The Gallery Press: Poetry & Drama from Ireland

11/11/2025

We send our best wishes to our friend and great President Michael D Higgins and Sabina as they begin their next chapter.

11/11/2025

'How to Live' was read by Stephen Rea at the recent Gallery Press/Notre Dame Dublin Celebration of Derek Mahon.

10/11/2025

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann is accepting applications for the inaugural Home Again - Gerald Dawe Bursary.

Produced by Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann and funded by dlr Arts Office, with in-kind support from the Linen Hall Library in Belfast, the award will allow the recipient to explore the late Gerald Dawe's archives at DLR LexIcon and at the Linen Hall in Belfast and to create work based on the poet's strong ties to both Dun Laoghaire where he lived, and Belfast where he was born.

Applications and further details below

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann is delighted to invite applications from poets for the inaugural Home Again - Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary aimed at the development and creation of new work. 🖋

The Bursary is funded through Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office in memory of Gerald Dawe, drawing on his private collections donated by his family to dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire, and to the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.

He was a poet who had a profound connection to people and place and the awardee will celebrate both his love of and connection to his native Belfast and his love of Dún Laoghaire, his adopted home.

For more details and to apply visit https://www.poetryireland.ie/news/home-again-the-gerald-dawe-poetry-bursary

09/11/2025

Tom French will take part in an Evening of Poetry and Music in St Kinneth’s Church of Ireland, Ballivor, Co Meath C15 HT27 on Tuesday 11 November from 7.30pm.

Free admission. Limited space available.

08/11/2025

Trim Drama Group presents Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan in the Swift Cultural Centre, Trim from 19-22 November 2025.

Tickets: €20/€16 + booking fee
https://swiftculturalcentre.ie/event/trim-drama-group-presents-portia-coughlan-by-marina-carr

Please note this production contains themes of su***de, language some may find upsetting and alcohol abuse. Recommended age 14+

Haunted by the death, fifteen years previously, of her twin brother who keeps calling to her, Portia Coughlan has become, in turn, a ghostly figure. She lives with her husband, whom she can’t love, and her three children, whom she can’t trust herself to care for.
The drama of Portia’s sexually charged relationships and her fierce exertion to sustain her independence grows and grows in Marina Carr’s richly textured dialogue, beautiful lyric soarings and visionary flights.

07/11/2025

Our thanks to Books Upstairs for hosting the book launch for Fallen by Audrey Molloy and Hymn to All the Restless Girls by Annemarie Ní Churreáin. Great turn out and a wonderful atmosphere with readings by Audrey and Annemarie introduced by Peter Fallon.

06/11/2025

, a free monthly gathering for playwrights and performance makers working on a writing project takes place at the Abbey Theatre on Monday 10 November.

Special guest for this month's Q+A session is Marina Carr. Her work has been produced by the Abbey Theatre, the Gate, Druid, Landmark, the Royal Court, Wyndham’s Theatre, the RSC, the Almeida, the Kiln, the MacCarter Theatre, San Diego Rep, and Milwaukee rep. Her work has been translated into many languages and produced around the world.

Prizes and recognitions awarded to Marina include the Windham-Campbell Prize 2017 for her body of work, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the American/Ireland Fund Award, the E.M Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Macaulay Fellowship, and the Puterbaugh Fellowship. She is also a member of Aosdána.

Free registration for is now open: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/time-to-write/

06/11/2025

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will be reading at Rostrevor Literary Festival this Saturday, November 8th. Also on Saturday's line up are Glenn Patterson, Fintan O'Toole, Sam McBride, Harold Good, Martin O'Brien, Séan Ronayne and James Conor Patterson.

Venue: An Cuan, 44 Shore Road, Rostrevor

05/11/2025

Join Molly Twomey for a workshop: 'Writing the People we Love' this Sunday at Waterford Gallery of Art as part of The Lit Festival of reading and writing for young adults. l

This workshop invites participants to celebrate the people who shape their world — a parent, a friend, a dog, or even a cherished barista.

With guidance from Molly Twomey, writers will learn to shape everyday details into poems that illuminate the tenderness and complexity of connection. Through a series of prompts and experiments with language, participants will move beyond cliché to uncover the unique joy and transformation found in connection.

Tickets: €8 from EventBrite https://tinyurl.com/2njkf6en

05/11/2025

Annemarie Ní Churreáin's new poetry collection, Hymn to All the Restless Girls, has arrived in time for her joint book launch with Audrey Molloy (Fallen) at Books Upstairs, d'Olier Street, Dublin on Thursday, 6 November at 6.30pm.

We hope we'll see you there.

05/11/2025

Caitríona Ní Chléirchín will be reading as part of Imram with Louis de Paor and Máire Dinny Wren at Grafton Hotel at the Móroíche Filíochta agus Cheoil.

GALA POETRY AND MUSIC NIGHT
6.00pm
Saturday,8 November
Bartley’s Lounge, �The Grafton Hotel, Dublin 2

Saorchead isteach/Free admission�
Booking: Ticéid Anseo
https://imram.ie

Louis de Paor has been hailed by critic Máirín Nic Eoin as ‘a master of the short lyric in which the literal and the figurative combine in a tight nexus of images that distil the character of a particular individual, relationship or encounter’. Caitríona Ní Chléirchín’s poetry was praised by the judges of the Michael Hartnett Award as ‘powerful, courageous, sassy and important’. Máire Dinny Wren’s latest collection I Muinín na nDúI is a beautifully realised sequence of haiku exploring the landscapes of her native Donegal. Macdara Ó Faoláin is a bouzouki player, fiddle player and singer, renowned for his innovative approach to traditional trish music.

Imram Féile Litríochta Gaeilge

05/11/2025

Delighted to see Colm Tóibín on the shortlist for Best Author in the An Post Irish Book Awards

Cast your vote for your favourite author and books in many different categories.

https://www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/