My first book festival as a 'writer' was Red Line Festival in 2019 and I am THRILLED to be back there this year with Ruth & Pen! Chatting to Paul Perry about books, bodies and taking risks.
Would love to see you, 2pm Sat Oct15 in The Civic Book here: redlinefestival.ie/events/ruth-pen

The Consulate will welcome Prof Professor Emilie Pine to Frankfurt on 20 Oct. She will read from her new novel Ruth & Pen and join a panel discussion as part of the launch of the International Joyce Exhibition in the Goethe-Universität. If you would like to attend, register bit.ly/3LRYpsE

50% of all undergraduate teaching is provided by people on precarious, temporary and hourly contracts - our HEIs will collapse if our colleagues are not protected Simon Harris TD IFUT Irish Precarity Network

This is unsustainable

🗨️ Panel Discussion – The Personal Essay
Join Professor Emilie Pine, Sophie White and Roe McDermott for a discussion on the art and heart of the personal essay

View our full schedule online at writebythesea.ie

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Thank you Nieuw Amsterdam for making such a beautiful book of Ruth & Pen. Now in Dutch thanks to Ariane Schluter's wonderful translation!

Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Testimony + Culture on its way! 900 page manuscript, 26 chapts, 48 authors from across disciplines + sectors. Lots of fantastic people, incl Professor Emilie Pine Katie Stone Carmen-Francesca Banciu Dr Melissa Schuh Fransiska Louwagie Dr Caroline Sharples Ana Belén Martínez García
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Would love to meet folks who might be in or around Wexford Library this week (Thurs evening) for an open conversation about fiction and non-fiction and why writing is for everyone! Some tickets left here: wexfordcoco.libcal.com/event/3895864

Great opportunity for Irish writers to go to Poland, a brand new Seamus Heaney Czeslaw Milosz Residency, deadline September: literaryresidenciespoland.pl/en/rezydencje/…
Ireland in Poland

Hugely looking forward to next week and IASIL 2022 in Limerick when I get to interview @DrClaireLynch about her WONDERFUL memoir Small (read it now!) (really!) (now!)

All. Human. Rights. Are. Linked.

Protect them all or none will be protected.

Often people with experience of institutions are more spoken about & not given the space to speak for themselves. So it's wonderful to see the launch of Susan Connolly's play I Am Edel RiverbankArtsCentre on Sat 11th June - free tickets. Trailer here:
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Queues?
626,658 people on the waiting list for outpatient appointments in public hospitals
9,532 children on psychology waiting lists
8,167 children on speech and language therapy waiting lists
60,000 on social housing list
350,000 adults stuck living at home
#DublinAirport

Would you look at this amazing issue? Just out - with a free access feature essay by Geraldine Higgins and OA book reviews, the new Special issue of the Irish University Review, Institutions and Ireland euppublishing.com/toc/iur/52/1

Irish University Review

This is in Belfast tonight! Hugely looking forward to meeting Audrey Magee

Margo Jefferson, Zakia Sewell and I will discuss This Woman’s Work with Louise McSharry at International Literature Festival Dublin on May 24th. Great to see the inclusiveness of making tickets available to watch online, as well as in person. ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi… White Rabbit Books Hachette Books Hachette Ireland

Thanks Culture on RTÉ rte.ie/culture/2022/0…

We watched Indiana Jones and the last crusade.
I was shocked that Indiana Jones’ department were willing to reimburse his expenses for his adventures, I’m pretty sure he did not keep his receipts. This is way more unbelievable than the whole Holy Grail plot.

Breathlessly anticipating this event with Margo Jefferson!