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Leading literary publishers of contemporary Irish poetry, drama and, occasionally, prose. Funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is happening in Galway City on Friday 👇👇👇 @poetryireland.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ireland has been chosen as ‘country of honour’ for this year’s Marché de la Poésie in Paris. Among readers representing Ireland are these five from The Gallery Press. A great few days for Irish poets abroad @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #contemporaryirishpoetry
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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Overjoyed to see MIDNIGHT AT THE SALTMARSH 🌕🌊 for sale in my local bookshop 📚 The Book Centre, in Waterford 💫✨ @thegallerypress.bsky.social
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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A wonderful poem by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in honour of Poetry Day Ireland @poetryireland.bsky.social. Eiléan will read at WCLF in a @thegallerypress.bsky.social event on 13 July alongside John Fitzgerald and Annemarie Ní Churreáin www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
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At Home: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's poem for Poetry Day Ireland
Poetry Day Ireland is an annual, all-island celebration dedicated to reading, writing, and sharing poetry, organized by Poetry Ireland.
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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Loved this new collection of poetry by Mícheál McCann, published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social. Mícheál will be reading alongside Nithy Kasa and @jesstraynor.bsky.social at WCLF on 15 July. This event is in association with @poetryireland.bsky.social 🎟️ in our bio www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Lives of the Saints by Mícheál McCann: Poetry that elevates the commonplace
Derry poet’s second collection dives deeper into religious and historical themes
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Last Saturday’s poem in The Irish Times/The Ticket from Stephen de Búrca’s recently published ATLANTIC FRET @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #artscouncilsupported #newirishpoetry
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tom French is the Featured Reader at this month's The Swift Sessions at the Swift Cultural Centre, Trim, Co Meath at 7.30pm this Thursday , 21 May. FREE ENTRY (No booking required) @poetryireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Friday evening - a chance to hear Kevin Graham read his work 👌 @poetryireland.bsky.social #irishpoetryandmusic
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Come celebrate and hear Mícheál McCann read from his new collection tomorrow evening @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social 👇👇👇
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Tomorrow at Cork International Poetry Festival at 10 pm 👇👇👇@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Tomorrow at Cork International Poetry Festival at 7 pm 👇👇👇 @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A rare opportunity to hear Irish author Audrey Molloy - a resident of Sydney - reading at Cork Arts Theatre at 10 pm tonight together with Christina Henneman @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Stephen de Búrca taking his newly published debut collection ATLANTIC FRET on the road, reading with Gerard Smyth at the great Cork International Poetry Festival tomorrow (Wednesday) @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #newirishpoetry #irishpoet
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Mícheál McCann will launch his second collection LIVES OF THE SAINTS in Belfast on Thursday at No Alibis bookshop @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #newirishpoetry #irishpoet
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We launched four titles in Dublin on Thursday night - and here are three of the authors - alas Eamon Grennan was missing: Mícheál McCann, Stephen de Búrca and Martina Dalton with editor Peter Fallon. A wonderful evening and celebration @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
So thrilled to see ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’ @thegallerypress.bsky.social reviewed in The Irish Times. Enormous gratitude to Declan Ryan 🙏🙏🙏
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We’re looking forward to launching these four new titles next week - including two debut collections, a second collection, and the final collection by a longstanding friend and Gallery author. All to be savoured by you all in your own time @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Just published is That's It by Eamon Grennan. It will be arriving in bookshops shortly and can also be purchased from The Gallery Press: gallerypress.com/product/that...
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Three Gallery titles on this year's Farmgate Award Shortlist. Congratulations to all: www.corkpoetryfest.net/tuesday.html @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We're delighted to be publishing the following new titles in May 2026. Atlantic Fret – Stephen de Búrca Midnight at the Saltmarsh – Martina Dalton Lives of the Saints – Mícheál McCann gallerypress.com/2026/03/11/n... for further details. #contemporaryirishpoetry #ArtsCouncilSupported
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Vona Groarke, Ireland Professor of Poetry (2025-2028), will give the first of her lectures this evening at 7.30 in Trinity College. A free event. If you would like to attend please email irelandchairofpoetry@gmail.com
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Today is our 56th birthday!⁠ ⁠ 56% OFF All* Hardbacks⁠ *excludes package deals, limited editions and ebooks. (Plus P&P).⁠ One copy per title. ⁠ ⁠ 24 hours only Friday 6 February 2026 ⁠ Use code BIRTHDAY56 at checkout.⁠ ⁠https://gallerypress.com/product-category/hardbacks/ #ArtsCouncilSupported
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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 11 is 'When Nobody Was Watching' from 'What Remains the Same' by Alvy Carragher 💖 @thegallerypress.bsky.social
Cover of Carragher's book is a painted woman's face with darkness and yellow around the eyes and neck When Nobody Was Watching

