Paula Shields

@paulashields

Arts journalist. Event moderator. Arena, RTÉ Radio 1. Dublin, Ireland.

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Paula Shields@paulashields· Jun 21

Thank you to @ravenbooks.bsky.social for this recommendation- a fab and eerie tale of 18th-century Oxfordshire, a heatwave, five strange sisters, and so much more. Loved it.

Front cover of Xenobe Purvis’ novel The Hounding shows a pair of hands making a sinister canine face in shadows.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Jun 21

Well, you would, wouldn’t you.

Black and white border collie looking straight at the camera- sitting on an orange blanket and a red sofa.

Paula Shields@paulashields· May 23

I started this marvellous novel a while ago, got interrupted, and restarted it last week. Finished it this morning on the back step. Will be thinking about Lydia, Joyce, Pan and, yes, Betty for a long time. Loved your surprising way with words and images @regretteruane.bsky.social

Front cover of Birding, novel by Rose Ruane, showing a female hand holding a whipped ice cream

Paula Shields@paulashields· Mar 7

Watching Peter Gabriel gig in Athens in 1987- c/o Sky Arts- out of the marvellous!

Young PeterGabrielwithhair singing at a mic and a keyboard.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Feb 21

Sweepcliff as therapist!

Paula Shields@paulashields· Feb 17

So the weather is wild but these hellebores are dancing … living their best lives.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Feb 17

Fair Deal, Una McKevitt’s new play on the Peacock stage @abbeytheatre.bsky.social, is dark, funny and outrageous- 3 of my favourite things. Fab acting, writing and directing. #speirghorm

Cover of programme for play Fair Deal, new dark comedy at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Feb 7

The road west- Clifden-bound with a pitstop in Oughterard. Connemara. 💕

Table, flowers, window in a lovely pub/ restaurant Power’s in Oughterard, Connemara.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Dec 24

Happy Christmas, Annie, from us!!

Fred, black and white border collie, on the sofa, looking straight at the camera.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Dec 24

Happy Christmas Eve from Blackrock, Co. Dublin!

Paula Shields@paulashields· Dec 14

Here’s my print - love it!

Ciaraioc print and photo and various bits and pieces

Paula Shields@paulashields· Dec 14

If only ours was a house share. Meet Fred and Ginger, feudal fluffy overlords. We’re just staff.

Fred & Ginger, brother and sister border collies

Paula Shields@paulashields· Dec 12

This rascal swears by it.

Black and white border collie on red sofa

Paula Shields@paulashields· Dec 7

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.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Nov 11

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. ❤️

Kathleen MacMahon, Kevin Barry, Paula Meehan, Colm Mac Con Iomaire & Paula Shields at the Great Hall, IMMA, Dublin.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Nov 4

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.

Front cover of Derek Mahon book of collected poems

Opening of Derek Mahon’s poem Rising Late

Paula Shields@paulashields· Oct 20

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 -

Pics of writers Christine Dwyer-Hickey, Joseph O'Connor, David Park & broadcaster/ memoirist Miriam O'Callaghan - all appearing Dublin Book Festival, 2pm 8 Nov at IMMA.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Sep 17

Sky over Howth, Dublin Bay

Dramatic sky at dusk with pink tinges over Dublin Bay

Paula Shields@paulashields· Sep 9

I have multitudes of photos- she was such a character!

Close up of my girl Ginger - a border collie with a strong look of Australian cattle dog, so I’m told

Paula Shields@paulashields· Sep 2

In the night garden …

Flowers including fuchsia in a back yard at night time

Paula Shields@paulashields· Sep 1

OH first cooked chicken for Fred 12 years ago. There’s no going back!!

Black and white border collie looking up at the camera

Paula Shields@paulashields· Sep 1

I’m off to Clifden Arts Festival in Connemara to talk to Donal Ryan on Friday 19th Sept at 3pm. It will be lively!

2 novels by Donal Ryan, Heart, Be At Peace (blue/green leafy cover) & The Spinning Heart (monochrome cover)

Paula Shields@paulashields· Aug 15

Well Reader, I loved it. Need to re-read regularly. Astonishing writing, hard to describe, which is as it should be.

Cover of Angel, novel by Elizabeth Taylor, Virago class dark green with painting of seated lady in fur coat!

Paula Shields@paulashields· Aug 12

Man, dog and misty Dublin Bay this evening.

Fred, black and white border collie, looking at camera beside John, his fave human, looking the other way, out over a misty Dublin Bay.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Aug 1

Tonight at 7, on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social we are broadcasting a terrific public interview Sean Rocks did with Claire Keegan in Oct 2023.

Cover of novel Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Paula Shields@paulashields· Jul 17

Amen. What would we do without them?!

Black and white border collie lying on his back, paws in the air, on a yellow duvet cover.

Paula Shields@paulashields· Jul 6

So it’s taken a while to start this (!) but thanks to @iammilliam.bsky.social and @backlisted.bsky.social for the nudge.

Inside cover of Angel novel by Elizabeth Taylor where I wrote Brighton Oct 90 which is when and where I bought it!

Paula Shields@paulashields· Jul 3

Ah, straight out of the Fred playbook

Close up of black and white collie’s face

Paula Shields@paulashields· Jun 15

Yesterday’s secondhand book swag. Well into The Statement by Brian Moore already!

3 bks: Sheila Heti, How Should A Person Be? & 2 by Brian Moore, The Statement and The Dr’s Wife

Paula Shields@paulashields· Jun 5

I’m off to @shhomeplace.bsky.social Bellaghy, co. Derry on 26 July to talk to Paul Lynch about this Booker-prizewinner and more!