This is #WorldBookandCopyrightDay. The European Writers Council has issued this call to protect work created by humans europeanwriterscouncil.eu/2504_labelli... #worldhumancreatedbookday #irishwritersunion @societyofauthors.bsky.social @conorkostick.bsky.social #dontzuckourbooks Please share

I'll be talking about #LaVerginediFirenze - #TheMaidenofFlorence - Thursday evening at Itaca, San Domenico di Fiesole #authorevent #historicalfiction #Firenze #Irishwriting #Irishwritersunion #piemme #FlorenceLiterarySociety @larobbins8888.bsky.social @fairlightbooks.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Celebrating #worldbookday2026 with #luciedumas #irishwritersunion @europeanwriterscouncil.eu #thehumanauthorsfacebehindthebookwrittenbyahumanauthor #thafbtbwbaha #writingcommunity Any #author can join in, union member or not #protecthumanauthors
#worldbookday26
#humanauthorsfirst
#behindeverybook

Come and hear me at the Secret Bookshelf, @jozebwrites.bsky.social Carrickfergus next month, on panel with Malachi O'Doherty and David Hume www.eventbrite.ie/e/history-wh... discussing 'History - what do you do with it?' #irishwritersunion #historicalfiction #irishhistory #history

“I support Palestine Action” is a fine article by #IrishWritersUnion member Sally Rooney in this weekend’s @IrishTimes
In the article #SallyRooney highlights UK govt hypocrisy: punished dissent while assisting #Israeli #genocide in #Gaza @WritersUnion_ie shorturl.at/jzA3D

GRAND THEFT AUTHOR! In or near Dublin on this date? Please try to attend! The Irish Writers Union will be there to remind the government of the intellectual property rights of Irish writers. #metatheft #AIplagiarism #irishwritersunion #AontasScribhneoiriEireann #scrapingcopyrightedmaterialistheft

Vote YES to boycotting #Israel This weekend the #IrishWritersUnion will vote on joining #PACBI - part of #BDS. #ireland #boycott #notogenocide

17th April: The #IrishWritersUnion will be presenting our petition against Meta's heist of authors' work in training AI tools, without permission and without recompense (stealing) #don'tZuckourBooks to Niamh Smyth, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment. Sign at: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

Enough is enough. Theft is theft. Feel free to join us on the 17th. Nearly 1200 signatures on the @irishwritersunion protest so far: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr....

7,5 million books and 81 million academic and scientific papers are on the piracy site.

“The one message Helen McEntee and her government colleagues needs to hear is stop waffling and just do it” - Anthony McIntyre #OccupiedTerritoriesBill #IrishWritersUnion #Genocide #Labour #SinnFein #FrancesBlack #AnthonyMcIntyre

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

#Irishwriters #copyrightmatters #paythecreator #Meta #irishwritersunion #artscouncil #muntersliteraturecentre #mlc #ewc