There's no structure to this list - these are people whose stuff I've enjoyed and/or been inspired by over the last few years
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Ian Plenderleith is a football and fiction writer based in Washington DC. He's worked for When Saturday Comes , US Soccer and The Guardian. His collection of short stories For Whom The Ball Rolls was published by Orion.
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Blog of critical writings by North Clare based artist and writer Fiona Woods. Creator of the Walking Silvermines project in Tipperary.
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Blog by Eddie Stack. Eddie is an Irish writer/poet/musician - the blog deals with ideas and issues in which old Irish culture and contemporary life come together.
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Poet and novelist. Author of All Alcoholics Are Charmers and No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors.
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A Londonwide travel and research project of deep topography carried out by Nick Papadimitriou and John Rogers (with accompanying radio show and podcast). Pictures by photographer Peter Knapp.
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Berlin-based Irish novelist and poet recently won the National Short Story Prize. He's outspoken about the current state of Irish writing and an avid Tweeter and pig stealer.
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One of the funniest Uk writers of the last decade. Author and journalist Harry Pearson works for When Saturday Comes and The Guardian. Wrote The Far Corner, a history of football in the North East.