Group reading TODAY Sunday 20 September at 2pm Books Upstairs, Dublin *Shapechangers: 1960s Irish Women Reflect on their Writing Lives* Hosted by @nessao.bsky.social with Maureen Boyle, Jane Clarke, Catherine Ann Cullen, Katie Donovan, Eleanor Hooker, Niamh Brennan, Colette Nic Aodha, Csilla Toldy

"If I didn’t have poetry as a way of exploring my world, I don’t know how much I’d have spent on therapy.” 📕Nessa O'Mahony talks to Sue Leonard📕 @nessao.bsky.social @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/its-about-on...

'It’s about one woman opening doors for the next'—Nessa O'Mahony - Books Ireland

Poet and editor Nessa O’Mahony talks to Sue Leonard.

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dlr Libraries & Arlen House warmly invite you to the finale event of the "Celebrating Arlen House at 50" series where we will also celebrate 40 years of the WEB women writers' workshop. FREE, booking essential: buytickets.at/dlrlibraries... Sat 12 Sept at 2.30pm, dlrLexIcon @nessao.bsky.social

Lovely review by Adam Wyeth of Shapechangers, edited by @nessao.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social in today’s @irishtimes.com #Anthology #Essays Delighted to have an essay in this book.

Thanks to all at the Orwell Society for publishing this following my recent talk on Mairin Mitchell. @arlenhouse.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social @darcy1968.bsky.social @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social @aupress.ca orwellsociety.com/irish-writer...

Irish Writers on the Spanish Civil War

By Martin Tyrrell * In late 1937, George Orwell reviewed Mairin Mitchell’s Storm Over Spain, along with several other books on the Spanish conflict, for Time and Tide. His comments on the Mitchell bo...

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My essay on wartime Ukraine, visiting Zaporizhia, Myrove, Vilniansk and Sumy. @arlenhouse.bsky.social @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social

Dublin Review of Books@dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'When asked why I’ve come, I say the Ukraine-Russian war is the biggest since the Second World War and it’s natural I should support them. My grandfather was an air raid warden during the Belfast Blitz and used to watch for German bombers from the roof of the Ulster Bank.' drb.ie/blog/spring-... 1/2

TOMORROW, Teachers' Club, Parnell Square at 6.30pm Arlen House warmly invites you to celebrate the launch of *Shapechangers: 1960s Irish Women Reflect on their Writing Lives* edited by @nessao.bsky.social with readings from a dozen contributors All welcome BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/shap...

Book below for my workshop on speculative fiction! @shhomeplace.bsky.social Sat 27th June 10-4 Want to write a dystopian novel like The Memorisers? If so, I'll help you generate or hone your own brilliant ideas and writing @arlenhouse.bsky.social seamusheaneyhome.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Happy to have an essay in ‘Shapechangers’, a new anthology from @arlenhouse.bsky.social, edited by @nessao.bsky.social , and available to pre-order from @booksupstairs.bsky.social booksupstairs.ie/product/shap...

Arlen House is delighted to announce the forthcoming *Shapechangers: 1960s Women Reflect on their Writing Lives* edited by @nessao.bsky.social PRE-ORDER booksupstairs.ie/product/shap... The 1st sequel to the bestseller *Look! It's a Woman Writer!* Thanks to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

"Books are the Grail for what is deepest, more mysterious and least expressible within ourselves. They are our soul’s skeleton. If we were to forget that, it would prefigure how false and feelingless we could become." Edna O'Brien

Book Launch TODAY Sunday 10 May at 3pm Arlen House warmly invites you to celebrate new fiction from Liz McManus *Tiny Bruises* at the Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green launch by Ivana Bacik Available now from Books Upstairs booksupstairs.ie/product/tiny... With thanks to Arts Council NI

THIS EVENING Friday 8 May at 6pm in Bray The Mermaid Arts Centre & Arlen House warmly invite you to celebrate Nell Regan's new collection *Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf* launch by Moya Cannon Celebrating Arlen House at 50 Available now from Books Upstairs booksupstairs.ie/.../thirty-s...

Here's my review of @lucycaldwell.bsky.social's latest collection of short stories Devotions. @arlenhouse.bsky.social @booksireland.bsky.social

Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 6mo ago

'Devotions, overall, is a heartfelt hymn to discovering spirituality amidst a life of stasis.' @faberbooks.bsky.social @lucycaldwell.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/grace-modern...

