Ahead of his special @writingandideas.bsky.social event in RIAM on March 16 - Neil Jordan tells us about his imminent novel ‘The Library of Traumatic Memory’. He’ll be in conversation with @mrkocnnll.bsky.social - booking here www.riam.ie/whats-on/the... @headofzeus.bsky.social

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Special event with @praddenkeefe.bsky.social on 3 May in Edmund Burke Theatre @tcddublin.bsky.social - booking here www.eventbrite.ie/e/an-evening... @picadorbooks.bsky.social

2026 tickets on sale now. Link here festivalofwritingandideas.com/tickets/

2/2 He was always in awe of everyone and everything, and never realised that he himself was a wonder of the world. Goodbye to an adventurer and a friend . . . .

1/2 Yesterday, we lost one of our greatest souls. Manchan came to Borris the first year in 2012 and most years since, sharing profundity and levity, outpourings of wisdom, story, curiosity, concern and laughter.

Appeal issued for return of 19th century masonic banner A public appeal has been issued for the return of a 200-year-old masonic banner that was taken from Borris House in Co Carlow last month.

Borris House issues appeal for return of 19th century masonic banner which disappeared during @writingandideas.bsky.social

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Anti-Israel sentiment may have prompted taking of 200-year-old @borrishouse banner, owner believes

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This banner was removed during @Writingandideas - the Kavanagh family would love it back

Matt Cooper meets Nicola Sturgeon | National Concert Hall The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.

SPECIAL EVENT KLAXON!!!!
@nicolasturgeon.bsky.social in conversation with Matt Cooper - 20 Aug - booking below
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Sound on!

Some special writers brought a snap of themselves to our live Culture File Debate from Borris @writingandideas.bsky.social
Here's journalist, Andrei Saldatov, remembering a photo from the very start of his career as a thorn in the side of Putin's Russia.

More: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Matt Cooper meets Nicola Sturgeon | National Concert Hall The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.

SPECIAL EVENT KLAXON!!!!
@nicolasturgeon.bsky.social in conversation with Matt Cooper - 20 Aug - booking below
www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

Abdulrazak Gurnah in The orangery with @samanthaharvey.bsky.social & @suerains.bsky.social 2/2

@samanthaharvey.bsky.social in The Orangery talking to @suerains.bsky.social and Abdulrazak Gurnah 1/2

Mesmerizing multimedia piece by #williamkentridge in The Rookery

@manchanmagan.bsky.social & @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social at the Rookery

The folks @writingandideas.bsky.social are over here now. Why don’t you give them a follow to find out all about this year’s festival and special event over the Summer & Autumn #youwillyouwill festivalofwritingandideas.com

I’m so excited to be a part of this conversation.

Looking forward to being back taking photos at @writingandideas.bsky.social in Borris in June. Here are some photos from last year. All photos by me. #booksky #TomHolland @katherinerundell.bsky.social #SimonArmitage #PoetLaureate #OceanVuong

Fri 6 June 2025 - 2.45pm The Orangery - THE LOVE OF A WINGED CREATURE: @seanronayne.bsky.social - author of Nature Boy: A Journey of Birdsong talks to @hjm.bsky.social author of H is for Hawk #seanronayne #helenmacdonald #natureboy #hisforhawk @vintagebooks.bsky.social @hachettelibrary.bsky.social

At home with William Kentridge, South Africa’s greatest living artist On the eve of two major solo shows and as he turns 70, the artist and director opens up his family house in Johannesburg

At home with William Kentridge, South Africa’s greatest living artist. On the eve of two major solo shows and as he turns 70, the artist and director opens up his family house in Johannesburg www.ft.com/content/bae7... via @financialtimes.com

Friday 6th June 1.15pm The Rookery SECRET MIRACLE WORKERS: Biologist and mycologist @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social author of 'Entangled Lives' talks to @manchanmagan.bsky.social about how fungi and their underground networks transform our understanding of how all life works

FRIDAY 6th June 2025
1.15 pm the Orangery
LIFE ON PLANET EARTH: 2024 @thebookerprizes winner Samantha Harvey (Orbital) in conversation with Nobel Prize-winner Abdulrazak Gurnah (Theft). With arts critic and novelist @suerains.bsky.social

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This event is going to be fantastic. Lots of excellent speakers - Tim Smit, Darina Allen, Adam Clayton, Dylan Jones - and the hosts always get it just right. Go to the inaugural one! Magic happens at the start of every good idea.

What a great evening in the company of the great Colum McCann launching his new novel #Twist in the @peppercanisterchurch Dublin - a great interview with @alexclarkpresents and wonderful music by @colmmacconiomaire
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Photos by me

Beautiful reading & music at this special @writingandideas.bsky.social event with Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Colum McCann & Alec Clark in the Pepper Cannister Church last night - readings from and discussions about #Twist by Colum McCann - published yesterday by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Elif Shafak talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘Don Quixote made me feel less awkward as a child’ I’ve been a fan of the work of the award-winning Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak for a long time. Her brilliant, Booker-shortlisted novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is a great plac...

It was a joy to catch up with Elif Shafak again.

She tells me about how important Don Quixote is to her, the courage it took Virginia Woolf to write Orlando, and how much she loves the work and advocacy of Pádraig Ó Tuama.

In tomorrow's @independent.ie and at m.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Thanks Rick!!