Patrick Freyne
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social
Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
This is incredibly detailed, humane and clear writing that reshaped the US narrative on Hiroshima. (Can’t believe only reading it now). We need lots of reporting like this in the current moment
January 24, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This is incredibly detailed, humane and clear writing that reshaped the US narrative on Hiroshima. (Can’t believe only reading it now). We need lots of reporting like this in the current moment
I love this anecdote from Alex Abramovich's profile of Willie Nelson in the New Yorker
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I love this anecdote from Alex Abramovich's profile of Willie Nelson in the New Yorker
Well the Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is absolutely brilliant. I read it all without stopping today. Rich, moving multi-voiced novel. My favourite kind of book
January 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Well the Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is absolutely brilliant. I read it all without stopping today. Rich, moving multi-voiced novel. My favourite kind of book
*apart from Anna Carey's brilliant, moving and romantic Our Song of course:
December 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
*apart from Anna Carey's brilliant, moving and romantic Our Song of course:
While I'm at it, my favourite new books of 2025*: Elaine Feeney's Let me Go Mad in My Own Way and Roisin Lanigan's I Want to Go Home But I'm Already There. They haven't much in common bar having sentence long titles & being strange & beautiful and ultimately about what "home" means.
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
While I'm at it, my favourite new books of 2025*: Elaine Feeney's Let me Go Mad in My Own Way and Roisin Lanigan's I Want to Go Home But I'm Already There. They haven't much in common bar having sentence long titles & being strange & beautiful and ultimately about what "home" means.
This is Zahra Adam Khimes, a Sudanese refugee & social worker, who while dealing with unimaginable loss herself set up a women's centre in the unofficial Adre refugee camp Chris and I report on here. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
December 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is Zahra Adam Khimes, a Sudanese refugee & social worker, who while dealing with unimaginable loss herself set up a women's centre in the unofficial Adre refugee camp Chris and I report on here. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Most Sudanese refugees in Chad are women & children. The RSF are ethnically cleansing Darfur of Masalit people. We met some women in the Aboutengue refugee camp who set up a women's group. Their stories are very upsetting but their dignity & bravery is incredible www.irishtimes.com/world/africa...
December 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Most Sudanese refugees in Chad are women & children. The RSF are ethnically cleansing Darfur of Masalit people. We met some women in the Aboutengue refugee camp who set up a women's group. Their stories are very upsetting but their dignity & bravery is incredible www.irishtimes.com/world/africa...
This piece largely reported from the unofficial city of 235,000 refugees at the edge of the small border town, Adre. There are a lot of upsetting stories here but the thing I can't get over is how generous and kind people were. I can't get over this in particular: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
December 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This piece largely reported from the unofficial city of 235,000 refugees at the edge of the small border town, Adre. There are a lot of upsetting stories here but the thing I can't get over is how generous and kind people were. I can't get over this in particular: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
I’m relatively agnostic on whether LLMs could eventually be as good as they say (though i definitely think its abilities are oversold right now). I just think even the optimistic narrative is dystopian
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December 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I’m relatively agnostic on whether LLMs could eventually be as good as they say (though i definitely think its abilities are oversold right now). I just think even the optimistic narrative is dystopian
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
In my column this week I wrote about Emily in Paris/Rome and her role in geopolitics www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
In my column this week I wrote about Emily in Paris/Rome and her role in geopolitics www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
This by @seamas.bsky.social is out in April. it’s my favourite kind of book - a short book with loads of voices that feels like an epic. It’s all about buried trauma and how we commemorate stuff and it’s moving, angry and very funny. It’s brilliant really.
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This by @seamas.bsky.social is out in April. it’s my favourite kind of book - a short book with loads of voices that feels like an epic. It’s all about buried trauma and how we commemorate stuff and it’s moving, angry and very funny. It’s brilliant really.
There’s a preview of David Freyne’s excellent Eternity on Thursday evening in the Lighthouse in Dublin followed by a Q&A with the man himself. & the film is out on Friday! www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/preview... m.media-amazon.com/images/S/pv-...
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There’s a preview of David Freyne’s excellent Eternity on Thursday evening in the Lighthouse in Dublin followed by a Q&A with the man himself. & the film is out on Friday! www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/preview... m.media-amazon.com/images/S/pv-...
I had a bunch of things I was trying to channel but it was well after finishing it that I realised that it was probably far more influenced by the Los Bros Hernandez than anyone else
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I had a bunch of things I was trying to channel but it was well after finishing it that I realised that it was probably far more influenced by the Los Bros Hernandez than anyone else
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
On Monday @urchinette.bsky.social and I went to the star-filled London premiere of my brother David's film Eternity. WAS EXCELLENT (teenage nephews just out of shot)
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
On Monday @urchinette.bsky.social and I went to the star-filled London premiere of my brother David's film Eternity. WAS EXCELLENT (teenage nephews just out of shot)
I find my nephew‘s art strangely charming yet terrifying WHO IS HIM
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I find my nephew‘s art strangely charming yet terrifying WHO IS HIM
The intro to my piece on All's Fair with Kim Kardashian www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The intro to my piece on All's Fair with Kim Kardashian www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
This is on tonight - the Dublin Review at 100 - also to be aired on Arena on RTE Radio 1
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is on tonight - the Dublin Review at 100 - also to be aired on Arena on RTE Radio 1
I wrote about House of Beamish www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
October 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I wrote about House of Beamish www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
the Ursula Le Guin quote:
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
the Ursula Le Guin quote:
I consider Siobhan McSweeney's role in our nation's psychodrama www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
September 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I consider Siobhan McSweeney's role in our nation's psychodrama www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
I'm rereading a lot of Love and Rockets comics at the moment and I am reminded that Jaime Hernandez is my favourite comic book artist bar none. So clean, economical and characterful.
July 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I'm rereading a lot of Love and Rockets comics at the moment and I am reminded that Jaime Hernandez is my favourite comic book artist bar none. So clean, economical and characterful.
I mean what AI is going to better this lunatic portrait my nephew did of me (It would definitely not be improved by being the Studio Ghibli version)
July 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I mean what AI is going to better this lunatic portrait my nephew did of me (It would definitely not be improved by being the Studio Ghibli version)
This pic is in our kitchen. It's me, at an event at EP 10 years ago. If you look closely you'll see it's not a photo but a pic @chrisjudge.bsky.social drew (he documented the event as we went). @urchinette.bsky.social keeps threatening to leak it to create a literary scandal before my next book
July 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This pic is in our kitchen. It's me, at an event at EP 10 years ago. If you look closely you'll see it's not a photo but a pic @chrisjudge.bsky.social drew (he documented the event as we went). @urchinette.bsky.social keeps threatening to leak it to create a literary scandal before my next book
Just been to this excellent musical extravaganza in progress at the Galway International Arts Festival (my brother David’s adaptation of his film Dating Amber)
July 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just been to this excellent musical extravaganza in progress at the Galway International Arts Festival (my brother David’s adaptation of his film Dating Amber)