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Naoise Dolan

@naoisedolan.bsky.social
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Novelist. Author of EXCITING TIMES (2020), THE HAPPY COUPLE (2023), third novel coming 2027 ⁊ ag scríobh an 4ú ceann i nGaeilge linktr.ee/naoisedolan

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Justice for the Ulm 5! Dublin protest Friday 14th August, 4-6pm outside Goethe Institute on Merrion Sq, D02 XK52
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Justice for the Ulm 5! Dublin protest Friday 14th August, 4-6pm outside Goethe Institute on Merrion Sq, D02 XK52
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I can actually avoid this image fairly easily. As an Irish-speaker it has actually never once occurred to me to think of myself as a kept animal
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The German state is persecuting the Ulm 5 for taking direct action against the genocide of Palestinians. Irish citizen Daniel Tatlow is one of them, their family put together this petition demanding the Irish government send independent monitors to the trial. Please sign my.uplift.ie/petitions/su...
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Support Ireland’s monitoring of Germany’s “show trial” against the Ulm 5!
  Who’s really on trial here: The Ulm 5 - or German justice?  Family and loved ones of the Ulm 5 ask you to bring attention to this trial.  Please sign the petition! If you care about...
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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Long live the Revolutionary Housing League!
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/07/2026
‘There are more than eight thousand adults and over four thousand children in emergency accommodation in Dublin. The Liberties has lost community spaces in favour of sightseeing attractions and luxury short lets.’ @naoisedolan.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Naoise Dolan | Evicted
The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/07/2026
‘In the month that the Anne Devlin Community Centre opened, people were campaigning against a proposed aparthotel development and for the city council to tackle mould and rats in the Oliver Bond public housing complex.’ @naoisedolan.bsky.social on housing in Dublin. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Naoise Dolan | Evicted
The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/07/2026
‘There are more than eight thousand adults and over four thousand children in emergency accommodation in Dublin. The Liberties has lost community spaces in favour of sightseeing attractions and luxury short lets.’ @naoisedolan.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Naoise Dolan | Evicted
The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/07/2026
‘The Revolutionary Housing League acquired Ardee House in the Liberties district of Dublin and turned it into the Anne Devlin Community Centre. (“This isn’t ‘squatting’,” Seán told me. “This is acquisition.”)’ New on the blog from @naoisedolan.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Naoise Dolan | Evicted
The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Irish state is doing all it can to ensure vacant buildings go unused in a housing crisis. I wrote for the LRB about the Revolutionary Housing League getting evicted www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Naoise Dolan | Evicted
The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m speaking at this CATU gig on the 15th about the role of artists in direct housing action (spoiler: there is no special one, let’s get over ourselves and just take the same actual risks as everyone else) www.eventbrite.com/e/rock-the-r...
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Rock the Rents!
Rock the Rents! CATU Fundraiser ft. Delivery Service, SELL EVERYTHING, Cable Boy, and Soft Drink Millionaire!
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
On the arrests and eviction of the Anne Devlin centre open.substack.com/pub/naoise/p...
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Got raided, how about you
Community centre, Connolly, charity shop concertina
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Bhí an chéad phóg aerach a craoladh ar an teilifís in Éirinn, ar Ros na Rún #Bród 🏳️‍🌈
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Protest tomorrow 5.30pm at Teeling’s, The Liberties, Dublin! Bígí linn a chairde Gael and anyone who opposes capitalist destruction of our communities
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Who needs AI posters when you have one novelist wielding a Sharpie
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World Editions @worldedbooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Portrays a changing Hong Kong alongside developments in London’s Chinatown, delivering a touching look at the search for home." @ala-booklist.bsky.social "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the lived generational texture of what’s happening now in Hong Kong.” @naoisedolan.bsky.social
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Today at the Anne Devlin Community centre in the Liberties! Take back empty buildings ⁊ labhraigí Gaeilge
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Really positive mood today at the Anne Devlin Community Centre. The owner has been trying to send in guards and private security to stop a place that’s been abandoned for 16 years from being used for the Liberties local community. Don’t let him do it quietly www.independent.ie/county/dubli...
