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https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
Ireland's leading general publisher of both adult and children's books.
Formerly social media consultant, exotic dancer, and chocolate taster (one of these is a fib!) Here for pets, books, and kindness. Prone to whimsy and boldness. Living in Dublin with my fella and rescue dog Gabby. Loves bees and buns. He/him/icon!
Unvetted male Funkateer. Elevated neutrino readings. Talky stuff on
@newstalkFM @IrishTimesMag columnist. He/Him. 🇮🇪
A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie
https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Children's Books Ireland is the national charity & arts organisation that champions every child's right to develop a love of reading.
Charity Reg. No. 20039822
#EveryChildAReader
Mild-mannered marketing man by day
Business: wilsonkeys.com
Caped Picturebook maker by night
Kids books: https://www.louderlines.com/public/alanorourke#linkshare
Rep'd by @BLM_Agency
He/him
Connecting sport and business through information via our daily news digest; innovation through great networking events and imagination 24/7 Rob Hartnett Sportforbusiness.com
Children's author with lots of books out for kids of all ages 🌟
Work in kids books. Craft to excess. Badly in need of a sarcasm font. she/her/sí/í
Sportswriter and broadcaster with The42. Co-writer of THE RACKET by Conor Niland, 2024 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
Email gavincooney@the42.ie
📚 Kidlit and YA Bookworm
📓 Writer in Residence at dlr LexIcon
📖 Reviews with Books Ireland Magazine
🖋 Shorelines with Little Island Feb 2026
✒️ Repped by Alice Williams Lit Agency
👋🏻 She/they
Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her
(pretty much always a library in my books)
http://www.rflong.com/
Jessica Thorne: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jessica-Thorne/author/B07KRHB3HR
She/Her | Grey ace | 🇩🇰🇿🇼 living in 🇮🇪 | Award Winning Illustrator | SALON SATURDAY (OUT SEP 2025) | Rep’d by Thao Le |
Looking for work - contact me at charlotk@hotmail.com
NO AI, NFT
linktr.ee/zolwia
Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You (a Junior Library Guild selection!), out now!
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Second Captains, Irish Times GAA columnist, author "This Is The Life" (2023)
Author of many children's books; most recent ETTIE AND THE MIDNIGHT POOL & The Boy Who Sailed the World. Emeritus Professor of Writing for Young People at Bath Spa Uni. Live at the northeast coast. Love walking, wild swimming, reading.
Author-illustrator based in UK.
Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
Author of the Carnegie nominated THE SOUP MOVEMENT and the LENNY LEMMON series. And other stuff. Remember to breathe.
https://linktr.ee/bendavisauthor
Secondary school librarian. Author of The Travelling School Mysteries, LIBBY & THE EGYPTIAN ESCAPADE publishes Jan 25
Firefly Press
Header Becka Moor.
https://jo-clarke.co.uk/
She/Her
Children's author moving into screenwriting. BAFTA Rocliffe new writing shortlistee 2023. She/her.
jocotterill.com
Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense.
Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust.
Somebody I Used To Love - 2024
Pieces of Us - 2025
Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.
🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
🐯 Tiger Warrior author
🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author
Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices.
Lit Rep: @chloeseager
https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites
Brummie
🖋️Author - Time Keys🎶 - Portly 🦦- The Ice Children ❄️- The Twitchers 🦅- Adventures on Trains 🚂- Beetle Boy🪲
She/Her
🪲Posting about author-y book-y nature-y stuff.
🐞Agent: Kirsty McLachlan
❓Use my website for ALL enquiries: www.mgleonard.com
Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Writer and illustrator of silly things.
I make comics. Bunny Vs Monkey, Looshkin, Megalomaniacs, Flember, Fish Head Steve, Max And Chaffy, and Super Duper Bunny League coming to Nickleodeon in 2024!
The guy from The Week on Wednesday podcast who works with unions, boards and other folk to try and make the world a better place.
