The Gallery Press: Poetry & Drama from Ireland

22/12/2025

Remember to listen to

A Celebration of Derek Mahon

RTE Radio One, St Stephen’s Day
6 - 7pm

A Gallery Press presentation in association with University of Notre Dame and RTÉ recorded live on 4 November 2025 in the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Program devised by Peter Fallon with readings by John Banville, Katie Mahon, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Stephen Rea and Peter Fallon.

With special thanks to Eimear Clowry Delaney and Clíodhna Ní Anluain.

18/12/2025

Last weekend's The Irish Times had reviews of two recent Gallery publications: Fallen by Audrey Molloy and Hymn to All the Restless Girls by Annemarie Ní Churreáin.

'Using spells, folklore, incantations and her native Irish language, Ní Churreáin pushes back against article 41.2 of the Constitution which imprisoned Irish women within the home and punished those without . . . Ní Churreáin counters the prescriptions of the Constitution with her own dazzling prescriptions . . .'
— Martina Evans

and

'Audrey Molloy in Fallen (Gallery, €12.50) writes of a modern “fallen” woman, in the sun-drenched landscape of Australia, matching Ní Churreáin’s defiance with her own inimitable ruefulness. Molloy’s weapons are humour and a fine precision.
Her light touch could belie her hard-won freedom, but, although she’s far removed from early 20th-century Ireland, society still judges . . .'
— Martina Evans

Read the full review (subscriber): https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/12/14/new-poetry-annemarie-ni-churreain-audrey-molloy-cian-ferriter-and-sarah-howe/

Fallen and Hymn to All the Restless Girls are available from all good bookshops or online from The Gallery Press: https://gallerypress.com

17/12/2025

Joseph O'Connor and Eoin Devereux both chose Colm Tóibín's Ship in Full Sail as one of their Sunday Independent Books of the Year.

'. . . Ship in Full Sail (Gallery) is full of endless riches, looking at everything from opera to Irish folksong, Bob Dylan to Ivor Browne' writes Joseph O'Connor while Eoin Devereux really enjoyed Ship in Full Sail especially 'Given my own Wexford roots, the essays which refer to his beloved Enniscorthy resonated with me in particular.'

Ship in Full Sail is available from all good bookshops.

16/12/2025

A reading amongst friends at Dave and Karl's Christmas Salon at the International Bar.

16/12/2025

Paul Perry reviewed The Brimming World by Ciaran Carson in the Sunday Independent.
In it he writes:

"Gail McConnell’s selection gathers pieces from five decades and shows Carson’s prose is not an appendix to the poems, but a companion performance in another key . . . The book ranges over his preoccupations: poetry, language, music, Belfast . . . Again and again he returns to how form and patter shape experience . . For those who know the poems, The Brimming World offers glimpses of the thinking that shadows them . . . a welcoming introduction to a singular mind.

The Brimming World (Selected Essays 1975-2014) by Ciaran Carson edited by Gail McConnell is available from all good bookshops or online from The Gallery Press: https://gallerypress.com/product/the-brimming-world-selected-essays-1975-2014/

Read the full review: https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/poet-ciaran-carsons-musings-on-music-and-his-art-in-the-brimming-world-strike-a-chord/a1855650281.html

16/12/2025

Tickets are selling fast!

The T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings | Royal Festival Hall | Sunday 18 January 2026

Get your literary year off to the very best start and treat yourself (and a friend, maybe!) to the biggest and best night out in poetry. The T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings always offer a scintillating literary night out.

This year’s Shortlist encompasses both established and emerging poets, reading from collections reviewers have hailed as ‘devastating’, ‘boundless’, ‘bleakly comical’, ‘formally inventive’ and ‘lovely, strange and wise’.

15/12/2025

'The book that has given [Thomas McCarthy] the greatest pleasure this year is Colm Tóibín’s masterful Ship in Full Sail (Gallery Books €16.95). It is more than mere essays, it is a work of Belles Lettres.

While he was Irish Laureate for Fiction Tóibín wrote an essay a month for three years. Here they are, wise, insightful, provocative, learnèd. Fr O'Sullivan SJ, Paul Funge, Tim Robinson, Eileen Gray, Thomas Kilroy, George Clancy and Cathal Brugha, all parade across these pages.

And places, Enniscorthy, San Francisco, Barcelona, come to life with ravishing strength.

Tóibín inserts high doses of the most astonishing insights, such as this seemingly casual remark upon Borges in the Shelbourne: "He marvelled at the idea that Shakespeare wrote" "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" rather than "made of". Such a Pearl dropped into 2025 a book of exact moments.'
— Thomas McCarthy, The Irish Catholic

Ship in Full Sail is available in all good bookshops or online from The Gallery Press.

15/12/2025

14/12/2025

12/12/2025

Colm Tóibín has been visiting the bookshops and signed copies of Ship in Full Sail are now available in both Hodges Figgis and Books Upstairs

12/12/2025

Listen back to readings and discussions about The Brimming World: Selected Essays by Ciaran Carson, with editor Gail McConnell, on RTÉ Radio 1 Arena.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22567349/