Three new poetry titles due for publication in October 2018 are Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry, This One High Field by Michelle O’Sullivan and From There to Here (Selected Poems and Translations) by Ciaran Carson. Also due for publication is a new version of Double Cross by Thomas Kilroy. Liner Notes: Ciaran Berry’s third collection consider questions of […]
Michael Coady at Clifden Arts Festival – 19 September
Michael Coady and Leanne O’Sullivan Reading 4.30pm Wednesday, September 19 Station House Theatre, Clifden Michael Coady was born in Carrick-on-Suir, where he still lives. A long-standing friend of Clifden Arts Festival and Aosdána member, he has won a number of literary prizes and awards for poetry and prose at home and abroad. Michael’s most recent book […]
Aifric Mac Aodha at Clifden Arts Festival – 14 September
Aifric Mac Aodha and Louis De Paor Reading at Clifden Arts Festival 3.00pm Friday, September 14 Station House Theatre, Clifden Reading with Aifric Mac Aodha and Louis De Paor with music by Lynn Saoirse. Foreign News (2017) is Aifric Mac Aodha’s first collection with The Gallery Press. She has taught in St Petersburg, New York and […]
Celebrating Derek Mahon – 18 August
11.00 am Saturday 18 August Celebrating Derek Mahon Venue: The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle Kilkenny Arts Festival presents Stephen Rea, Peter Fallon and Maureen Kennelly (Poetry Ireland) in an onstage discussion evaluating and celebrating Derek Mahon’s work including his just published new collection of poems ‘Against the Clock’. https://bit.ly/2KU8qV6
Kilkenny Arts Festival: New York Time – 17/18 August
The 45th Kilkenny Arts Festival takes place from 9-19 August this year. Including open-air theatre, a first-time full-staged opera, world premiere productions, exhibitions, an extensive music programme offering a more diverse range of concerts, spoken word events including a number of event on politics, history and culture as well as the premiere of the Arts […]
Healy Collected Poems Launch – Cootehill Arts Festival
The Gallery Press in association with Cootehill Arts Festival hopes you will join us to celebrate the publication of Collected Poems by Dermot Healy. 6.30pm Thursday 23 August Enterprise Centre, Cootehill, Co Cavan Free admission
Lughnasa Friel Fest: 10-12 & 17-19 August
Brian Friel‘s Living Quarters, Faith Healer, The Yalta Game, Three Sisters and Afterplay (All published by The Gallery Press) are all part of this year’s Lughnasa FrielFest: Brian Friel International Festival. The Festival takes place over two weekends in Derry-Londonderry and Donegal. For further details and booking: http://www.artsoverborders.com/programme/faith-healer-brian-friel/
August Poem of the Month – Derek Mahon
August’s Poem of the Month comes from Derek Mahon’s forthcoming collection Against the Clock Horizons Night wind — a continual, baffled aspirate — wanders the water like a vagrant spirit seeking repose but there is no repose till morning, when the tide withdraws from exposed depths to the south-west with its imaginary Islands of the Blest. […]
Fergus Corcoran RIP
We, at The Gallery Press, lament the death of our ‘rep’ Fergus Corcoran. For decades he was a true champion of our books. His ‘old style’ ways of working with the trade illustrated his devotion to the literary arts. We send most sincere sympathy to his family and his friends. It was easy to love […]
Gerald Dawe in Belfast – 6 & 9 August 2018
EastSide Arts Festival 8.00pm Monday 6 Aug St. Martin’s Church £10 / £8 concession Everyone Sang (in association with the Seamus Heaney Centre) In the run up to the centenary of the Armistice in November, the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s presents an evening of poetry and music from the war years and in commemoration […]
