Patrick Freyne

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...

Andy Irvine on his friend Donal Lunny www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

I interviewed the brilliant Andy Irvine & by sad coincidence it came out the week his great friend Donal Lunny died. Andy spoke about wanting to make music with Donal again: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi... (there's also a great video made by @endaodowd.bsky.social in which Andy plays some songs)

I interviewed the brilliant Andy Irvine & by sad coincidence it came out the week his great friend Donal Lunny died. Andy spoke about wanting to make music with Donal again: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi... (there's also a great video made by @endaodowd.bsky.social in which Andy plays some songs)

I’ve been nominated for an award! You can vote for me or a load of other authors here www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

Comedy’s ’good guys’ are a big topic of discussion this week.

I interviewed David Byrne www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

I was on a “work” trip www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I was on a “work” trip www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I think a lot of the yammering around Patrick O'Donovan's health is very close to ableism and I find it kind of nasty.

It’s Angela Lansbury’s birthday, so what better time to reshare this?

Taking lecture notes is a learning process. Remembering friends & deciding on dates with them is a social process. Knowing your care plan is about looking after yourself properly. The people who design these things are infantilised babies who have staff or they are, bear with me, evil

such a horrifying ending

I wrote about new horror shows Carrie and Below www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Dave Tyan and I are talking about our Dublin books (his the excellent We Used to Dance Here and mine Experts in a Dying Field) at Books Upstairs this evening at 6.30. FREE IN booksupstairs.ie/all-events/i...

I wrote about new horror shows Carrie and Below www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

I spoke to a load of people about location tracking www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I spoke to a load of people about location tracking www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

I wrote of Rooneys www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

I wrote of Rooneys www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Very much enjoying the story of AI bros going to religious leaders and asking them to say that machines have souls, only to be told: a) no they obviously don’t and b) if they did then what the AI guys are doing is literally slavery and that would be BAD.

I am a polcorr now (sort of) www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I'm glad we're finally outsourcing the horrible bits of life like making plans with friends so we can have more time to consume ads.

A new hot take: clinical psychologists should assess for "comedy" as a matter of course. So should recruiters, colleges & workplaces. "I'm afraid while this person is by most metrics a genius, we can't take them on because they're just not funny" (unintentionally funny counts)

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

If you pick up this book and read even just a page or two, you'll understand immediately why it's doing so well. It's phenomenal. A manual on the fightback for life on Earth.

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

I enjoyed this piece. People who are evangelical about A.I. really don’t seem to understand — or even appreciate — thinking, human creativity, or what’s important about, basically, everything.

North America book tour dates for ‘This is Also a Love Story’ have been announced. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Please come or share this with anyone you know in these cities who might be interested. Links with more event info here: sallyhayden.net/2026/04/11/t... @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

ok i've changed my mind and i would like more comics work, hire me please dearbhlala.com

I interviewed Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their terrifying diagnosis of and surprisingly optimistic prescription for a bad case of End Times Fascism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The "chatbots might be actually sentient" discourse in the other place is, in fairness, causing me to question whether AI-pilled American elite types are sentient.

After you read the interview, read the book

I interviewed Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their terrifying diagnosis of and surprisingly optimistic prescription for a bad case of End Times Fascism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

My favourite telly: www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them