Felicity Hayes-McCoy
@fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
USA Today Bestselling Irish author. Fiction/non-fic. Upcoming standalone novel #OnceAYear HachetteBooks Irl Oct 2025
Lives London, UK/Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland (Gaeilge agus fáilte).
Rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK
Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
Lives London, UK/Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland (Gaeilge agus fáilte).
Rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK
Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
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Brilliant to see my new novel at No #1 in Easons' contemporary fiction list. Many thanks to all the bookshops and readers who've taken it to this top spot in its Irish/UK publication week.
#OnceAYear #Spéirgorm #Booksky
#OnceAYear #Spéirgorm #Booksky
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Happy to have supported Clifton Down Growing Space in its bid for CIL funding. The council's Area 3 committee agreed unanimously to back it. The funding will mean more raised beds, permanent watering facilities, and the chance for more people to grow their own food. Great use of a disused car park.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Happy to have supported Clifton Down Growing Space in its bid for CIL funding. The council's Area 3 committee agreed unanimously to back it. The funding will mean more raised beds, permanent watering facilities, and the chance for more people to grow their own food. Great use of a disused car park.
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"I didn't do it. And if I did do it, it was years ago, so it doesn't matter".
Oh, but it does matter Nigel. It matters a great deal.
"They're only making these claims now, because I'm leading in the opinion polls".
The claims were reported 13 years ago, Nigel... 🤮
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oh, but it does matter Nigel. It matters a great deal.
"They're only making these claims now, because I'm leading in the opinion polls".
The claims were reported 13 years ago, Nigel... 🤮
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"I didn't do it. And if I did do it, it was years ago, so it doesn't matter".
Oh, but it does matter Nigel. It matters a great deal.
"They're only making these claims now, because I'm leading in the opinion polls".
The claims were reported 13 years ago, Nigel... 🤮
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oh, but it does matter Nigel. It matters a great deal.
"They're only making these claims now, because I'm leading in the opinion polls".
The claims were reported 13 years ago, Nigel... 🤮
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Some very cold, early baths have been taken this week.
The resilience of small birds always surprises.
For the rabbit kit, discretion was the better part of valour.
🦉
The resilience of small birds always surprises.
For the rabbit kit, discretion was the better part of valour.
🦉
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Some very cold, early baths have been taken this week.
The resilience of small birds always surprises.
For the rabbit kit, discretion was the better part of valour.
🦉
The resilience of small birds always surprises.
For the rabbit kit, discretion was the better part of valour.
🦉
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When I hear Farage talking about rounding up and deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me and telling me that “Hitler was right”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
When I hear Farage talking about rounding up and deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me and telling me that “Hitler was right”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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If you ordered a Big Green Books Advent Calendar, they've all been posted off today!
OMG. It was a gargantuan task. I am spent. Thanks!
If you'd like an Advent Calendar starting later in December, you can still get one.
HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
OMG. It was a gargantuan task. I am spent. Thanks!
If you'd like an Advent Calendar starting later in December, you can still get one.
HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If you ordered a Big Green Books Advent Calendar, they've all been posted off today!
OMG. It was a gargantuan task. I am spent. Thanks!
If you'd like an Advent Calendar starting later in December, you can still get one.
HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
OMG. It was a gargantuan task. I am spent. Thanks!
If you'd like an Advent Calendar starting later in December, you can still get one.
HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
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I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
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This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
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Dublin City lights
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dublin City lights
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A thread that will bring joy to gardeners and archaelogists.
so I have finally started digging the trench in the garden for the French drain
would you all like to guess what I found
would you all like to guess what I found
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A thread that will bring joy to gardeners and archaelogists.
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We used to have nice things
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We used to have nice things
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Cuan na Beirtrí Buí, solas tráthnóna
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Cuan na Beirtrí Buí, solas tráthnóna
If you fancy buying my books this Christmas, please consider shopping local/supporting indie booksellers
#ONCEAYEAR is currently 20% off at Bookstation (Irish & family-run since 1989)
Free, fast & tracked delivery over €10
Same prices online/in-store
#spéirgorm 💙📚
bookstation.ie/products/onc...
#ONCEAYEAR is currently 20% off at Bookstation (Irish & family-run since 1989)
Free, fast & tracked delivery over €10
Same prices online/in-store
#spéirgorm 💙📚
bookstation.ie/products/onc...
