We are pleased to announce that Ruby Free will be at Waterstones Coleraine on Saturday 5th July at 6.00pm to talk about her book, Rathlin: A Wild Life and her experience working for the RSPB on Rathlin Island This is a free event with no booking required. #rubyfree #rathlin

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We are so sad to hear of the passing of Kenneth Bloomfield. It was honour to work with such an exceptional man, who dedicated his life to serving the people of Northern Ireland. Our condolences go to his wife, Lady Elizabeth, his family and his friends.

Ruby Free is incredibly excited to be chairing this discussion between some truly inspirational people – Aaron Kelly (Black Mountain), Dakota Reid (Wild Belfast) and Anne-Marie McDevitt (RSPB NI) – this Sunday at Belfast BookFestival at Crescent Arts Centre. belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/wild-…

⚽️🏆🎁 Hoping to score a perfect goal this Father's Day? We've got you covered. 🎁🏆⚽️ blackstaffpress.com/fields-of-wond… #fathersday #FathersDay2025 #FathersDayGift #fathersdaygiftideas #footballfans #footballgift Clackity Films

17th International Short Story Conference. I'll be in Killarney teaching, reading w/ Éilís Ni Dhuibhne & Judith Nika Pfeifer & in a plenary w/ Robin Hemley, Madeleine D'Arcy , Katie Singer, Evelyn Conlon, Emma Hislop, Rebekah Clarkson & Robert Olen Butler. paulmcveighwriter.com/2025/06/13/int…

☘️ Thrilled that this reprint has arrived! ☘️ 'Irish Folk & Fairy Tales', edited by Gordon Jarvie blackstaffpress.com/irish-folk-and… #yeats #folklorefriday #folklore #folkloreart #irishfolklore #celticmythology #Celtic #leprechauns #Magic #Fairies

Join Evelyn Conlon on Tuesday 17 June for a workshop at the 17th International Conference on the Short Story in English in Killarney. For more information: advantagepco.eventsair.com/icsse/workshops

ANNOUNCING OUR WORKSHOP 1 FACILITATOR (PROSE): RUBY FREE Ruby Free is an award-winning Campaigner, Writer and Conservation Biologist based in County Antrim. Ruby's best-selling book Rathlin A Wild Life, is a memoir about living and working on Rathlin Island. The John Hewitt Society Irish PEN

We cannot WAIT!! 😍 ECO-WRITING WORKSHOPS THIS SATURDAY IN THE MAC! 🌎✍️ The MAC The John Hewitt Society Irish PEN

Announcing the July Climate Writing Session!🍃 Alice will be joined by award-winning campaigner, writer and conservation biologist Ruby Free, and farmer and researcher Sinéad Moran. 🗓️ Wednesday 30 July 2025 🕥 7.00pm-8.30pm 💻 Online (Zoom) irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/clima…

Listen back to our new Laureate, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, on yesterday's Today with Claire Byrne! rte.ie/radio/radio1/c… Photo Credit: Vincent Hoban

Wed 23 July | 7–9pm | Flowerfield Arts Centre | Free | Booking essential: flowerfield.org/events Join us for a special evening with #RubyFree, award-winning writer, campaigner, and #conservation #biologist, as she chats about her book #Rathlin: A Wild Life! #RedSailsFestival

Huge congratulations to Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, the new Laureate for Irish Fiction!

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne was announced yesterday by the Arts Council as the New Laureate for Irish Fiction (2025–2028) 📚 Explore her powerful and imaginative storytelling through works like Twelve Thousand Days and Hurlamaboc available now in MU Library. #MULibrary #IrishFiction

Our new Laureate, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne,will be in conversation with Niall MacMonagle at a free public event in the National Library, Dublin, on Tuesday 16 September at 7pm. Booking details will be published shortly on the Arts Council’s website, and sign up to the Laureate for

"This laureate will not be resting on her laurels." The new The Laureate for Irish Fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne spoke to Martin Doyle for Irish Times Books about her writing life and her ambitions for her laureateship. irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s candid and moving memoir tells the story of her 30-year relationship with the love of her life, internationally renowned folklorist Bo Almvqvist, capturing brilliantly the compromises and adjustments and phases of their relationship. blackstaffpress.com/twelve-thousan…