Michael Magee @michaelmagee__ Twitter profile

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4 months

Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh was inspired to become a lawyer after learning about Majella O’Hare, a 12 y/o child from Armagh who was shot in the back & killed by a British soldier in 1976 She went crying to her mother and her mother said, ‘Do something about it’ Now look where she is

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Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh who is supporting South Africa's legal team at the ICJ, says the number of orphans caused by ‘Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza’ has led to the need for a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.

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2 years

It’s even better than I remember

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2 years

eight pints in and somebody introduces me to their English cousin who doesn’t doesn’t know anything about the troubles

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3 years

Thinking today about Carol Ann Kelly, who was murdered by the British Army less than ten yards from her house as she walked home carrying milk from the shop. She was 12 years old.

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Michael Magee

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we lost Zadie when she reduced the conflict in the North of Ireland down to ‘minor doctrinal differences’ that seemingly had nothing to do with British colonialism or the centuries long dispossession and subjugation of the Irish / Catholic population

The New Yorker

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9 days

In a new essay, Zadie Smith writes about the destructive role of language in the campus protests over the war in Gaza.

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Michael Magee

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10 months

‘Don’t let the bastards get you down…’ ‘I’m not down.’

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Michael Magee

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1 month

Andrew Neil: ‘people turned their backs against the terrorism Sands symbolised…’ Bobby Sands’ funeral (100,000 people turned up to mourn his death):

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1 month

The new Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. Elected by the students. Quoting Bobby Sands and Che Guevara. Like a juvenile student politician. Best not to say too much. But Sands is not immortal. He’s dead. And if children are able to laugh in Belfast today it’s because…

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Michael Magee

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6 months

BELFAST, CORK, DUBLIN, GALWAY 4 cities, 4 massive literary events 20+ Irish writers, reading, standing in solidarity with Palestine Tickets on sale Monday 13th November, 10am More details here:

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Michael Magee

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4 months

If anybody ever wonders why Irish people feel so passionately about Palestinian liberation, you needn’t look much further

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Michael Magee

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2 years

It’s not sectarian to show contempt for a police force that has obstructed, concealed, and recently, with PII, worked to suppress information relating to the highly suspicious circumstances around Noah Donohue’s (a 14 year old child) death

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2 years

Kneecap mural unveiling in West Belfast

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Michael Magee

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2 years

me and the fellas circa 2007, at our school formal, about to go to university like good nationalists and infiltrate the professional class

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Michael Magee

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6 months

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT Due to unbelievable demand, after selling out in less than 5 minutes, Irish Writers for Palestine: Dublin has changed venues. We’ve got a bigger boat, and it’s called Vicar Street. Help us sell the place out. Tickets on sale this Thursday (23rd Nov) at 10am

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Michael Magee

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7 months

There’s your mate Micky in a tweed suit.

Michael Magee wins 2023 Rooney Prize for Irish Fiction

Belfast author and editor is honoured for his acclaimed debut novel Close to Home

www.irishtimes.com

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5 months

take five minutes out of your day and watch legend @siobhni perform Bernadette Devlin’s (McAliskey’s) maiden speech to the House of Commons, 22nd April 1969 read as part of the Irish Writers for Palestine: Dublin full reading:

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5 months

besties

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Michael Magee

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7 months

grateful for all the love, lads, especially for the suit my ma took one look at this picture of me standing at the bottom of a staircase and said I look like Dracula so if you ever need humbled give me a shout

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Michael Magee

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2 years

Don’t know about you guys but I’d like a future where we don’t have a police force that drives around in big armoured cars, defiles the bodies of a 17 year old suicide victim, and suppresses information relating to the suspicious death of a 14 year old child 🤷‍♂️

Naomi Long MLA

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2 years

Loathe to give the band more publicity, but as a community we need to start asking ourselves what messages we're sending out about the kind of future we want. Normalising/excusing violence, seeking to cause hurt/offence, isn't how to build a better future for us all.

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7 months

More importantly … Free Palestine

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Michael Magee

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4 months

I’ve run out of things to say, for once, but here we are

Nero Book Awards

@nerobookawards

4 months

The wait is over.... Here are our 2023 category winning books! Huge congratulations to @FernBrady , @bethatintervals , @michaelmagee__ and Paul Murray! 🥳🥳 Find out more by clicking here:

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Michael Magee

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3 years

That this amnesty for British army veterans is being framed as 'drawing a line under the conflict' is reprehensible, really. Because who's the line being drawn for? It certainly isn't for the families of the victims, and it isn't for the communities those families are from.

