#irishwriters

[opulusx]

Maeve Brennan The Long-Winded Lady

Selections from the New Yorker from 1954-1981

[alchemisland]

[booksandpublishing]

#NowReading Constellations by @sineadgleeson and it’s everything I expected it to be. I’m still near the beginning but I can tell I’m in for a journey. The chapter on hair brought up so many emotions within me, I had to let myself cry when I came to the end of it. Looking forward to savouring the rest of the book over the next few days. • #herstory #nonfiction #memoir #womenwriters #irishwriters #constellations #newbook #ourshelvesareourselves #bookstagram #books #bookstagrammer #bookcommunity #bookish #bestoftheday #saturday #weekend #igreads #reading #white #home #interiors (at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxnwEbwA8TB/?igshid=cwsc6j6l23y

[mindfulbarbarian-blog]

Yeats on a Sunday evening.. perfect. #poetry #poem #irish #irishwriters #musician #music #create #writersofinstagram #singersongwriter #bluesmusic #raw #literature #love #free

[standarddesigns]

Last night’s doodle. Samuel Beckett, based on a slightly matinee idol style photograph. #samuelbeckett #beckett #waitingforgodot #irishwriters #literature #theater #igreads #portrait #drawing #sketch #ipadart #truegrittexturesupply #monomania #ireland #paris #playwright #literaryheroes https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZjYDkIZal/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[groundhogdaychallenge]

OK CLASS, PICK UP YOUR BOOK AND SIGN IT Sara Medina surprised poet John Liddy with a poetry book of her own at tonight's launch of Arias of Consolation in @ateneodemadrid Once a student of his, he left an indelible mark on her and introduced her to James Joyce and awoken an interest in poetry. How many teachers would love to see their students hand up their book at the end of class #jamesjoyce #jamesjoyceinspiration #jamesjoyceinspired #irishliteratureandculture #irishwriters #irishdiaspora #limerickwriters #limerickwriterscentre #limerickwriting #johnliddy #irishculture🇮🇪🍀 #irishinmadrid #irishinspain #irishinspain #saramedina #nohemingway #bloomsdaysocietyinmadrid #teachersofinstagram #educationquotes #teachersfollowteachers #educationmatters (at Ateneo de Madrid) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeXCcviI0KV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[robertsparrowjones]

Northern Ireland in the 1970s, the Troubles, Anna Burn’s book, Milkman is delivered in an uncanny narrative that is at once dreamlike but impending violence pulls in an undertow. These are the rhythms of Burns’s mind. Her writing is challenging, perhaps experimental, but I also found so much humor against the tension erupting around her. Good read! What brought an extra dimension to the story was simultaneously diving through the overarching, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. This brilliant narrative nonfiction story of Jean McConvilleon, 1970’s Northern Ireland, and the IRA addresses the political, economic, and legal issues Ireland struggled with for independence. Informative. Intense. @praddenkeefe #ireland #irishwriters #fiction #nonfiction #manbookerprize @faberbooks (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ2HjlKlc_2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kenmcgrathauthor]

16th December 2021: ‘Hunting Warbirds’ mentioned on Tor.com

Over on Tor.com Jared Shurin (editor of ‘The Outcast Hours’) has posted an article, ‘Our Cyberpunk Year’ in which he puts it that cyberpunk is not dead, that we’re all actually living in a cyberpunk world and that the genre itself is in robust health across a multitude of media, thanks in no small part to ‘Cyberpunk 2077′ and ‘The Matrix Resurrections’.

So I was pretty stunned to see, when it came to examples from short fiction, that he’d mentioned my story ‘Hunting Warbirds’, which was published in Hyphen Punk in August of this year. 

Shurin writes “Cyberpunk stories, for example, proliferated across short fiction outlets... Ken McGrath’s “Hunting Warbirds” (HyphenPunk) is more familiar fare—an action-packed heist in an unequivocally cyberpunk setting”, which is pretty amazing. 

I’m an avid reader of Tor.com so to have something I’ve written be mentioned on there in such a positive way is quite an honor. Be sure to check out the article here, have a read of ‘Hunting Warbirds’ while you’re at it, don your mirrorshades and keep the cyberpunk dream alive. Onwards!