The Irish Pages Press
Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
- “What the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz wrote is true: “If a thing exists in one place, it will exist everywhere.” There is nothing that cannot happen, nothing impossible where humanity is concerned.” ~ Carolyn Forché (read her full essay here): irishpages.org/sharing-the-... @irishpen.bsky.social
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- “If we don’t explore the past, then how can we understand the journey that has brought us to where we are? This, too – tracing the route – is a form of recovery.” ~ James Robertson, writing in our ‘Scotland’ issue (2025): irishpages.org/product/vol-... @iassl.bsky.social #Scotland @asls.org.uk
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- “James Joyce revolutionized not only Irish writing, but literature in general, by turning his disenchantment with the country to a formidable literary purpose.” Patricia Craig on #JamesJoyce (born #OTD in 1882) 📚 irishpages.org/product/kilc... @irishlittimes.bsky.social
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- “... after St. Bridget’s Day, I’ll raise my sail.” Spring is on the way (despite the storms!), so we thought we’d re-share Moya Cannon’s ‘A Song at Imbolc’ from our 2021 issue: irishpages.org/product/the-... #StBrigidsDay #Imbolc @irishlittimes.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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- “Trump Is Mob Culture” ~ Chris Agee, ‘Trump Rant’ irishpages.org/product/trum... #Trump #USA #Minnesota
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- “Our bewilderment about her past life gradually lessened as on occasions she began to speak more openly about her wartime experiences. Only when she began to choreograph did it finally make sense.” ~ Maddy Tongue in ‘Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind the Dance’ irishpages.org/product/hele...
- “I have fitted a hundred wing-glints into this one line” ~ A year on from his death, we remember Michael Longley with a poem he published in one of our early journal issues (2003: irishpages.org/product/the-... Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam 🕊 @irishlittimes.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
- “We squeezed through a rusty iron gate into the overgrown meadow where cattle sometimes grazed between trees, & there was the house with its Georgian doorway & fanlight still intact: beautiful, spooky, utterly unreclaimable” ~ Patricia Craig irishpages.org/product/kilc... @thewildgees.bsky.social
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- An honour to be included in the line-up for this vital event in Ballyhugh, Galway, later this week (many thanks to Natalya Korniyenko for organising!) 🎨 irishpages.org/product/vol-... @irishpen.bsky.social
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- “Trump Is King of Something Known To Himself” ~ from Chris Agee’s ‘Trump Rant’, a powerful study of hubris, crisis and authoritarian drift 🔥 irishpages.org/product/trum... #Trump #USA #Greenland #Venezuela
- “The picture that emerges is of a country that lives by the sword, a country addicted to military force, a pugnacious, trigger-happy, ethno-nationalist, racially supremacist state, totally oblivious to international law.” ~ Avi Shlaim on Israel: irishpages.org/product/geno... @irishpen.bsky.social
- Reposted by The Irish Pages PressMineral by Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social
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- Reposted by The Irish Pages Press🤝 We are delighted to be joined by 18 other organisations for our first summit - and counting! ⏰Join us on Saturday the 31st Jan at EartH Hackney, as we come together to discuss how we challenge the war machine. 🎟️ Not got your ticket yet? Get one here 🔗 secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/...
- “These poems are fleet in their chronicling & abundant in circumstantial detail, but also interior, spiritually entangled. Her humane vision brings to life the dangers of wartime & the peace of home.” ~ Michael Longley on the #poetry of Kathleen Jamie 📚 irishpages.org/product/the-...
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- “The simple action, right by God: where is it? And I – without it? / What path etched on the world cannot lead from one nightfall to the next?” ~ ‘Hafez: 12’, trans. Mario Petrucci (2015) irishpages.org/product/isra...
