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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our literary rivalry hets up. For the record I am only at 22 because I am suspicious of odd numbers and REFUSED the number 21 spot

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Anna isn’t sure it’s appropriate to write about Freyne in this manner given that he is, in fact, my near 78 year old father. I think it’s fine

As a man of letters, dedicated to the life of the mind, I don’t know how I would manage without the help of my trusty groundskeeper, Freyne. Though getting on in years (78-ish – not sure if he has a birth cert) Freyne is an absolute treasure and friends are often asking me if they could borrow him. “Not a chance,” I say. “Get your own Freyne!”

It’s not like days of yore when the relationship between upstairs and downstairs was a cold and distant one. We have a friendly and informal relationship, Freyne and I. I often take him refreshments when he is, for example, powerhosing my drive or insulating my shed and I am taking a break from writing deep thoughts in my study. And when I do so, we chat about the affairs of the day and I survey my estate (a terraced former council house in north Dublin).

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Collage of prints from my site

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

One of the handwritten gift notes that I can include for free with all orders, if desired.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

So apart from being very talented my brother David is very brave. While his film Eternity was being wrapped up he had a very serious diagnosis and he has written about it here time.com/7339094/eter...

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Me, My Film, and My Massive Brain Tumor

David Freyne directed and co-wrote a film about death. Then, he learned he had a brain tumor the size of an apple.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It's important to give conservative politicians their dues when they're on the right side of an issue like this, because we want elections to be fought over housing policy and taxes and stuff, not demonising minorities. Make politics boring again!

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Yes I am biased because this book is dedicated to me but it really is amazing. 💖 🦊 🎸

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

In future I will insist that all family photos take place in front of film premiere backdrops

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I’ve written another romcom! It’s about two scriptwriters who can’t stop arguing but have to work together to save a TV show. Also there is kissing. I loved writing it and you can pre-order it here! linktr.ee/LoveSceneAnn...

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The O’Brien Press @theobrienpress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If you haven’t yet, you can still vote for our amazing shortlisted titles in this year’s Irish Book Awards!

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the karyn in the woods 🎃 @karynmoy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

absolutely raging that philip sutcliffe represents my area and I’m so sickened by his horrible spoiled vote/fucking zodiac killer hate scrawl that I’ve made a complaint to the dcc ethics registrar. the info is at the link below and he’s in direct contravention of section 9.4 of the code of conduct

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Our Song has been shortlisted for an Irish Book Award! It’s up for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year prize and you can (and should) vote for it here: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

An illustration of a tall man with glasses looking at a woman in a pink shirt, leaning against the covers of this year’s nominees

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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

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Ten of the best Irish books of 2025 so far

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Sylvia Leatham @sylvialeatham.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Very happy to be doing this live podcast recording next Friday (17th Oct) with @urchinette.bsky.social and Prof Paige Reynolds at @molimuseum.bsky.social in Dublin! Will this be a MeetCute? Or a new love triangle? Will we get our Happy Ever After? Or just Happy For Now? 😜 moli.ie/events/happy...

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Happy Ever After: Anna Carey & Sylvia Leatham | MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Is this the only credible solution to the global climate crisis?

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

An excerpt from an interview with the director of The Graduate, Mike Nichols.

"I interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands of men", Nichols admitted of the casting process per Vanity Fair, before his conversation with Redford turned out to be a short one. "I said, 'You can't play it. You can never play a loser'. And Redford said, 'What do you mean? Of course I can play a loser'. And I said, 'OK, have you ever struck out with a girl'. And he said, 'What do you mean?' And he wasn't joking."

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

There is a reference not just to this film but to the dress in this photo in the book I’m writing right now…

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I love my neighbourhood. ❤️❤️❤️

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Truly she is the people’s princess.

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

23 years ago when me and my friend Paul were devising silly musical schemes, Paul's flatmate Mick was in the next room organising Belong To & starting an LGBTQI+ youth movement. Mick Barron is a legend. I interviewed him about his new book on LGBTQI+ youth activism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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‘It was all about hurling... Being gay, ultimately, you were not masculine enough’

Cofounder of the LGBTQ+ youth organisation Belong To discusses the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric across the world

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

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Dublin Maker @dublinmaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We’re delighted to share that artist Ciara Kenny has created a stunning series of sketches celebrating Irish Traditional Crafts. Her work will be on display at this year’s Dublin Maker Festival. Find out more on our website: dublinmaker.ie/celebrating-... #DublinMaker #MeetTheMaker

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Tadhg DOES sound suspiciously like Patrick in that audiobook bonus song…

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Details of the Stop Killing Journalists protest in Dublin this evening. Please join NUJ members to protest Israel’s ongoing slaughter of media workers and civilians.

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I strongly endorse starting a band whether you can play or not.

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Do you think Dermot Desmond has ever been on a bus? I genuinely bet he hasn’t, in his adult life at least.

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I saw The Commitments on its opening weekend in the Savoy on the biggest screen in Ireland. The minute Dublin city centre appeared on the screen the entire cinema burst into wild applause and cheers. That screening is still the most joyful cinema experience of my life.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I know I posted about this already but I truly cannot get over how fucking stupid and disconnected from reality this is ALL OF THESE JOBS INVOLVE *KNOWING WHAT WORDS FUCKING MEAN*

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This pic is in our kitchen. It's me, at an event at EP 10 years ago. If you look closely you'll see it's not a photo but a pic @chrisjudge.bsky.social drew (he documented the event as we went). @urchinette.bsky.social keeps threatening to leak it to create a literary scandal before my next book

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
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L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I wrote about the weirdness of getting personal in public open.substack.com/pub/annacare...

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Crying on the radio

Sharing personal stories in public

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