Group reading this evening at Dundrum Library at 6pm. I’m looking forward to reading my poem from this great anthology #WashingWindowsV Alan Hayes : Arlen House

I am just thinking: how prophetic my alphabet poem was so many years ago, published by Pamenar pamenarpress.com/post/csilla-to…

We're delighted to announce the launch of Freedom to Write 2025! In partnership with The John Hewitt Society: johnhttps://johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-write-is-back-calling-all-emerging-writers-on-the-island-of-ireland-for-freedom-to-write-2025/ Writers get applying!

You are warmly invited to the Arlen House 50th birthday launches Galway, Friday 16 May, 6pm *Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry 1975-2025* & *Menagerie* Nuala O'Connor Charlie Byrne's Bookshop CharlieByrne'sBooks ALL WELCOME

Many thanks to Hanna Zelma Horanyi for this review of my novel "Kata" in Hungarian Literature Online hlo.hu/review/male-vi… PAGE & STAGE NI Jantar Publishing

Opening this Friday...PAGE & STAGE NI VisitArmagh

Delighted to have a poetry film in competition here. Bloomsday Film Festival 2025 celebrates James Joyce and cinema rte.ie/culture/2025/0… via RTÉ Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann

Celebrating Arlen House at 50 with extra busy book month, all the way from Strokestown to New York City. At Strokestown International Poetry Festival promoting books from Salmon Poetry Dedalus Press The Gallery Press & Wake Forest including highly anticipated new books from

⁦VisitArmagh⁩ ⁦PAGE & STAGE NI⁩ Dropped in to our exhibition at Armagh Marketplace Theatre and Arts centre with my daughter today. #photopoetry ⁦CAP⁩ #collaboration #reflections

Special weekend in Szombathely with so many outstanding Hungarian & Irish artists, musicians & writers. #Bloomsday at its very best.

Happy #Bloomsday Szombathely!

#kata #szombathely #bloomsday2025

The Szavaria Hotel in #Szombathely where #Kata Karády stayed and sang in #Hungary for the last time before defecting through the Iron Curtain. The hotel has been closed for 20 years waiting for an investor who could restore its secessionist splendor. ⁦Ambassador of 🇮🇪 to 🇭🇺, 🇽🇰 & 🇲🇪⁩

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En route to Cork for this evening's Waterstones Cork launch of my short story collection and 19th title WALKING GHOSTS. From Mercier Press Books & described by reviewer Val Nolan as 'ambitious, dystopian . . .' Excited as ever to be in Cork! All welcome as they say ...

A worthy winner! Lovely to chat to Ellen afterwards...

Bestselling anthology *Washing Windows V* honours amazing Irish literary women, including booksellers Mary Fallon Alan Hanna's Bookshop Caitriona Bennett Argosy Books & Books Upstairs' Ruth Webster. Plus librarians Jane Alger Dublin City Libraries Dublin UNESCO; Marian Keyes Marian Thérèse

Down by the Danube. As Joyce observed, “love loves to love love.”

Ireland has a proud history of opposing anti-Semitism irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…