@neilhegarty.bsky.social
Writer, Dublin & Derry. Worlds, words.
Novels: The Jewel•Inch Levels.
Essays (ed.): Impermanence.
Dublin Review•Stinging Fly•Banshee•PVA•
Tangerine•Cyphers•Irish Times
📖 & 🌿 & 🏳️🌈 & 🎂
neilhegarty.com
@rickburin.bsky.socialReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialI want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
@neilhegarty.bsky.socialYin and yang (not their actual names).
@frazzledlit.bsky.socialReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialWe are in Print!
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@neilhegarty.bsky.socialVery glad to pop up on RTE Arena with @rickoshea.bsky.social to discuss forty years of the RTE Short Story Competition, and to pick out some of my favourite entries - including fabulous work by Mattie Brennan and Danielle McLaughlin.
@neilhegarty.bsky.socialMoonrise over the south Wexford coast:
and I'm looking back with pleasure at a busy weekend at the Write by the Sea book festival at Kilmore Quay. Teaching, moderating - and feeling impressed at the impact of a weekend festival.
With thanks to @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com.
@finucanecentre.bsky.socialReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialRemember folks-at times of high community tension and re-traumatisation as is the case this morning with Drumcree/Garvaghy Rd there is one small step you can make for your own mental health and well being-do not listen to the toxic Nolan Show on Radio Ulster...
@drbeaubeaumont.bsky.socialReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialTo be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.
@rteco.rte.ieReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.social🎄On sale now! 🎄
RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday Miscellany celebrates Christmas with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra at the National Concert Hall.
With Paul Howard, John Toal, Neil Hegarty, Olivia O’Leary and more.
🗓️ Thurs 3 December
🎟️ Tickets expected to go very quickly
www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
@lilliputpress.bsky.socialReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialHe’s only gone and done it 🎉 A HUGE congrats to our submissions editor (and esteemed author!) Seán Farrell on winning the John McGahern Prize for his debut novel Frogs for Watchdogs 🎉 Frogs for Watchdogs is a brilliant, beautiful depiction of childhood, and we’d really recommend you get yourself a
@irishpen.bsky.socialReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialWe're delighted to announce the shortlisted titles for the 2026 PEN Heaney Prize with partners @englishpen.bsky.social & @seamusheaneyestate.bsky.social The winner will be announced, 1st December at the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds in partnership with @nationalpoetrycentre. Tkts www.englishpen.org
@gardeningwell.ieReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialSame garden. About five years apart. I’m here so often that I don’t really see the change happening. Then I look back at an old photograph. A lot can happen to a small piece of land when people keep turning up and caring for it.
@neilhegarty.bsky.socialSo glad to be part of this year's RTE @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social special Christmas edition, live from the National Concert Hall in Dublin on 3 December.
It's a beautiful way to begin Christmas - and tickets go on sale ... this morning! nch.ie
@sundaymiscellany.bsky.socialReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialReminder! For getting tickets for our Christmas show with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (National Concert Hall, Thursday 3 Dec). Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday 25 Sept, from 10am, NCH website and booking line only – early booking is advised! www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
@neilhegarty.bsky.socialThis is a spectacularly chilling thread from @sarahjeong.bsky.social. Such applause, not, for British Airways.
@neilhegarty.bsky.social'Plate' is good too though.
@martindoyle.bsky.socialReposted by @neilhegarty.bsky.socialMy interview with Louise Kennedy about new novel, Stations: “I think writing settled something in me, because the voice in my head is completely northern. So I feel like myself when I write in a way that I probably don’t when I’m speaking in my southern accent.”
@neilhegarty.bsky.socialLate water lily.
@neilhegarty.bsky.socialPartitionist.
@neilhegarty.bsky.socialI shall look forward to that. (Plenty of well-rotted horse manure seems to be key!)
@neilhegarty.bsky.social'Super Trouper' putting on an autumn show.
