Rosaleen McDonagh takes the stage in Kilkenny this Friday at 5pm! Tickets below ⬇️

Skein Press@skeinpress.bsky.social · last wk.

Kilkenny Arts Festival kicks off next Thursday and runs for 10 jam packed days ✨ You can find the singular Rosaleen McDonagh in conversation with Maureen Kennelly on Friday 7 August at 5pm #ContentiousSpaces Tickets available here: www.kilkennyarts.ie/.../programm...

Kilkenny Arts Festival kicks off next Thursday and runs for 10 jam packed days ✨ You can find the singular Rosaleen McDonagh in conversation with Maureen Kennelly on Friday 7 August at 5pm #ContentiousSpaces Tickets available here: www.kilkennyarts.ie/.../programm...

'A staggering work of literature' - Stephen Rea We are delighted to announce that pre-orders for 'The Refugee Chronicles' by Evgeny Shtorn are now open 📣 Publishing in October, this autofictional novel lifts the veil on the patently absurd and fundamentally flawed system of #DirectProvision

Wonderful conversation last night to a packed house: Rosaleen McDonagh in conversation with Leeanne O'Donnell discussing 'Contentious Spaces' Thanks to West Cork Literary Festival for showing casing this important work!

Some beautiful news to share: the new Irish passport features poetry by our very own commissioning editor Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe 💚 The lines read: ‘Lie with me now Ireland/ a promise deep in bloom/ weaving in with all this green/ beneath a nascent moon’

The brilliant #MammiesForTransRights are seeking an editor for a small yet mighty project on #TransJoy For more info, get in touch via Instagram or email: mammiesfortransrights@gmail.com Priority will be given to applicants from the trans community Please share far and wide! 💙🩷💙🩷

Join us on Thursday 9th July at Books Upstairs for a celebration and thematic exploration of 'Contentious Spaces' by Rosaleen McDonagh ✨ Rosaleen will be joined in conversation by the brilliant @chandrikanm.bsky.social booksupstairs.ie/.../conversa... See less

IN CONVERSATION | Rosaleen McDonagh and Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan on Contentious Spaces | Books Upstairs

Join us for a celebration and thematic exploration of Contentious Spaces, the debut novel by acclaimed Irish writer, playwright, and performer Rosaleen McDonagh. The novel follows the Traveller famili...

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Rosaleen McDonagh features in this week's 'My Life in Books' with a beautiful round up of the books that have inspired, comforted, challenged and changed her We can't wait for Rosaleen's event at this year's @wcorklitfest.bsky.social on 12 July 💜

West Cork Literary Festival@wcorklitfest.bsky.social · last mo.

Wonderful reading inspiration from Rosaleen McDonagh in @irishexaminer.bsky.social. Rosaleen will be at WCLF on 12 July discussing her novel Contentious Spaces with Leeanne O'Donnell. Published by @skeinpress.bsky.social 🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2026/... 🗞️ www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

🥁Introducing our brand new, beautiful website designed by the Frontwards Design!!! 🥁 A fitting home for our books, podcasts, events and whatever else we may dream up! To celebrate this long-awaited day, we’re offering a 10% discount off all products using the code NewWebsite 🚀 >>> skeinpress.com

Join us on Thursday 9th July at Books Upstairs for a celebration and thematic exploration of 'Contentious Spaces' by Rosaleen McDonagh ✨ Rosaleen will be joined in conversation by the brilliant @chandrikanm.bsky.social booksupstairs.ie/.../conversa... See less

IN CONVERSATION | Rosaleen McDonagh and Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan on Contentious Spaces | Books Upstairs

Join us for a celebration and thematic exploration of Contentious Spaces, the debut novel by acclaimed Irish writer, playwright, and performer Rosaleen McDonagh. The novel follows the Traveller famili...

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📣 Rosaleen McDonagh will be in conversation with the brilliant Maureen Kennelly as part of this year's #KilkennyArtsFestival Join us on 7 August in the Parade Tower, Kilkenny City for a deep dive into #ContentiousSpaces Tickets here: www.kilkennyarts.ie/festival/pro...

Rosaleen McDonagh | Kilkenny Arts Festival | 6-16 August 2026

Writer, playwright, performer and Human Rights Commissioner Rosaleen McDonagh comes to the Festival to talk about her new novel, Contentious Spaces, in the company of Maureen Kennelly.

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We are delighted to share that Rosaleen McDonagh will be part of this year's @wcorklitfest.bsky.social in the beautiful town of Bantry ❤️ 📚 Rosaleen will be joined by Leeanne O'Donnell to celebrate #ContentiousSpaces on Sunday 12 July at 5pm in the Maritime Hotel www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2026/...

Rosaleen McDonagh: Contentious Spaces‌ - West Cork Music

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Great piece on RTE Culture today about ‘State, In Relation’ a collaborative project that brings writers together to engage with the Irish Constitution Oein deBhairduin writes powerfully about the constitution in relation to the 1963 Report of the Commission on Itinerancy www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

State, in Relation - artists engage with the Irish Constitution

State, in Relation is a collaborative book and project offering a bold, contemporary and personal engagement with the Irish Constitution.

