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Leading literary publishers of contemporary Irish poetry, drama and, occasionally, prose. Funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

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The great Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will read as part of the Rostrevor Literary Festival on Saturday (8th). Catch her if you can.

08.11.2025 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This evening 🎉🎉👇👇

06.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re excited to launch these two collections by Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Audrey Molloy @booksupstairs.bsky.social on Thursday (6th). All welcome! @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

04.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Follow this link to access the T.S. Eliot Prize resources for Vona Groarke’s Infinity Pool. (Videoed readings to follow): tseliot.com/prize/work/i...
@thegallerypress.bsky.social @tseliotprize.bsky.social #poetry #tseliotprize

30.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Derek Mahon - A Celebration (promo)
YouTube video by The Gallery Press Derek Mahon - A Celebration (promo)

Here’s a taster of our celebration of Derek Mahon which happens on 4 November. Watch and listen to this distinctive voice of this great writer

youtu.be/GdRGBc2J5GA

29.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Circling The Square 2025 | The Source Arts Centre The Source Arts Centre is Tipperary's cultural & entertainment venue presenting music, dance, comedy, film, children's events, visual art & more.

Three poets published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social
Polina Cosgrave, Sean Lysaght and Grace Wilentz,
will read at this year's Circling The Square at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Full details of the festival and booking options below.
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...

25.10.2025 06:08 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Here’s an intriguing event to start your weekend. Both poets read from each other’s 2025 collections. Readings and a Conversation @waterfordlibraries.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #waterfordwritersweekend #waterfordwriters #irishwriters

22.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Celebration of Derek Mahon in association with @notredame.bsky.social

Readings by John Banville, Claire Keegan, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Stephen Rea.

7.30pm, 4 November 2025, RIAM, Dublin 2

Tickets : €25.00
gallerypress.com/product/cele...

#ArtsCouncilSupported #irishpoet

17.10.2025 11:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Colm Tóibín | The Bookshelf with Ryan Tubridy

Excellent episode of The Bookshelf podcast with Ryan Tubridy and Colm Tóibin. Discussions include his new book of essays, Ship in Full Sail. shows.acast.com/book-shelf-w...

#irishwriter #thebookshelf #colmtoibin #ryantubridy #ArtsCouncilSupported

14.10.2025 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thrilled to be sending Audrey Molloy’s third — and finest — collection, Fallen, out into the world, following her brilliant essay in Saturday’s Irish Times. We’re excited to welcome Audrey home for the launch on November 6th.
gallerypress.com/product/fall... #ArtsCouncilSupported

14.10.2025 09:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Look at this for a lineup: John Banville, Claire Keegan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Muldoon and Stephen Rea. Our Celebration of Derek Mahon event is approaching. 4 November. Tickets: gallerypress.com/product/cele...

#irishpoetryevents #ArtsCouncilSupported

14.10.2025 08:50 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to see Vona Groarke on the shortlist for this year's
T. S. Eliot Prize for her collection, Infinity Pool. Congratulations to all selected authors.
@tseliotprize.bsky.social

06.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Brian Patten 1946 - 29 September 2025

Eamon Carr and I had the pleasure of publishing beautiful poems by Brian in Capella.

I read with him in Dublin, Liverpool and Edinburgh. He was the 'marvellous boy' of the 60s and early 70s, an influential figure and a friend.

May he rest in peace.

06.10.2025 10:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Audrey Molloy's third poetry collection, Fallen, is available to order now: gallerypress.com/product/fall...

From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy. What does it mean to be a fallen woman? And can she ever redeem herself?

#ArtsCouncilSupported #irishpoet

01.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Clifden bound? This is for you. Kevin and Molly reading from their new collections @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #newirishpoetry #clifdenartsfestival

18.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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83: Colm Tóibín, A Ship in Full Sail - Books for Breakfast In this episode we invite Colm Tóibín to the breakfast table to discuss his new book A Ship in Full Sail: The Laureate Lectures and Other Writings. The book collects the blogs he wrote during his term...

This is a terrific interview/conversation with Colm Tóibín on SHIP IN FULL SAIL. Well worth taking the time to listen.

www.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...

18.09.2025 10:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is the last day for applications!

gallerypress.com/news/gallery...