Cartoonist/Illustrator/Doodler | Sí/í/YerWan | "Keer-ee-uhk" | 🇮🇪
📨 Work Queries: ciaraioch.art@gmail.com
🎨 Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
📜 Newsletter: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
🫙 Tip Jar: https://www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Writer of thrillers ✍️
Derry Girl ☘️ Izzy’s Human 🐾
aka FREYA KENNEDY, when I'm feeling romantic. 💕
Powered by ADHD, HRT & Maltesers 🤯🥵🍫
Published by @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
New thriller: 📕The Perfect Mother 😱🔪🎈- February '25
Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
Novelist:Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling,The Tainted @hoperoadpublish @PenguinIndia, @AAKnopf @speakingtiger14. New Book: #TheInheritance Sept’24. ❤️Golf❤️
Author Illustrator, Have You Seen The Dublin Vampire? A Spooktacular Place To Be. Represented by ashliterary
www.unawoods.com
Comic Maker!
Based in Belfast! 🤘
CRY OUT LOUD and FLY BY NIGHT out now from Random House Graphic 💬
Repped by Andrea Colvin Creative Agency
https://ko-fi.com/taraocomics
taraocomics.com
20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him
📍Co Down / Cambridge
https://daramcanulty.com/
writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
Illustrator from Ireland
Illustration / Film Poster Art / Children’s Books
✨Available For Work ✨
http://linktr.ee/grahamartwork
http://instagram.com/grahamartwork
✏ Illustrator
📚 Picture book maker
🎗Chronically ill, chronically drawing
🌱 Let me tell you about my garden
She/Her
Email Enquires: shannonbergin@outlook.com
Website and Shop: https://www.shannonbergin.com/link-in-bio
Writer, reader, Dubliner, historian. Strong opinions about chai lattes. Grateful recipient of 2x Agility Awards + 2x Bursary Awards from the Arts Council. Essays, YA and history.
She/her
I’m an autistic Irish Illustrator working in children’s publishing.
Member of Illustrators North
Rep’d by Luddington Creative
Portfolio @ jamesashestudio.com
Work enquiries to hello@halfcut.net
✍🏻 Writer and teacher
📚’The Doomsday Club’ out now
📚’The Doomsday Club 2’ 2026
📍Mayoman in Dublin
https://linktr.ee/kmoranwrites
linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell
Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell.
Fiction: Literary — Fantasy — Mystery (as R.S. Maxwell).
Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
Irish illustrator & film programmer making pretty drawings and working for film festivals 🎨🎬
🎬 Kerry International Film Festival, Animation Dingle
📚 Picturebook A CORK FAIRYTALE out now!
💌 amylouioc@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/amylouioc
Children's Writer from Ireland. The Santa List; The Misfits Club; The Mighty Dynamo.
From Ireland, Japan and Canada
Author of CATFISH ROLLING🌊
SONGS FOR GHOSTS out 2025 👻
Writer and reader
she/her
Author of Into the Witchwood with The O’Brien Press and and children’s book manager at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway!
Aspiring Children's Author, #RaisingVoices Fellow, Teacher, Children's Books Advocate, Mars Delight Fan.
Award-winning author of novels for children and adults. Royal Literary Fund Fellow, writing tutor, bookworm, animal lover. First Term at Fernside out now from O'Brien Press.
Children's Author, Post Primary Teacher, Mom of 4. Proud Corkconian
Writer and historian https://litrpg.substack.com/
Children's books, illustrations, comics.
Pablo and Splash Books 1 and 2 out now (Bloomsbury)
Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney
sheenadempsey.com
Award winning author, cynical optimist, and social media sloth. Can't spell - get used to it.
she/her @celine_kiernan on insta
Author, illustrator, designer. Any opinions probably somebody else’s.
http://obrien.ie/alan-nolan http://alannolan.ie
Picturebook maker 🏳️🌈☘️
https://www.clivemcfarland.com
Writer-y Book Nerd | BIG BAD ME - OUT NOW from Little Island Books
🧛♂️🐺 (she/her) 💖💜💙 | Rep: Amber Caraveo #teamskylark
Bestselling author with O’Brien Press. Solo coming April 2025 with Little Island. Bookseller with Kennys Bookshop. Rontu Literary Service. www.rontuliteraryservice.com
🇮🇪 author in 🇨🇦
THE BOOK OF SECRETS (2022)
THE HARP OF POWER (2023)
Winner: Eilís Dillon Award @ KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2023
she/her
Powered mostly by coffee and vibes. Chronically ill (M.E), bisexual writer. The PSI Investigations series What Walks These Halls, Who Watches This Place & Where The Shadows Hide, published by The O’Brien Press, are in all good bookshops now. 👻 🏳️🌈
Author of THE SECRETS ACT, Chicken House, 2022. Shortlisted for Young Quills Award 2023. Rep by PFD.
🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Irish children's author.
'Wider Than The Sea' Winner of the Eilís Dillon Award KPMG CBI. Sunday Times (IRL) Children's Book of the Week. SL The Week Junior Awards '24.
'The Tree That Sang to Me' out now with Hodder.
https://serenamolloy.com/
Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator.
Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press, 2025).
Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/
Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/
Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
She/Her/Sí/Í; children's author, podcaster (shows.acast.com/storyshaped), dormant medievalist. linktr.ee/sinead.ohart. Rep: Clare Wallace. Art: Úna Woods. Free Palestine.
Children's writer-Carnegie nominated. Irish poet. BLACK GABLES. THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE. WELCOME TO DEAD TOWN RAVEN MCKAY Rep'd by Silvia Molteni PFD
eibhliscarcione.com
Cork, Ireland
Children’s writer & artist 💫 Mama to best twins. Wonderlarker. ELSETIME 🪶 (2020), THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 🌰 (2022), THE LAST BOY 🧹 (2024)
Dum spiro spero
🇮🇪 Irish writer of children's books.
Represented by Mandy Suhr at Storywise Agency.
Award-winning Irish children's author, children’s book reviewer, book events programmer and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs Children’s Bookshop
Founder of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SarahWebbWriter
QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS and DAUGHTER OF WINTER AND TWILIGHT from The O’Brien Press | Agent: Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary | 🇮🇪🏳️🌈 she/her
helencorcoran.com
Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is out now. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently subbing agents w/ a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him. linktr.ee/bobjohnstonbooks
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Your words, our passion! ✨ We are Clare Wallace, Becca Langton, Kristina Egan, Lorna Hemingway, Lucy Irvine, Chloe Davis, Kat Lenahan and Maleeha Mir
http://www.darleyandersonchildrens.com
Bookstation is Ireland’s best value chain of book and stationery shops. 100% Irish Owned and Operated. 🇮🇪
Find us at: linktr.ee/bookstationie
Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
Books, poems and trees 😌
Author of five novels-in-verse with Little Island 🧡
📍Donegal
meg-grehan.com
YA novelist, PhD candidate, reader, múinteoir, greyhound enthusiast. Gaeilge agus fáilte 💛
Former telly executive in BBC & RTÉ. Live central Dublin after 30 years London. Politics, books, gardens, art, cats, travel, poetry. Friendly & approachable unless riled. No bots/trolls/MAGAs/Fascists/Anti-Vaxx please.
Writer of novels, essays, short fiction & poetry. Novels include The Nine Lives Trilogy (The Book of Learning, The Book of Shadows, The Book of Revenge) & Caramel Hearts. Rep'd: Sallyanne Sweeney She/her #workingclass #blacklivesmatter
Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
Independent bookshop in Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Irish ornithologist & wildlife sound recordist.
http://www.irishwildlifesounds.com/
Using bird sound as a tool to spread love for Irish nature.
Albums:
-Wild Silence
-Hope
Book: Nature Boy (Irish biography of the year 2024)
Doc: Birdsong
Actor, comedian and entire Indie Band.
Derry Girls, No Worries If Not!, Lunchtime with Michael Fry
https://linktr.ee/bigdirtyfry
Upfront with Katie Hannon. One third of the Behind the Ballot election podcast. Occasionally heard on Liveline. Working on a second series of The Records Show. Kerry Hospice Patron.
The National Women’s Council of Ireland: promoting rights & equality
Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland) & Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Minister for Defence.
Leader of Fine Gael and Wicklow TD.
Award winning magazine for writers at all levels http://www.writing.ie - based in Ireland but for writers everywhere. Featuring book and writing news, tips, technique, competitions, submission opportunities and much more. We want to help! 📚💙