This evening in Galway at 7pm at An Taibhdhearc Celia de Fréine discusses her play *Cóirín na dTonn* (currently recommended as a text on the Leaving Certificate syllabus) with Áine Ní Ghlinn. With thanks to Foras na Gaeilge & Arts Council of Northern Ireland for supporting new Irish writing

The first of my readings in Maine went well yesterday! Pleasure to read with Maine laureates Julia Bouwsma and Audrey Gidman. Thanks to Maine Irish Heritage Centre for inviting and hosting. We read a poem by Seamus Heaney for his birthday. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

✨ April Poetry Evening ✨ 📅 Friday 10th April 🕢 7:30pm 🎟️ Free - booking essential 👉 tr.ee/7RdO2qtT13 Come along to the United Arts Club, Dublin for an evening of powerful, heartfelt, and entertaining poetry. @arlenhouse.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

THIS EVENING, Friday 20 February, 7.30pm United Arts Club, Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 An evening of words, writing & wisdom with Celia de Fréine & Phyl Herbert. who have both contributed in vast ways to the Irish arts world over the past 50 years. Published proudly by Arlen House.

While @artscouncilireland.bsky.social's dysfunction & incompetence has been clear for decades, the 270 page Expert Report reveals the depths of mismanagement in quite staggering detail. And still so much more to be exposed. It is clear the AC would fail in its own funding applications.

While @artscouncilireland.bsky.social's dysfunction & incompetence has been clear for decades, the 270 page Expert Report reveals the depths of mismanagement in quite staggering detail. And still so much more to be exposed. It is clear the AC would fail in its own funding applications.

Control, horror, and satisfaction: what's not to like? Thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for inviting me to review The Marionette and the Maestro, the new collection of short stories by Tanya Farrelly. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Neil Hegarty reviews the vivid and inventive new collection The Marionette and the Maestro, by Tanya Farrelly (Arlen House) @neilhegarty.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/control-horr...

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 18 is 'Pitch for Thicker than Water' from 'Blood Atlas' by @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social 🌹 @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Arlen House - celebrating 50 years Eavan Boland leads the WEB Women Writers Workshop at Annaghmakerrig in 1985 - including fascinating interviews with Eavan, and attendees Mary Morrissy, Roz Cowman and Rosemarie Raughter. rte.ie/archives/202... @nessao.bsky.social

Women Writers Workshop

Eavan Boland leads a workshop for women writers at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.

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🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 12 is 'My Grandmother's Kitchen' from 'Watching for the Hawk' by @bredaspaight.bsky.social 💖 @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Neil Hegarty reviews the vivid and inventive new collection The Marionette and the Maestro, by Tanya Farrelly (Arlen House) @neilhegarty.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/control-horr...

Control, horror & satisfaction in The Marionette and the Maestro - Books Ireland

The nature and forms of control, and the limitless consequences when control is lost – these are Farrelly’s preoccupations.

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My dystopian novel, The Memorisers, is recommended by Angela Graham as a book of the year: ‘Chillingly identifiable with today.’ @arlenhouse.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/09/b...

Books of the Year 2025 / Part Two

Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Three follows on Friday. Karys Frank Sarah Hall’s Helm, a gale of a novel in which the Helm wind is personif…

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My playscript, Manichea: A Play on Cancellation, is launching tomorrow 6pm at the American Bar Belfast - a play, poetry and a pint! @arlenhouse.bsky.social @abbeytheatre.bsky.social

Arlen House@arlenhouse.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Belfast launch TOMORROW Thursday 4 December, 6pm at The American Bar Liz McManus (ed) *May Morton: Phantom Poet* Rosemary Jenkinson *Manichea: A Play on Cancellation* Francis O'Hare *A Different Light* ALL WELCOME Arlen House - Celebrating 50 Years

Belfast launch TOMORROW Thursday 4 December, 6pm at The American Bar Liz McManus (ed) *May Morton: Phantom Poet* Rosemary Jenkinson *Manichea: A Play on Cancellation* Francis O'Hare *A Different Light* ALL WELCOME Arlen House - Celebrating 50 Years

My new play script, Manichea: A Play on Cancellation, is launching this Thursday 4th at 6 pm at the American Bar Belfast - it will be fun! @arlenhouse.bsky.social Many thanks @booksireland.bsky.social

Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Rosemary Jenkinson discusses the thrilling prospects of a playscript and her new publication Manichea: A Play on Cancellation @arlenhouse.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/rosemary-jen...

Rosemary Jenkinson discusses the thrilling prospects of a playscript and her new publication Manichea: A Play on Cancellation @arlenhouse.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/rosemary-jen...