The Gallery Press: Poetry & Drama from Ireland

The Gallery Press: Poetry & Drama from Ireland The Gallery Press is an independent Irish publishing company. Publishers of Irish poetry, drama and www.gallerypress.com

Publishers of Irish poetry, drama and prose by contemporary Irish writers.

Our thanks to everyone who came along to the launch of our three new titles by Kevin Graham (Daylight Mystery), John Ban...
25/09/2026

Our thanks to everyone who came along to the launch of our three new titles by Kevin Graham (Daylight Mystery), John Banville (The Gold Standard) and Peter Sirr (Standing in the Rain) in association with Notre Dame Dublin. With readings and signings (and refreshments) it was an evening of joy and celebration.

📚 Published today‘Money is the root of all happiness.’ So begins John Banville’s The Gold Standard, an expansive drama c...
24/09/2026

📚 Published today

‘Money is the root of all happiness.’

So begins John Banville’s The Gold Standard, an expansive drama centred on John Maynard Keynes, whose ideas transformed government and finance.

But the play comes most vividly to life in the tangled lives of Keynes and his Bloomsbury circle: his relationships with Duncan Grant and Lytton Strachey, and his marriage to the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, whose arrival provoked the snobbery and hostility of Virginia Woolf and others. At its heart is a drama of outsiders and insiders, and of the meanness directed towards one who takes ‘one of their own’.

Spanning two world wars, The Gold Standard traces the rise of Keynesian economics alongside the decline of England as the world’s financial superpower.

Available soon in all good bookshops or from The Gallery Press:
https://gallerypress.com/product/the-gold-standard/

We’re delighted to publish Daylight Mystery, the third poetry collection by Kevin Graham — a collection that has already...
24/09/2026

We’re delighted to publish Daylight Mystery, the third poetry collection by Kevin Graham — a collection that has already received some wonderful recognition.

The book includes ‘Aspiration’, winner of the 2025 London Magazine Poetry Prize. Judge Fiona Benson praised its 'exquisite phrasing and music' and said: 'I found myself holding my breath every time I read it.'

Across the collection, Kevin’s poems move between the natural world, memory, history and the everyday, finding strangeness and beauty in unexpected places — from lawnmowers clearing their throats over back gardens to the London Underground appearing in the flow map of an MRI scan.

There are conversations here with Edward Thomas, Oscar Wilde and John Clare, but above all there is a distinctive poetic voice: alert, questioning and wonderfully attentive to the world.

Daylight Mystery confirms Kevin Graham’s emergence as one of our finest new poets.

Available soon in all good bookshops or online from The Gallery Press
https://gallerypress.com/product/daylight-mystery/

We’re delighted to announce the publication of Standing in the Rain (Essays on Poetry) by Peter Sirr.From the lyrics of ...
24/09/2026

We’re delighted to announce the publication of Standing in the Rain (Essays on Poetry) by Peter Sirr.

From the lyrics of Sappho and the hard-won wisdom of the Tang masters to major European figures and the distinctive voices of Irish poets (Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, EilĂ©an NĂ­ ChuilleanĂĄin) these essays explore the ‘creative restlessness’ of poets and their ‘unflinching attention’ to the ‘permanent, amplified crisis’ of our times. The book also examines poetry’s role in confronting violence and conflict as it offers ‘moral witness’.

Available soon in all good bookshops or from The Gallery Press:
https://gallerypress.com/product/standing-in-the-rain/

Poetry Reading & Conversation with Annemarie NĂ­ ChurreĂĄin presented by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, ...
23/09/2026

Poetry Reading & Conversation with Annemarie NĂ­ ChurreĂĄin presented by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the English Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

Join Annemarie Ní Churreáin for a public poetry reading and conversation as the 2026–27 Writer-in-Residence. Take this opportunity to hear Annemarie Ní Churreáin read from her work and discuss her writing and residency.

Annemarie will be joined in conversation by Prof. Clíona Ní Riordáin, Thomas J and Kathleen M O’Donnell Chair in Irish Language and Literature.

📅 Thursday, 1 October 2026
🕔 5.00–6.00 pm
📍 Decio Commons

The event is presented by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the English Department, and the Creative Writing Program.

https://irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2026/10/01/poetry-reading-conversation-with-irish-writer-in-residence-annemarie-ni-churreain/

📚 Alvy Carragher — End of Residency ReadingAlvy Carragher will give an end-of-residency reading at Burren College of Art...
21/09/2026

📚 Alvy Carragher — End of Residency Reading

Alvy Carragher will give an end-of-residency reading at Burren College of Art as the 2026 David Whyte Poet-in-Residence.

The David Whyte Poet-in-Residence programme provides a month of dedicated time and space for a poet to live and work within the creative community of Burren College of Art, developing their work in the unique landscape of the Burren.

📅 Thursday 24 September
🕟 4.30 pm
📍 Lecture Hall, Burren College of Art
đŸŽŸïž Free admission — all welcome

A lovely opportunity to hear Alvy read from her work.

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University, Belfast presentBaird Imram ar Champus / Imram Poets on CampusA gala bi-l...
20/09/2026

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University, Belfast present

Baird Imram ar Champus / Imram Poets on Campus

A gala bi-lingual poetry reading in Irish and English with Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha.

5.30 pm
Thursday 24 September
The Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB
Free admission

Further details: https://www.seamusheaneycentre.com/Events/BAIRDIMRAMARCHAMPASIMRAMPOETSONCAMPUS.html

The Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin and tï»żhe FIILI Association present the Festival of Italian and Irish Literatu...
19/09/2026

The Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin and tï»żhe FIILI Association present the Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland on Friday and Saturday 25th and 26th September 2026.

As part of the Festival FILLI present "Words of Resistance: Living (in) Poetry", a panel featuring Italian poet Laura Pugno in conversation with Irish poets Ailbhe NĂ­ Ghearbhuigh and Gustav Parker Hibbett with moderator, Italian-Irish poet and scholar, Viviana Fiorentino (Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University, Belfast).

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Saturday 26 September
Trinity College Dublin
Regent House
Dublin 2

Free admission.
Reserve a spot: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/words-of-resistance-living-in-poetry-tickets-2000631614013

Read the full programme:
https://www.fiili.ie/programme/

It’s Culture Night! 🎉Today, 18th September 2026, the island of Ireland comes alive with a fantastic programme of free ev...
18/09/2026

It’s Culture Night! 🎉

Today, 18th September 2026, the island of Ireland comes alive with a fantastic programme of free events celebrating culture, creativity and the arts.

From poetry, readings, workshops, to music, performance, visual art and more, there’s something happening everywhere — in cities, towns, villages and rural communities, as well as online.

So whether you’re a lifelong poetry lover or simply curious to discover something new, Culture Night is the perfect opportunity to get out, explore and experience the incredible creative talent happening all around us.

And best of all, it’s all free!

Check out all events: https://culturenight.ie

This Culture Night join Jim Crickard and Molly Twomey for an evening of poetry with limited edition zines by Mike Ryan.6...
17/09/2026

This Culture Night join Jim Crickard and Molly Twomey for an evening of poetry with limited edition zines by Mike Ryan.

6.30 pm
Friday 18th September
Fionn Barra Pub, Douglas Street, Cork
Free & all are welcome.

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