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The Gallery Press has a long-standing reputation, both nationally and internationally, for excellence in literary publishing in Ireland.

We do more than publish books – we’re building a library for current and future readers. 

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Founded in 1970 to launch and foster the careers of exceptional new writers and to provide a publishing home in Ireland for Irish writers who are Irish by birth, residence, citizenship (or who have applied for citizenship). For more than fifty years The Gallery Press has set and maintained standards of excellence in the publishing of Irish poetry and drama. More than 500 titles, distinguished by careful, caring editing by the founder, Peter Fallon, and simple elegant design, record the achievement of Ireland’s outstanding literary figures.

From Early Works to Contemporary Classics

The list includes acknowledged masterpieces. A series of Collected Poems by poets the Press has been publishing for decades (John Montague, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson, Pearse Hutchinson, Dermot Healy, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Michael Hartnett) has been welcomed as contemporary classics.

The Gallery Press has an unrivalled track record in publishing the first and subsequent collections of poems by now established Irish poets such as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Eamon Grennan, Michael Coady, Frank McGuinness and Peter Sirr. It has fostered whole generations of younger poets it published first including Ciaran Berry, Tom French, Alan Gillis, Vona Groarke, Conor O’Callaghan, John McAuliffe, Kerry Hardie, David Wheatley, Michelle O’Sullivan, Andrew Jamison and John FitzGerald. It has also published seminal career-establishing titles by Ciaran Carson, Paula Meehan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Justin Quinn, Seán Lysaght and Gerald Dawe.

The Press has published books by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and John Banville and, in its early years, repatriated authors such as Brian Friel, Derek Mahon and Medbh McGuckian who previously turned to London and Oxford as a publishing outlet.  

Women Writers

The Gallery Press publishes the work of many of Ireland’s leading women poets and playwrights including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian, Michelle O’Sullivan, Sara Berkeley Tolchin, Vona Groarke, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Aifric MacAodha, Marina Carr, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Grace Wilentz, Audrey Molloy, Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Molly Twomey.

Bilingual Works and Translations

The Press has pioneered a series of bilingual editions of Ireland’s leading Irish language poets (Michael Hartnett, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Pearse Hutchinson, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín and Aifric Mac Aodha). Though it is devoted to the work of Irish writers it includes world literature through the translations it publishes — from Derek Mahon’s Echo’s Grove to Pearse Hutchinson’s Done Into English, Peter Fallon’s The Georgics of Virgil and Deeds and Their Days (after Hesiod) and Ciaran Carson’s versions from the French — and the adaptations of European classical drama by Brian Friel, Thomas Kilroy, John Banville, Paul Muldoon and others.

Drama

Dramatists Gallery publishes include Marina Carr, Jim Nolan, Padraic McIntyre and Thomas Kilroy as well as plays and adaptations by Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon and John Banville. The acme of its play publishing programme is the five-volume set of Brian Friel’s Collected Plays (2016).

Prose and Fiction

Further evidence of the variety of the Press’s publications is evident in its growing list of personal essays by Vona Groarke, Derek Mahon, Dennis O’Driscoll and Peter Sirr, as well as fiction by Brian Friel, John Banville and Tom Mac Intyre and a memoir by Thomas McCarthy.

Limited Editions

Gallery regularly publishes special editions including collaborations between the country’s leading writers and painters (Seamus Heaney and Martin Gale, John Banville and Donald Teskey and Brian Friel and Basil Blackshaw).

Governance

Directors

Peter Fallon
Jean Fallon

Board Members

Peter Fallon
(Chairperson, The Gallery Press Limited, 2009.
Now The Gallery Press DAC)

Jean Fallon
(Secretary, The Gallery Press Limited, 2009.
Now The Gallery Press DAC)

Peter Fallon

Peter Fallon has been founder and publisher of The Gallery Press since 1970 during which time he has edited more than five hundred books of poems and plays by Irish writers. He is the Press’s principle designer and works intimately with the authors on their manuscripts, often representing them or their Estates as an agent.

A prize-winning poet, he served on the Boards of the Brian Friel Trust, Poetry Ireland and, for ten years, on the Board of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, during which, as Chair, he oversaw significant changes and developments. He serves on the Board of the Kells Type Trust. A member of Aosdána, he is also an Honorary Member of the RHA. He has held Visiting Chairs at American Universities: Boston College, Villanova University.

Jean Fallon

Jean Fallon joined The Gallery Press in 1980. An Arts graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Library Studies graduate of University College Dublin she is involved in multiple aspects of book production as well as marketing, author event appearances, royalties and general administration at the Press.

The Gallery Press DAC complies with the Code of Corporate Governance (Type B Organisation), with the Charities Institute Ireland Fundraising Codes of Good Practice and with financial regulations SORP FRS 102 with the most recent accounts (2021) available here. It complies with the highest standards of data protection (GDPR) regulations. In addition The Gallery Press DAC is committed to good governance (principles of good governance) and complies with all regulatory requirements in accordance with its governing document: Constitution and Memorandum of Association.

A copy of The Gallery Press Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy can be found here.

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