Congrats to all the winners at the #APIBAs tonight 👏 👏 👏, and especially to DCU School of English MA in Creative Writing graduate, Kathleen Macadam, who won the New Irish Writing award for her short story Valentine’s Day. 🎉 ❤️📚

My final event as The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Writer in Residence 2024 Dublin City University will be talking to immensely talented author Juliana Adelman about her novel The Grateful Water. ❤️ 📚 Bookings👇

Arts Council The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon announces two new writers-in-residence for DCU. Réaltán Ní Leannáin Réaltán Ní Leannáin and Sarah Gilmartin Sarah Gilmartin join YPCE Artists-in-Residence Dave Rudden Dave Rudden and The Ark The Ark Dublin for 2024/’25. Read: launch.dcu.ie/40EUKre

Welcome Sarah. Delighted to have you on board for what's sure to be a great year.

And so, alas, the Congolese nightmare continues: how many times must Goma fall? See Freight Dogs for the prequel to this week's events. Somewhere near the end, two characters discuss war breaking out again. How I wish their prescience was not so acute.

Unlock the writer in you through an immersion in Drama, Poetry and Fiction on Dublin City University's MA in Creative Writing: dcu.ie/courses/postgr… DCU School of English School of Comms DCU Darran McCann DCU Alumni An Post Irish Book Awards Irish Times Culture Irish Examiner Arts & Culture Penguin Books Ireland The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Irish Writers Centre

A really exciting event organised by Sarah Gilmartin, this year's writer-in-residence at the School of English. If you're an aspiring writing, be sure to head along!

Really looking forward to reading this debut collection from DCU MACW alum Bizzy Coy. Short humor from The New Yorker, McSweeney's and more. Highly recommended. Congrats, Bizzy! bizzycoy.com/book

Congratulations to Dr Héctor Muiños Olivas & Dr Thomas Caffery who graduated from Dublin City University on Friday! Joined by Dean of Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences @ DCU Prof Derek Hand and from the School of English: Dr Adel Cheong, Dr Jim Shanahan, Dr Michael Hinds, Dr Darren McCann and Dr. Jennifer Mooney

The annual John McGahern Commemorative Evening event will feature Michael Magee Michael Magee, Aingeala Flannery Aingeala Flannery 🇵🇸, and Sarah Gilmartin Sarah Gilmartin. The three authors will take part in a panel discussion and Q&A on April 16. Register: launch.dcu.ie/4cj7ckD

Looking forward to hosting these guys at DCU next week, in the theatre that bears McGahern's name. Three of our most exciting, articulate new novelists. On Leaving, Staying, and Coming Home, in three major contemporary Irish novels. Some tickets still available but moving fast...

Unlock the writer in you through an immersion in Drama, Poetry and Fiction on Dublin City University's MA in Creative Writing: dcu.ie/courses/postgr… DCU School of English Darran McCann An Post Irish Book Awards Irish Times Culture Irish Independent Irish Examiner Arts & Culture Penguin Books Ireland The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Irish Writers Centre

Wishing a Happy Easter to family and friends

Join me in conversation with Fiona O'Rourke for the Dublin launch of Barren 🗓 Wednesday 14 May 2025 🕡 6:30pm – 8:30pm 📍 Irish Writers Centre Dublin RSVP via link: irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/book-… #BookLaunch #IrishWriters #DublinEvents #AmReading #WomenWriters #LiteraryNight

Well done Harry!

The annual John McGahern Commemorative Event DCU School of English 'The material doesn't matter, it's the quality of the seeing.' 💙📚

Thrilled to welcome writers from Rutgers English to DCU for summer school alongside DCU MACW students. Great to host Alex Dawson at DCU School of English. Sam Blake and Deirdre Sullivan, our fantastic first two guests. Much, much more to come in days ahead.

Welcome to DCU, welcome to Dublin, welcome to Ireland, to friends from Rutgers University, Rutgers English. A great transatlantic adventure in storytelling gets underway.

Padraig Murphy @padraigmurphy.bsky.social Dublin City University Rutgers University Dave Rudden Jane Last DCU Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences @ DCU Fantastic collaboration

What a privilege to welcome Roddy Doyle to All Hallows, to officially open Dublin City University / Rutgers University summer school, in the beautiful #WoodlockHall. Thanks to Roddy, to Brian Gilmartin & Podge Kilbride for music from The Commitments. A memorable evening. DCU School of English. Rutgers English