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Michael Magee

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2 months

Divis Mountain, West Belfast

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1 month

there’s me in the paper talking about how I’m definitely not a British novelist and also other things

Michael Magee: ‘There’s a disbelief at how I’ve ended up’

The Belfast novelist on moving between memoir and fiction in his prize-winning debut, turning down a spot on Granta’s best young British novelists list and why Lords of the Rings was his ‘gateway...

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Michael Magee

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2 years

Simon Tierney famously knows everything there is to know about the conflict, having spent his childhood (1996-2002) in Clongowes Wood College, a boarding school in County Clare

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Michael Magee

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8 months

if you’d told me a novel I’d written would be taught on a literature course at Queen’s, and by the mighty Michael Pierse, no less, I would’ve told you to give your head a shake, but here we are, representing, and it’s glorious

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8 months

@michaelmagee__ takes his place in the pantheon. Looking forward to hearing what students think of Close to Home.

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2 years

This is the kind of thing that keeps my ma up at night

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7 months

I’m on the shortlist for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards, but more importantly … Free Palestine

An Post Irish Book Awards

@AnPostIBAS

7 months

Here is the 2023 shortlist for the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year... 📚 Close to Home – Michael Magee (Hamish Hamilton, @penguinrandom ) 📚 Kala – Colin Walsh ( @AtlanticBooks ) 📚 The Celestial Realm – Molly Hennigan ( @eriu_books )

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Michael Magee

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3 months

my ma was one of the first people to move into Poleglass, she was a single mother, and she had been homeless with two toddlers for a year, living with my granny and granda in a one bed bungalow in Twinbrook, and look at the contempt she was treated with

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Michael Magee

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1 year

sending my best to the fellas going out into the world today, and to all the people who helped get them here, you’re all class

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Michael Magee

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6 months

the fellas got a new jacket grateful to @Waterstones , and to all the booksellers and buyers … Irish Book of The Year is some accolade go raibh maith agat you pure stunners

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

6 months

Michael Magee’s Close to Home (Hamish Hamilton) has been announced as @Waterstones Irish Book of the Year 2023. Read more 👇

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9 months

‘could they not have got anyone Irish to do it?’ the vast majority of people at Listowel Writers Week were brilliant, a glorious town, but i saw firsthand how Stephen was treated, both by certain elements in the town, and by festival organisers, and it was a disgrace

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9 months

i’m starting to feel like i can talk about what happened in listowel

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Michael Magee

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2 years

nearly hugged the postman

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2 years

My cover is blown:

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2 years

I’ve been assured this isn’t a hoax. I’m still doubtful … Huge thank you to @HermThompson and @WollyMalls for taking a punt, and to my agent, @eleanorbirne , for guiding me through the process with unbelievable calm and assurance. I’m incredibly grateful.

The Bookseller

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2 years

"Close to Home is a novel which shines with intelligence and humanity on every page", Hamish Hamilton takes two titles from debut novelist @micknolan90 , starting with "a "gripping auto-fictional exploration of masculinity, class and trauma":

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2 years

You can’t both sides Kill All Taigs

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5 months

Vicar Street

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Michael Magee

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3 months

Anne Enright was part of the judging panel so I’m obviously 😭 need to stop saying f*ck in front of journalists though because they will put it in the paper

Johanna Thomas-Corr

@JohannaTC

3 months

I’m so excited to reveal our shortlist for the 2024 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year award. Four brilliant debut writers: Tom Crewe, Michael Magee, Momtaza Mehri and Noreen Masud. Read all about them here:

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9 months

never meet your idol unless your idol is Ali Smith

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10 months

Sending my best to all the booksellers, absolute legends every single one of you. It’s an honour and a privilege to be part of this list.

Waterstones

@Waterstones

10 months

The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023 shortlist is here! Chosen by our booksellers, these are the six debut novels that have excited them most, representing the best of the future of fiction. Discover them all here: #WDFP

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11 months

😭

Guardian Books

@GuardianBooks

11 months

Summer books: Zadie Smith, Ian Rankin, Richard Osman and others pick their favourites

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5 years

Judah Passow came to Belfast in 1982 and took these, and many other, photographs of people in Divis Flats and I can't stop looking at them.

