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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us on 21 October for the launch of 'The Refugee Chronicles' by Evgeny Shtorn at @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social 🚀 Evgeny will be joined on the eve by the wonderful @jesstraynor.bsky.social Presented in partnership with @smashingtimes.bsky.social and supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Arcana has been out for about a year. Celebrating by sharing some nasty little poems. ✨️ Thanks to @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social & all the various wonderful festivals reviewers and lit orgs who have supported the work this past year!

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So looking forward to this - come join us!

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really looking forward to a trip to Write by the Sea this weekend!

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Catch us at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social in November! Author @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social and editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social talk girlhood remixed, and editor @eimearryan.bsky.social speaks on the future of publishing ✨️ dublinbookfestival.com/event/girlho... dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-fu...

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Girlhood Remixed - Dublin Book Festival

Join us at Dublin Book Festival 2026 for an event with poets looking at experiences of girlhood and womanhood

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 12/09/2026

A protest supported by opposition parties Sinn Féin, Labour, Social Democrats, the Greens and People Before Profit is taking place in Dublin city centre against Trump’s visit. Other protests are due to take place in Clare, where Trump has travelled for the Irish Open.

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Banshee Press is developing a strategic plan, setting out a roadmap for us as a publisher and literary organisation for the next few years. We would be very grateful if you could take five minutes to fill out our anonymous survey. Link below – many thanks for your input! bit.ly/4in8qjR

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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're really pleased to be sponsoring an artist residency at Drumnadubber Studios in Co Leitrim. It's an admin-light application process - closing date 30 Sept 26, do encourage interested artists to apply. Details on applications here: winterpapers.com/submissions

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Winter Papers Submissions

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So delighted to be featured in Poetry Daily today!

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Adam Hanna @adamhanna.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The wonderful Billy Ramsell recited from his new book *Render* in @booksupstairs.bsky.social yesterday, and talked about it with Adam Wyeth. Interesting to hear about how the role @jesstraynor.bsky.social - also pictured - played as poem-doctor to the collection's stunning funeral ballad.

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Banshee issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) is now winging its way to subscribers! Order at the link below ☀️ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Loved this new collection of poetry by Mícheál McCann, published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social. Mícheál will be reading alongside Nithy Kasa and @jesstraynor.bsky.social at WCLF on 15 July. This event is in association with @poetryireland.bsky.social 🎟️ in our bio www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Lives of the Saints by Mícheál McCann: Poetry that elevates the commonplace

Derry poet’s second collection dives deeper into religious and historical themes

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“You wouldn’t know if the reason is that we have a different sense of how cinema works or we have a different sense of what genocide is.” @alexnpress.bsky.social on Hollywood's invisible blacklist: lareviewofbooks.org/article/holl...

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Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist | Los Angeles Review of Books

Perfecting the art of the blacklist.

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is such bad news. The Axis cafe is the beating heart of Ballymun. Every time I'm there I witness the community and camaraderie it provides. Really hoping it can be saved.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/05/2026

Announcement! I have a new YA Horror coming out with @littleislandbooks.bsky.social! It's out this August!

An image of Dead Teenager Movie by Cethan Leahy a book published by Little Island, ready for pre-order now! The tagline says "She loved scary movies... until she had the starring role."

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) has gone to print! View the contents, pre-order a copy or renew your subscription at the link below ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

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Issue 21 | Spring/Summer 2026 — Banshee Press

104 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-23-7

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Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Hope you can join Lorna and me for our book launches

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Really sorry to hear this. Carol was very generous & insightful in her readings, & her choices were eclectic. I hope the Guardian will keep this space for poetry - Carol's assessments were so much more in depth than the reviews.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The British Army, protectng the nation against unarmed civil rights protestors.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

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Year-on-year datasets tracking changes in public sentiment in Ireland between 2024 and 2025 show
that 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, which is up 2% up from 64% in 2024.
79% believe working-class people are struggling due to systemic inequality which is also up 2% from 77% in 2024.
Those who believe wealthy people are successful because they were given more opportunities than others has risen from 63% in 2024 to 69% in 2025.
The number of people who support the freedom of transgender people to live their lives is up 5% up from 70% in 2024.
80% agree that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities face greater barriers to success than white people, up 5% up from 75% in 2024.

