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The pope is going to say that all art is essentially political then sit back with a look on his face like he's just blown our minds

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 11h

Massive win for Bohs. A lesson about switching off too soon but five wins in a row and the double is on somehow. I was a confirmed Reynolds sceptic but the team looks really well coached.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 12h

Started a reread of Septology by Jon Fosse, translated with sublime skill by Damion Searls. The feeling I had when reading this for the first time (in three separate volumes) has never left me and in truth I've probably been seeking it in all the books I've read since.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 15h

I'm feeling tired and it's raining so I decided not to go to Dalymount this evening which is just as well as I had forgotten Bohs are playing away in Dundalk.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 20h

Up to 71,000 students take the Irish Junior Certificate And Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social is now on the English curriculum. Absolutelybloodyawesome! @thebookseller.com

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Bren Berry @brenberry.bsky.social · 23h

Only One You And Me ⭐️ Out now Video shot in Nashville by Gems on VHS

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Catherine Crichton @catherinecrichton.bsky.social · 23h

So excited to see the cover for my novel based on the life of Irish artist Harry Clarke. It tells the story of his controversial Geneva Window as seen through the eyes of a young female assistant in Clarke’s studio. Set in 1920s Dublin, publishing January with @stairwellbooks.bsky.social

The cover features a highly detailed stained glass panel by Clarke. It features the character of Nelly from Liam O’Flaherty’s Mr Gilhooley. He picks her up from the street and she dances for him wearing only a thin veil. The figure of Nelly is depicted with a head of golden curls. Her pink veil, decorated with tiny star and heart shapes and a yellow zigzag border, seems to float around her. Clarke used a photo of a dancer from the Ballet Russes as inspiration. Cover text reads ‘The Window, A Novel, Catherine Crichton’

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's National Poetry Day and yes, it should run for a week, or a month, or even longer. Here's my book about reading one short poem very closely for a year - and what a poem! www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...

Cover of A Crumpled Swan: fifty essays about Abigail Parry's 'In the dream of the cold restaurant' published by Sagging Meniscus Press

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Agustín Fernández Mallo, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Mieko Kanai, Jonathan Buckley. Thoroughbreds

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Sharon Duggal novel alert! Auto-buy for me and, may I suggest, for you.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Am insanely busy these times and my brain is full of words and numbers, but heroically I still fit some fine literature into my life. Hunter by Shuang Xuetao, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang. I enjoyed Rouge Street and this story collection has started well.

Proof cover. Text from the opening section of the first story.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have another wonderful #buyastrangerabook day offer for you. @ultrasteve.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of any book by Ronan Hession. So, if there's one in particular you'd like, get in touch. UK only

three books by Ronan.

Leonard & Hungry Paul
Panenka
Ghost Mountain

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Liz Nugent @liznugent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you happen to be in Hamburg, Berlin or Stuttgart next week, I will be there talking about my books. Hope you can make it! @gutkind_verlag @irlembberlin @thalia.berlin @thalia.stuttgart @harbourfrontLiteraturfestivalHamburg @samuel.Benke www.liznugent.com/upcoming-eve...

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General 2 — LIZ NUGENT

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes a book comes along, And you just know, know that it is storytelling at Its very, very best. A truly remarkable novel and a shadow history of the 20th century. Light Across the Plains by Sharon Duggal. Remarkable.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The soundtrack for the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show is now available. I loved the music in the show so I'm delighted this is out. By the hugely talented Oli Julian. open.spotify.com/album/4twL7m...

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Leonard and Hungry Paul (Music from the Programme) - Compilation by Oli Julian | Spotify

Oli Julian · compilation · 2026 · 14 songs

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In my Japanese class last week the teacher got us all to say which country we're from. The class has people from Ireland, Czechia, US, Croatia, Ukraine, Spain, Iran and South Africa. Am blown away by someone from Iran or Ukraine learning Japanese through English. People are awesome.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tempted to break my six sandwich limit.

Sign saying every seventh sandwich free.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watched Spirited Away last night. My second studio Ghibli film. Loved the imagination and originality in it. I've also seen Boy and Heron. The films are a little light on story/character depth but of course pitched perfectly for intended audience. I thought Wolf Children had more adult appeal.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seen in the window of Kennedy's pub, Drumcondra, yesterday.