15.09.2025 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Check out Colm Tóibín in last Saturday’s Ticket talking about new publications including SHIP IN FULL SALE and much more @irishlittimes.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

11.09.2025 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Colm Tóibín @booksupstairs.bsky.social signing SHIP IN FULL SAIL: Laureate Lectures and Other Writings. Grab a copy while the signed ones last! @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

04.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Excited to publish Colm Tóibín’s SHIP IN FULL SAIL this week. “Throughout there is a sense of a writer who continually surrenders to an intense and vital curiosity about the worlds he has experienced and the worlds he has invented.” #laureatelecturesandblogs @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

01.09.2025 11:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A Rustle in the Pages: Listening in the World of Writing In a world where it feels increasingly difficult to hear ourselves, how does writing carve through the noise to create space for reflection?

So good to see Gallery authors taking part in events far and wide. Bringing Irish poetry and poets to new audiences. Here’s news of John McAuliffe’s reading in Singapore this Wednesday (27th) @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.sg/e/a-rustle-i...

25.08.2025 10:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vona Groarke and Frank McGuinness on their new collections (Infinity Pool and The River Crana) this coming Sunday. Listen in! @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #irishpoetry #irelandprofessorofpoetry

22.08.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chic to be Sad: Molly Twomey's poetry from the ashes 'I'll never write anything worth reading again', I think as I shackle myself to a desk, picking at my skin and calling myself names.

RTE Culture here and Molly Twomey on the often difficulty of the writing of a second poetry collection @poetryireland.bsky.social @mollytwomey.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

20.08.2025 09:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Gallery Goes Workshopping - The Gallery Press Gallery Goes Workshopping presents three online poetry workshops with Gallery authors Peter Sirr, Grace Wilentz and Annemarie Ní Churreáin.

Looking forward to this! We’re on the poetry Online Poetry Workshop campaign trail again this Autumn. Apply yourself or pass details on to friends who might be interested gallerypress.com/news/gallery...

13.08.2025 09:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gallery Goes Workshopping - The Gallery Press Gallery Goes Workshopping presents three online poetry workshops with Gallery authors Peter Sirr, Grace Wilentz and Annemarie Ní Churreáin.

Gallery Goes... Online Poetry Workshops with facilitators John FitzGerald, Peter Sirr, and Grace Wilentz.

Applications open Friday, 15 August
Deadline: 15 September

Only 12 participants per workshop!

For further information and to apply visit: gallerypress.com/news/gallery...

#poetryworkshop

12.08.2025 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ship in Full Sail - The Gallery Press In Ship in Full Sail Colm Tóibín’s ‘Laureate Lectures’ bookend thirty-four crystal clear essays, written in the course of his tenure as Laureate of Irish Fiction

We are excited about our approaching publication (Sept 4) of Colm Tóibín's Ship in Full Sail: The Laureate Lectures and Other Writings

gallerypress.com/product/ship...

@artscouncilireland.bsky.social
#ArtsCouncilSupported #irishliterature #irishessays #contemporaryirishwriter #literatureireland

08.08.2025 09:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vona Groarke: ‘The best thing that could happen for Irish poetry is for people to buy poetry books’ The new Ireland Professor of Poetry is looking forward to bringing some fresh ideas to the role but is ‘not in the business of ramming poetry down anybody’s throats’

'The best thing that could happen for Irish poetry is for people to buy poetry books' — Vona Groarke, The Irish Times

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

#contemporaryirishpoetry #IrelandProfessorofPoetry #irishpoet @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

28.07.2025 09:06 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Photos from the @Waterstones Cork launch of Chic To Be Sad by Molly Twomey on Tuesday. Our thanks to John Breen for the photos.

#artscouncilsupported #poetryireland @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

25.07.2025 12:14 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Join Molly Twomey and Dean Browne at 6.30pm this evening (Tuesday 22 July) in Waterstones Cork for the launch of Molly's new poetry collection, Chic To Be Sad.

#irishpoetry #irishpoet #corkpoetryevents #munsterpoetry
@poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

22.07.2025 09:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gallery Goes . . . to the John Hewitt International Summer School

Vona Groarke, Polina Cosgrave and Kelly Michels
@john-hewitt.bsky.social

11.15am
Friday 1 August
The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh
Tickets: £12 marketplacearmagh.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

21.07.2025 14:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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