Heading to Galway to read (for the 1st time) from my new #poetry collection today: Westside Library at 3pm, with thanks to Rachel Coventry for the invite 🌊 It's also having a Dublin launch in Books Upstairs tomorrow afternoon 📚

A reminder that next weekend, Ciarán O’Rourke will be reading from his new #poetry collection ‘Prophetstown’: - at 3pm on Sat 3 Oct, Galway Westside library (@poetryireland.bsky.social) - & at 2pm on Sun 4 Oct, @booksupstairs.bsky.social📚 All welcome! booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

For any #poetry fans in Galway: @corourke91.bsky.social will be reading from his collection 'Prophetstown' in Galway Westside Library on Oct 3rd, followed by a discussion with Rachel Coventry 🎨 www.poetryireland.ie/news-events/... In partnership with @poetryireland.bsky.social 📚

Please join us for the Dublin launch of ‘Prophetstown’ by @corourke91.bsky.social: 2pm on Sunday, Oct 4th, in @booksupstairs.bsky.social, introduced by Dr. Tom Walker 📚 All welcome! (Attendance is free, but pre-booking is advised) booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l... @poetryireland.bsky.social

There's @corourke91.bsky.social back in stock after the first batch sold out almost instantly

Reviewed some movies recently (with thanks as always to @brian-bowe.bsky.social & Sarah Cullen) 🎬 'Manhunter' headstuff.org/entertainmen... 'The Invite' headstuff.org/entertainmen... 'The Death of Robin Hood' headstuff.org/entertainmen... 'The Devil Wears Prada' headstuff.org/entertainmen...

cris@ilchinealach.bsky.social · last mo.

excited to start on this. best poetry from a living author I'm reading these days @irishpages.bsky.social

excited to start on this. best poetry from a living author I'm reading these days @irishpages.bsky.social

“A radical humanitarian poet, O’Rourke exposes the futility of bloodshed with fierceness & unwavering empathy... ‘Prophetstown’ is as much an appeal to conscience as it is an exceptional literary achievement.” ~ @mollytwomey.bsky.social on ‘Prophetstown’, now available from all good bookshops 📚

Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thanks to Ciarán for stopping in! Signed copies of his new collection now in stock 👇

"Higgins is a master of this kind of propulsive plainsong, deploying a conversational address that builds, gradually & almost casually, to a critique of the nation, brassy & stinging." My review of Rita Ann Higgins's latest (@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social) 📚 www.culturematters.org.uk/propulsive-p...

Thanks to Ciarán for stopping in! Signed copies of his new collection now in stock 👇

Ciarán O'Rourke@corourke91.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exciting to be able to pick this up from Louisa and Lily at @ravenbooks.bsky.social today: 'Prophetstown', my 3rd #poetry collection 📚 Thanks to them, to the crew at Irish Pages, & to my family/friends for their support 🌻 Published by @irishpages.bsky.social & distributed by Gill 🍃 ravenbooks.ie

Exciting to be able to pick this up from Louisa and Lily at @ravenbooks.bsky.social today: 'Prophetstown', my 3rd #poetry collection 📚 Thanks to them, to the crew at Irish Pages, & to my family/friends for their support 🌻 Published by @irishpages.bsky.social & distributed by Gill 🍃 ravenbooks.ie

New #poetry by Maggie Childers on Ragpicker as of this week 📚 Brilliant to see new work on the way from an up-and-coming poet of Maggie's calibre 🌻 www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/magg...

Maggie Childers

Maggie Childers is a poet currently living in Brooklyn. Her work explores themes of grief, desire, and place, deeply informed by a nomadic lifestyle that spans the corners of America and Europe. She h...

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A #poem from ‘Prophetstown’ by @corourke91.bsky.social, a book that examines (in his words) “the relationship of the nature poem to patterns & infrastructures of exploitation that continue to fuel what most of us think of as civilisation”🌻 Now available: irishpages.org/product/prop... #Booksky

New #poem by Richard W. Halperin now up on the Ragpicker site 📚 www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/rich... Anyone who hasn't read Richard's selected poems (published last year by @salmonpoetry.bsky.social) absolutely should 🌊 #Booksky #Poetry

Richard W. Halperin

Richard W. Halperin, born 1943 in Chicago, holds dual U.S.-Irish nationality and lives in France. His poetry is published by Salmon (five collections) and by Lapwing (twenty shorter collections). The ...

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Reviewing Karl Parkinson's new #poetry collection here 📚 “His poems are auguries, all fisted guts & scorching tears – elegising the dead while raising prayers to the harsh, beating fever-dream of life, a shadow moving “in the dark opal-hued morning light.”” www.ragpickerpoetry.net/prose/cultur...

Song of the Fallen

Dublin poet Karl Parkinson emerges from the churning rubbish-heap of history, chanting his song like a new prophet, his vision stained and glorified by the grime of his city's streets. He is as heaven...

