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Ronan Fitzgerald

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Fiction writer. Also content designer.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · Dec 18

Delighted to be one of the winners of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025. I've worked on my novel for two years and this gives me a massive opportunity to try to get it published. Excited for what's next!

Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · Dec 18

NEWS: We are delighted to announce the winners of Novel Fair 2025

@ben-bland.bsky.social Ciara Broderick, Jill Bronfman, Andrew Cunning, Stephen Doyle @rmkf.bsky.social, Aidan Furey, Matthew Hornsby, André Mangeot, Amanda Moloney, Dónal O’Leary & Pauline Ryan.

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12 Aspiring Novelists Selected for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025 - Irish Writers Centre

Congratulations to Ben Bland, Ciara Broderick, Jill Bronfman, Andrew Cunning, Stephen Doyle, Ronan Fitzgerald, Aidan Furey, Matthew Hornsby, André Mangeot, Amanda Moloney, Dónal O'Leary and Pauline Ry...

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 3h

FBPE, an M Night Shyamalan film.

NPR @npr.org · 3h

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and novelist Nicholas Sparks describe their collaboration to simultaneously craft the new novel and upcoming film Remain as a unique one that's unlikely to be replicated. n.pr/3L7mE9M

M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks join forces on 'Remain' novel and film

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and novelist Nicholas Sparks describe their collaboration to simultaneously craft the new novel and upcoming film Remain as a unique one that's unlikely to be replicated.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 3h

Idk how deep you want to go on it but I found this useful: hbr.org/2024/01/how-...

How to Red Team a Gen AI Model

Red teaming, a structured testing effort to find flaws and vulnerabilities in an AI system, is an important means of discovering and managing the risks posed by generative AI. The core concept is trus...

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 5h

Why do so many broadsheet reviews of novels follow the format of saying the book is amazing for 90% of the review, then a final line that says "however, this too is the book's great weakness, seeya"?

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 14h

Fear of having to tag myself in all of them and then add more, lol.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 14h

The new Necks record is so good - how weird it is to listen to a new record by a band and feel like it could sit in the pantheon alongside basically anything else ever made.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 15h

Emily Berry.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 20h

Been spending most our lives, living in a grifter's paradise.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 22h

I love a lot of poetry, but poetry is also a grifter's paradise.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 22h

I mean, for example, if you struck down the local priest with a lightning rod, during a storm.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 22h

Reading various reactions to American politics "antichrist" discourse, and I know this sounds a bit Stephen King's Carrie, but did anyone else's mum used to call them an antichrist if behaving particularly badly? "You little antichrist" is what I remember. Guessing only Catholics likely to say yes 😀

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Prob will buy some at some stage, it's a long winter.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

One battle with your bladder after another. It was p good, tho I thought.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 1d

The new Afroman track is a fair bit darker than his classic stuff.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

This was interesting. I did a contract in Defra circa 2014/2015 and the walls were plastered with these posters that said BRITAIN IS GREAT with a photo of a sausage in a pan or a pudgy loaf of bread or whatever, and a Union Jack background. Feels a similar vibe to what you criticise.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute rage-inducer for content designers/strategists. The falsely utopian idea of 'we'll call it this and that'll mean it does everything'

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

The "One Stop Shop"

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've bought this resource..."

Kimmy @ohyertiz.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Full Moon. Skeleton staff.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who would block you is a monster, imo. Not to get too political on it.

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

Bloomsbury balcony dog living his best life.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

The little terrace outside Curzon Bloomsbury is nice, never used it before.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 2d

Put all my wool in Ziploc bags through moth season, took a beloved jacket out today and it's as it was, there's a first time for everything 🤗

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 3d

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 3d

Phoning my stockbroker while standing beside my dog's excrement.

Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 3d

It always feels mean/exposing/unearned to even name the work in question, but equally this morning I find myself thinking "it'd be cool if he did X next".

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Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social · 3d

I love that he is doing these reviews, because honestly sometimes this feeling, about certain books, has made me feel isolated or alone. Not in a terrible way but just like "does nobody else dislike this", since there aren't many such reviews.

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