Paula Shields
@paulashields.bsky.social
Arts journalist. Event moderator. Arena, RTÉ Radio 1. Dublin, Ireland.
Happy Christmas, Annie, from us!!
December 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Happy Christmas, Annie, from us!!
Happy Christmas Eve from Blackrock, Co. Dublin!
December 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Happy Christmas Eve from Blackrock, Co. Dublin!
Here’s my print - love it!
December 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Here’s my print - love it!
If only ours was a house share. Meet Fred and Ginger, feudal fluffy overlords. We’re just staff.
December 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If only ours was a house share. Meet Fred and Ginger, feudal fluffy overlords. We’re just staff.
This rascal swears by it.
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This rascal swears by it.
Oh losing our fluffy overlords is tough - Dec 27 last year, I found out my girl Ginger had a tumour, having gone to the vet thinking she had a bug and just needed an antibiotic. 3 days later, she was gone.
December 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oh losing our fluffy overlords is tough - Dec 27 last year, I found out my girl Ginger had a tumour, having gone to the vet thinking she had a bug and just needed an antibiotic. 3 days later, she was gone.
A poignant honour to host a tribute to Arena’s Seán Rocks last Sun with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry @winterpapers.bsky.social - Paula Meehan & Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Exquisite words & music - & an audience of friends & family. At Dublin Book Festival. ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A poignant honour to host a tribute to Arena’s Seán Rocks last Sun with Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry @winterpapers.bsky.social - Paula Meehan & Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Exquisite words & music - & an audience of friends & family. At Dublin Book Festival. ❤️
Spending a little time with Derek Mahon this morning- what a poet- and looking forward to a celebration of him this evening with Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Stephen Rea, Claire Keegan, John Banville - Gallery Press event at Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Spending a little time with Derek Mahon this morning- what a poet- and looking forward to a celebration of him this evening with Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Stephen Rea, Claire Keegan, John Banville - Gallery Press event at Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.
Very pleased I'll be talking to Christine Dwyer Hickey and David Park at this @dublinbookfest.bsky.social event on Sat 8 Nov! Love CDH, as do many, and DP should be much better known than he is -
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Very pleased I'll be talking to Christine Dwyer Hickey and David Park at this @dublinbookfest.bsky.social event on Sat 8 Nov! Love CDH, as do many, and DP should be much better known than he is -
Sky over Howth, Dublin Bay
September 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sky over Howth, Dublin Bay
I have multitudes of photos- she was such a character!
September 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have multitudes of photos- she was such a character!
I still call my 12-year-old a puppy, pep or no!
September 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I still call my 12-year-old a puppy, pep or no!
In the night garden …
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the night garden …
OH first cooked chicken for Fred 12 years ago. There’s no going back!!
September 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
OH first cooked chicken for Fred 12 years ago. There’s no going back!!
I’m off to Clifden Arts Festival in Connemara to talk to Donal Ryan on Friday 19th Sept at 3pm. It will be lively!
September 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m off to Clifden Arts Festival in Connemara to talk to Donal Ryan on Friday 19th Sept at 3pm. It will be lively!
Timeline cleanse c/o this fluffy overlord.
August 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Timeline cleanse c/o this fluffy overlord.
Well Reader, I loved it. Need to re-read regularly. Astonishing writing, hard to describe, which is as it should be.
August 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Well Reader, I loved it. Need to re-read regularly. Astonishing writing, hard to describe, which is as it should be.
Man, dog and misty Dublin Bay this evening.
August 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Man, dog and misty Dublin Bay this evening.
Tonight at 7, on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social we are broadcasting a terrific public interview Sean Rocks did with Claire Keegan in Oct 2023.
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Tonight at 7, on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social we are broadcasting a terrific public interview Sean Rocks did with Claire Keegan in Oct 2023.
Amen. What would we do without them?!
July 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Amen. What would we do without them?!
Opening lines of this: decades before AI, a teacher suspects plagiarism of 15-year-old Angel!
July 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Opening lines of this: decades before AI, a teacher suspects plagiarism of 15-year-old Angel!
So it’s taken a while to start this (!) but thanks to @iammilliam.bsky.social and @backlisted.bsky.social for the nudge.
July 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So it’s taken a while to start this (!) but thanks to @iammilliam.bsky.social and @backlisted.bsky.social for the nudge.
Ah, straight out of the Fred playbook
July 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ah, straight out of the Fred playbook
Yesterday’s secondhand book swag. Well into The Statement by Brian Moore already!
June 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Yesterday’s secondhand book swag. Well into The Statement by Brian Moore already!