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'This is a tour de force that shows how a resilient Traveller culture has survived despite racism and its quieter cousin, segregation.' Thanks to @katharineq.bsky.social for a wonderfully in-depth review of #ContentiousSpaces Read in full: www.thetablet.co.uk/books/betwee...

Between two worlds - The Tablet

ROSALEEN MCDONAGH

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Did you catch Rosaleen McDonagh on @2fm.rte.ie Mornings with the brilliant Doireann Garrihy ? They spoke about writing process, representation and of course #ContentiousSpaces Listen back: www.rte.ie/radio/2fm/2f... We're at the 28 minute mark 📻

Tune into @2fm.rte.ie this morning at 10.20am to hear Rosaleen McDonagh chat to Doireann Garrihy about 'Contentious Spaces'

Lovely article in @la-nueva-espana.bsky.social about Asturian poetry's travels around the world. Thank you @inaciugalan.bsky.social ❤️ for mentioning The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by @raquelmenendez.bsky.social and the @wwborders.bsky.social collection Every Stone a Seed! @skeinpress.bsky.social

La poesía asturiana resona nel mundu

L’impactu internacional de la lliteratura n’asturianu espoxiga en forma de traducciones

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We're delighted to have a table at this Saturday's Radical Book Fair, taking place in the Teacher's Club on Parnell Square, Dublin We'll be there between 12pm and 4pm selling our beautiful books, alongside some other brilliant small publishers and zines. Call in and say hey!

The sun came out for our event at the Botanic Gardens today with the brilliant Oein de Bhairduin, in partnership with @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Huge thanks to Oein and to Anne Burke for facilitating such a powerful and timely conversation on the impact of The Commission on Itinerancy Report

'Contentious Spaces'... is moving & at times upsetting, but it also has moments of lightness, & there is a lovely rhythm to the prose.' Thank you, Aoife, for such a provocative interview with @paveebeoir.bsky.social in @thetimes.com.

We’re delighted to team up with @skeinpress.bsky.social for a launch event around a new poem by Oein DeBhairduin. Oein will be joined by Traveller activist and educator Anne Burke for a walk and reading in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Spaces limited, book yours here ➡️ bit.ly/4cCU6R9

We are delighted to share that these beautiful printed scarves featuring new poetry from Oein DeBhairduin are now available on our website 🧣 skeinpress.com/product/prin...

In this seventh episode of 'In the Half Light', curator Phil Mullen returns to a conversation with three writers about their experiences of growing up mixed-race in Ireland, delving deeper into their books and their approaches to writing... #ThinkingAloudThinkingTogether

This promises to be a really special event 🍃🧣 📆Thursday 14 May ⏰12pm 📍National Botanic Gardens Tickets are free but space is very limited: dublinbookfestival.com/event/oein-d...

Oein DeBhairduin with Anne Burke - Dublin Book Festival

Join Dublin Book Festival and Skein Press for the launch of Not yet with the ashes this ragged thing / Ni a gye a sloha a turpog inox, a new poem by Oein DeBhairduin.

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dublinbookfest.bsky.social@dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’re delighted to team up with @skeinpress.bsky.social for a launch event around a new poem by Oein DeBhairduin. Oein will be joined by Traveller activist and educator Anne Burke for a walk and reading in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Spaces limited, book yours here ➡️ bit.ly/4cCU6R9

Wonderful piece in @thedialmag.bsky.social by Skein translator @robmunb.bsky.social about the history, fragility, beauty and importance of the Asturian language, and Asturian poetry in particular www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Poems from Asturia — The Dial

Written by María García Díaz and translated by Robin Munby.

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'I can't go through my whole life telling myself I'm half of something...' In episode six of 'In the Half Light', writer and activist Leon Diop reflects how he came to embrace his mixed-heritage identity Listen now via Spotify, Apple or via our website: skeinpress.com/conversations/

We're delighted to share the sixth episode of 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland' is live now Curator Phil Mullen speaks to 3 renowned writers about their experiences of growing up mixed-race in Ireland: 🎙️Marguerite Penrose 🎙️Jackie McCarthy O'Brien 🎙️ @leondiop.bsky.social

Great interview with Roxana Manouchehri discussing migration, memory, war and family ahead of her event at @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social Thanks to @irishexaminer.bsky.social #ThisIsNotaCookbook www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

'I am just relieved for now': Iranian author on the war and her book at the Cork World Book Fest

Ahead of a visit to Cork, author Roxana Manouchehri talks about the comfort of food inspiring her book, and shares her fears for her parents in Iran, writes Colette Sheridan

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Don't forget you can catch 'This is Not a Cookbook' author Roxana Manouchehri at Cork World Book Festival next week 🌿🍇 @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social Taking place Friday 24 April, in conversation with Grace Neville 🎤 Tickets here: corkworldbookfest.com/events/this-...

This Is Not a Cookbook

Roxana Manouchehri in conversation with Grace Neville Friday 24 April 2026 Paperboys Café at Triskel | 3pm | Free

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Really looking forward to this! 💙

June Caldwell@junec.bsky.social · 4mo ago

*State, In Relation | Readings & Conversation* - Books Upstairs - Tuesday 5th May 2026 at 6:00pm. Featuring: Clare Bell, Oein DeBhairduin, Sonya Gildea, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Nithy Kasa, and my lovely wife Susan Tomaselli! booksupstairs.ie/all-events/s...