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1 year

There’s my wee baldy head in the paper, talking smack, using big words like ‘f*ck’ and ‘d*ckhead’

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Michael Magee

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6 months

the fellas have made it onto the Nero Book Awards Debut Fiction shortlist and I couldn’t be prouder

Nero Book Awards

@nerobookawards

6 months

Next up, the Debut Fiction shortlist 📚 💙 The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro 💙 The New Life by @TomCrewe1 💙 Sunburn by @ChloeMHowarth 💙 Close to Home by @michaelmagee__ Keep an eye out for the Fiction shortlist next... 🧵

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6 months

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4 months

My boys! And also, my boy! Grateful to the judges for including the fellas on this gorgeous longlist. Very special to be named alongside my best mate, Tom Morris, who told me to write a letter one night we had too much to drink. Seven years later Close to Home was published.

dylanthomprize

@dylanthomprize

4 months

📚 THE 2024 LONGLIST 📚 We are thrilled to unveil the 12 titles that make up this year's @SwanseaUni Dylan Thomas Prize longlist. What a depth of incredible global talent! 😮 #SUDTP24 PRESS RELEASE 📰:

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3 years

Can’t stop watching this masterpiece

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Michael Magee

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10 months

we’ve lost a real one today, lads the first line of his first novel, The Joke, is the last line of mine, because it was the only one that made sense

Guardian Books

@GuardianBooks

10 months

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

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Michael Magee

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7 months

just spent the afternoon with students from @qub_gaeilge who have been translating sections from Close to Home and let me tell you, hearing them read extracts in Irish was one of the most profound experiences I’ve ever had, v grateful to them and to @siobhra for having me along

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Michael Magee

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5 months

BIG NEWS Irish Writers for Palestine: Dublin has just got bigger 2023 Booker Prize winner, @paullynchwriter , AND award winning author of Trespasses, Louise Kennedy, will BOTH be reading tomorrow night @Vicar_Street Don’t miss this, lads Tickets here:

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5 months

we’ve sold almost 800 tickets for this so far, which is incredible, and we still have another day to go help us shift another few before doors open tomorrow night, 7pm

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9 months

the fellas didn’t take away the prize this time but I had a hell of a night meeting lots of very cool people congratulations to v deserving winner Alice Winn, and to all the shortlistees, pure stunners every single one of them

Waterstones

@Waterstones

9 months

Tonight we announce the winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and things are hotting up at our ceremony. Five authors have assembled and our sixth will join us via livestream. Do you have a favourite? #WDFP

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4 months

this is my Barbie @KNEECAPCEOL

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1 year

Lads

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2 years

Just in case you’re in any doubt as to what The Big Fella thought about the six counties …

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2 months

paperback 🕺

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paperback boys 🤝 Waterstones fiction book of the month

Waterstones

@Waterstones

1 month

At once knife-sharp, tender and powerfully moving, our Fiction Book of the Month is Close to Home, @michaelmagee__ 's striking tale of poverty, love and trauma told through the lens of two working-class brothers in post-conflict Belfast: #WBOTM

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10 months

Sarah Jessica Parker got me into the Andytown News

Andersonstown News

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Sex and the City star adds West Belfast author's debut novel to summer reading list via @ATownNews

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2 years

Happy doctor day to all the doctors

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11 months

two months to the day since these gorgeous boys went out into the world and I couldn’t be happier for them

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9 months

best day of my life

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9 months

Close to Home, at home. Great reception for @michaelmagee__ at @FeileBelfast

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3 years

When Carol Ann's family objected to this, the judge threatened to remove them from the court, then to hold them in contempt of the court. Carol Ann's family, I mean. Not the British soldiers.

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3 years

One day my granny rang my great aunt and told her their mate had died of an aneurysm and my great aunt turned round to my great uncle and said, ‘oh god, Peter Mac had an orgasm and died.’ My great uncle said, ‘what the fuck is an orgasm?’ They had been married for 50 years.

