Elaine Feeney
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
Writer
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025)
Nominated for Booker Prize
Lectures: University of Galway
Agent: Peter Straus RCW Lit Agency
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025)
Nominated for Booker Prize
Lectures: University of Galway
Agent: Peter Straus RCW Lit Agency
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Some great choices here. Mine are: Maggie Nelson, Yiyun Li, Ed Atkins, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, David Park, @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Leanne Shapton, and our Nero Fiction shortlist of Ben Woods, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Damian Barr and Ian McEwan. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... #Booksoftheyear
Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites
Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices
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November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Some great choices here. Mine are: Maggie Nelson, Yiyun Li, Ed Atkins, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, David Park, @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Leanne Shapton, and our Nero Fiction shortlist of Ben Woods, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Damian Barr and Ian McEwan. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... #Booksoftheyear
So delighted to win Author of the Year 2025 at Irish Book Awards
Thanks to Libraries Association of Ireland & An Post
Thanks to Libraries Association of Ireland & An Post
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
So delighted to win Author of the Year 2025 at Irish Book Awards
Thanks to Libraries Association of Ireland & An Post
Thanks to Libraries Association of Ireland & An Post
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Delighted for @elainefeeney.bsky.social A brilliant writer and a generous and beautiful person.
The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is...
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#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Delighted for @elainefeeney.bsky.social A brilliant writer and a generous and beautiful person.
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The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is...
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is...
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
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We have 7 books on the Globe 100 list! Congrats to all the authors! 🔥 @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We have 7 books on the Globe 100 list! Congrats to all the authors! 🔥 @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social
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Sad news from Galway:
Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
Tributes have been paid in Galway to artist, Aosdána member and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who died on Sunday at the age of 91.
www.independent.ie
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Sad news from Galway:
Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
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Shoutout to Elaine Feeney for her fascinating new multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, and learning to live with the past, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, which is a Fall Selection for The Booksellers’ List!
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Shoutout to Elaine Feeney for her fascinating new multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, and learning to live with the past, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, which is a Fall Selection for The Booksellers’ List!
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It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.
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THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin
🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.
More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin
🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.
More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin
🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.
More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin
🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.
More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
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Had a gorgeous day catching up with friends & attending @dublinbookfest.bsky.social events @nlireland.bsky.social and DCU ending with a super event with @elainefeeney.bsky.social @ronanhession.bsky.social and Lisa Harding with music from I Have A Tribe inspired by the readings. Míle buíochas to all.
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Had a gorgeous day catching up with friends & attending @dublinbookfest.bsky.social events @nlireland.bsky.social and DCU ending with a super event with @elainefeeney.bsky.social @ronanhession.bsky.social and Lisa Harding with music from I Have A Tribe inspired by the readings. Míle buíochas to all.
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“In her latest novel, Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, the prolific poet and novelist Elaine Feeney showcases quite nicely the aptitude of the form in bringing memory to life.”
Excerpt from D.W. White’s review of Feeney’s new book. Full review below:
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#writingcommunity
Excerpt from D.W. White’s review of Feeney’s new book. Full review below:
buff.ly/maDluzZ
#writingcommunity
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“In her latest novel, Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, the prolific poet and novelist Elaine Feeney showcases quite nicely the aptitude of the form in bringing memory to life.”
Excerpt from D.W. White’s review of Feeney’s new book. Full review below:
buff.ly/maDluzZ
#writingcommunity
Excerpt from D.W. White’s review of Feeney’s new book. Full review below:
buff.ly/maDluzZ
#writingcommunity
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Remembering that time (tonight) I hung out at The Manx Pub with Irish writers Eimear McBride and Elaine Feeney, along with our pal Tina, after a grand event via the Ottawa International Writers Festival,
October 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Remembering that time (tonight) I hung out at The Manx Pub with Irish writers Eimear McBride and Elaine Feeney, along with our pal Tina, after a grand event via the Ottawa International Writers Festival,
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Are you ready to discover a new read to add to your (never-ending) physical TBR? Bookseller Michael T. Hamm from Bookmark Halifax shares why he thinks Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way should be your next read this fall.
