Reposted by Eve PattenDavid Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Hurrah for Andrew McNeillie, who is definitely one of the good guys and whose eightieth birthday it is today. 3204
Reposted by Eve PattenIrish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026IWC - We Are Hiring: Programme Administrator irishwriterscentre.ie/we-are-hirin...irishwriterscentre.ieWe Are Hiring: Programme Administrator - Irish Writers CentreProgramme Administrator for the Irish Writers Centre 15 January 2026 ABOUT THE ROLE JOB TITLE: Programme Administrator CONTRACT: Full time, permanent, with six-month probation period. SALARY: €31... 075
Reposted by Eve PattenJohn Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Little Walter's influence on Derek Mahon has been strangely overlooked. youtu.be/cY7hnRaPJxM?...youtu.beLittle Walter - Everything's Gonna Be Alright [1959]YouTube video by Classic Mood Experience 031
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 12/01/2026‘Both illuminating and wise … The work of a great writer with a deep concern for humanity.’ Eoghan Smith, The Irish Examiner Delighted to see ESCAPE FROM THE ANTHILL by the singular Hubert Butler reviewed in the Examiner over the weekend 💫 Butler is Ireland’s answer to George Orwell, and his - 172
Reposted by Eve PattenKrzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social · 24/12/2025My book on failure will be out in April! In Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption, I look at how we talk about failure in public discourse, as well as across film, literature, and performance. 132
Reposted by Eve PattenJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 18/12/2025My last commission of the year just disappeared with a pop, so to console myself I'm rereading this. Aside from anything else, this is the best cover from all Amis's novels when they rejacketed them in a series look about 20 years ago. It's just perfect. 1123819
Reposted by Eve PattenPatrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady... 2830471
Reposted by Eve PattenVirtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 08/12/2025#TNAConnections Have you had a chance to explore our newest Gold Seam, Parchment Conquest (1171–1307)? 150 years ago Henry Savage Sweetman published the first of five volumes that would become foundational to the study of medieval Ireland. virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/C... 164
Reposted by Eve PattenGerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Book of the Year Eoin at his best—sentence by sentence. Courageous, stark, & uncompromising. Taking a true story, he nevertheless creates—like all great writers—his own unique version of that world, complete with its own language, which reveals the truth more clearly than reality can reveal itself. 195
Reposted by Eve PattenJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 22/11/2025“Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.” Me on Joyce Cary's great trilogy - Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth - where we observe the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us:thetimes.comThe swindler, the sex pest and the vamp — a great trilogyIn his First Trilogy, published between 1941 and 1944, Joyce Cary produced three novels touched by genius 1212
Reposted by Eve PattenTrinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Our latest window display to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books to @tcddublin.bsky.social Library. And...the full-day symposium kicking off now @tlrhub.bsky.social Find out more about the Pollard Collection here: bit.ly/449AL54 042
Reposted by Eve PattenRónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Oh hey! Thanks to Kevin Smith for a nice mention of the "ticklish deadpan" in Ghost Mountain in today's @irishtimes.com Hat tip @sarahgilmartin.bsky.social 🙏 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...irishtimes.comAuthor Kevin Smith: ‘Whenever I leave the North I do feel a pull – a hankering for that coded familiarity’The writer on his latest novel, Injury Time; his favourite funny writers; and the book that always makes him cry 161
Reposted by Eve PattenStephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025very grateful for this kind endorsement for 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' by @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social Prof Fearghal McGarry 074
Reposted by Eve PattenDeirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025📣 Job Vacancy 📣 Teaching Fellow in English Literature (0.5 FTE, Fixed Term – Spring Semester 2026) Mary Immaculate College, Limerick The appointee will have expertise in contemporary English Literature. Full details: www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va... Closing date: 2pm on Tuesday, 18 November 2025mic.ul.ieVacancies | Mary Immaculate CollegeMary Immaculate College has a wide range of academic and professional services job opportunities on an ongoing basis. Learn more about our vacancies. 034
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025It is the booksellers who put books into the hands of readers, who host events and signings, who champion Irish writers. Nothing we do would be possible without them. Support your local bookshops this week - ceannaigh go háitiúil, ceannaigh earraí Éireannacha ❤️ 095
Eve Patten @evepatt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025www.rte.ie/culture/2025...rte.ieNew Irish Fiction: Injury Time by Kevin SmithWe're celebrating Irish Book Week (which runs 18th - 25th October) with a series of choice extracts from outstanding new Irish titles... 020
Reposted by Eve PattenRónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 16/10/2025A short clip from Leonard and Hungry Paul for those who want a quick peek before tomorrow night. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...bbc.co.ukBBC One - Leonard and Hungry Paul, Series 1, Episode 1, "They don't give this sash to just anybody"Fire warden Shelley pulls rank on Leonard when a fire alarm goes off in the office. 76114
Eve Patten @evepatt.bsky.social · 16/10/2025www.independent.ie/entertainmen...independent.ieMarvellous cast of characters in Kevin Smith’s Injury Time romp through a mid-life crisis in Belfast and DublinMiddle age can be a trying time, but be grateful you’re not going through the trials foistered upon Fenton Conville around his 50th birthday. His Belfast tanning salons business had being booming and ... 191
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2025DRUID THEATRE: FIFTY YEARS by PATRICK LONERGAN 🎭 We are delighted to be publishing this fully-illustrated and authorised history of the iconic institution that is Druid Theatre, written by Patrick Lonergan with a foreword from Fintan O'Toole. 152
Reposted by Eve PattenCiaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 13/10/20254x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030. One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods. www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...tcd.iePhD Opportunity - Trinity East - Graduate Studies | Trinity College DublinProfessor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin. 12934
