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 Ireland
The 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 Festival
Ireland’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 Press
A 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