Paula Shields
@paulashields.bsky.social
Arts journalist. Event moderator. Arena, RTÉ Radio 1. Dublin, Ireland.
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Paula Shields
@paulashields.bsky.social
· Dec 28
Paul Lynch: Prophet Song
Author Paul Lynch talks to Paula Shields about his Booker Prize-winning novel Prophet Song.
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I produced & presented this radio interview with Paul Lynch - on his own novel & other bks that inspire him. Fascinating talker. Starts 3 mins in. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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I hate to break it to you, but you're all living in a Kevin Barry short story.
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I hate to break it to you, but you're all living in a Kevin Barry short story.
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It gives me pause when I walk out from Holywood along the south side of Belfast Lough to think of the city and its history, tucked in to the left as if it’s not there, the centuries of dispute invisible in the sheltered air, the birds of the far north wintering out, as they have for millennia.
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It gives me pause when I walk out from Holywood along the south side of Belfast Lough to think of the city and its history, tucked in to the left as if it’s not there, the centuries of dispute invisible in the sheltered air, the birds of the far north wintering out, as they have for millennia.
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Roland Barthes on writing as something that ‘perhaps reaches a goal you didn't have in mind’:
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Roland Barthes on writing as something that ‘perhaps reaches a goal you didn't have in mind’:
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The Dublin Small Press Fair was a joy to experience today at Pearse Library, Dublin
Celebrating small-scale publishing in Ireland and welcoming small presses from abroad.
Congrats to Dublin Small Press Fair organisers and team
Here's to many more! 📕👏
#smallpresspublishing #irishpublishing
Celebrating small-scale publishing in Ireland and welcoming small presses from abroad.
Congrats to Dublin Small Press Fair organisers and team
Here's to many more! 📕👏
#smallpresspublishing #irishpublishing
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Dublin Small Press Fair was a joy to experience today at Pearse Library, Dublin
Celebrating small-scale publishing in Ireland and welcoming small presses from abroad.
Congrats to Dublin Small Press Fair organisers and team
Here's to many more! 📕👏
#smallpresspublishing #irishpublishing
Celebrating small-scale publishing in Ireland and welcoming small presses from abroad.
Congrats to Dublin Small Press Fair organisers and team
Here's to many more! 📕👏
#smallpresspublishing #irishpublishing
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(from ‘The Search’)
“Often you will regret the voyage,
wakening in the dark night to recall that other place
or glimpsing the moon rising and recollecting
that it is also rising over named hills,
shining on known waters.”
“Often you will regret the voyage,
wakening in the dark night to recall that other place
or glimpsing the moon rising and recollecting
that it is also rising over named hills,
shining on known waters.”
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
(from ‘The Search’)
“Often you will regret the voyage,
wakening in the dark night to recall that other place
or glimpsing the moon rising and recollecting
that it is also rising over named hills,
shining on known waters.”
“Often you will regret the voyage,
wakening in the dark night to recall that other place
or glimpsing the moon rising and recollecting
that it is also rising over named hills,
shining on known waters.”
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Heading to Dublin tomorrow
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November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Heading to Dublin tomorrow
🙌
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Stationery brightness through a rain-soaked window
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Stationery brightness through a rain-soaked window
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Yeah so Giant's Causeway actually is all that. Literally found the end of the rainbow, as well as the location for the final scene of MAEVE (Pat Murphy & John Davies, 1981) (Not pictured bc it was hailing by the time we worked it out.)
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yeah so Giant's Causeway actually is all that. Literally found the end of the rainbow, as well as the location for the final scene of MAEVE (Pat Murphy & John Davies, 1981) (Not pictured bc it was hailing by the time we worked it out.)
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A must-read thread for the world-weary on this #Caturday
THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
November 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A must-read thread for the world-weary on this #Caturday
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It’s the weekend now and I regret making the plans I made when I was extroverted
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It’s the weekend now and I regret making the plans I made when I was extroverted
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Well said… Local authors, too!! Wherever you live, someone is nearby writing stories or histories that can enlighten you. Me, I’m massively lucky enough to call Beth Macy a local author. Read. Read. Read!
Never been more important to buy from craftspeople, painters, potters, illustrators, makers, carpenters, bakers and the like. Seek them out, follow them, support them and buy their goods. Use them or lose them etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Well said… Local authors, too!! Wherever you live, someone is nearby writing stories or histories that can enlighten you. Me, I’m massively lucky enough to call Beth Macy a local author. Read. Read. Read!
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Tonight- Cáit Ó'Riordan The Pogues & more from 8pm. rte.ie/johncreedon
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Tonight- Cáit Ó'Riordan The Pogues & more from 8pm. rte.ie/johncreedon
A poignant honour to host a tribute to Arena’s Seán Rocks last Sun with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry @winterpapers.bsky.social - Paula Meehan & Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Exquisite words & music - & an audience of friends & family. At Dublin Book Festival. ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A poignant honour to host a tribute to Arena’s Seán Rocks last Sun with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry @winterpapers.bsky.social - Paula Meehan & Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Exquisite words & music - & an audience of friends & family. At Dublin Book Festival. ❤️
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Surveillance cat.
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Surveillance cat.
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Just wondering what Godot’s hold music is.
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just wondering what Godot’s hold music is.
Thanks Jackie, great guests and heartwarming to see so many familiar faces in the audience - all there for Seán Rocks.
A beautiful tribute to Seán Rocks @dublinbookfest.bsky.social chaired brilliantly by
@paulashields.bsky.social with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry, Paula Meehan and Colm Mac Con Iomaire who finished the event with The Finnish Line which he said was a song of joy for Seán who was full of joy❤️
@paulashields.bsky.social with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry, Paula Meehan and Colm Mac Con Iomaire who finished the event with The Finnish Line which he said was a song of joy for Seán who was full of joy❤️
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Thanks Jackie, great guests and heartwarming to see so many familiar faces in the audience - all there for Seán Rocks.
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Coming soon…
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 8:04 PM
Coming soon…
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When you are very young but you have already discovered your purpose in life.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When you are very young but you have already discovered your purpose in life.
OH on #CelebrityTraitors - I’ve been at better pantomimes.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
OH on #CelebrityTraitors - I’ve been at better pantomimes.
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I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
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Damn, even the cat voting?
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Damn, even the cat voting?
Spending a little time with Derek Mahon this morning- what a poet- and looking forward to a celebration of him this evening with Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Stephen Rea, Claire Keegan, John Banville - Gallery Press event at Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Spending a little time with Derek Mahon this morning- what a poet- and looking forward to a celebration of him this evening with Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Stephen Rea, Claire Keegan, John Banville - Gallery Press event at Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.
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Do you reject Nigel Farage? And all his works? And all his empty promises?
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Do you reject Nigel Farage? And all his works? And all his empty promises?
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The postbox on the corner of where Bonham meets Lambert Rd off Brixton Hill is like the National Gallery of crochet. @regretteruane.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The postbox on the corner of where Bonham meets Lambert Rd off Brixton Hill is like the National Gallery of crochet. @regretteruane.bsky.social
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Must be a nightmare being Dracula's lawyer.
'Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you: is this the face of a killer? I mean, fangs aside?'
'Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you: is this the face of a killer? I mean, fangs aside?'
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Must be a nightmare being Dracula's lawyer.
'Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you: is this the face of a killer? I mean, fangs aside?'
'Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you: is this the face of a killer? I mean, fangs aside?'