Updates!

So delighted to be there for @ciarancannon to award the first @CTYI alumni awards to @darylhanberry and @chennessybooks @DublinCityUni today @muirtheimhne @DeloitteIreland pic.twitter.com/BWW8d3B4RW

— Colm O'Reilly (@Colmdcu) July 30, 2019

I got a shiny thing from CTYI, my summer home. As someone who was always ‘ugh, teaching?’ until working here and going ‘oh hello crazy passion for educating’, this is… a thing. For which I am very grateful.

Also: delighted to talk to Rosemary MacCabe on her How To Be Sound podcast. Rosemary is a mad talented writer and also brilliantly honest on social media – and she’s off to America soon, so I was thrilled to squeeze this in before she heads off.

Also also: latest YA fiction reviews for the Irish Times. These are all positive, which you get to do with a column where you pick and choose what gets covered, but I hope it is also still useful commentary on an area of book-land that does not get nearly enough critical attention.