Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Excellent news - @ravenbooks.bsky.social - my mother ‘can’t put the book down’!! 151
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m off to @shhomeplace.bsky.social this evening to talk to Sebastian Barry about his new novel The Newer World! @faberbooks.bsky.social 050
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Thank you to @ravenbooks.bsky.social for this recommendation- a fab and eerie tale of 18th-century Oxfordshire, a heatwave, five strange sisters, and so much more. Loved it. 1102
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I started this marvellous novel a while ago, got interrupted, and restarted it last week. Finished it this morning on the back step. Will be thinking about Lydia, Joyce, Pan and, yes, Betty for a long time. Loved your surprising way with words and images @regretteruane.bsky.social 4396
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Watching Peter Gabriel gig in Athens in 1987- c/o Sky Arts- out of the marvellous! 230
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 17/02/2026So the weather is wild but these hellebores are dancing … living their best lives. 092
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Fair Deal, Una McKevitt’s new play on the Peacock stage @abbeytheatre.bsky.social, is dark, funny and outrageous- 3 of my favourite things. Fab acting, writing and directing. #speirghorm 064
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 07/02/2026The road west- Clifden-bound with a pitstop in Oughterard. Connemara. 💕 070
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Happy Christmas Eve from Blackrock, Co. Dublin! 1151
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 14/12/2025If only ours was a house share. Meet Fred and Ginger, feudal fluffy overlords. We’re just staff. 130
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Oh losing our fluffy overlords is tough - Dec 27 last year, I found out my girl Ginger had a tumour, having gone to the vet thinking she had a bug and just needed an antibiotic. 3 days later, she was gone. 120
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 11/11/2025A poignant honour to host a tribute to Arena’s Seán Rocks last Sun with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry @winterpapers.bsky.social - Paula Meehan & Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Exquisite words & music - & an audience of friends & family. At Dublin Book Festival. ❤️ 0163
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Spending a little time with Derek Mahon this morning- what a poet- and looking forward to a celebration of him this evening with Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Stephen Rea, Claire Keegan, John Banville - Gallery Press event at Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. 040
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Very pleased I'll be talking to Christine Dwyer Hickey and David Park at this @dublinbookfest.bsky.social event on Sat 8 Nov! Love CDH, as do many, and DP should be much better known than he is - 041
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I have multitudes of photos- she was such a character! 130
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 07/09/2025I still call my 12-year-old a puppy, pep or no! 160
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 01/09/2025OH first cooked chicken for Fred 12 years ago. There’s no going back!! 130
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I’m off to Clifden Arts Festival in Connemara to talk to Donal Ryan on Friday 19th Sept at 3pm. It will be lively! 061
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Well Reader, I loved it. Need to re-read regularly. Astonishing writing, hard to describe, which is as it should be. 060
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Tonight at 7, on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social we are broadcasting a terrific public interview Sean Rocks did with Claire Keegan in Oct 2023. 0338
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Opening lines of this: decades before AI, a teacher suspects plagiarism of 15-year-old Angel! 0111
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 06/07/2025So it’s taken a while to start this (!) but thanks to @iammilliam.bsky.social and @backlisted.bsky.social for the nudge. 4162
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Yesterday’s secondhand book swag. Well into The Statement by Brian Moore already! 020
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I’m off to @shhomeplace.bsky.social Bellaghy, co. Derry on 26 July to talk to Paul Lynch about this Booker-prizewinner and more! 130
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 26/05/2025I’m talking to author Eimear McBride on Thu 29th May @shhomeplace.bsky.social about her magnificent novel The City Changes Its Face. Cannot wait! @cathybrown746.bsky.social 010
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 08/05/2025I’m talking to author Eimear McBride at @shhomeplace.bsky.social on 29th May - looking forward to it! 020
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 03/05/2025There’s a fine art to this, according to Fred- 020
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 01/05/2025@stingingfly.bsky.social celebrates 20 years of its amazing bk publishing enterprise - I’m talking to Declan Meade, founding editor, tonight in Dublin Liberties Distillery - Kevin Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colin Barrett etc - incredible back catalogue! 021
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Here’s a documentary that will stay with me- exquisite storytelling and great music. Now playing Some Time in New York City as a sequel! @lighthousecinema.bsky.social 020
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I’m reviewing this on Arena, @rteradio1.bsky.social this eve at 7.45. #Booksky 060
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I’m so sorry, what a double blow- we lost our glorious girl Ginger suddenly to cancer in December- we still have her brother Fred- deepest condolences. 110