![[Having read How to Build a Boat in 2023, I now consider the author one of the premier contemporary writers in the English language. I will follow Elaine Feeney anywhere in her career. I am so excited to place this novel in the hands of people wanting a book with a strong narrative written in a delicately beautiful style.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmea7fw6o7m7xxu635kx3my2/bafkreihbplfsfujoehoj6k6el5ycrqvk3wvmuhklyzv3anros53wn3tbry@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Are you ready to discover a new read to add to your (never-ending) physical TBR? Bookseller Michael T. Hamm from Bookmark Halifax shares why he thinks Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way should be your next read this fall.
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Join us at Sacred Heart University next week to hear Elaine Feeney read from and discuss her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY
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October 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Join us at Sacred Heart University next week to hear Elaine Feeney read from and discuss her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY
www.sacredheart.edu/offices--dep...
www.sacredheart.edu/offices--dep...
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Huge congrats to Elaine Feeney and her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY for making the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year shortlist!
www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/let-...
www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/let-...
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Huge congrats to Elaine Feeney and her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY for making the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year shortlist!
www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/let-...
www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/let-...
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10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Ten of the best Irish books of 2025 so far
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October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
10 of the best Irish books of 2025 chosen by @rte.ie Culture with shouts out to Elaine Feeney, Róisín O’Donnell, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, John Banville, Anna Carey, Wendy Erskine, Patrick Holloway, Gráinne O'Hare, David Park & Claire Gleeson #IrishBookWeek
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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The Trio of Irish Authors are here! Welcome Elaine Feeney, Seán Hewitt and Wendy Erskine.
@wimbookfest.bsky.social
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@wimbookfest.bsky.social
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October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Trio of Irish Authors are here! Welcome Elaine Feeney, Seán Hewitt and Wendy Erskine.
@wimbookfest.bsky.social
🧡🤍💚
@wimbookfest.bsky.social
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Oct 24, Tara McGuire conducts back-to-back interviews with Elaine Feeney (Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way), Ian Williams (You’ve Changed), and Jack Wang (The Riveter).
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Elaine Feeney’s attendance made possible thanks to the generous support of Culture Ireland.
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Elaine Feeney’s attendance made possible thanks to the generous support of Culture Ireland.
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Oct 24, Tara McGuire conducts back-to-back interviews with Elaine Feeney (Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way), Ian Williams (You’ve Changed), and Jack Wang (The Riveter).
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
Elaine Feeney’s attendance made possible thanks to the generous support of Culture Ireland.
writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...
Elaine Feeney’s attendance made possible thanks to the generous support of Culture Ireland.
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The Booksellers’ List is Canada’s newest way to discover must-read books, chosen by the people who know them best—independent booksellers. The independent presses featured on the List this season are excited to team up and present you with: your favourite indie’s favourite indies!
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Booksellers’ List is Canada’s newest way to discover must-read books, chosen by the people who know them best—independent booksellers. The independent presses featured on the List this season are excited to team up and present you with: your favourite indie’s favourite indies!
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An excerpt of Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY on Lit Hub!
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Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
After Mother’s burial in a freakish sunshine that was followed by a violent purple hail, Brian and Conor filled in the grave with two long spades. They cast the black earth into the hole. Father wa…
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October 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
An excerpt of Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY on Lit Hub!
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So good!
An excerpt of Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY on Lit Hub!
lithub.com/let-me-go-ma...
lithub.com/let-me-go-ma...
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
After Mother’s burial in a freakish sunshine that was followed by a violent purple hail, Brian and Conor filled in the grave with two long spades. They cast the black earth into the hole. Father wa…
lithub.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So good!
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Worth noting that
1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin
2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.
3) They do deliver internationally
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1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin
2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.
3) They do deliver internationally
booksupstairs.ie
Books Upstairs | Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop
Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop
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October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Worth noting that
1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin
2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.
3) They do deliver internationally
booksupstairs.ie
1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin
2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.
3) They do deliver internationally
booksupstairs.ie
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I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25
October 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25
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Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
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October 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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