Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival Irish Times Poetry Now Award Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival and The Irish Times once again present the Poetry Now award in which the winner of the best collection of 2018 is announced. This year’s judges are poets Bernard O’Donoghue, Moya Cannon and Lucy Collins. 12.00pm Saturday March 30th […]
Mountains to Sea Festival Club: 28 March
The Mountains to Sea Festival Club presents An Evening of Poetry, Song and Conversation with Peter Fallon, Saramai and Oisín Leech. 9.30pm Thursday 28 March The Library Bar, Haddington Hotel, Dun Laoghaire Adm: €15/€12 Enjoy an intimate interlude of songs, readings and talk from three acclaimed artists from County Meath. As one of The Lost […]
Annual Lecture by Ireland Professor of Poetry: 28th March
Annual lecture by Ireland Professor of Poetry Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin on Thursday 28th March The Ireland Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will repeat her annual lecture entitled ”Instead of a Shrine: Poetry and Ritual” in McMordie Hall, Music Building, University Square, Queen’s University Belfast at 7.00pm. To RSVP please contact Niamh McCabe by email […]
Aifric Mac Aodha at Verse Fest 2019
Six days, eighty poets, one festival. Celebrating written poetry and spoken word in English and French, Verse Fest ’19 brings you some of the most exciting poets on the planet. Aifric Mac Aodha takes part in the Transatlantic Showcase on Saturday 30 March with Katharina Schultens, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir and Mary Noonan. 7.00pm Knox Presbyterian […]
Cork International Poetry Festival:19-23 March
Spring sees the beginning of festivals around the country and what better way to start the literary festival year than with Cork International Poetry Festival which runs from 19th – 23rd March 2019. 10.00pm Wednesday 20 March Michelle O’Sullivan & Mary Noon Cork Arts Theatre 7.00pm Thursday 21 March Ciaran Berry & James Harpur […]
Poetry @ Kyle’s: 19 March
Kyle’s of Terenure in association with The Village Bookshop present Poetry @Kyle’s with guests Aifric Mac Aodha (Foreign News, Gallery Books, 2017), Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Ireland Professor of Poetry) and introducing Ben McGuire with live music from Jake Regan. 7.30pm Tuesday 19 March The Next Level, Upstairs @Kyle’s, 101 Terenure Road, Dublin 6W Free admission […]
Seachtain na Gaeilge / Irish Language Weeks: 1-17 March
To celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge, The Gallery Press is offering a 30% Discount off all* Irish language titles on our website. Seachtain na Gaeilge is a non-profit organisation in Ireland which promotes the Irish language during a two-week festival held at the beginning of March every year, just before Saint Patrick’s Day on March 17. Simple […]
International Women’s Day Special Offer – 8 March
We’re celebrating International Women’s Day, Friday 8 March 2019, with hourly poetry / drama postings on our Facebook page and offering you 25% OFF all* titles by our women writers for the day. www.gallerypress.com/shop *Excludes ebooks. (Plus P&P) Friday, 8 March 2019 for 24 hours only
Boyne Berries 25 Launch: Trim Poetry Festival – 15 March
7.30pm Friday 15 March Launch by poet and publisher Peter Fallon (The Gallery Press) of Boyne Berries 25 and of Trim Poetry Festival. Readings by contributors to Boyne Berries 25 with a Poetry Reading by Peter Fallon. Peter Fallon grew up on his uncle’s farm near Kells in County Meath. At the age of eighteen he founded […]
March 2019 – Poem of the Month – Alan Gillis
March’s Poem of the Month is ‘Spring’ by Alan Gillis Spring You might have butterflies for no reason, all antsy as if in anticipation of the leaves’ first look-and-see-me. You might crack your nut trying to take in the what of it, its here and this while it lifts its skirts to brush by you, […]
