Sinéad Gleeson
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
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Sinéad Gleeson
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
· Mar 27
The paperback of Hagstone is published today. Huge thanks to everyone who has supported the book in the last year, and to Ross for asking me to sign books at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social today. @cormackinsella.bsky.social
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Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide
One woman killed by someone close every ten minutes - UN
Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide.
www.rte.ie
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide
Re-reading Amongst Women for work and had forgotten how terrifying Moran is. One of the sourest patriarchs in Irish literature. It’s uncomfortable reading; constantly feeling uneasy for the characters, a mark of how masterful McGahern is. Very glad that Ireland is long gone. @faberbooks.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Re-reading Amongst Women for work and had forgotten how terrifying Moran is. One of the sourest patriarchs in Irish literature. It’s uncomfortable reading; constantly feeling uneasy for the characters, a mark of how masterful McGahern is. Very glad that Ireland is long gone. @faberbooks.bsky.social
Sublime, face-melting brilliance from My Bloody Valentine. Wore out Loveless and the Glider EP in my teenage bedroom, so almost wept on @urchinette.bsky.social’s shoulder when they played ‘Soon’.
Ears in recovery today. Great work @foggynotions.bsky.social.
Ears in recovery today. Great work @foggynotions.bsky.social.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Sublime, face-melting brilliance from My Bloody Valentine. Wore out Loveless and the Glider EP in my teenage bedroom, so almost wept on @urchinette.bsky.social’s shoulder when they played ‘Soon’.
Ears in recovery today. Great work @foggynotions.bsky.social.
Ears in recovery today. Great work @foggynotions.bsky.social.
Lizzie Stewart’s graphic novel Alison is one of my favourite books of recent years. Really looking forward to The Wreck, out next April. www.penguin.co.uk/books/463433...
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Lizzie Stewart’s graphic novel Alison is one of my favourite books of recent years. Really looking forward to The Wreck, out next April. www.penguin.co.uk/books/463433...
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‘We’ve got to release the dead hand of the past’: how Ireland created the world’s best alternative music scene
‘We’ve got to release the dead hand of the past’: how Ireland created the world’s best alternative music scene
Irish indie acts used to be ignored, even on Irish radio. But songs confronting the Troubles, poverty and oppression are now going global – and changing how Ireland sees itself
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
‘We’ve got to release the dead hand of the past’: how Ireland created the world’s best alternative music scene
Beautiful work in Holding Space by Sara Baume and Mollie Douthit - on at Molesworth Gallery until November 30th. molesworthgallery.com/exhibitions/...
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Beautiful work in Holding Space by Sara Baume and Mollie Douthit - on at Molesworth Gallery until November 30th. molesworthgallery.com/exhibitions/...
We read a LOT of books for the Nero Book Awards Fiction category and it was hard to whittle it down to four.
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We read a LOT of books for the Nero Book Awards Fiction category and it was hard to whittle it down to four.
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
Ana Mendieta, #BOTD in 1948 in Cuba. An extraordinary artist who used the body and landscape in an elemental way. I keep going back to her work (she’s in my first book, and the next one). This piece includes a link to a radio essay for RTÉ this year. momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-touchst...
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Ana Mendieta, #BOTD in 1948 in Cuba. An extraordinary artist who used the body and landscape in an elemental way. I keep going back to her work (she’s in my first book, and the next one). This piece includes a link to a radio essay for RTÉ this year. momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-touchst...
Steve Pyke's pictures of Irish writers in @theguardian.com, featuring @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, Edna O'Brien, me, @lucycaldwell.bsky.social, Glenn Patterson, Joseph O'Connor, @felispeaks.bsky.social, Colin Barrett, @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social & Iris Murdoch. www.theguardian.com/books/galler...
The wild old wicked gang: great Irish writers – in pictures
Edna O’Brien on her sofa, Joseph O’Connor in his garden, Seamus Heaney surrounded by books … British photographer Steve Pyke on capturing the greats of Irish literature
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Steve Pyke's pictures of Irish writers in @theguardian.com, featuring @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, Edna O'Brien, me, @lucycaldwell.bsky.social, Glenn Patterson, Joseph O'Connor, @felispeaks.bsky.social, Colin Barrett, @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social & Iris Murdoch. www.theguardian.com/books/galler...