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Inside Ardee House: ‘We are ensuring all vacant buildings are returned to their rightful owners: the people of Dublin’
Activists will hold public meeting this weekend to work on turning the occupied pub in The Liberties into a cafe
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is a lie. I was in there today helping out a little and it’s structurally fine. Be ready to defend this space when the time comes, bring any cutlery books cleaning supplies etc you have lying around in the meantime
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Osgur Ó Ciardha @osgurociardha.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Míle cuntas ar an bhfód anois thall ar @cogarapp.bsky.social
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Huge crowd for Yves Sakila today. Racism is a necessary condition for what’s happening in Palestine, and to properly oppose this racism we must also address it within our own borders. Everyone who’s been vocal on Palestine needs to speak up for #JusticeForYves
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I can imagine selling my soul for something darkly, irresistibly glamorous. Selling it to keep being a fucking FF/FG backbencher whipped out of voting against genocide is too contemptible for words
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Protests outside the Dáil tomorrow 5.30 for full sanctions against Israel, and 1pm Thursday over police murdering Yves Sakila like too many Black men before him. If you can’t come do something else, this week all the absolute dregs of humanity are on show and we need to fight it
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Irish government paid for the current kidnapping of citizens by continuing to trade with Israel. Anyone who votes against full sanctions tomorrow is not only refusing to help, but actively funding the piracy
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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bhí an allagar dátheangach idir @naoisedolan.bsky.social agus Emma Ferrari ag ilfdublin.com I gcearnóg Mhuirfean thar a bheith spéisiúil. B'fhiú an ruathar ó stáisiún Uí Chonghaile. Ag súil go mór le húrscéal Gaeilge lonnaithe i mBeirlín!
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International Literature Festival Dublin
Ireland's premier literary event, ILFD celebrates international and Irish writing. Returning to Merrion Square Park 17 - 26 of May 2024.
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International Literature Festival Dublin @ilfdublin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
What does it mean to move into Irish as a writer whose work has been shaped in English? Naoise Dolan and Emma Ferrari offer a fresh and nuanced perspective on Irish-language writing today — and ask what it might become next. 📅 Sunday 17 May 🕰️ 5pm 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
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Writing into Irish Naoise Dolan in conversation with Emma Ferrari
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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
‘I have better things to do.’ Naoise Dolan on refusing to unpack. granta.com/the-pile/
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‘I have better things to do.’Naoise Dolan on refusing to unpack.
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Kidnapping near Crete is a new level of audacity even for Israel. They saw from the last flotilla that there would be no diplomatic consequences for their actions. Appealing to our authorities to sanction them has done essentially nothing, we need to directly disrupt their supply chain from Europe
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Dubs: come to the German embassy in Booterstown on Monday at 1pm if you can, there’s a protest for Daniel Tatlow-Devally and the Ulm 5. No juries under German civil law makes it harder than for Palestine Action in the UK; our best hope to help is sustained public pressure over the next few months
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Tá seanchainteoir aontheangach Gaeilge le fáil i nach mór gach teaghlach sa Cheathrú Rua, abair, sa daonáireamh 1926 nua-fhoilsithe. Má tá sochaí daonna fós ann in 3000 beimid in ann a fheiceáil arb é Seán Ó hEinirí i ndáiríre an duine deireanach
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Fuel is going up as a direct result of US- and European-backed imperial aggression. See you at the next port blockade for Palestine comrades
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
An Meiriceá, na hamfataimíní agus an t-impiriúlachas naoise2.substack.com/p/la-na-nama...
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Lá na nAmadán
An Meiriceá, na hamfataimíní agus an t-impiriúlachas
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I was wondering why the Telegraph was the only mainstream media outlet to state clearly in the headline just what is happening here, and then I realised it’s because their readers will approve
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I wrote about why AI ‘authors’ are the natural extension of a culture that values being a writer above writing naoise.substack.com/p/ai-and-bei...