We were violent sisters
who grabbed each other by the hair 
and swung with all our strength. 
No strangers to kicking heads or stomachs, fists pummelling. Experts at pinching, 
twisting. We wielded elbows, knees, sometimes a skipping rope, a stick. 
We fought, we fled.

I'm not sure what other sisters teach each other. I've learnt to forgive what she's forgiven -how I rose in deepest hurt to lunge for her ankle, force her back down to the dirt.
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This weekend sees the 16th Annual Poetry Fest at The Irish Centre, New York. Curated this year by Vona Groarke other Gallery poets taking part are Alan Gillis and Grace Wilentz. To reserve your place: irishartscenter.org/event/16th-ann…
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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 and I'm off to a bad start having missed yesterday! But here's 'How You Knew' by Audrey Molloy from her latest collection 'Fallen' published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social 💜
How You Knew

I wrote to you that ordinary day, 
you who had once cracked 
your sternum wide apart for me to see

the robin lying on the cage floor, 
ribs barely moving, and said to me, 
If ever you need my life, come and take it.

You understood it sooner, that's all. 
I'd fooled myself for months that this was just 
a ruse -- a cherub with a quiverful of darts,

folie à deux, a neurochemical trick or even
vanity, that proud flower bowed over 
a looking glass. But this was never just 