Pub window. Sign says Husband Day Care Centre. Need time to yourself? Need time to relax? Leave your husband with us and we'll look after him for you.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well worth a read. This bit is so true: “What happens,” she explains, as she lays out her creative method, “is that not only do voices come to you, but it’s almost like looking at a wall and seeing a movie playing on it; you know, you see everything at once… and the voices pop into your head.”

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And off it goes, David Collard’s Personal Anthology, clanking, stumbling down from Selston, passing the house and studying the lighted square of window, leaving a thin cloacal trail all across the walls and the ceiling, groaning like a thing possessed, waiting for the geranium…

apersonalanthology.substack.com

A Personal Anthology of Debuts, by David Collard

In a slight departure from tradition, Jonathan has allowed me to submit a selection of short stories that mark their author’s first appearance in print, presented (more or less) in chronological order...

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Always, always meet your heroes. 💙

Me with Antonin Panenka at Bohemians vs Bohemians Prague in Dalymount.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social are back delivering to Ireland again so I treated myself to two of my auto-buy writers: Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Perfecting the Shot by Mathias Enard, translated from French by Charlotte Mandel.

Both books with the standard plain blue fitzcarraldo covers.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I understood that to live with a work of fiction ... one has to love it quite passionately and be comfortable with all its moods and habits, or – as Colm Tóibín puts it with delicious domestic flair – one has to stay for long periods of time in one’s “mental pyjamas”."

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‘My generation of novelists is dying’: Rose Tremain on 70 years of writing, and late-life inspiration

As her latest novel about Daphne du Maurier is published, the bestselling author reflects on age and creativity – and why at 83 she has no plans to stop

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think Irish people come across as friendly when really we just relish having fresh meat to practice our jokes on.

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incredible photo by Rich Fury in the Irish Times of U2 on Grafton Street this evening

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our 2027 Lunar Calendars have arrived!

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is Sixtus V the Forfar 5-East Fife 4 of popes.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fun fact - the taxi driver from Scrooged on vocals.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lunchtime book shopping. New novel by a favourite of mine, Adrian Duncan – A Thought Without Collision. Am on a break from prose reading while I'm editing but will save this for when I'm done.

Turquoise book cover with black and white photo of a house by a lake

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A photograph of WB Yeats by Alexander Robert Hogg (from the auction pages of the Irish Times). Yeats looking a much sturdier fellow than I was expecting.

Black and white photo of Yeats with white hair and round glasses, wearing tweed, carrying a bit of weight, in front of a microphone stand.

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm excited to be taking part in the Cork International Short Story Festival, in among all these legends! My event is in Cork Arts Theatre, on Thursday 15th October, 19:30 pm @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The comments under Guardian book articles are all like, "I've never heard of this author or read their books and I certainly don't think I ever shall."

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I always look forward to autumn in Dublin. Yellow and orange leaves against the red brick.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rounding out a writing residency in beautiful Birr with an event at the town’s library this evening (a former church, with stunning stained glass). 7pm, all welcome, if you know anyone in Offaly…

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Andrew Beasley @andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 23/09/2026

Anfield is the best stadium in England. Not my words, Carol, the words of over 54,000 Google reviews. Where does your team's ground rank among the 92? Find out in the searchable table in here:

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Which football stadiums have the highest and lowest Google ratings? | The Knowledge

Plus: the longest waits for 0-0 draws, more early replica kits and champions with the smallest ground

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thursday 24th September at 7pm (BST) join me and authors Kevin Boniface, Susanna Crossman Paul Kavanagh & Tony White for POST MODERN, an online event featuring writers connected with postal services. Free & all welcome. If not already invited email me via m'website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The low level cumulative dragging effect of bad things happening to people you know. Relatives, colleagues, old friends. Every month or so someone getting sick, sicker or passing on. It was always there a bit but over the past few years it has become an undeniable presence.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well done @lukekennard.bsky.social and Mike John Harrison. Enjoy it all. We fellow weirdos salute you. Well done to Djamel White who was long listed for his debut, All Them Dogs – great things ahead for him I'm sure.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Book post! Ordered this after enjoying the Buson poems posted by @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social Translated from Japanese by Yuki Sawa and Edith Marcome Shiffert.

Cover: a collection of haiku by eighteenth century Japanese poet Buson. A circular painting of a man on a horse

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