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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 11h

I'm heading to the Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda tomorrow morning for a discussion about their current exhibition: Picturing the Border. We start at 11.30am and you can book at highlanes.ie. The exhibition explores how artists have reacted and responded to Ireland's border since 1922.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wonderful to be among Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year choices. Thank you to everyone there.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Boy from the Sea is, I notice, a great bargain on Amazon at the moment, whether in paperback or on Kindle. Just sayin'.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The reading list for this year's Craft & Technique, a module that's part of our MA in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Readers of the Rule of the Land may remember Paddy Bloomer who I traveled with for some of the Irish border's rivers and lakes. This is a recent project of his: a boat made from a bus and a large section of a wind turbine for a hull. He is currently taking the vessel from Coleraine to Portadown.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We've got a new a Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland, YA author Stephen Daly. Welcome! Stephen will be based with us at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's for two years, working with students and the public.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Coming up from the brilliant Máire Zepf.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This great walking travelogue is out in just a couple of days. It is also a history of Ireland’s relationship to the land, a powerful way to understand the country and its people.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is out soon and it's brilliant. A memoir, the book is full of vivid reconstructions of Colin's 1980s, Belfast upbringing but draws in broader questions about how the self is formed too. There's a touch of Annie Ernaux/Didier Eribon about its sensitivity and poise.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Something going on the wall of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens, Belfast. Watch this space.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of my maps, A View of the Border, the map that illustrates The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border, is included in this group show, opening in the Highlanes gallery, Drogheda, tomorrow. It's great to be among these artists and I look forward to seeing the show myself. highlanes.ie.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Irish traditional music today in St. Anne's Cathedral, Belfast. A few seconds of the flutes.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Over a thousand musicians playing Irish traditional music in St Anne's Square, Belfast, earlier today. Part of the Belfast TradFest.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

You can now find a stack of signed copies of The Boy from the Sea in the South Bridge Blackwell's, Edinburgh. Thank you to all the team there.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There is now a stack of signed copies of The Boy from the Sea in Waterstones, Princes Street, Edinburgh. Thanks to all the team there.

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FORESIGHTERS Doctoral Programme @foresighters.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

What is FORESIGHTERS? Professor Geraint Ellis explains more about our exciting project - sign up for an Information Webinar on our website! #MSCA #HorizonEurope #futures

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Want to come to Belfast and write about the future? I'm part of the Foresighters Doctoral Training Network and we have 20 funded places with which you can pursue your work in Queen's University, supervised by me or other team members. More in the comments, and here: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/foresi...

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It was wonderful to spend the afternoon in Dublin's Swiss Embassy where Le Garçon venu de la mer, the French translation of The Boy from the Sea, was awarded the Prix des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie en Irlande. The award is shared with my brilliant translator Pierre Bondil. Thanks to all ...

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

There are freshly signed copies of The Boy from the Sea in the Waterstones and the Foyles on the Tottenham Court Road, London.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm looking after two Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival events this week. Neither are actually in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter, they're both in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens. See the replies:

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Donegal. (I'm sorry I didn't get the artist's name but it's a window in Dungloe).

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Went to the 10,000 year old Moneystaghan Bog yesterday for a workshop with writers. We had guidance from Niamh Doran and Maria Mulholland from the RSPB. We were in the area of Toner's Bog, famous from Seamus Heaney's poem Digging. Thanks to Maria and Niamh and to all at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Great example of textual ambiguity on a door in the Glasshouse Hotel, Sligo.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

These are the rough locations of a few upcoming events I'm doing, see the thread for info and links.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Field Notes: Writing the Natural World with Garrett Carr. This workshop is happening May 2nd, in Partnership with RSPB NI. First we go to Moneystaghan Bog to learn about the ecology and character of the bogland then return to the Seamus Heaney HomePlace for some writing. Link is in the comments.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It's great to have The Boy from the Sea on the shortlist for the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Congratulations to the other nominees, hopefully we'll meet in May. This year’s shortlist was selected by adjudicators Nicola Sturgeon and Andrew O’Hagan. My thanks to them.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Nigerian vessels and Killybegs: A news story from the Donegal Democrat, 1988.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The Boy from the Sea was, I'm delighted to hear, the most borrowed book in Sligo Library last year so I'm glad to be visiting there soon to talk about the novel. Date: April 29. Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Location: Sligo Central Library.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Number 58 in a list of books by students of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens: EVERYTHING THAT IS BEAUTIFUL by Louise Nealon, published by @manillapress.bsky.social in a few days. "Wise, brutal and razor-sharp," says the Irish Times.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The audiobook of The Boy from the Sea, narrated by the brilliant Stanley Townsend, is an Audible Monthly Deal for April, you can get it for £4.99 this month.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I'm very happy to hear The Boy from the Sea, or rather Le Garçon Venu de la Mer has won the Prix Littéraire des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie en Irlande. It was great to work with Pierre Bondil on the French translation of the novel. We exchanged many emails during the process.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Killybegs in the 1960s. That's Phyllis, I'd say, on the left. (Thank you to Patrick O'Donnell and the Killybegs Facebook group for the photo).

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Wonderful to have The Boy from the Sea on the The British Book Award shortlist for the Book of the Year (debut fiction) award. We find out who has won on May 11th.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

When I was writing The Boy from the Sea I found it very useful to realise, or to decide, that it was Historical Fiction. So it is great to see that the novel topping that particular chart on Amazon. Thank you to all the readers out there.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Good morning. I see The Boy from the Sea is just 99p for Kindle at the moment. It's a limited time deal.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Matthew Rice's first poetry collection was number 2 on my list of books from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens and PLASTIC, just published, is 57. "Goes where poetry seldom does: the factory floor, the canteen, the night shift ... real and vital work," says Nick Laird. Published by Fitzcarraldo.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

What a great window! Thanks to everyone at Waterstones in Cirencester.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If you enjoyed @garrettcarr.bsky.social's The Boy From The Sea, you might like his journey walking the border (I did, very much)

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FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

❤️💙TONIGHT!!💙❤️ Still time to join us tonight w/ @garrettcarr.bsky.social at the bound … what a book! See (gull) you there! 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/whi... @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Nice seagulls! Thanks to everyone at www.forumbooksshop.com for this brilliant display.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Delighted to say that The Boy from the Sea is Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month. Thank you to the Waterstones team and I look forward to meeting some of you in England in the next few days.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Ian McDonald has published plenty and was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the European Science Fiction Society in 2019, but, nonetheless, his latest was written while he was studying in the SHC with us and it is number 56 on my list. BOY, WITH ACCIDENTAL DINOSAUR is published by Tor.

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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Hello Spanish readers of the world. El chico que vino del mar is out now.

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