Breaking: The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner.

As a Boland scholar, a biographer of women poets, and a TCD alum, this makes me very happy.

If you've got a book coming out in 2025, I'd love to hear about it as I plan previews and interview slots for The Frontlist. You can reach me here or at [email protected]. I also typically cover 4-5 books in-depth for Esquire each year. Publicists always welcome!

New York friends, we are all so pleased and still astounded to say that Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story will be the opening night film at DOC NYC - the US's largest documentary festival. I'll be there in person. All welcome. docnyc.net/film/blue-road…

'No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine: Arundhati Roy's PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech m.thewire.in/article/rights…

The war that has now begun will be terrible. But it will eventually dismantle Israeli Apartheid. The whole world will be far safer for everyone – including for Jewish people – and far more just. It will be like pulling an arrow from our wounded heart . thewire.in/rights/palesti…

Bígí linn 🇵🇸🙏

London, I’ll be chatting with the brilliant Martina Evans at Hewson Books Brentford for Irish Book Week with the Irish Cultural Center. Come join us. RSVP hewsonbooks.co.uk

The Frankfurt Book Fair, the book world’s largest trade fair, is happening this week. For all those attending, a few things to remember/keep in mind: lithub.com/500-internatio…

Love this badass photo of writer Mary Lavin on display today at the opening of a new space by the canal in her honour. Mary Lavin Place looked magical in a swirl of autumn leaves . Well done ⁦IPUT Real Estate Dublin⁩ ⁦Caroline Kennedy⁩

Please join us next week for Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL Book Tour with dates in London, Newcastle and Manchester: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2024/10/adania…

Wrote a piece with Dr Áine Mahon for the The Irish Times on the importance of an Arts education and the importance of funding culture more generally. Especially important, I think, given the scant funding allocated to the Arts Council in the recent Budget. irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

If you are in Paris or resident Centre Culturel Irlandais - you're very welcome on Thursday/Samhain when I'll be reading #herkind by candle light #Samhain #Halloween #witch

If you watch anything today let it be this. This man is speaking for his people and every single person who is standing in complete solidarity with Palestine. Let his voice be heard around the world. United We Stand 🇵🇸🕊️🇵🇸

New York friends:

People in Ireland who have been following what's happening in Lebanon, please read this & the linked report published last week too. There has been so much focus on Irish citizens' safety/evacuations but these are people the Irish have a duty to as well. x.com/sallyhayd/stat…

a smutty new poem in The New York Review of Books

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” Endless kudos to the hundreds of Canadian writers and book workers who boycotted this bloodstained prize.

Israel paints all Palestinian men as terrorists, and a compliant West then erases their heroism and ignores their grief. When these brave men are killed, a day or week or month from now, American journalists won’t count them among the innocent dead. They won’t count them at all.

President Michael D Higgins has said that to say the Irish people are anti-Semitic is a "gross defamation and slander", and it is a "very serious business" to do so simply because people disagree with the actions of the Israeli Prime Minister. Read more: rte.ie/b/1486987