The Gallery Press | Publishers of Irish Poetry and Drama

Ciaran Carson

In the Light Of
(after Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud)
Protean poet and masterful translator transmutes Rimbaud’s prose poems into sparkling verse.

Frank McGuinness

In a Town of Five Thousand People
The playwright’s fifth collection of poems: fiery, refracted observations of family, art and community.

Medbh McGuckian

The High Caul Cap
Peerlessly original poet focuses on illness and loss to make a love song of lament.

Jan Kochanowski

Translated by Seamus Heaney and Stanislaw Baranczak. A new edition of Laments, the 16th-century Polish master’s heart-rending responses to the death of his daughter...

Conor O'Callaghan

The Sun King
Conor O'Callaghan's first collection in eight years includes an elegy for the 'boom', an office building's 'server room', and a string of couplets from Twitter….

Derek Mahon

Theatre
From ancient Greece to recent France — Oedipus, the Bacchae, Phaedra and Cyrano de Bergerac feature in the poet’s collected drama of the human community.

Brian Friel

Fathers and Sons
The relationship between fathers and sons permeates Brian Friel’s plays and lies at the heart of this masterful dramatization of Turgenev’s novel.

The Gallery Press – publishers of Irish Poetry and Drama.

Leading literary publishers of contemporary Irish poetry, drama and, occasionally, prose.

Established in 1970 to publish contemporary Irish poetry, The Gallery Press has long been recognized as the standard bearer of Irish literary publishing.

It has been our privilege to publish more than four hundred titles which show off the finest Irish writing by established and emerging authors. Our titles have won praise and prizes for their content and design. It is our aim where possible to use Irish art on what has become the ‘distinctive look’ of our cover designs.

Based in Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath in the Irish midlands The Gallery Press occupies a unique position in contemporary publishing – it is a ‘small press’ with a national and international reputation.

The founder and editor is Peter Fallon.

Poem of the Month

May

for Marian

The blessèd stretch and ease of it —
heart’s ease. The hills blue. All the flowering weeds
bursting open. Balm in the air. The birdsong
bouncing back out of the sky. The cattle
lain down in the meadow, forgetting to feed.
The horses swishing their tails.
The yellow flare of furze on the near hill.
And the first cream splatters of blossom
high on the thorns where the day rests longer.

All hardship, hunger, treachery of winter forgotten.
This unfounded conviction: forgiveness, hope.

from A Furious Place (1996)
by Kerry Hardie
Gallery Books
€10.00