Irish Literary Community
I was surprised this didn't already exist so here's my humble offering to Irish writers and lit mags!
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@aislingwalsh.bsky.social
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
Writer Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025) Nominated for Booker Prize Lectures: University of Galway Agent: Peter Straus RCW Lit Agency
@jmcm.bsky.social
IRISH writer, repped by Brian Langan, Storyline Literary Agency. Winner, All-Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Award (public caterory), Novel Fair '23. Shortlisted, Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards '23. Words in many places.
@cristinleach.bsky.social
Irish Writer. Art Critic. Bestselling divorce/art memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE. ‘She is uncommonly good at writing about being embodied’ - Irish Times. RHA book, FROM TEN TILL DUSK. 20yrs in The Sunday Times. Winter Papers. RTÉ. 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
@cballantine.bsky.social
Social scientist, researcher, writer. Currently researching sexual & gender based violence in HEIs. Adjunct fellow, ucd school of geography. Writing in the Stinging Fly, Banshee & elsewhere. She/ Her
@angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social
Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD. 🏆 Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021 🏆 iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019 🏆 Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize www.adreamingskin.com www.thisiswordbox.com
@thebookshopie.bsky.social
A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping ! Gaeilge agus fáilte. www.thebookshop.ie linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social
writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
@rickoshea.bsky.social
Broadcaster @rte.ie - on @rtegold.bsky.social. Books columnist @independent.ie, runs Ireland's largest book club. Patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI, literary curator UCD Festival 2025. Quizzer. https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
@cliodhnabhreatnach.bsky.social
Poet and archivist. In Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Propel, Forward Book of Poetry. Highly commended for Patrick Kavanagh Award 2024. Interested in feminism, anti-imperialism, socialism. 🇵🇸
@seamas.bsky.social
Author, very professional. Buy my extremely good book at www.mammybook.com
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books. www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
@unaminh.bsky.social
🌱 Irish-Asian Forager and Seaweed Obsessed 🗣️ Irish Language Creator (Gaelainn Chorca Dhuibhne) 📚 Wrote some books. Writing more. ⚔️ Dungeon Master Producer on Eyes of Hellfire Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/Eyes_of_Hellfire/
@mdurac.bsky.social
Film, Music, Writing, Running. Documentary film maker and artistic director of Ennis Book Club Festival, Ireland
@trevorjoyce.bsky.social
'Poet' from central Dublin, now Shandon, Cork. Co-founder New Writers' Press, Dublin & SoundEye Festival, Cork. Language, climate, history, art, music, travel, China, hist. of science, hist. of photography. Two cats, many thousand books, small garden.
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
I’m not terrific but I’m competent All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
THE BENEFACTORS (novel) coming JUNE 25, Sceptre. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
@hannaswork.bsky.social
Editor in Chief, The Belfast Review | Editor, Yellow House Publishing | Writer Artist Filmmaker in Belfast | Freelance Editing & Proofreading | Linktr.ee/hannaswork
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for! We always want your trade ins!
@thebelfastreview.bsky.social
Subs 1 Mar - 1 Apr or 1 Aug - 1 Sept | New literary magazine & blog (print & digital) | Art Writing Scripts & More | Feedback & Classes | EIC @hannaswork.bksy.social | linktr.ee/thebelfastreview
@ronanhession.bsky.social
Rónán Hession. Irish author @1dublin1book Listed @anpostibas @booksaremybag #BritishBookAwards #KerryGroupIrishNovel @Soc_of_Authors @dalkeybookfest @PrizeRofC Contact via www.ronanhession.com
@patriciascanlan.bsky.social
Author. Series Editor Open Door books. Half Dub half culchie. Loves Wickla and country life. Hates book snobbery. Also on @patriciascanlanauthor@mastodon.ie
@fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
USA Today Bestselling Irish author. Fiction/non-fic. Latest novel #TheBooksellersGift, Hachette Books Irl Oct 2024 Lives London, UK/Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland (Gaeilge agus fáilte). Rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
@niamhgarvey.bsky.social
Autistic Author Editor of Bestselling 'Wired Our Own Way; An Anthology of Autistic Irish Voices'. @newislandbooks Author of: 'Looking After Your Autistic Self' JKP For kids: 'Being Autistic (and what that actually means)' JKP She/her niamhgarvey.com
@rachelahandley.com
Philosopher @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social🦉 SFF Author. Poet. They/Them. Dublin. rachelahandley.com
@crabtalesmagazine.bsky.social
A SFF flash fiction magazine about crabs. Art submissions: OPEN. Fiction submissions: CLOSED. 🦀 EIC @rachelhandley.bsky.social Submit: crabtalesmagazine.com Support: https://ko-fi.com/crabtalesmagazine Dublin
@tolkajournal.bsky.social
Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council. tolkajournal.org
@stomaselli.bsky.social
WiP: TRACES (novel in essays) | former writer-in-residence at Maynooth 2020/21 | current editor gorse journal & Gorse Editions. She/her. *Won't follow you back if you have zero posts or no profile, sorry*
@gorsejournal.bsky.social
Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | Next issue: gorse 12: Language (April 25); in preparation: gorse 13 (Taboo)| Next Gorse Editions: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social
@mariankeyes.bsky.social
Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
@kitdewaal.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Henry Allen. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
@junec.bsky.social
🌟International Lamplight Fellowship 2025 🌟The Moth Short Story Prize, 2024/2014 📖 Room Little Darker, 2018/2017 #Orca #StingingFly #WinterPapers #BBC4 #ARC #GalwayStories #IrishTimes #Globe&Scales #LonelyCrowd #The32 #PVA #L'Esprit #PennsylvaniaEnglish
@winterpapers.bsky.social
An annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond. www.winterpapers.com Supported by the Arts Council Posts by Olivia.
@ravenbooks.bsky.social
Bookshop 34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231 Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
@tramppress.bsky.social
Independent book publisher. Latest: Your Own Dark Shadow by Jack Fennell www.tramppress.com Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Newsletter eepurl.com/bjjdND
@splonk.bsky.social
#flashfiction e-zine based in Ireland. Founded 2019. Bilingual. #Gaeilge & English. We love #microfiction too!
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥 Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose. Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com https://ko-fi.com/frazzledlit socials by Laura 🇬🇧🏴🇮🇪 Edinburgh/Dublin
@hollowaywriter.bsky.social
The Language of Remembering, my debut novel, out in February 2025. Work in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner. Winner of Bath Short Story Award 2023. Agent Eleanor Birne, RCW https://bio.site/patrickholloway
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
@jgrenewriter.bsky.social
Irish writer. Reader. Mother of redheads. Leftie nerd. She/her. https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
🇮🇪 Writer| Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
@sarahmaintains.bsky.social
Poet, Community Worker, LGBTQIA+ Politics, Climate Action FREE PALESTINE
@aislingwalsh.bsky.social
Writer & Researcher Sociology post-doc at University of Galway Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)