
Neil Hegarty
@nphegarty
Writer. Novels: THE JEWEL; INCH LEVELS. Essays (ed.): IMPERMANENCE. History: STORY OF IRELAND.
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Looking forward to our trip to Cork on Wednesday for our David Marcus: Editing Ireland launch event in Cork City Libraries at 4pm - all welcome! Event is part of the brilliant Cork International Short Story Festival from Munster Literature Centre - full programme here: corkshortstory.net/programme.html


"I give praise to the embraces of women that reach right into my cell." Join us to celebrate the poet, İlhan Sami Çomak Dublin Book Festival 8th November. Free but booking essential - huge thanks to Dublin UNESCO & Dublin City Council dublinbookfestival.com/event/day-of-t… @VivianaFiorenti


"What I know of the sea is so little yet all I want to do is swim!" Join us to celebrate the poet İlhan Sami Çomak at Day of the Imprisoned Writer Dublin Book Festival generously funded by Dublin UNESCO - booking is going well dublinbookfestival.com/event/day-of-t… @VivianaFiorenti Padraig Hanratty


We're receiving applications for our French Literary Translation Fellowships, a collaboration with France in Ireland 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 Fellows spend time with us in Dublin while translating Irish literature. Find our more, here: tcd.ie/literary-trans… Trinity College Dublin Global Trinity College Dublin Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies at TCD Alliance Française Dublin

Wonderful conversation today between Neil Hegarty and CatherineDunneAuthor covering all things from #Berlusconi, #writingProcess & #AGoodEnoughMother #DBF24 Dublin Book Festival


“Here in Japan, in Okayama, in this sunny corner of the country, every house has a persimmon tree growing in its garden, and every bough is heavy with bright fruit…” Neil Hegarty Neil Hegarty, next RTÉ Radio 1


Wonderful to see Board member Neil Hegarty spreading the word on this mild November Sunday morning on Sunday Miscellany 👏👏👏


To the launch of Cyphers Books Upstairs #Dublin tonight - and I'm so happy to see my short story 'Canal Bank Walk' in its pages. #Irishwriting #shortfiction


"From now on, poetry and literature will be the focus of my life." We're delighted to see this video of İlhan Sami Çomak! CatherineDunneAuthor Therese Kieran @DonaldsonMoyra Neil Hegarty @libranwriter Celia de Fréine liz.mcmanus John O'Donnell Caroline Stockford Paula Meehan

We're super excited to be hosted by Queen's University Belfast 🎓 tonight for the announcement of the inaugural PEN Heaney prize, when one of these amazing collections will be named the winner. Such an honour to work with English PEN & Estate of Seamus Heaney to harvest this award. Congratulations to all!


Congratulations to Mattie Brennan, author of 'Dead Bait' and winner of the RTE Short Story Competition 2024. A pleasure to judge the award this year, alongside Kathleen MacMahon and Claire Kilroy. RTÉ Radio 1 RTE Arena Sunday Miscellany



Awh, I still can't quite believe; such a wonderful, special honour to win the An Post Irish Book Awards An Post #BookshopoftheYear 2024 & in such stellar company with TheCompanyofBooks Liber Tales for Tadpoles Bridge Books Dromore Co Down 📚 & OMahonys Booksellers. Thanks to all📚💚 #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs #Derry




I was glad to share a conversation with Aingeala Flannery Aingeala Flannery 🇵🇸 of the Dublin Review The Dublin Review and to read my essay Gallet. Listen to the full podcast here.