Jesus. It doesn’t get more white knuckle than this. 3-2! Incredible…
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Jesus. It doesn’t get more white knuckle than this. 3-2! Incredible…
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
Happy Birthday, Georgia O’Keeffe.
Ghost Ranch Portal, New Mexico, 1964. Photo by Todd Webb.
Happy Birthday, Georgia O’Keeffe.
Ghost Ranch Portal, New Mexico, 1964. Photo by Todd Webb.
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
Happy Birthday, Georgia O’Keeffe.
Ghost Ranch Portal, New Mexico, 1964. Photo by Todd Webb.
Happy Birthday, Georgia O’Keeffe.
Ghost Ranch Portal, New Mexico, 1964. Photo by Todd Webb.
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hagstone lands in Dutch next week. Doing events in Holland & Belgium very soon, including three with @elainefeeney.bsky.social. Join us!
📘The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
📘The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Hagstone lands in Dutch next week. Doing events in Holland & Belgium very soon, including three with @elainefeeney.bsky.social. Join us!
📘The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
📘The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
Dorothy Waugh's incredible 1930s posters for US State Parks. Exhibiton runs at NYC's Poster House until February. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Dorothy Waugh's incredible 1930s posters for US State Parks. Exhibiton runs at NYC's Poster House until February. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Portrait of Olga von Hartmann, c 1910 by Gabriele Münter
(also features in the next book, alongside Packie Bonner)
(also features in the next book, alongside Packie Bonner)
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Portrait of Olga von Hartmann, c 1910 by Gabriele Münter
(also features in the next book, alongside Packie Bonner)
(also features in the next book, alongside Packie Bonner)
Would happily watch Troy Parrott’s two goals against Portugal all day but desperately trying to finish my book.
Which (I swear) features Ireland’s greatest footballing moment ever: Packie Bonner’s final penalty shoot-out save against Romania at Italia 90. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7S...
Which (I swear) features Ireland’s greatest footballing moment ever: Packie Bonner’s final penalty shoot-out save against Romania at Italia 90. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7S...
Ireland Vs Romania Penalties - Italia '90 FIFA World Cup, 1990
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
m.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Would happily watch Troy Parrott’s two goals against Portugal all day but desperately trying to finish my book.
Which (I swear) features Ireland’s greatest footballing moment ever: Packie Bonner’s final penalty shoot-out save against Romania at Italia 90. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7S...
Which (I swear) features Ireland’s greatest footballing moment ever: Packie Bonner’s final penalty shoot-out save against Romania at Italia 90. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7S...
See Red Women's Workshop poster, 1975
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
See Red Women's Workshop poster, 1975
Such an atmospheric novel: Fellini, Pasolini, the politics and aesthetics of film-making, Venice, artifice, eroticism, Rome’s Cinecittà studios, love, the rise of fascism - and Pasolini’s murder. Great work by Olivia Laing.
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Such an atmospheric novel: Fellini, Pasolini, the politics and aesthetics of film-making, Venice, artifice, eroticism, Rome’s Cinecittà studios, love, the rise of fascism - and Pasolini’s murder. Great work by Olivia Laing.
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We’re looking forward to tomorrow morning!
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social
📚 PS. Get your signed copies of After the Train at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social throughout the festival!
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social
📚 PS. Get your signed copies of After the Train at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social throughout the festival!
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We’re looking forward to tomorrow morning!
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social
📚 PS. Get your signed copies of After the Train at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social throughout the festival!
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
@clodaghfinn.bsky.social
📚 PS. Get your signed copies of After the Train at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social throughout the festival!
Happy birthday Helen Garner. Am reading How to End A Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998, which just won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and it’s like a map for writing
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Happy birthday Helen Garner. Am reading How to End A Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998, which just won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and it’s like a map for writing
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Wonderful launch London’s National Portrait Gallery for How to Live an Artful Life by Katy Hessel of the Great Women Artists podcast (and excellent Instagram account). Honoured to have a piece in it. www.penguin.co.uk/books/471552... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Wonderful launch London’s National Portrait Gallery for How to Live an Artful Life by Katy Hessel of the Great Women Artists podcast (and excellent Instagram account). Honoured to have a piece in it. www.penguin.co.uk/books/471552... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social