Back to the land of Benbulben and Miosgán Meadhbha (Maeve's Cairn) this Saturday for Sligo's Cairde Sligo Arts Festival. I'll be talking to unamannion about Hagstone at 6pm at the Yeats Memorial Building. Tickets: cairdefestival.com/events/sinead-…

In celebration of the publication of Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone and the Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments, we are delighted to present an evening of conversation with both writers here on Wednesday 18 September, 6.30pm. Booking essential: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/sin…

“Each author asks fundamental questions about the value of making art in relation to class politics”. Excellent Spike Art Magazine piece featuring Hagstone about art, class, precarity and the (meta) labour of making “work-adjacent images” (promoting your work).  spikeartmagazine.com/articles/essay…

To wake up and read the news that Israel bombed yet another school in Gaza City is just so painful. Killing 100 people in one go has become normal and we wake up and allow it to happen every day. Fuck this world!!

At Edinburgh International Book Festival next week chairing Evie Wyld she/her about her brilliant new novel, The Echoes; sharing a stage with Charlotte Wood to talk Hagstone & Stone Yard Devotional and hosting a close read workshop on Maeve Brennan's Long-Winded Lady essays. Tickets here: edbookfest.co.uk

Going up to Edinburgh this weekend to celebrate Charlotte Wood's The Booker Prizes longlisting and to see her in conversation Edinburgh International Book Festival with Carys Davies (she is also on stage with Sinéad Gleeson on Thursday) Details edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/w… and edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/w…

Great discussion with brilliant Evie Wyld she/her about her haunted, funny/sad novel The Echoes. Photo by Charlotte Wood - there’s an Australian theme here - and we’ll be discussing Hagstone and Stone Yard Devotional with Kirsty Logan today at Edinburgh International Book Festival, 4.15pm edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/w…

Forgot to tell @TheMaryChainat at Edinburgh International Book Festival that one of their songs is on the Hagstone playlist. Did I tell them that my mother used to spend ages back-combing teenage Martin Gleeson's hair to achieve JAMC hair height before he went to school? YES. open.spotify.com/playlist/1h3ge…

🇮🇪 🇵🇸 The award-winning Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza is coming to Dublin for an in-depth conversation at Dalymount Park this Monday, August 19th, at 7pm. 🎟️ Tickets/information: eventbrite.ie/e/in-conversat… All proceeds after costs will go to Palestine charity appeals.

‘to smell colour’ It’s stayed with me since I read it and it brought Ireland with it 💚 From the brilliant Sinéad Gleeson ‘Hagstone’ #BookTwitter

That countries that talk a big talk about human rights and the dignity of human life, continue to supply the weapons and the diplomatic cover for these continuing everyday horrors, is beyond comprehension

As someone who loved The Outrun book, I'm looking forward to seeing the film and will be chairing a Q&A with Saoirse Ronan at Irish Film Institute on Friday September 20th, after the Irish premiere screening. Tickets: ifi.ie/film/the-outru…

Nell McCafferty’s voice was loud and uncompromising in an Ireland that hated women with opinions. Her journalism was ground-breaking (a rare female voice in Troubles discourse) her feminism absolute, her queer visibility a lifeline for LGBTQI people. RIP. irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…

Eek, it's my second anthology of vintage spooky tales that I selected & illustrated! It's real! With a foreword by Sinéad Gleeson no less! Thanks again to John Mitchinson, everyone at Unbound and all of you who pledged and summoned it into existence... unbound.com/books/tales-ac…

Joined this gang to chat about Hagstone on BBCs Loose Ends: Su Pollard (Peggy from Hi-de-Hi!), Michelle McManus, catherine cohen, The Twist...? She's Fake, Clive Anderson. @chrisgrace, and Camille O'Sullivan (who sang The Pogues). Tomorrow BBC Radio 4, 6.15pm, and next Thursday at 9pm. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor talk to Tara Flynn about their new novels. Book online at wordsbywater.ie Nuala O'Connor #hagstone #seabourne #wordsbywater #kinsalefestivals

The Map by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon opened last night at Irish Arts Center in New York. You can also hear We Are The Map, a sound/text installation by myself and Stephen Shannon. irishartscenter.org/event/the-map-… Rua Red Maolíosa Boyle Rachael Gilkey

Can’t think of a better event setting for Hagstone than an island - looking forward to visiting two this month. Bere Island Arts Festival on 21/09 and Garnish Island for Crosstown Drift (with Eoghan O'Sullivan Aoife Barry) on 22/09) bereislandartsfestival.ie/events-1-1/eve… thegoodroompresents.com

Maher and Fallon's The Map and Untying the Knots, and We Are The Map, the text + sound installation created by Sinéad Gleeson and Stephen Shannon Stephen Shannon in response to the former work, will be open to the public again today from 1–5pm, and 6–8:30pm Mon-Fri. Free admission.

September events for Hagstone, including two on islands: Books Upstairs (waiting list) with @neevk, Bere Island Arts Festival, Crosstown Drift on Garnish Island (The Good Room), IIC Dublino with Igiaba Scego, Eco Lines at RiverbankArtsCentre & Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival (with Sophie Machintosh). 🌊