Resources

Publishers

Cle Teoranta/Irish Book Publishers Association

Maintains a comprehensive listing of most of the major publishing houses in Ireland with a mixture of trade, general, legal, and academic publishers as members

Cló Iar-Chonnachta

Carcanet Press

Carcanet Press provides the most comprehensive and diverse lists of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation. Carcanet Press also publishes a range of inventive fiction, lives and letters and literary criticism

Cois Life

Cork University Press

Dedalus Press

. . . one of the longest-running literary presses in Ireland, specialising in contemporary poetry from Ireland, and from around the world in English translation . . .

Fish Publishing

Liberties Press

Liberties Press is one of Ireland's leading publishers of non-fiction titles of Irish and international interest.

Mercier Press

Poolbeg Group Services

New Island

Publisher of fiction and non-fiction, New Island boasts many of Ireland's high-profile international authors including: Patricia Scanlan, Fintan O'Toole, Deirdre Purcell, Nuala O'Faolain, Brian Lynch, Myles Dungan and Sarah Webb.

Penguin Books Ireland

Salmon Poetry

The Gallery Press

Poems, plays and prose by contemporary Irish authors

The O'Brien Press

Organisations

Poetry Ireland

National organisation dedicated to developing, supporting and promoting poetry

Irish Writers' Centre

Organisation dedicated to promoting Irish literature and Irish writers

Dublin Writers' Workshop

Some might remember the first DWW online community which ran from 1997 to about 2001. Now Nessa O'Mahony is reviving it "but in a new experimental form." "I'd like to see if we could initiate and sustain an ongoing conversation about writing, with separate threads for a monthly Electric Acorn ezine that would offer a platform for excellent writing in a variety of genres , a workshop to post work in progress and get feedback . . ."

Munster Literature Centre

A resource centre promoting all aspects of literature in Munster

Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneorí Chaitlín Maude

Organises workshops (some of them free), events, manuscript service. Offers friendly advice at their Galway base.

Wordsinhere

An international collective of writers based in The Netherlands collaborating to build and initiate avenues of literary exchange between cultures, nationalities, languages, genres, and forms. Working to inspire and encourage innovation and excellence in the writing community here and abroad, they provide a network for writers through which strengths and aspirations can be realized.

Children's Books Ireland

National children's book organisation of Ireland

International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Established to promote the teaching and study of Irish literature in third-level education throughout the world, to facilitate international contact between scholars in the field of Irish Literary Studies and to serve as a vehicle for bringing Irish writing to a wider audience throughout the world

Cúirt International Festival of Literature

Dingle Writing Courses

Dingle Writing Courses was established in 1996 by Nicholas McLachlan and Abigail Joffe to provide an opportunity for writers to gather and learn from established authors and from each other in a supportive and stimulating atmosphere

Irish Theatre Magazine

Irish theatre magazine is a quarterly magazine devoted to the timely and topical coverage of theatre in Ireland and Irish theatre around the world.

Dublin Writers Festival

An initiative of Dublin City Council, with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaion, the Dublin Writers Festival aims to reflect both the city's famous literary heritage and the importance of the literary arts in a rapidly changing contemporary environment

New Hope International

Gerald England's site contains views and reviews on the UK poetry scene

Irish Writers Union

Website for the Irish writers union contains a sample contract, FAQ, and notes on signing a deal

Ireland Literature Exchange

Organisation promoting the translation of literature from Ireland abroad, and of foreign literature in Ireland in English, Irish, French 

signandsight.com

Arts, essays & ideas from the German-speaking world. This is the English translation of highlights of the Perlentaucher cultural magazine.

Askaboutwriting.net

News and resource site for writers of all abilities everywhere. It updates on Saturdays. A free weekly news brief is emailed Mondays

Bloc

Bloc is a writers and writing site, written, designed, edited and managed by postgraduate professional writers at Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall. Bloc is a one-stop resource for writers and people interested in writing and provides news, advice and information about writing. It is also a showcase for new writing talent that welcomes contributions from external writers.