Once a Year: A heart-warming, festive page-turner
'A charming festive story with a warm heart' Roisin Meaney'A delight to read. Beautifully written and a page turner. The characters are so real that you feel part of the story' Belfast TelegraphNow th...
bookstation.ie
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you fancy buying my books this Christmas, please consider shopping local/supporting indie booksellers
#ONCEAYEAR is currently 20% off at Bookstation (Irish & family-run since 1989)
Free, fast & tracked delivery over €10
Same prices online/in-store
#spéirgorm 💙📚
bookstation.ie/products/onc...
#ONCEAYEAR is currently 20% off at Bookstation (Irish & family-run since 1989)
Free, fast & tracked delivery over €10
Same prices online/in-store
#spéirgorm 💙📚
bookstation.ie/products/onc...
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The Bookseller's Gift and Once A Year looking good among the Christmas glitter in Dunnes Stores nationwide!
#spéirgorm people, please share the news 🥰📚📚
#Irish #festive #fiction #spéirghorm #booksky #writingcommunity
#spéirgorm people, please share the news 🥰📚📚
#Irish #festive #fiction #spéirghorm #booksky #writingcommunity
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Bookseller's Gift and Once A Year looking good among the Christmas glitter in Dunnes Stores nationwide!
#spéirgorm people, please share the news 🥰📚📚
#Irish #festive #fiction #spéirghorm #booksky #writingcommunity
#spéirgorm people, please share the news 🥰📚📚
#Irish #festive #fiction #spéirghorm #booksky #writingcommunity
@libertiesbelle.bsky.social Grmma as an repost sin. 😊
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
@libertiesbelle.bsky.social Grmma as an repost sin. 😊
@saintyboy66.bsky.social Thanks for your kind repost.
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
@saintyboy66.bsky.social Thanks for your kind repost.
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Kyiv is under missile attack.
It’s very loud.
Nothing new, really.
Just thought the world should know.
It’s very loud.
Nothing new, really.
Just thought the world should know.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Kyiv is under missile attack.
It’s very loud.
Nothing new, really.
Just thought the world should know.
It’s very loud.
Nothing new, really.
Just thought the world should know.
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Local libraries are like secret gardens of stories, where every corner holds a new adventure. Let’s nurture them with our love, for they nurture our minds! 🌿📖 #booksky #library
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Local libraries are like secret gardens of stories, where every corner holds a new adventure. Let’s nurture them with our love, for they nurture our minds! 🌿📖 #booksky #library
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Important to remember this when you read news reports of DOGE closing 'without achieving anything'. It achieved plenty. Not only should this not be forgotten, those responsible should be held accountable.
DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Important to remember this when you read news reports of DOGE closing 'without achieving anything'. It achieved plenty. Not only should this not be forgotten, those responsible should be held accountable.
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We are delighted to welcome bestselling novelist Kit de Waal (@kitdewaal.com ), literary translator Vineet Lal, pioneering writer Maggie Gee and literary biographer and head of Persephone Books Nicola Beauman, to the SoA’s honorary body of 56 existing Fellows.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We are delighted to welcome bestselling novelist Kit de Waal (@kitdewaal.com ), literary translator Vineet Lal, pioneering writer Maggie Gee and literary biographer and head of Persephone Books Nicola Beauman, to the SoA’s honorary body of 56 existing Fellows.
buff.ly/zeYJ4fC
buff.ly/zeYJ4fC
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Left: Guardian, "Twenty people allege Nigel Farage has a racist past"
Right: Nigel Farage to ITV News, "I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent"
Right: Nigel Farage to ITV News, "I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent"
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Left: Guardian, "Twenty people allege Nigel Farage has a racist past"
Right: Nigel Farage to ITV News, "I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent"
Right: Nigel Farage to ITV News, "I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way.. Not with intent"
@islandlesley.bsky.social thanks for your kind repost 🙂
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
@islandlesley.bsky.social thanks for your kind repost 🙂
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I don't think its up to the perpetrators of discrimination, harassment or bullying to make a judgment on the damage and pain they themselves caused to others with their vile behavior.
Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I don't think its up to the perpetrators of discrimination, harassment or bullying to make a judgment on the damage and pain they themselves caused to others with their vile behavior.
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These are the recollections of twenty of his school contemporaries
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
These are the recollections of twenty of his school contemporaries
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage has addressed the recollections of twenty contemporaries about his use of racism + antisemitism at school, saying it was "banter in a playground" many decades ago, but did not in his view amount to "direct unpleasant genuine abuse"
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Nigel Farage has addressed the recollections of twenty contemporaries about his use of racism + antisemitism at school, saying it was "banter in a playground" many decades ago, but did not in his view amount to "direct unpleasant genuine abuse"
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...