Tramp Press

26/12/2025

In April 2026 we will publish The Steps by . A story about a blended family shaped by secrets and myth, it's elegant, intense, thought-provoking and we can't wait to share it with everyone!

11/12/2025

Thank you to all the booksellers for stocking An Alternative Irish Christmas and putting it on display! Here's just a few examples. May your stocking be full, may your toddies be hot 🎄

09/12/2025

For An Alternative Irish Christmas, Sue Rainsford wrote 'Feast of Sparrows'. You can read a free extract on Image now! https://www.image.ie/living/read-an-extract-from-short-story-anthology-an-alternative-irish-christmas-976222

05/12/2025

From the Irish Times: ‘An Alternative Irish Christmas will make a wonderful gift, especially for anyone jaded by other Christmas literary offerings.’

Available now!

04/12/2025

If you missed it, last night's RTÉ Radio 1 Arena featured Maggie Armstrong and Mike McCormack talking about An Alternative Irish Christmas, and you can listen back here! https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22565220/

An Alternative Irish Christmas is out now and we are on track to sell out the print run before Santa Claus gets here!

https://tramppress.com/product/an-alternative-irish-christmas/

From Ireland’s foremost independent literary publisher comes an alternative Christmas anthology to happily gift or gratefully receive in the holiday season. This beautiful embossed hardback from Tramp Press features many of Ireland’s most gifted writers, each with their own take on this special ...

03/12/2025

Tune in to Arena tonight (Wed 3rd) at 7pm for a chat about An Alternative Irish Christmas, our brand-new anthology of Christmas stories! It's available now 🎄

03/12/2025

An Alternative Irish Christmas got a shout-out on Galway Bay FM! Thank you Sarah Kenny!

The Annual ACE Books Show went out last night and Gary McMahon was joined in Galway Bay FM Studio One by Vinny Browne of Charlie Byrne's Books & Sarah Kenny of Kennys Bookshop to look at a wide range of books published in 2025.
The guests each chose their Top 3 Books of the year.
Sarah chose 'Solo' by Grainne O'Brien, 'An Alternative Irish Christmas' from Tramp Press & 'A Hundred Words for Rain ( and One for Snow)' by Manchan Magan.
Vinny chose 'Ireland: Mapping The Island' by Joseph Brady, 'Druid - Fifty Years' by Patrick Lonergan & also picked 'A Hundred Words for Rain (and One for Snow)' by Manchan Magan.
The podcast of the show will be up soon so you can listen back.

30/11/2025

Happy birthday ! We had such a great time at the 85th birthday party that I failed to get any photos so I've stolen these from the Kennys grid and I'm watching to see what posts! There's a beautiful display of every available Tramp Press title and another of our Alternative Irish Christmas Anthology. 85 years of serving customers, supporting writers, artists and publishers; may they do it for many more! Grma agus happy birthday 🎂 🥳

30/11/2025

An Alternative Irish Christmas on display in O'Connell st! It's selling briskly and we won't have time to reprint before Christmas so do grab it while you can! 🎄

29/11/2025

"Gethan Dick’s Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night manages to tell a plausible story about how the world might end that is also a hilarious, engrossing adventure." Emma Donoghue on her books of 2025 in the Irish Times!

Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night is visual artist Gethan Dick's debut novel about survival, community and having a sense of humour at the end of the world.

Available now!

27/11/2025

https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/tramp-press-to-publish-juliano-zaffinos-powerful-portrait-of-love-and-loyalty

Tramp Press is set to publish Juliano Zaffino’s "powerful portrait of love, loyalty and the narratives we cling to, to survive".

25/11/2025

Tomorrow!

THE WORD for November with MAGGIE ARMSTRONG, author of OLD ROMANTICS

In conversation with ELSKE RAHILL

Music with CLAUDIA SCHWAB

Q&A

OPEN MIC moderated by DEAN MCMORROW

Taking place in SLIGO CENTRAL LIBRARY on WEDNESDAY 26th of NOVEMBER at 6.30pm.

This event is FREE and unticketed with limited seating.

The doors will close at 6:30pm.

The event will also be streamed on Facebook on the night: //www.facebook.com/SligoCountyLibrary/

The Word is a collaborative event between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature course at Sligo ATU.

There is no charge for this event.

[email protected]
Tel: 0719111675
ATU Sligo & ATU St Angelas Sligo County Council Liber Tramp Press