This news only amplifies the importance of supporting local and Irish businesses. Your Irish retailer offers an alternative in most cases. The effort made during the pandemic to support Irish businesses who were at risk of closing, applies even more so now. #ShopLocal #ShopIrish

Please support your local bookshop. Without them there is nowhere for our writing to go. We lost so many record shops and it really damaged our music scene. I hope we don't underestimate the real risk to our literary culture if we don't support our book shops.

Tomorrow! Loads of fantastic events to come along to! Full programme here:

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We are currently holding a sit-in in the Foyer of the School of Education! Our demands to Maynooth University are clear 👇

Come down and join us if on campus!

Looks like he’s double-booked but we reckon Colin Barrett will still show up for his event at Maynooth Arts & Minds Festival tomorrow at 6pm ;-)

Wonderful opening this evening of this year's #artsandmindsfestival by Irish National Opera and the Irish Baroque Orchestra orchestra. Looking forward to a feast of culture in the sunny days ahead here Maynooth University

A chance to hear from and ask questions of the wondrous Lidia Yuknavitch.

Have to miss this due to our own Arts & Minds festival this weekend, but congrats to mariaedgeworthcentre on what looks like yet another wonderful Maria Edgeworth Festival programme!

On Sat in MU 4.30pm I'll be doing a li'l thing exploring the roots of Direct Provision (they are tangled & they run deep).
Aside: 4 Palestinian teens are among ppl 'moved' from Grand Canal, same age as the 4 Bakr cousins would be if they hadn't been killed by Israel in Gaza 2014

Thanks to Culture on RTÉ for featuring this piece by our Arts & Minds Festival WIR Donal O'Kelly in advance of his reading/performance on Saturday May 11 from his work-in-progress about the 25th anniversary of Direct Provision in Ireland: rte.ie/culture/2024/0…

Enda Walsh on renowned Actor, Donal O'Kelly, who will be reading excerpts from his current work-in-progress exploring the origins of Direct Provision at #ArtsMindsFestival this Saturday.

Don't miss this, book your tickets now 👉 mu.ie/artsandmindsfe…

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One thing I kind of love about social media is that when an important artist dies, there is this moment where their work sort of explodes through the system, almost like a biological process of some kind, like a release of spores. It’s especially true of musicians I think

Our wonderful Arts and Minds Festival writer-in-residence Donal O'Kelly - playwright, actor and theatre maker extraordinaire, as well as an activist of many years - presents a new monologue at the festival on May 11th. All are welcome. Tickets: maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/20…

Young people, globally, evidently can't fathom the callousness and insouciance of their parents' generation when it comes to Gaza. They see clearly the glaring hypocrisies vis à vis Ukraine. They are outraged. They are hope.

This is going to be lots of fun! On Saturday I’ll be chatting to Catriona Shine and Maggie Armstrong about their brilliant recent books. Tickets here: eventbrite.ie/e/2024-mu-arts…

Coming up this weekend (Sat May 11th) at Maynooth: readings by poets Jane Clarke, Catherine Gander and Philip Kenny, novelists Maggie Armstrong, Catriona Shine and Colin Barrett, and theatre maker Donal O'Kelly with an excerpt from his new book! See mu.ie/am24

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize: mailchi.mp/fitzcarraldoed…

Did you see our signs on campus over the long weekend? 😎 The countdown to this years Arts and Minds Festival is well and truly on! Check out mu.ie/am24 for more info & tickets. See you there! #MUArtsAndMinds2024

Congratulations Dr Ryan Molloy!

Ryan Molloy is our programme director for the MA Music Composition, find out more information here - rb.gy/k4yd70

Protest works.

Fair play to Trinity BDS Campaign 🇵🇸 and all the TCD students who made this happen.