
Séamas O'Reilly on the year's biggest con, AI. This is a Christmas Cracker Gist.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A panel discussion celebrating the work of the legendary writer Edna O'Brien with Andrew O’Hagan, Danielle McLaughlin & Eoin McNamee in conversation with Rachael English ennisbookclubfestival.com/Event_slug/r...
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Remembering Edna O’Brien - Ennis Book Club Festival
A panel discussion celebrating the work of the legendary writer with Andrew O’Hagan, Danielle McLaughlin & Eoin McNamee in conversation with Rachael English A writer from Clare who carved out an impre...
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eoinmcnamee.bsky.social @eoinmcnamee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reposting in the light of todays ICC decision
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