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Michael Magee

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6 months

All four events have sold out now lads, you absolute stunners We might have another announcement or two up our sleeves here, over the coming days, so keep an eye out, but also, and more importantly … Free Palestine

Michael Magee

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6 months

BELFAST, CORK, DUBLIN, GALWAY 4 cities, 4 massive literary events 20+ Irish writers, reading, standing in solidarity with Palestine Tickets on sale Monday 13th November, 10am More details here:

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5 months

look at all these gorgeous bastards who organised and read at Irish Writers for Palestine: Galway tonight @Manuela_Moser , @elainefeeney16 @una_m_mannion , @nicoleflattery , Mike McCormack, @mcmonaglewriter , Lisa McInerney … too many to list in 240 characters stunners

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3 years

According to law, at that time, three or more people standing in a group constituted a riot. Even though there was no civil unrest at that time, the coroner used this to justify why the soldiers had fired—they had felt under threat from three children playing on the street.

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6 months

Belfast has now SOLD OUT, in less than an hour Legends every single one of you

Michael Magee

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6 months

Irish Writers for Palestine: BELFAST Featuring Anna Burns, Asmaa Azaizeh, @m7mdkurd , @WednesdayErskin , Leontia Flynn, Glenn Patterson, and @ssexton02 Music from Múlú and @arboristmusic Tickets on sale tomorrow morning, 10am:

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1 year

here’s a question that’s never been asked in response to any unionist majority ever

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3 months

if you listen really really closely, you can hear every RTE producer backstage collectively shit themselves

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1 year

Holden literally said ‘my finger slipped,’ yet he managed to shoot Aidan in the back from 300 yards away, killing him, which is exactly what they said they would do; they harassed him for years, assaulted him, and told his father ‘we've a bullet here in the gun for your son.’

David Blevins

@skydavidblevins

1 year

BREAKING: Former British soldier David Holden (52) found guilty of manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie in Tyrone 34 years ago. He’s the first British veteran to be convicted of a historical offence in Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

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This is it now lads, nothing but self-promotion from here on in, this time it’s an interview in Publisher’s Weekly, who have named me as one of their ten writer’s to watch for Spring 2023

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1 month

today is the actual official paperback publication day for Close to Home we celebrate this sacred day with a gorgeous animation, read by the one and only Conor MacNeill

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1 year

Forty-two years ago today, Bobby Sands was less than a month into his hunger strike when thirty thousand people elected him as a Member of Parliament at Westminster, triggering the loudest ‘yeoo’ that’s ever been heard across the entire island of Ireland

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6 months

yes it’s true I used to work for Caffè Nero and Waterstones but I’ve been assured that this had no bearing on the judges decision … you can speak to my lawyer

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3 years

She had gone to get a pint of milk for an elderly neighbour when two jeep loads of royal fusiliers came into Twinbrook and began firing plastic bullets at her and two other children she was with. She was hit on the back of the head.

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3 years

I'm thinking about this because of what is happening in the news today, but also because Carol Ann was shot across the road from where I grew up. I saw her mural on the wall at the bottom of Aspen Park every day I got the bus to and from school.

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3 years

A year after Carol Ann was killed, an inquest was heard. While in court, Carol Ann's sister, Eileen, has spoken about how the British soldiers who were being questioned about Carol Ann's death jeered at her and blew her and her sister kisses across the courtroom.

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1 year

I have it on good authority that @NOALIBISBOOKS have just about sold out of special editions of Close to Home. That’s 350 odd copies or so in less than a week. Here we are celebrating all our successes before they even happened (at the launch).

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there’s me in the LA Times

The working-class Belfast-born author trying to reinvent the post-Troubles novel

Michael Magee's debut novel, 'Close to Home,' follows the repercussions of a punch at a pub. For Magee, the goal is nothing less than to rewrite Belfast fiction

www.latimes.com

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paperback Thursday with the baldiest bastard in Belfast @NOALIBISBOOKS

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1 year

And here we have Mr David Torrans of No Alibis bookshop modelling this chic and stylish ‘Close to Home’ fabric tote bag. Designed by local wingnut Stephen Connolly, and featuring a fittingly moving quote from the novel, it really is this seasons must have literary accessory …

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1 year

This is getting out of hand now

Review | A debut novelist’s moving portrait of the Irish working class

"Close to Home," by Michael Magee, is an immersive novel about an Irish 20-something struggling to find his place in the world.

www.washingtonpost.com

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16 days

Anto Boyle is one of the most talented Irish actors of his generation, on the cusp of international stardom, and he has very good taste in books

PatrickFreyne

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I interviewed Belfast actor Anthony Boyle who has been in (deep breath): the Plot for America, Manhunt, Masters of Air, Shardlake and soon Say Nothing. He's very good.

