Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 03/12/2025On this day 100 years ago the Irish Free State government sold out the North by signing a deal fixing the British border in Ireland. My novel Some Service to the State is set in the months before that betrayal and deals with some of the consequences of Partition for all Ireland 041 4
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 02/12/2025From the country that brought you #Brexit… #DieHardIsAChristmasMovie #EnglandIsAVerySillyCountry 031 3
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 16/08/2025@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social among the bestsellers #ImNotJealousAtAll 120 2
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 04/08/2025When tempering their blades, samurai swordsmiths would heat the metal until it was the colour of the August moon. 011 1
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 07/05/2025First they came for the Palestinians, and Western governments cheered them on and gave them money to keep at it and threatened any one who even thought of writing a poem about Palestinians. 040 4
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Veliki Slap (Big Waterfall), Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia 010 1
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 06/03/2025As it’s #WorldBookDay I’d like to give a shout out to my two “Partition Noir” novels. Try them, please. You might like them 153 5
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 22/02/2025If I was less shy I’d do more portraiture, but here’s one I prepared earlier: the author Marty Sandler 010 1
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Lovely evening last night with @donalohanlon.bsky.social, (director), Paddy McGennety (Mick) and Pauline Lynch (Sophia) celebrating the release of the audiobook of my novel, Some Service to the State 022 2
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 02/02/2025🎵I’d grab that crescent moon, wield it like a knife… 🎶 020 2
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 15/01/2025You’d probably HATE my books! I can even sent you copies if you need your week ruined? 000 0
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Do bribes help drive ratings up? (Asking for an imaginary friend) 110 1
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Treason doth never prosper. What’s the reason? For when it prospers none dare call it treason. 030 3
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 29/12/2024In #DarkWinds, based on Tony Hillerman’s #Navajo novels, Joe Leaphorn describes how 19th Century US soldiers forced his ancestors out into the winter to freeze or stave to death Exactly what US proxies are currently doing to innocent Palestinians in #Gaza #NothingButTheSameOldStory 011 1
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 09/12/2024At #ILSC24 in Birmingham this morning, learning about dialogue in leadership 030 3
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Francie looked at Eamon, “I feel we are at an abyss no matter which way we turn.” “Aye,” said Eamon. “It is called war.” 071 7
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Here is one I prepared earlier: not only short but “a page-turner”, compared, in a good way, with Darkness at Noon! 000 0
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Trump 2.0 Planning on doing to the US what Israel is doing to the West Bank 000 0
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 25/11/2024A lot of Americans may feel they are better than this. But the nation of LBJ, Nixon and Biden has brought this on itself. We can only hope and pray that the world survives. 021 2
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 24/11/2024A bit late to it, but finally got the Christmas cake in the oven 050 5
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Flowers are nature’s smiles -William Wilberforce 040 4
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Exploring the Irish revolution through the prism of crime fiction… 0244 24
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Survivors’ children When granted the privilege Become Trevelyan. #Haiku 011 1
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 13/11/2024@hulllibraries.bsky.social Also available to talk about my books if ever your stuck… 110 1
Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The New Yorker hasn’t heard of the Irish Civil War 000 0
