The Lament for Art O’Leary Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon presents his new translation of the greatest love poem ever written in the Irish language, in a genre-defying staging featuring Muldoon and acclaimed actors Lisa Dwan and Ruth Smith at the Irish Arts Center, New York. Original music written and performed live by members of […]
January Newsletter
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January 2019 Poem of the Month
Our first Poem of the Month for 2019 comes from Michelle O’Sullivan’s 2015 collection The Flower and the Frozen Sea. Januaries 1 Broken daylight and the wind singing, the sun in threads can’t reach these stone- dense hills or the rain-fed lake. It’s a charmless fool’s gold. This settling and unsettling, cold taking to the […]
Theatre Reviews of the Year
Theatre Reviews of the Year Some end of year comments from theatre reviewers: ‘Two revivals at the Abbey were notable as serious pieces of theatre in the literary genre for which the theatre was founded. One was a compelling production of Marina Carr’s On Raftery’s Hill. A journey into sordid nightmare, it was intensely directed […]
Books of the Year 2018
Books of the Year for 2018 from various publications: Against the Clock by Derek Mahon ‘The poems in Derek Mahon’s Against the Clock have his signature elegance, irony and melancholy; they also display a new lightness, as though he has come to accept the world in terms that are rooted and visionary, open to suggestion and […]
December Poems of the Month: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill/Dennis O’Driscoll
December’s Poems of the Month come from Northern Lights, with poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations into English by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Driscoll. Tusa Is tusa, pé thú féin, an fíréan a thabharfadh cluas le héisteacht, b’fhéidir, do bhean inste scéil a thug na cosa léi, […]
Northern Lights Book Launch: 5 December
7.00pm Wednesday 5 December Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square E, Dublin 1 Book free tickets here The Gallery Press in association with Poetry Ireland presents the launch of Northern Lights: poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations into English by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Driscoll. In […]
The Dead, 1904: Irish Repertory Theatre NY
The Gallery Press publishes The Dead, 1904 by Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz (https://bit.ly/2QEc49r), an adaptation of James Joyce’s novella, The Dead, to coincide with its production by Dot Dot Productions, in association with the American Irish Historical Society, and the Irish Repertory Theater, New York. Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, this annually sold-out holiday […]
Calling Cards Launch: 21 November
The Gallery Press and Poetry Ireland present the launch of Calling Cards, an anthology of ten younger Irish poets with translations into English. 7.00pm Wednesday 21 November Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square East, Dublin 1 Tickets: Free, advance registration advised In a novel partnership between Poetry Ireland and The Gallery Press Calling Cards introduces a new generation […]
November Poem of the Month
November’s Poems of the Month come from Calling Cards, a bilingual co-publication between Poetry Ireland and The Gallery Press of Ten Younger Irish Poets with translations into English. Paidir na Maidine géillim don dóchas gurb ann do Dhia tar éis an tsaoil is go dtagann biseach is go dtiocfaidh. géillim don dóchas nach buan an t-ualach an […]
