This evening in Galway at 7pm at An Taibhdhearc
Celia de Fréine discusses her play *Cóirín na dTonn* (currently recommended as a text on the Leaving Certificate syllabus) with Áine Ní Ghlinn.
With thanks to Foras na Gaeilge & Arts Council of Northern Ireland for supporting new Irish writing
Book Launch TODAY Sunday 10 May at 3pm
Arlen House warmly invites you to celebrate new fiction from
Liz McManus
*Tiny Bruises*
at the Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green
launch by Ivana Bacik
Available now from Books Upstairs
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With thanks to Arts Council NI
THIS EVENING Friday 8 May at 6pm in Bray
The Mermaid Arts Centre & Arlen House warmly invite you to celebrate Nell Regan's new collection
*Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf*
launch by Moya Cannon
Celebrating Arlen House at 50
Available now from Books Upstairs
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Arlen House is delighted to announce the forthcoming
*Shapechangers: 1960s Women Reflect on their Writing Lives* edited by @nessao.bsky.social
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The 1st sequel to the bestseller
*Look! It's a Woman Writer!*
Thanks to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
✨ April Poetry Evening ✨
📅 Friday 10th April
🕢 7:30pm
🎟️ Free - booking essential 👉 tr.ee/7RdO2qtT13
Come along to the United Arts Club, Dublin for an evening of powerful, heartfelt, and entertaining poetry.
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
@artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
"Books are the Grail for what is deepest, more mysterious and least expressible within ourselves. They are our soul’s skeleton. If we were to forget that, it would prefigure how false and feelingless we could become."
Edna O'Brien
Happy to have an essay in ‘Shapechangers’, a new anthology from @arlenhouse.bsky.social, edited by @nessao.bsky.social , and available to pre-order from @booksupstairs.bsky.social
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Here's my review of @lucycaldwell.bsky.social's latest collection of short stories Devotions. @arlenhouse.bsky.social @booksireland.bsky.social
The first of my readings in Maine went well yesterday! Pleasure to read with Maine laureates Julia Bouwsma and Audrey Gidman. Thanks to Maine Irish Heritage Centre for inviting and hosting. We read a poem by Seamus Heaney for his birthday. @arlenhouse.bsky.social
Book below for my workshop on speculative fiction! @shhomeplace.bsky.social Sat 27th June 10-4 Want to write a dystopian novel like The Memorisers? If so, I'll help you generate or hone your own brilliant ideas and writing @arlenhouse.bsky.social
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'Devotions, overall, is a heartfelt hymn to discovering spirituality amidst a life of stasis.'
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Rosemary Jenkinson reviews Devotions, the new short story collection by Lucy Caldwell (Faber).
