Links (Ireland)
Below, we have listed various interesting Irish poetry websites.
Each description also mentions the language(s) in which the site is available.
Organisations
Poetry IrelandThe national poetry organisation based in Dublin and publisher of the journal Poetry Ireland Review.
Language: English
The Munster Literature Centre
Publishers of the Irish domain on PIW, the literary journal Southword and host of several annual literary festivals in Cork.
Language: English
The Irish Writers Centre
Dublin-based literature centre where readings and book launches are held.
Language: English
The Heaney Centre
Poetry centre based in the School of English of Queen’s University Belfast.
Language: English
Irish Literature Exchange
Organisation responsible for the promotion of inward and outward literary translation.
Language: English
Liffey Project
A website for contemporary European literature.
Language: Danish, English, German, Irish and Welsh
Festivals
Dublin Writers FestivalIreland’s biggest annual literary bash featuring poets and prose writers.
Language: English
Eigse
A general spring-timed festival with a different theme each year, 2006 featuring writing on Love & Desire.
Language: English
Cuirt International Festival of Literature
Galway hosted general literature festival.
Language: English
Poetry Now
Specialist poetry festival in Dun Laoghaire.
Language: English
Scríobh
General literature festival hosted in Sligo.
Language: English
Publishers
Dedalus PressA press with an international author list including many translations.
Language: English
Gallery Press
Ireland’s longest established specialist poetry press.
Language: English
Salmon Poetry
Irish press publishing mostly American and Irish poets.
Language: English
Cló Iar-Chonnachta
The website of Cló Iar-Chonnachta - one of Ireland's leading Irish language publishers.
Language: English, Irish
Archipelago
A site treating An Leabhar Mór - The Great Book of Gaelic - a selection of poems in English translation with originals from the two main languages of the Goidelicsubdivision of Celtic languages.
Language: English, Irish and Scots Gaelic