anything. In a slip of concentration I wrote: I didn't love you, then. 
And then a skylight opened for each of us.Cover of fallen featuring a painting of a woman in a red dress falling through the air, her legs and feet are bare, her arms are stretched over her head
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Our Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas offer is live. 40% OFF* selected poetry titles until 10 December. (*Plus P&P, max. 2 copies of each title). Use code XMAS2025. Browse: gallerypress.com/2025/11/26/t... #ArtsCouncilSupported #IrishPoetry #PoetryGifts #WinterReads
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Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas 2025 - The Gallery Press
We’re delighted to offer a special seasonal discount on Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas 2025*. Use coupon code XMAS2025 at checkout.
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
From Saturday’s Irish Times’ Poem of the Week. We look forward to publishing Micheál’s second collection in 2026 @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
All welcome at the launch of Ciaran Carson’s Selected Essays (1975-2014), edited by Gail McConnell, on 2 December. A windfall and a gift following Ciaran’s curious mind over four decades @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @shhomeplace.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Special Offer on Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas 2025. Running from 26 November – 10 December 2025 we offer 40% OFF* paperback and hardback editions where available of Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas. Visit: gallerypress.com/2025/11/26/t... for more...
Christmas tree shape made from book covers with lines of snow beneath them. Text on top reads: Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas. To the right is a circle with the text 40% Off* *Plus P&P. At the bottom the text reads: Offer runs from 26 November - 10 December 2025. Limited to two copies of each title.
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Medbh McGuckian’s NEW SELECTED POEMS’ Belfast launch takes place in Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens tomorrow (Wednesday 19th) from 5.30. All welcome @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The great Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will read as part of the Rostrevor Literary Festival on Saturday (8th). Catch her if you can.
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This evening 🎉🎉👇👇
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We’re excited to launch these two collections by Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Audrey Molloy @booksupstairs.bsky.social on Thursday (6th). All welcome! @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
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John Field | Poor Rude Lines @johnfield1.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Follow this link to access the T.S. Eliot Prize resources for Vona Groarke’s Infinity Pool. (Videoed readings to follow): tseliot.com/prize/work/i... @thegallerypress.bsky.social @tseliotprize.bsky.social #poetry #tseliotprize
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Here’s a taster of our celebration of Derek Mahon which happens on 4 November. Watch and listen to this distinctive voice of this great writer youtu.be/GdRGBc2J5GA
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Derek Mahon - A Celebration (promo)
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Here’s an intriguing event to start your weekend. Both poets read from each other’s 2025 collections. Readings and a Conversation @waterfordlibraries.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #waterfordwritersweekend #waterfordwriters #irishwriters
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A Celebration of Derek Mahon in association with @notredame.bsky.social Readings by John Banville, Claire Keegan, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Stephen Rea. 7.30pm, 4 November 2025, RIAM, Dublin 2 Tickets : €25.00 gallerypress.com/product/cele... #ArtsCouncilSupported #irishpoet
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Excellent episode of The Bookshelf podcast with Ryan Tubridy and Colm Tóibin. Discussions include his new book of essays, Ship in Full Sail. shows.acast.com/book-shelf-w... #irishwriter #thebookshelf #colmtoibin #ryantubridy #ArtsCouncilSupported
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Colm Tóibín | The Bookshelf with Ryan Tubridy
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thrilled to be sending Audrey Molloy’s third — and finest — collection, Fallen, out into the world, following her brilliant essay in Saturday’s Irish Times. We’re excited to welcome Audrey home for the launch on November 6th. gallerypress.com/product/fall... #ArtsCouncilSupported
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Look at this for a lineup: John Banville, Claire Keegan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Muldoon and Stephen Rea. Our Celebration of Derek Mahon event is approaching. 4 November. Tickets: gallerypress.com/product/cele... #irishpoetryevents #ArtsCouncilSupported
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Delighted to see Vona Groarke on the shortlist for this year's T. S. Eliot Prize for her collection, Infinity Pool. Congratulations to all selected authors. @tseliotprize.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Brian Patten 1946 - 29 September 2025 Eamon Carr and I had the pleasure of publishing beautiful poems by Brian in Capella. I read with him in Dublin, Liverpool and Edinburgh. He was the 'marvellous boy' of the 60s and early 70s, an influential figure and a friend. May he rest in peace.
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Audrey Molloy's third poetry collection, Fallen, is available to order now: gallerypress.com/product/fall... From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy. What does it mean to be a fallen woman? And can she ever redeem herself? #ArtsCouncilSupported #irishpoet
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Clifden bound? This is for you. Kevin and Molly reading from their new collections @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #newirishpoetry #clifdenartsfestival
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is a terrific interview/conversation with Colm Tóibín on SHIP IN FULL SAIL. Well worth taking the time to listen. www.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...
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83: Colm Tóibín, A Ship in Full Sail - Books for Breakfast
In this episode we invite Colm Tóibín to the breakfast table to discuss his new book A Ship in Full Sail: The Laureate Lectures and Other Writings. The book collects the blogs he wrote during his term...
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Today is the last day for applications! gallerypress.com/news/gallery...
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Check out Colm Tóibín in last Saturday’s Ticket talking about new publications including SHIP IN FULL SALE and much more @irishlittimes.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Colm Tóibín @booksupstairs.bsky.social signing SHIP IN FULL SAIL: Laureate Lectures and Other Writings. Grab a copy while the signed ones last! @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
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The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Excited to publish Colm Tóibín’s SHIP IN FULL SAIL this week. “Throughout there is a sense of a writer who continually surrenders to an intense and vital curiosity about the worlds he has experienced and the worlds he has invented.” #laureatelecturesandblogs @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
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