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On her death certificate, it says that she died from pneumonia while on life support. No British soldier has been charged with her murder.

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Sally Rooney reading an extract from Ghassan Kanafani’s short story, ‘Letters from Gaza’ sadly Sally was stricken with the rona and couldn’t make the Irish Writers for Palestine: Dublin event she did this for us instead, and it’s worth every second

Sally Rooney reads Ghassan Kanafani | Irish Writers for Palestine

Sally Rooney reads an extract from the short story, 'Letter from Gaza' by Ghassan Kanafani.Reading featured at the Irish Writers for Palestine: Dublin event,...

www.youtube.com

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1 year

God bless America. God bless the New York Times.

One Punch Later and Belfast Pulls Him Back (Gift Article)

In Michael Magee’s visceral debut novel, “Close to Home,” a young man commits an assault that jeopardizes his plans for the future.

www.nytimes.com

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6 months

Irish Writers for Palestine: BELFAST Featuring Anna Burns, Asmaa Azaizeh, @m7mdkurd , @WednesdayErskin , Leontia Flynn, Glenn Patterson, and @ssexton02 Music from Múlú and @arboristmusic Tickets on sale tomorrow morning, 10am:

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2 months

looking forward to telling my publicist that I won’t be making any more public / onstage appearances unless a Palestine flag is featured as part of the backdrop @frustrated_wg

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6 years

Alice Munro showing us how to open a story

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6 months

there was a lot of love in the room last night, a lot of solidarity thank you to @BlackBoxBelfast for having us, and for all the readers and performers for being part of it we raised over four grand, with a room of 180 people gorgeous stunners every single one of you x

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1 year

Happy US publication day to this little demented fella

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3 years

This is true, I am on my way to a public house. I also passed my viva, so there we go x

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the fellas have been reviewed in the Guardian

Close to Home by Michael Magee review – Belfast struggles

This taut debut about a working-class young man wrestling with masculinity and lack of opportunity feels like a genuinely necessary book

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

3 years

The ambulance was called, but the royal fusiliers refused to let them gain access to Carol Ann—they had cordoned off the area where she had been shot. The paramedics insisted, and after an intense back and forth, were let through.

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

1 year

yes, that’s me, Michael Magee, and Pulitzer Prize winning giant of American letters, Richard Ford, appearing together for one night only at the @BelfastBookFest , moderated by pure stunner @tara_mcevoy get your (pay what you can afford) tickets here:

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

2 months

nero awards were class, grateful for all the love thanks to the judges, organisers, and workers on the night … legends here’s me and my editor @HermThompson being massive rides

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

7 months

600 writers and artists have signed this open letter, including yours truly Free Palestine

London Review of Books

@LRB

7 months

‘We call on our governments to demand an immediate ceasefire and the unimpeded admission of humanitarian aid into Gaza.’ An open letter on the situation in Palestine, signed by 600 writers and artists.

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

3 years

I can no longer say no, I’m sorry, I can’t go to your birthday party, I have to finish my PhD.

Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

3 years

PhD deadline in 29 days Light a candle for Micky

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

10 months

lol

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

3 months

I’m sick of me too

Authors' Club

@AuthorsClub

3 months

Today we announce the longlist for the Best First Novel Award. #BFNA2024 Congrats @santanu_bx #StephenBuoro , #KateCollins , @TomCrewe1 #JacquelineCrooks @Luidas , @HeatherDarwent #SianHughes , #ViktoriaLloydBarlow @michaelmagee__ @alicemjslater #SarahThomas & #WizWharton @Chomsky1

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

2 months

‘Each new airstrike rains down more devastation, demolishing more infrastructure, trapping more helpless people under the rubble, inflicting more catastrophic injuries … And now, as Israel continues to block aid, a manmade famine is taking hold.’

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Michael Magee

@michaelmagee__

3 years

She was put on life support, but it was too late. She died on the 22nd of May 1981.

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