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“Like everything that Christopher Nolan does, 'The Odyssey'aims for magnificence and ends up somewhere else – landing mid-way between silly and spectacular. He is a forger of graceless epics, visually striking but hampered by conventions...” Wrote this 🎬 www.ragpickerpoetry.net/prose/cultur...

The Odyssey

Like everything that Christopher Nolan does, The Odyssey (2026) aims for magnificence and ends up somewhere else – landing mid-way between silly and spectacular. He is a forger of graceless epics, vis...

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Sorry to hear that Brenda Fricker has died 🎬 I wrote this review of her film ‘The Swallow’ last year (for @headstuff.bsky.social): “an imagined memoir, rippling with emotion even as it unfolds quietly, as though in meditation.” #RIP headstuff.org/entertainmen...

The Swallow movie review | Tadhg O'Sullivan's absorbing exploration of mortality feels both intimate and inscrutable - HeadStuff

Ciarán O'Rourke reviews Tadhg O'Sullivan's The Swallow, his narrative feature film debut, starring Brenda Fricker

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RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 3mo ago

Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker, best known for her roles in My Left Foot and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, has died aged 81, her agent said

Irish Pages author @corourke91.bsky.social joined the "Books for Breakfast" podcast recently to review 4 #poetry titles from @salmonpoetry.bsky.social (going strong at 45), & to talk about his own new collection, ‘Prophetstown’ 📚 Listen here: booksforbreakfastireland.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...

Thanks to Cassandra Voices for taking this new #poem, based on the 'Memoirs and Correspondences' of Robert Stewart ("Castlereagh") – a copy of which I was able to consult in @ucdlibrary.bsky.social special collections earlier in the year 📚 cassandravoices.com/poetry-cat/a...

“In the poem your butchers / fear to breathe, the murdered nurseries // are clean, the brimming / table-top restored...” ~ From a #poem i.m. Refaat Alareer, included in my new collection from @irishpages.bsky.social 🇵🇸 irishpages.org/product/prop... Full support to the @bdsmovement.bsky.social ✊️

Thanks to @ancloganmag.bsky.social for taking this piece: a tribute to the medical revolutionary Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955), who believed in “the abolition of privilege of every kind – privilege of birth, position, or possessions”. We can learn from her example: www.anclogan.ie/6a37db203ef5...

Cherishing All the Children: Kathleen Lynn's Radical Medicine

As the National Children's Hospital saga sputters on, Ciarán O'Rourke revisits Saint Ultan's Children's Hospital and its guiding spirit, Kathleen Lynn — the socialist republican whose medical innovati...

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A #poem from Ciarán O’Rourke’s third collection “Prophetstown” 📚 Now available: irishpages.org/product/prop... #Poetry @irishlittimes.bsky.social @corourke91.bsky.social

Got to write about the movie critic Melissa Anderson for @headstuff.bsky.social 🎬 Her book “The Hunger is a festival of intelligent insistence: Anderson demands our attention, and deserves it.” headstuff.org/entertainmen... Available here: www.filmdeskbooks.com/shop/p/the-h...

Book Review | Melissa Anderson's interrogatory passion and undimmable screen-yearning is unique in The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2024 - HeadStuff

Ciaran O'Rourke reviews Melissa Anderson's The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2024, a collection of her writing from the last decade and a half.

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Ragpicker Poetry now feat. new #poems - by Mary O'Malley (@carcanet.bsky.social) www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/mary-o-malley/ - by Maggie Hoppel www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/maggie-hoppel/ - & by Stewart Sanderson (@tapsalteerie.bsky.social) www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/stewart-sanderson/

Maggie Hoppel

Three poems by Maggie Hoppel. Maggie is a poet and undergraduate student from Indianapolis, Indiana. She loves quilting, junk journaling, and her dog. She studied in Dublin for a semester in 2025 and ...

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‘Joyce was trying to broaden the scope of what it means to be a human being’ Brilliant to chat with director Caveh Zahedi for @headstuff.bsky.social, about reimagining Ulysses on screen 🎬 headstuff.org/entertainmen... More on "Ulysses, New York" at this year's @bloomsdayfilmfest.bsky.social ☘️

'Joyce was trying to broaden the scope of what it means to be a human being' | Caveh Zahedi reimagines Ulysses at Bloomsday Film Festival - HeadStuff

Ciarán O'Rourke speaks with Caveh Zahedi ahead of his appearance at this year's Bloomsday Film Festival in Dublin

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Excited to hear my third #poetry collection, Prophetstown, is on the way from @irishpages.bsky.social: thanks to Chris and the crew for all their work behind the scenes 📚 I wrote about the collection here: www.ragpickerpoetry.net/prose/cultur... More details at irishpages.org/product/prop...