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Ronan Fitzgerald

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Fiction writer. Also content designer.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · Dec 18

Delighted to be one of the winners of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025. I've worked on my novel for two years and this gives me a massive opportunity to try to get it published. Excited for what's next!

Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · Dec 18

NEWS: We are delighted to announce the winners of Novel Fair 2025

@ben-bland.bsky.social Ciara Broderick, Jill Bronfman, Andrew Cunning, Stephen Doyle @rmkf.bsky.social, Aidan Furey, Matthew Hornsby, André Mangeot, Amanda Moloney, Dónal O’Leary & Pauline Ryan.

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12 Aspiring Novelists Selected for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025 - Irish Writers Centre

Congratulations to Ben Bland, Ciara Broderick, Jill Bronfman, Andrew Cunning, Stephen Doyle, Ronan Fitzgerald, Aidan Furey, Matthew Hornsby, André Mangeot, Amanda Moloney, Dónal O'Leary and Pauline Ry...

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 8m

Write to your sons, but don't talk to them, because then we'd have to make this a podcast instead of a forthcoming book.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 33m

Stephen Graham plays a man whose world falls apart when he can't find the ceremonial quill he uses to Write To His Son.

Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons

The Emmy-winning actor will work with psychologist Orly Klein to compile the letters into a book exploring masculinity and the challenges facing boys today

www.theguardian.com

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2h

I Did History At School - Recent Events In America Could Be Worth Keeping An Eye On Now And Again

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2h

I Am Someone Who Writes Opinion Pieces For An Online Newspaper - The Things I Write Should Concern All Of Us

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2h

When did we start using the newspaper headline format that's like "I am a firefighter, these large yellow flames should concern all of us"?

It's like the more sober cousin of those tweets that would begin with "Historian here! 🙋🏻‍♂️"

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 3h

I think with lawyers it's more like... the law should be made according to the needs of the public and written in a way that anyone can understand. Tech in general has been offering opportunities for people to bypass the more parasitic parts of the legal industry. LLMs may do this too, albeit risky.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 12h

RTE minute by minute guy has thrown in the towel anyway.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 19h

Had to resist replying to that middle comment.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 20h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

FBPE, an M Night Shyamalan film.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and novelist Nicholas Sparks describe their collaboration to simultaneously craft the new novel and upcoming film Remain as a unique one that's unlikely to be replicated. n.pr/3L7mE9M

M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks join forces on 'Remain' novel and film

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and novelist Nicholas Sparks describe their collaboration to simultaneously craft the new novel and upcoming film Remain as a unique one that's unlikely to be replicated.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Idk how deep you want to go on it but I found this useful: hbr.org/2024/01/how-...

How to Red Team a Gen AI Model

Red teaming, a structured testing effort to find flaws and vulnerabilities in an AI system, is an important means of discovering and managing the risks posed by generative AI. The core concept is trus...

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Why do so many broadsheet reviews of novels follow the format of saying the book is amazing for 90% of the review, then a final line that says "however, this too is the book's great weakness, seeya"?

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Fear of having to tag myself in all of them and then add more, lol.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

The new Necks record is so good - how weird it is to listen to a new record by a band and feel like it could sit in the pantheon alongside basically anything else ever made.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Emily Berry.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Been spending most our lives, living in a grifter's paradise.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

I love a lot of poetry, but poetry is also a grifter's paradise.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, for example, if you struck down the local priest with a lightning rod, during a storm.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Reading various reactions to American politics "antichrist" discourse, and I know this sounds a bit Stephen King's Carrie, but did anyone else's mum used to call them an antichrist if behaving particularly badly? "You little antichrist" is what I remember. Guessing only Catholics likely to say yes 😀

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Prob will buy some at some stage, it's a long winter.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

One battle with your bladder after another. It was p good, tho I thought.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

The new Afroman track is a fair bit darker than his classic stuff.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

This was interesting. I did a contract in Defra circa 2014/2015 and the walls were plastered with these posters that said BRITAIN IS GREAT with a photo of a sausage in a pan or a pudgy loaf of bread or whatever, and a Union Jack background. Feels a similar vibe to what you criticise.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute rage-inducer for content designers/strategists. The falsely utopian idea of 'we'll call it this and that'll mean it does everything'