If you take one thing from my week on this account take this, bookshop doors might be closed but we are definitely open. We need your support this year more than ever. #IrishBookWeek

We are so delighted to win this award for Best Irish-Published Book: this is a huge honour and we have to thank our fantastic publishing team of Conor, Pa, Maeve and Grace at Merrion Press and Peter our publicist. We’d also like to thank our families for all of their support! 1/4

Old Ireland in Colour is the Christmas No. 1 Bestselling Book in Ireland! 📚🎄🇮🇪

Despite all evidence to the contrary, Sean Bean is alive and well and celebrating his 62nd Birthday today! Many happy returns to him and long may he continue to croak on screen.

Looking forward to the Q&A on June 3 Croke Park #gaamuseum and @JuMcKeigue! Cork LGFA Ladies Football #20x20 #Relentless Patrick O'Donoghue Mercier Press Books

After the phenomenal success of the first one we just had to do another! 🙌So delighted to say book 2 in Girls Play Too series is on the way! You can pre order here Easons easons.com/girls-play-too… Dubray dubraybooks.ie/girls-play-too… Merrion press irishacademicpress.ie/product/girls-…

Having just commentated on his first Olympic gold medal for Ireland, what better day to announce the exciting news that we will be publishing George Hamilton's memoir, The Nation Holds Its Breath, this autumn! George Hamilton Team Ireland #Tokyo2020

I’m having one final read of George’s memoir before we send it off to the printer. Apparently this still counts as “work”! 🙂

#twitterstorians Reminder: to register for our Publishing Workshop Next Weds 17 November - the first in our series on research and dissemination. Speakers: Christabel Scaife Christabel Scaife Maria O'Donovan CorkUniversityPress & Patrick O'Donoghue Patrick O'Donoghue Irish Academic Press irishhistorians.ie/2021/11/buildi…

Editor Achievement Unlocked!

I'm delighted with the cover of The Game, due from Merrion Press in May. Thanks to Fiachra McCarthy for the brilliant design. Thanks to my brother Dermot for the brilliant photo, taken in Banna Strand, c. 1974. #thegame #sportswriting #memoir

Blown away by the kind words from Eoin, Murph, Malachy Clerkin and Sinéad O’Carroll about The Game on the Second Captains Sports Book Of The Year Show last night. Humbled that the book was chosen as the joint book of the year with The Rodfather. Second Captains Merrion Press

Delighted that The Rodfather has been selected by Second Captains as the joint winner of the Irish Sports Book of the Year with the excellent The Game by Tadhg Coakley. Tadhg and Roddy Collins will be in Dalymount Park this afternoon to take penalties on each other to decide it.

I’ll tell you one thing, Cookie and I are going to get to the bottom of this who-knocked-the-Christmas-tree mystery if it’s the last thing we do!

* Barry’s Tea scene * Anne: Ah Pa, sure that’s not what they wanted at all! Me: Santa’ll bring them what they want … they’re all getting a shitload of books from me, again

One spare ticket for Pulp tonight in Dublin, available for €30. #ticketfairy Pulp

Irish Examiner Irish Examiner Arts & Culture Books Are My Business Patrick O'Donoghue of Merrion Press irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts…

RIP Gabriel Doherty 1967-2024 @ucchistory @ucc UCC Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences