This is a wonderful annual event. Bealtaine Festival Voices at the Ennis Courthouse Sat 4th May 2pm. Hosted by mike hanrahan and supported by Clare County Council

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Musha mo geels - have an auld peak into this - Traveller history! It really does make my heart joyful that the threads of our journey, is among the fabric of the national collections - it is a tapestry worth knowing x

'Thought-provoking, gorgeously written' #TheAlternatives review in Good Housekeeping UK June issue Caoilinn Hughes

Coming up | 12pm with Andrea Gilligan

🎤 Should Ireland boycott the Eurovision?
⏰Throwback Thursday Ciaran O'Connor
🍻Should rugby fans be allowed drink in Croke Park?
☀️What is the ideal holiday length? Sinead Brady
🏡Home Squad: Patios MyDIY.ie KingstonLafferty

The Alternatives publishes in the UK + IRL on Thursday. I’m grateful to Niamh Donnelly for this gracious, thoughtful interview in Irish Times Magazine. Print interviews do give me the heebie-jeebies, so it makes a difference when there’s a kind reader on board.
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If you missed Niamh Mulvey talking to Seán Rocks on RTÉ Radio 1 last night about her debut novel ‘The Amendments’ - listen back here rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

A behind-the-scenes reading from Jessie Buckley, actor and audiobook narrator of Long Island, the follow-up to Colm Tóibín's bestselling Brooklyn. Picador Books will publish Long Island on 23 May via YouTube youtu.be/cDpqLAvJkys?fe…

From bad barman to novelist, author of New York Times bestselling BROOKLYN and upcoming sequel LONG ISLAND (May 7), Colm Tóibín recounts his journey to writing!

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Colm Tóibín: Long Island
Join Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, live in London and online, as he introduces Long Island, the long-awaited sequel to his modern masterpiece, Brooklyn.

Book tickets – in person or livestream
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Colm Tóibín’s brilliant new novel ‘Long Island’ will be published by Picador Books on 23 May. He’ll be appearing International Literature Festival Dublin Cúirt Festival Belfast BookFestival Festival of Writing & Ideas at Borris Dalkey Book Festival West Cork Literary Festival & DingleLit 📚🇮🇪 book festival Dingle - booking links on festival websites. #LongIsland #colmtoibin

12 gripping Irish books to read this May | IMAGE.ie including the 'witty and unexpectedly hopeful' new novel from Caoilinn Hughes #TheAlternatives

Last stop, four events at Auckland Writers Festival: 1) Irish writing with Noelle McCarthy & Kiran Dass 2) landscape in fiction with Becky Manawatu (Ngāi Tahu) 3) Irish Bookclub 4) essay workshop (sold out). HarperCollins Aotearoa NZ
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Hagstone is published in Australia and New Zealand today. I'll be doing some events there in the next two weeks - at Melbourne Writers Festival, Auckland Writers Festival, WORD Christchurch, Verb Wellington and Paperback Bookshop - if you're about.

Here's a 🧵of individual links/tickets. Join us!

Reny tipt twee nieuwe Engelse romans, van Colm Tóibín (Long Island, 'Vanaf de allereerste regels houdt het verhaal je in zijn greep.') en Neel Mukherjee (Choice, 'een van de meest intense boeken die ik de afgelopen tijd las'). Lees die boeken!

Join Sunday Times bestseller Colm Tóibín, live in London and online, as he introduces Long Island, the long-awaited sequel to his modern masterpiece, Brooklyn buff.ly/4aUqz20

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🖊️ Signed copies now in store of 🎵 Tune In: How to Make Smarter Decisions In a Noisy World

✅ Tune In not Out.
✅ Hear more of what matters.
✅ Less regret - more reward!

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Tune in to RTE Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 this event at 7pm. Niamh Mulvey ( Niamh Mulvey ) will be discussing her brilliant debut ‘The Amendments’ with Seán Rocks #theamendments

Delighted to see MY FATHER'S HOUSE by Joseph O'Connor on the shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction!

Given to me by my parents, Christmas 1987. Thirty-odd years later I started collecting copies of The New York Trilogy that were in some way distinguished.