Research Framework
Ireland in Focus draws on multiple sources of data to provide a clearer understanding of how hate, disinformation and far-right mobilisation are evolving across Ireland in
2025. This includes H&CC's analysis of far-right developments in political organising, informal networks and far-right agitators, giving insights into how narratives, mobilisation and organising strategies are emerging and shifting.
company Dynata. The data was independently weighted by Ireland Thinks using demographic and methodological controls such as age, gender, ethnicity and voting behaviour at time of poll fielding to ensure representativeness and statistical robustness. The consistent methodology across both waves allows for reliable year-on-year comparison of sentiment and social trends and the large sample size gives high levels of statistical significance.
Ireland in Focus also draws data from 89 communities' crisis responses (49 in 2024 and 40 in 2025) supported by H&CC to capture how local communities responded in real time to moments of tension, protest and disinformation.
Ireland in Focus, assesses public attitudes through two large, nationally representative, anonymous surveys conducted in 2024 and 2025, each with approximately 3,000 respondents via independent polling
The consistency in design across both years provides a robust basis for tracking how attitudes are shifting - making this one of the first datasets of its kind in Ireland to capture changes in public sentiment over time. Finally to understand how narratives were spreading and evolving in the public sphere, narrative benchmarking was analysed using a commercial social media research tool.

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Hearing this set to a jaunty indie sleaze riff with lots of 'woa-ohs'

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A little highlight from the Prynne obit

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Busy week ahead! I'll be at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social tomorrow and Weds, at @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social on Thurs and then off to rep @bansheepress.bsky.social at the @poetrysociety.bsky.social Free Verse Book Fair. If you're in Galway, Cork or London come say hi 👋

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Lovely day @granardbooktown.bsky.social reading with Stephen Murray. Granard is such a gorgeous feetival. Thanks so much for having us! ✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @salmonpoetry.bsky.social

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

'He said a ban on exploration and drilling, introduced in 2021, should be lifted “for the good of the nation”.' What about the good of the planet? The people? He's either a moron or a scumbag. Pick your poison - his is oil TL;DR: NO THEY'RE FUCKING NOT www.thejournal.ie/should-irela...

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Are the fuel protestors right - should Ireland drill for oil?

Various bodies have previously estimated that there could be billions of barrels worth of the black stuff buried in the Irish seabed.

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The suggestion that Ireland should reverse the ban on drilling for oil and gas has popped up again. I made a programme looking at this from every imaginable angle. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Spoiler alert: The arguments for drilling don’t add up.

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Ep 13 - The Iniskea Prospect

Should Ireland leave all its oil and gas reserves in the ground or drill to achieve energy independence?

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

April news: shorturl.at/wZfJt #PeterDidsbury: Scenes from a Long Sleep out 10/04; @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana on #PigottPoetryPrize shortlist; #RitaAnnHiggins on @rteradio1.bsky.social's Brendan O'Connor Show; @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social review in @irishtimes.com & podcast feature & more

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Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir @uglastefania.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Come join me for a three day workshop in beautiful Bantry - writing in the morning and a host of gorgeous West Cork Lit Festival readings at the festival to choose from in the evening ✨️ (readings sold separately)

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Looking at this thing of beauty! Render by Billy Ramsell is a PBS recommendation and one of the most inventive and original collections I've read. Get your pre-orders in!

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Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Billy's new book is superb. Highly recommended. Go buy it! You'll be supporting one of Ireland's great small press publishers and Cork's greatest living poet (and someone who genuinely happens to be among the great raconteurs of this world). It's a twofer.

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Some lovely news for the Easter weekend 🐣✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Arresting Palestine Action activists for holding signs while this idiot is invited to headline Finsbury Park.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum? There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The underlying message of trans girls being banned from guides for "safeguard" reasons is that only segregation can keep women and girls safe from "biological men" and it must start in childhood. It's such puritan regression from ideas on deconstructing rape culture, toxic masculinity and #MeToo

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Fun times at The Poetry Lounge at Waterford Gallery of Art today with @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social & Eithne Lannon. Big thanks to the brilliant Ger Duffy for organising!

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b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

So delighted that the news is out! Big congrats @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 👏👏👏

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Step one: colonise half the planet Step two: steal their art Step three: charge them entry to see it

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This. After the Ballinrobe parade float debacle, I saw lots of men saying 'at least it keeps Epstein in the news'. When I said to one, an elderly man hugging his grandson in his profiler, that a parade float with men simulating rape isn't the way to do this, he told me I was too ugly to be raped. ✨️

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This ruling is so grim and unkind. I don't really understand why guides/scouts are segregated in any case. It's retrograde and weird and this ruling just furthers that.

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Molly McCluskey @mollymccluskey.com · 15/03/2026

It's #Irish #Book Day! (aka my favorite day of the year.) Today with @solasnuadc.bsky.social & @bansheepress.bsky.social at the @heurichhouse.bsky.social until 6 or whenever books run out. Choose between poetry and short stories.

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Looking forward to reading at this on the 28th ✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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