Freedom To Write Project 2025
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A cross-border creative writing project running throughout 2025. This is led by @The_JHS & @PENIreland. With thanks to the Shared Island Civic Society Fund.
Joined May 2024
ROLL ON SATURDAY!! We cannot wait to welcome friends, family, members of the literary community, and lovers of writing, to join us in the Assembly House, Dublin for our 2025 WRITERS SHOWCASE!! 🎉✍️🌎 @The_JHS @PENIreland @IrishGeorgian
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Thank you to everyone who came to @TheJohnHewitt for some exceptional poetry, and to have a pint of our new beer 'A North Light' 🍻 Thank you to Paul for leading our event, and to the poets, Dean Browne and Eilish Martin for your magical words! 🔥@BelfastFestival @poetryireland
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A wonderful afternoon in The Linen Hall Library for the Poetry Jukebox Launch: Fragments of Scotch Poetry! Congratulations to all those involved, including our JHS Chair, Dr. Frank Ferguson 👏👏 @thelinenhall @BelfastFestival @HurchinHome
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See you on Monday! https://t.co/qfFShlFaWU Hey everyone! We are going to have a Hewitt beer for one night and one night only this coming Monday! 'A North Light' named after Hewitt's autobiography 🔥🍻
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To mark the birth of celebrated Belfast poet John Hewitt, The John Hewitt Society presents an evening of poetry in the bar that carries his name.…
It's nearly that time of year again. What better way to celebrate John Hewitt's Birthday than to meet to hear some fantastic poets in the John Hewitt Bar on Monday 27th of October at 8.00pm.
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Poetry’s Coming Home! We can’t wait to welcome you home to Number 11 Parnell Square soon. If you would like to help us as we re-open doors please get in touch. 🏠 Beautiful business card design courtesy of Linde Fee.
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A special lunchtime event for Book Week 2025 hosted by The Speaker in the Senate Chamber at Parliament Buildings. Lots of great book recommendations from MLAs. Sara Girvin was the BBC’s acting librarian for this event…! #bookweekni @LibrariesNI @BBCnireland
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ANNOUNCEMENT! THE JHISS 2026 DATES ARE MONDAY 29TH JUNE - 4TH JULY! 🔥 The JHISS is one month earlier in 2026! Please help us spread the news 👏 @abcb_council
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It's nearly that time of year again. What better way to celebrate John Hewitt's Birthday than to meet to hear some fantastic poets in the John Hewitt Bar on Monday 27th of October at 8.00pm.
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It's nearly that time of year again. What better way to celebrate John Hewitt's Birthday than to meet to hear some fantastic poets in the John Hewitt Bar on Monday 27th of October at 8.00pm.
27TH OCTOBER - 8PM - BIRTHDAY READINGS - THE JOHN HEWITT BAR - BELFAST INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 🔥😍 https://t.co/Fxv1mWAXLK
@poetryireland @BelfastFestival @TheJohnHewitt @ArtsCouncilNI @VisitBelfast
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Nothing beats the feeling of seeing your work in print 🤩 Got my copy of Fortnight magazine featuring my PhD research essay on why I've written a novel. Thanks Angela Graham for the commission. Get your copies from @TorransDavid at No Alibis bookstore 🎉📚
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Some very exciting news! Come and join us for the launch of 'The Unknown Poet' by Malachi Kelly on Thursday the 6th November! 🎉🎉 Malachi was an @abcb_council bursary student this year at the JHISS!
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New books by Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright; Katrina Porteous wins @laurelprize; @tseliotprize & @SaltireBook shortlistings for Gillian Allnutt & @NiallCPoetry; @JessicaTraynor6 reviews; @ForwardPrizes Highly Commended Poems; RIP Tony Harrison. https://t.co/kEfSSOq7Xc
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Be sure to get your tickets for this brilliant event next Tuesday!
An Evening with Billy Collins, hosted by Myles Dungan of RTE Radio One's 'The History Show.' 21st October 2025 at 7.00 p.m. Findlater's Church (The Abbey Church), Parnell Square Tickets: €20 Book here: https://t.co/d4KuYCwAKC
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Insights from judge Cathy Sweeney on the winning & highly commended pieces forthcoming in Issue 4 @writing_ie @PENIreland @IrishWritersCtr
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27TH OCTOBER - 8PM - BIRTHDAY READINGS - THE JOHN HEWITT BAR - BELFAST INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 🔥😍 https://t.co/Fxv1mWAXLK
@poetryireland @BelfastFestival @TheJohnHewitt @ArtsCouncilNI @VisitBelfast
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A full house in the @IrishGeorgian, Dublin! Thank you to everyone who came to support our writers 👏😍 @The_JHS @PENIreland @dfatirl
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A massive thank you to the Writing for the Island / Freedom to Write 2025 representatives: Frank Ferguson from @The_JHS, Lia Mills from @PENIreland, and Councillor Lacey who represented the Lord Mayor of Dublin at The Showcase 👏 @LordMayorDublin @dfatirl @IrishGeorgian
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Poetry Jukebox Launch: Fragments of Scotch Poetry in the The Linen Hall next week! See you there 😍👏 https://t.co/0C1CJes566
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For this curation of the Poetry Jukebox, we asked ten poets, including Scots Makar Pàdraig MacAoidh [Peter Mackay] and poets Anne McMaster, Charles Lang and Angeline King, to write new poems in...
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'Pàdraig MacAoidh: In Conversation' in The Linen Hall on Wednesday the 22nd of October! 👏🔥 https://t.co/nCIHluJEX5
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS NOW TAKING PLACE ON 22 OCTOBER AT 3.30 PM, NOT 6 PM AS ORIGINALLY ADVERTISED. Join us for a special event with Pàdraig […]
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