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AI and 'being a writer'
Author-figures and vibe-seeking
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Táim tar éis bheith ar ócáidí liteartha sa tSualainn, i Meiriceá ⁊ san Eilvéis agus bhí iontas an domhain ag daoine nach dtugann rialtas na hÉireann maoiniú don aistriúchán Gaeilge go Béarla. Bheadh an-deis sna tíortha sin, tá suim ann go deimhin, dá mbeadh siad díreach in ann na leabhair a léamh
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Quick observations from the Land of the Free (🔒) open.substack.com/pub/naoise/p...
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Stateside dispatch
Catholic lino, meeting my publisher, having 'an accent'
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Native Irish speakers interviewed in the US in the early 90s expressing a hope that the language would one day be hip
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Osgur Ó Ciardha @osgurociardha.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"The abandoned native speakers of the Gaeltacht have not found reliable strategic allies among the [second-language educated] elites." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: Ireland’s ‘power class’ has a colonial attitude to the Irish language
A language revival oblivious to the erasure of its existing speaker communities is a contradiction in terms
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Nuachtlitir Ghaeilge nua: an tine Triangle Shirtwaist, an Nua-Ghaeltacht, leabhar baolach agus eile open.substack.com/pub/naoise2/...
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Sochtheangeolaíocht agus tine
Triangle Shirtwaist, an Nua-Ghaeltacht, leabhar baolach
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Israel’s well-established targeting of journalists is going to intensify across the region. If you are a journalist employed by mainstream media, you need to not only condemn this individually but challenge your actual organisation on how they manufacture consent for it
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea tells Naoise Dolan about walking in Paris with Rousseau. What began as an academic text on the philosopher morphed into an epistolary novel that playfully mirrors 21st-century communication www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea on walking in Paris with Rousseau
What began as an academic text on the Enlightenment-era philosopher morphed into an epistolary novel that playfully mirrors 21st-century communication
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New newsletter naoise.substack.com/p/poto-and-c...
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Huge day for anyone who doesn’t hate my voice: I’ve started doing paywalled voice notes for when I’m truly just thinking aloud and don’t want it to be seen as a publicly accessible quote-unquote contribution to discourse. Here’s one on writing as job vs hobby naoise.substack.com/p/voice-note...
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Voice note: Writing as hobby vs job
I decided to add a paywalled tier for more spontaneous thoughts via voicenotes, things where I’m truly just thinking aloud and don’t necessarily want it to be publicly accessible as a considered contr...
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Is breá liom Eileen Gu, ach is fuath liom gur coincheap frithchultúrtha anois é an diansmaoineamh – mo nuachtlitir is deireanaí naoise2.substack.com/p/an-rud-ar-...
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold Join Naoise Dolan, Anne Griffin & Ailbhe Malone in conversation, in collaboration with @dublinbookfest.bsky.social. Ancient Irish myth, retold — bold women reclaiming their stories. 📅 4 March at 6.30pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold
Naoise Dolan, Anne Griffin and Ailbhe Malone in conversation
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Occam’s Razor, I know, but the impact of the BBC’s editorial choices has certainly been that the censorship of Free Palestine has gone relatively undiscussed. When an organisation’s blunders somehow miraculously only BENEFIT them, it starts to look like deliberate deflection
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
One funny thing learning Arabic has made me realise is that when Israeli pundits go out of their way to say KHAMASSSSS to up the threat level to the Western ear, it just sounds like they’re mixing it up with the word for ‘five’
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Why autistic people are often BETTER at tolerating ambiguity + my thoughts on Assimil’s Arabic course that I’m halfway through naoise.substack.com/p/autistic-a...
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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Tabhair dom an treo ceart - @naoisedolan.bsky.social Sanremo, @realt.bsky.social agus Nuala Rua, i measc rudaí eile. Grean séimh, léargas eile. naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...
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Tabhair dom an treo ceart
Iarracht Sanremo a mhíniú
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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. There are few clearer examples of how no one is free until Palestine is free: if unchallenged this ban would have destroyed civil liberties across the board. Solidarity with everyone who risked years of incarceration to fight it
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