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/10/2025Crossword editor’s desk: clues for Michael Stipe and a life in puzzlestheguardian.comCrossword editor’s desk: clues for Michael Stipe and a life in puzzlesREM’s Michael Stipe declared it an honour to feature in a puzzle; we continue to do those honours 0272
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Journal @thejournal.ie · 10/10/2025A new museum dedicated to the life of Anglo-Irish Antarctic Explorer Ernest Shackleton has opened in his native Kildare. Among the features at the Shackleton Experience is the actual cabin in which he died in 1922. jrnl.ie/6840929jrnl.ieNew museum dedicated to Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Co KildareThe museum dedicated to Shackleton’s adventures is located in Athy Town Hall. 0258
Reposted by Eve PattenIrish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...theguardian.comThe Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievementThe complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time 15123
Reposted by Eve PattenIrish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"The books seen here are some of the many which will be housed in our new Seamus Heaney Poetry Library at No. 11 Parnell Square." 0122
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025'With a marvellous cast of characters and even an ending that nods at James Joyce's 'The Dead', it's hard to know what more could be asked of this winning piece of work.' - Pat Carthy, Sunday Independent INJURY TIME by Kevin Smith is out NOW! It's a brilliant novel- 141
Reposted by Eve PattenJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 04/10/2025“Some writers have no ear for the music.” I interviewed Ian McEwan for the @irishtimes.com about his new novel, about whether “early school leavers make bad decisions” … and what he didn’t like about his friend Martin Amis’s writing. In print now, online soon. 1396
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Fun day in the sun with Kevin Smith signing copies of his amazing novel INJURY TIME all over Dublin! Signed copies are now available at: 📕 @booksupstairs.bsky.social 📘 Dubray Books Mary St 📗 Hodges Figgis Big ups to the booksellers for their support ✨️ 031
Reposted by Eve PattenJane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Incredibly sad. A man with a most beautiful mind - a true intellectual in the best sense of the word. 0296
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2025The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullallytheguardian.comThe Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una MullallyRecord numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally 1214434
Eve Patten @evepatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025October Books of the Month- smart choices from @dubraybooks.bsky.social including #InjuryTime from Kevin Smith @lilliputpress.bsky.social 020
Eve Patten @evepatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025My other half on book-signing tour for #InjuryTime @lilliputpress.bsky.social & delighted to make the washing-machine window @dubraybooks.bsky.social 192
Reposted by Eve PattenKatja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 25/09/2025📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky 2413545
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2025First sighting of Scribendi in the wild! A gorgeous, gorgeous book celebrating the last forty years of Irish writing ❤️ 062
Reposted by Eve PattenClaire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Wonderful few days in Mexico City hosted by UNAM/La Cátedra Extraordinaria Eavan Boland-Anne Enright de Estudios Irlandeses - thanks to Hannah McCarthy for this great write up also featuring my @ucc.ie colleague Nuala Finnegan 1174
Reposted by Eve PattenDarryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 21/09/2025We have a cover! ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word! 813231
Reposted by Eve PattenAmanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Congratulations @sineadgleeson.bsky.social and @louisekennedy.bsky.social and thank you @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social - great to see a big group of people celebrating Norah Hoult today in Terenure 💫 2103
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20/09/2025irishtimes.comInjury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely wittyThe protagonist, a marvellous creation, is embedded in the affluent world of north Co Down – a Protestant world of generational wealth and no little ostentation 011
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 20/09/2025Injury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely wittyirishtimes.comInjury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely wittyThe protagonist, a marvellous creation, is embedded in the affluent world of north Co Down – a Protestant world of generational wealth and no little ostentation 032
Reposted by Eve PattenJellybooks Ltd @jellybooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025New from @lilliputpress.bsky.social 'Injury Time' by Kevin Smith This novel is a poignant, acerbic look at a man out of sync with the world around him. available to buy @omahonysbooks.bsky.social 📖 sample to look inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...jellybooks.comSample of "Injury Time" by Kevin SmithPeek inside this book and discover another great read. 062
Eve Patten @evepatt.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Fabulous launch last night for Kevin Smith’s #InjuryTime - now at number 1 @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social - thanks to everyone for coming @tlrhub.bsky.social @profdarryljones.bsky.social @etaintannam.bsky.social @klillington.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social 083
Reposted by Eve PattenJoel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential. 32520
Reposted by Eve PattenJohn Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Just arrived. Looking forward to reading this. @lilliputpress.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Eve PattenThe Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Happy publication week to this gem of a book, INJURY TIME by KEVIN SMITH 🍷🎉 Injury Time is the poignant, acerbic and at times hilarious story of Fenton Conville; businessman, upper-class, lapsed-Protestant. He coasts through life with his mates and his money in a sleepy village at the edge of- 122
Reposted by Eve PattenRónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 14/09/2025My @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column is now online for subscribers. Fiction from Romania, Italy, Haiti, China and Gaza. Fiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literature www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...irishtimes.comFiction in translation: Yang Hao an exciting new voice in Chinese – and Irish – literatureIn Farthest Seas; Blurred; Cécé; Diablo’s Boys; and Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide reviewed 12614
