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Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
@martindoyle.bsky.socialEoin McNamee: Annie Dillard said: “I had been my whole life a bell and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
You have to make a bell of yourself and allow the world to ring it. (Although being lifted and struck might well be what I deserve.)
@martindoyle.bsky.socialJohn McGahern, A Writing Life: Biography of literary giant who understood the human condition
Frank Shovlin provides an authoritative insight into a private man who was dedicated to his craft
@martindoyle.bsky.socialFiction in translation: from inner conflict in Ukraine to a Norwegian descent into madness
Books by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Sevgi Soysal, Olga Tokarczuk, Hernán Ronsino, Glenn Bech and Thure Erik Lund, now available in English
@martindoyle.bsky.socialAuthor Bonnie Garmus: ‘I’ve gotten so many death threats. The Andrew Tate crowd is alive and well’
The Lessons in Chemistry author on surviving a near-death experience, her new novel, and what it’s like to be a ‘global phenomenon’
@martindoyle.bsky.socialRecruiting a few new readers of A Hosting down the pub before my London launch at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith last night. Surprisingly easy to hold was the consensus.
@martindoyle.bsky.socialCheers David
@martindoyle.bsky.socialShowtime!
@circlingpoetry.bsky.socialReposted by @martindoyle.bsky.socialA great preview of Circling The Square in The Irish Times.
Many thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social
@martindoyle.bsky.socialCircling the Square returns
@john-self.bsky.socialReposted by @martindoyle.bsky.socialA world of Ballardian abandoned aerodromes and Shakespearean body counts, where everyone has a terrible time except the reader. Me on Eoin McNamee’s The Comets, which might appeal to fans of David Peace, James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy;
@eleanorhooker.bsky.socialReposted by @martindoyle.bsky.socialAnne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 📚
via @martindoyle.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @nobelprize.org
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@martindoyle.bsky.socialGreat to see, Rónán
@ronanhession.bsky.socialReposted by @martindoyle.bsky.socialWith huge thanks to translator Julieta Giambastiani, I'm delighted to see my story The Translator's Funeral in Spanish in Gambito de Papel of La Plata, Argentina.
As well as translating the story Julieta has been tirelessly pitching it. Translators are saints.
@martindoyle.bsky.socialMy interview with Niall Williams: ‘I will always be an outsider, even here after 41 years’
Co Clare based writer describes how he arrived ‘fictionally home’ in the imaginary village of Faha and how he celebrates the generosity, dignity and humour of his community
@grantsana.bsky.socialReposted by @martindoyle.bsky.socialThese are the deaths connected to the parade route that got the go ahead today. Telling residents that they need to build bridges feels particularly perverse
@martindoyle.bsky.socialRoddy Doyle returns to Barrytown
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
@martindoyle.bsky.socialHow Seamus Deane reinvented the Irish public intellectual
Critic’s interrogation of the Irish intellectual tradition began by questioning whether there was one worthy of the name
@martindoyle.bsky.socialSeán Farrell wins John McGahern Prize for debut Irish fiction
Frogs for Watchdogs described by judge Colm Tóibín as ‘pitch-perfect, tonally seamless, utterly immersive’
@ronanhession.bsky.socialReposted by @martindoyle.bsky.socialWell done @lukekennard.bsky.social and Mike John Harrison. Enjoy it all. We fellow weirdos salute you.
Well done to Djamel White who was long listed for his debut, All Them Dogs – great things ahead for him I'm sure.
@martindoyle.bsky.socialBooker Prize shortlist: two former winners in running for £50,000 prize. Douglas Stuart, who won with Shuggie Bain in 2020, is back with John of John, and Marlon James, who won in 2015 with A Brief History of Seven Killings, returns with The Disappearers
