Our literary rivalry hets up. For the record I am only at 22 because I am suspicious of odd numbers and REFUSED the number 21 spot

Claire Bradley@cbgenealogy.ie · 3mo ago

@patrickfreyne.bsky.social @urchinette.bsky.social spotted side by side in T2 Dublin airport

You're going to get so sick of me soon. I'M sick of me. Here's an essay I did for the Guardian about being the hip young gunslinger of Irish literature: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

‘Nobody is pretending to like my work because of my fresh-faced good looks’: the pros of being a debut novelist at 51

There are some advantages to being an older debutant, including knowing what it’s like to fail and not having your new novel overshadowed by early literary promise

theguardian.com

Anna isn’t sure it’s appropriate to write about Freyne in this manner given that he is, in fact, my near 78 year old father. I think it’s fine

Patrick Freyne@patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I wrote about my groundskeeper “Freyne” www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

So apart from being very talented my brother David is very brave. While his film Eternity was being wrapped up he had a very serious diagnosis and he has written about it here time.com/7339094/eter...

Me, My Film, and My Massive Brain Tumor

David Freyne directed and co-wrote a film about death. Then, he learned he had a brain tumor the size of an apple.

time.com

It's important to give conservative politicians their dues when they're on the right side of an issue like this, because we want elections to be fought over housing policy and taxes and stuff, not demonising minorities. Make politics boring again!

Cathal Malone@cathalmalone.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this? m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Yes I am biased because this book is dedicated to me but it really is amazing. 💖 🦊 🎸

Patrick Freyne@patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...

In future I will insist that all family photos take place in front of film premiere backdrops

Patrick Freyne@patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 10mo ago

On Monday @urchinette.bsky.social and I went to the star-filled London premiere of my brother David's film Eternity. WAS EXCELLENT (teenage nephews just out of shot)

More self promotion! Just half an hour left to vote for Our Song in the Irish Book Awards’ Popular Fiction Book of the Year category www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

Vote - Irish Book Awards

AN POST IRISH BOOk AWARDS Public Vote 2025 Vote for your favourite books of the year here and win €100 of National Book Tokens Scroll down and vote for your favourite books and be in with a chance of ...

irishbookawards.ie

I’ve written another romcom! It’s about two scriptwriters who can’t stop arguing but have to work together to save a TV show. Also there is kissing. I loved writing it and you can pre-order it here! linktr.ee/LoveSceneAnn...

If you haven’t yet, you can still vote for our amazing shortlisted titles in this year’s Irish Book Awards!

absolutely raging that philip sutcliffe represents my area and I’m so sickened by his horrible spoiled vote/fucking zodiac killer hate scrawl that I’ve made a complaint to the dcc ethics registrar. the info is at the link below and he’s in direct contravention of section 9.4 of the code of conduct

Bass tuned to DEAF@johnorthside.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Here's where it can be reported that will have an effect www.dublincity.ie/council/abou...

Our Song has been shortlisted for an Irish Book Award! It’s up for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year prize and you can (and should) vote for it here: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Ten of the best Irish books of 2025 so far

rte.ie

We'll be doing a live Arena show at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social celebrating 100 issues of @thedublinreview.bsky.social. We'll have editor Brendan Barrington, contributors Sara Baume, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and @mrkocnnll.bsky.social. Do come, it's going to be special...

The Dublin Review at 100 - Dublin Book Festival

The Dublin Review, Ireland’s quarterly magazine of essays, memoir, reportage and fiction, is celebrating its 100th issue. Join us for a special live broadcast of RTÉ Arena on Radio 1 in conversation w...

dublinbookfestival.com

I wrote about the new Victoria Beckham docuseries www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Patrick Freyne: I don’t want to see Victoria Beckham chatting over coffee. I want to see her in a rocket to space

There’s definitely a fascinating documentary to be made about the Beckham family. Maybe next time

irishtimes.com

Very happy to be doing this live podcast recording next Friday (17th Oct) with @urchinette.bsky.social and Prof Paige Reynolds at @molimuseum.bsky.social in Dublin! Will this be a MeetCute? Or a new love triangle? Will we get our Happy Ever After? Or just Happy For Now? 😜 moli.ie/events/happy...

AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

I wrote about House of Guinness/Beamish/Buckfast www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Today I will discuss House of Beamish. I think I remember the plot from history class, but we were all quite drunk

Much like Downton Abbey, House of Guinness is best treated as a delightful hallucinatory cheese dream

irishtimes.com

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 12mo ago

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

Is this the only credible solution to the global climate crisis?

Helena Fitzgerald@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · last yr.

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

I wrote about Stranded on Honeymoon Island which is a television program and possibly a state of mind www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Patrick Freyne: Davina McCall is firing a flare. On Stranded on Honeymoon Island, this means she’s ready to divorce

Stranded on Honeymoon Island isn’t a survival show so much as TV producers’ latest attempt to destroy the institution of marriage

irishtimes.com

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

There is a reference not just to this film but to the dress in this photo in the book I’m writing right now…

Marie Phillips@mariephillips.bsky.social · last yr.

Tonight’s film: Veronica Lake is enchanting in I Married A Witch boxd.it/b2zMaz

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane@adrianandshane.bsky.social · last yr.

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

This brilliant supernatural, romcom directed and cowritten by my brother David is debuting tonight at the Toronto Film Festival tiff.net/films/eternity

Eternity

Set in the afterlife, this stirring drama from director David Freyne (TIFF ’17’s <em>The Cured</em>) features Elizabeth Olsen (TIFF ’24’s <em>The Assessment</em>) and Miles Teller (<em>Whiplash</em>) ...

tiff.net

I love my neighbourhood. ❤️❤️❤️