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Blackstaff Press Founded in 1971, Blackstaff Press is regarded as one of Ireland’s foremost publishers and is a leading publisher of quality Irish books.

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Our publishing programme is wide-ranging and diverse and embraces both fiction and non-fiction. We have published over 800 titles since Blackstaff was founded in 1971, covering a range of subjects including history, politics, cookery, memoir, sport, fiction, poetry and travel. Blackstaff receives generous assistance from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to enable us to encourage, support and publish Irish writers and Irish literature. John Hewitt, Paul Durcan and Bernard McLaverty have all graced our list over the years and Glenn Patterson, Patricia Craig, Jason Johnson, Ciaran Carson and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne are just a few of the many writers in our current stable of authors. As of 28th April 2017 Blackstaff Press became part of the Colourpoint Group.

06/08/2025

📣 Book Fringe is here! Week One is stacked, and we’re diving in with stories of chosen family, neurodivergence, murder mysteries, and one very wild island 🧡
✨ All events are at 1pm, FREE, in person at the bookshop + online – no tickets required (but you can reserve your spot for reminders, book links + to help us save you a seat!)

Join Ruby Free at Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop on Sunday 10th August at 1pm.At this gem of an independent b...
01/08/2025

Join Ruby Free at Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop on Sunday 10th August at 1pm.

At this gem of an independent bookshop, she will be discussing her time living on remote islands alongside nature, the writing process, and wilding at Ballyconnelly Farm, with a few interspersed readings and a Q&A.

It’s going to be a super interesting discussion ~ hope to see you there.

https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/a-wild-life-ruby-free-on-seabirds-and-island-living

23/07/2025

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne was announced yesterday by the Arts Council as the New Laureate for Irish Fiction (2025–2028) 📚 Explore her powerful and imaginative storytelling through works like Twelve Thousand Days and Hurlamaboc available now in MU Library.

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s candid and moving memoir tells the story of her thirty-year relationship with the love of her life, ...
23/07/2025

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s candid and moving memoir tells the story of her thirty-year relationship with the love of her life, internationally renowned folklorist Bo Almvqvist, capturing brilliantly the compromises and adjustments and phases of their relationship.

Twelve Thousand Days is a remarkable story about love, grief and time, shot through with wry and sharp observations on Irish life, culture and morality.

https://blackstaffpress.com/twelve-thousand-days-9781780731735/

Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

23/07/2025

"This laureate will not be resting on her laurels."

The Laureate For Irish Fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne spoke to the Irish Times about her writing life and her ambitions for her laureateship.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/07/20/new-laureate-for-fiction-eilis-ni-dhuibhne-i-was-part-of-a-movement-of-women-writers-of-ireland

The Laureate for Irish Fiction is an initiative of the Arts Council. The role seeks to acknowledge the contribution of fiction writers to Irish artistic and cultural life by honouring an established Irish writer of fiction, encouraging a new generation of writers, promoting Irish literature nationally and internationally and encouraging the public to engage with high quality Irish fiction.

The laureateship was most recently held by Colm Tóibín (2022 – 2024), following Sebastian Barry (2018 – 2021) and the inaugural Laureate, Anne Enright (2015 – 2018).

23/07/2025

The new Laureate for Irish Fiction on language, grief and how reading a book as Gaeilge isn’t as hard as you think

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