Fionnuala O'Leary @FionnualaOLear1
Writer represented by Marianne Gunn O’Connor mariannegunnoconnor.com/clients/fionnu… New York Joined December 2012-
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So I just learned that @Delta charges $75 for first bag, $100 for second bag and $285 for 3+ bag 😀😀😀
In today’s @thetimes - Sunday paper of the year! - I’ve written about The Spectator’s massage parlour correspondent and why I think men who pay for sex are no better than rapists Let’s stop pretending that paying for sex is anything but abuse thetimes.co.uk/article/084b99…
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Bf experienced his first Irish wedding yday, Derry girls prepared him for Saturday Night, and Rock the Boat, it did not prepare him for Maniac 2000
Colm Tóibín returns to the characters of Brooklyn in his anticipated sequel, Long Island thebookseller.com/author-intervi…
This is one of the most touching and beautiful pieces about immigration and family. Pictures by Kalpesh Lathigra & words by Guy Gunaratne, in @GrantaMag’s Generations issue: ‘You’re a Londoner’: granta.com/youre-a-london…
I’m looking to speak to teachers who are planning on taking a career break for an article in the Irish Independent. Any shares appreciated 📰
Ok I’m home. Airport police have not had my ring handed in. I’m devastated. I really need this ring back. It’s my only memento of my mother and it means so much to me. Please everyone share this with anyone who was in T1 @TheLoopDutyFree @DublinAirport on Paddy’s day 🙏🙏
Great article by Sally Rooney today on Gaza @IrishTimes 🇵🇸
The true meaning of St Patrick’s Day, courtesy of Kevin McAleer ☘️
This initiative between two countries is just so brilliant. Sharing music, food and books are surefire way of bringing people together! @UgandaEireDance @acchoir @IrlEmbUganda
This initiative between two countries is just so brilliant. Sharing music, food and books are surefire way of bringing people together! @UgandaEireDance @acchoir @IrlEmbUganda
I'm super excited to share my debut at @TODAYshow, a reported essay about my divorce a decade ago and the cultural trend of women and divorce today. Thanks to the amazing @RheanaMurray for giving this piece the perfect home. today.com/life/essay-lif…
I can't believe it has been over 2 yrs since my son went missing. 2 yrs fighting to get law enforcement to process forensics (fully). It's been over 2 yrs since I last heard my son's voice, and over 2 yrs since Daniel spoke to his friends and family. Please Help Find Daniel!
This is free to read now 💛 I wrote a piece on surviving grief for the @irishexaminer which is online now. An enormous thanks to @AmandaCasssidy for asking me to be part of this new Examiner Voices series. irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/pare…
Set in Ireland’s Beara Peninsula in 1986 with a historical thread from 400 years ago… my 4th book out 19th Sept. Please RT!! @hoperoadpublish #TheInheritance
Every American interview I do: "So tell us about your writing routine! What's your favorite coffee?" Every European interview I do: "Can truth be objectively defined? What is the nature of knowledge?"
‘Readers want weird, difficult books’: @TrampPress on 10 years of publishing. Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen have blazed a trail, publishing some of Ireland’s most groundbreaking work & rufflling a few feathers. They talk to @NiamhDonnelly irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
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3K Followers 3K Following Arts & Travel Editor in New York City | Entertainment Writer | Content Creator | Sé/é | 🏳️🌈 | 🏳️⚧️ |🇮🇪 | 🇪🇺 | Donegal | Immigrant |Please meet Minet. (Mee-nay; he's French). He's nearly 17. Two years ago, his human died without making any plans for him. This was especially problematic because while he was in surprisingly good health, he was emaciated, had some vision loss - and clearly had cognitive…
Hello! I've written a piece for the Guardian about childbirth and the illness that's transformed my body and life forever. There are some jokes in it though! I think. X
‘I felt myself split into before and after’: how giving birth triggered a life-changing illness theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
Tomorrow is my last full day in New Orleans after 47 years - 37 in this house. The movers have come, and I’m on the porch enjoying the weather, my neighbors, and how lucky I am. Tomorrow is going to be rough, but I think I’ve wisely decided. However, if you happen by and I’m
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I tweet about Britain's postal paths (walked by rural postmen and women in the past) and other ancient paths, folklore, and the joy of handwritten letters. Follow me if you're of a like mind. Picture: Scottish postie Silver Beedie on her Highland route.
One of the lighter moments in Dirty Linen, discovering a rather risqué limerick by Seamus Heaney about an area just north of my parish. “There was a young man from the Munchies…”
@MartinDoyleIT 'Dirty Linen' is a powerful, powerful memoir about life in the North around the Troubles. As an Armagh person, delighted to discover the etymology of munchie (culchie) is an Armagh bogland, the Montiaghs, and that Seamus Heaney was inspired by it to write this ❤️
Sharing a bit of wisdom in my first ever, very long, thread: It’s April end and as New Year Resolutions fall by the wayside, here’s an invitation to dwell on the possibility of one that can actually be adhered to, the easiest of virtues, the Machiavellian tool that is…
Honestly the world is terrible and life is short so you should just probably write whatever fuck kind of book you want to write.
BREAKING: Irish Literature Wins the Internet Ulysses gets the @sparksofficial seal of approval.
“After 10 attempts at reading and completing James Joyce’s magnificent ‘Ulysses’ and only making it to page 10 each time, on attempt number 11, I finally did it! Hallelujah! ‘Ulysses’ should be a real inspiration to anyone interested in breaking the rules in any art form.” -Ron📚
Some news: Earlier this week I successfully defended my dissertation, earning my PhD. In July, I will join the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor.
I met Denzel Washington today while he was sitting in a train station (probably on a break from filming) and while I stared and gawked at him he asked if I was gonna stand there being pretty or come take a picture… naturally I took that to mean he called me pretty!
My father died today. I painted him many times. I'm not sure what else I can say now other than that I loved him and will miss him always.
Since it's #WorldBookDay, what was the first book that made you fall in love with reading? (Art by Quentin Blake)
Buzzing to be leading this workshop tomorrow!
I will be thinking about the 4,000 embryos lost in the IVF center in Gaza for the rest of my life. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
People tend to think of classics as being “boring,” but we wouldn’t keep reading them for hundreds of years if we didn’t love them. Let me introduce you to some FUN classics:
I am rewatching Sex and the City, the original, and there is no main character I hate more than Carrie Bradshaw. She is soooo fucking annoying