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.
www.rte.ie
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...
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?'
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With polling day underway, #dogsatpollingstations content makes its welcome return.
Pictured: Dolly, Lily, Johnny, Cinsault and Pino outside their local polling stations.
Pictured: Dolly, Lily, Johnny, Cinsault and Pino outside their local polling stations.
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
With polling day underway, #dogsatpollingstations content makes its welcome return.
Pictured: Dolly, Lily, Johnny, Cinsault and Pino outside their local polling stations.
Pictured: Dolly, Lily, Johnny, Cinsault and Pino outside their local polling stations.
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Home time after a busy day with the books. Lovely evening light.
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Home time after a busy day with the books. Lovely evening light.
@ravenbooks.bsky.social Do you have CD Rose's book We Live Here Now, by any chance? All the fault of @cathybrown746.bsky.social and @johnself.bsky.social -
October 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@ravenbooks.bsky.social Do you have CD Rose's book We Live Here Now, by any chance? All the fault of @cathybrown746.bsky.social and @johnself.bsky.social -
Very pleased I'll be talking to Christine Dwyer Hickey and David Park at this @dublinbookfest.bsky.social event on Sat 8 Nov! Love CDH, as do many, and DP should be much better known than he is -
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Very pleased I'll be talking to Christine Dwyer Hickey and David Park at this @dublinbookfest.bsky.social event on Sat 8 Nov! Love CDH, as do many, and DP should be much better known than he is -
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Now available to watch online: Eimear McBride and myself in conversation as part of this year's Liverpool Irish Festival. Runs until 26th October: www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/eimea... Features childhood memories of Liverpool, 'pre-lapserian' Camden, film-making and her latest novel.
Literary Salon featuring Eimear McBride - Liverpool Irish Festival
Multi-award-winning novelist Eimear McBride and literary critic (+Irish literature fan) David Collard host an informal, friendly tête-à-tête.
www.liverpoolirishfestival.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Now available to watch online: Eimear McBride and myself in conversation as part of this year's Liverpool Irish Festival. Runs until 26th October: www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/eimea... Features childhood memories of Liverpool, 'pre-lapserian' Camden, film-making and her latest novel.
What a night. So much fun to share a stage with @johncreedon.bsky.social - his stories took us from Orange marches in Belfast to Kampala to city centre Cork in the 1960s!
Thank you Nenagh for the full house, the warm welcome and the laughter. It was a blast!
Lovely to finally work with @paulashields.bsky.social
Lovely to finally work with @paulashields.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
What a night. So much fun to share a stage with @johncreedon.bsky.social - his stories took us from Orange marches in Belfast to Kampala to city centre Cork in the 1960s!
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I wish Northern Ireland and the Republic had their own independent military alliance because we could call it NAYTO.
October 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I wish Northern Ireland and the Republic had their own independent military alliance because we could call it NAYTO.
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Join us for our festival opening night for a special evening of conversation and culture to celebrate the 100th issue of The Dublin Review in a live broadcast with @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena 🎟️ bit.ly/3KgYZDD
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Join us for our festival opening night for a special evening of conversation and culture to celebrate the 100th issue of The Dublin Review in a live broadcast with @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena 🎟️ bit.ly/3KgYZDD
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One of my favorite episodes of Motherfoclóir. Manchán Magan talking about all the wonderful thing that Manchán was prone to talk about. @theirishfor.bsky.social @darach.bsky.social @thekavofficial.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
#144 | Three Whales and the Universe: Motherfoclóir Meets Manchán Magan
Podcast Episode · Motherfoclóir · 09/17/2020 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
One of my favorite episodes of Motherfoclóir. Manchán Magan talking about all the wonderful thing that Manchán was prone to talk about. @theirishfor.bsky.social @darach.bsky.social @thekavofficial.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Just so you know, if you'd like a book that's not on my website, you can.
And right now, i'd REALLY appreciate it.
You can message me here.
You can DM me.
Or you can email me at [email protected].
I can get pretty much anything.
Thanks.
And right now, i'd REALLY appreciate it.
You can message me here.
You can DM me.
Or you can email me at [email protected].
I can get pretty much anything.
Thanks.
October 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just so you know, if you'd like a book that's not on my website, you can.
And right now, i'd REALLY appreciate it.
You can message me here.
You can DM me.
Or you can email me at [email protected].
I can get pretty much anything.
Thanks.
And right now, i'd REALLY appreciate it.
You can message me here.
You can DM me.
Or you can email me at [email protected].
I can get pretty much anything.
Thanks.
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Many claims are made for the power of poetry to change lives. All I can offer on the death of Brian Patten is a simple truth. This poem - sent to me by my not-then-wife - is the reason I am with her 40 years on.
RIP Brian. x
RIP Brian. x
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Many claims are made for the power of poetry to change lives. All I can offer on the death of Brian Patten is a simple truth. This poem - sent to me by my not-then-wife - is the reason I am with her 40 years on.
RIP Brian. x
RIP Brian. x