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- “I woke with the uneasiness of an animal alone in the dark. I had dreamed the house of my own childhood was still standing & that years after his death my father had returned & was living his life as an old man. We were celebrating the miracle of it.” ~ Gerard McCarthy @irishlittimes.bsky.social
- “Wee words on reid letter paper, / Tell out hou A lou’d ye aa ma days...” ~ from ‘To the air of Quiet Pleasures’ by Brian Holton irishpages.org/product/aa-c... (“Little words on red letter paper, / Tell out how I loved you all my days...”) @byleaveswelive.bsky.social
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- “If one recognizes as I do that the root of the problem is the Jewish supremacist character of the state of Israel, it follows that ending the occupation is not enough; Israel, too, needs to be decolonized.” ~ Avi Shlaim irishpages.org/product/geno... @naamoduk.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social
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- “Heaneyʼs prose brought new energy to contemporary critical writing on poetry: brilliantly accurate, it assumed that poetry was an indispensable part of culture, serving to bring current concerns to the fore and to recreate, in free play, the fabric of language.” ~ Helen Vendler
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- “Our bewilderment about her past life gradually lessened as on occasions she began to speak more openly about her wartime experiences. Only when she began to choreograph did it finally make sense.” ~ Maddy Tongue, ‘Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind the Dance’ irishpages.org/product/hele...
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- “Authentic peace is no more passive than war. Like war, it calls for discipline and intelligence, but it calls also for higher principles and aims. If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.” ~ Wendell Berry (2002)
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- “What other wealth is there / than that which is drawn out by the dew: / scents of dogrose and wild raspberry?” ~ from Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain (by Garry MacKenzie) irishpages.org/product/ben-... @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social
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- A beautiful poem by @kathleenjamie.bsky.social 🍃 We were delighted when she and Don Paterson agreed to co-edit our 'Scotland' issue earlier this year 📚 irishpages.org/product/vol-... @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @northseapoets.bsky.social @paperboatswriters.bsky.social
- Anyone hoping to catch up on some podcast listening over the holiday season may like to check out this interview with Avi Shlaim for the 'From Ireland to Palestine' series 🕊️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdjN... Full info about his book, 'Genocide in Gaza', at: irishpages.org/product/geno...
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- Wishing all our contributors, friends and supporters a safe and peaceful Christmas 📚 Pictured, an extract from the poem ‘Dúchas’ by Moya Cannon (included in our War in Europe issue) 🍃 irishpages.org/product/vol-... @irishlittimes.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social
- “Most days I think I’m split in two. A spirit yearning for the light And a body of delinquent appetites...” ~ from ‘St Symeon Stylites’ by James Harpur irishpages.org/product/dark...
- We’ll be taking and processing pre-Christmas orders until close of business today! Check out our full selection of titles (including a vital range of contemporary Balkan fiction, in collaboration with Fraktura) at www.irishpages.org 📚 @irishlittimes.bsky.social
- There’s still time to get your Christmas book-orders in! 📚 www.irishpages.org All orders over £18/€22 (excl. p&p) will also receive a free copy of ‘Phantom Gang’ by Ciarán O’Rourke 🌲 Recent poems by Ciarán can be read here: www.ragpickerpoetry.net/poetry/ragpi... @irishlittimes.bsky.social
- Anyone looking for a Christmas present for the book-lover in their life may like to check out our online shop 📚 Spend over £18/€22/$32 (exc. shipping) before Dec 18th & you’ll also receive a free copy of Ciarán O’Rourke’s wonderful ‘Phantom Gang’ 🎄 www.irishpages.org @irishlittimes.bsky.social
- “Perhaps we can embrace the Japanese philosophy of ‘wasi sabi’, discovering the beauty in the imperfect, the worn, the already used. This is as much a battle-cry for the persistence of craft as it is a Gregorian chant for behavioural change.” ~ Muireann Charleton irishpages.org/product/the-...
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- “and all the noise of the universe stills / to an oboe hum, the given note of a perfect / music…” ~ from ‘Canticle’ by John F. Deane💫 irishpages.org/product/dark... @irishlittimes.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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- “... if you listen to the way a blues singer varies the rhythms of his lyrics across a steady four-to-the-bar guitar beat, it might come close to how these songs once sounded.” ~ Brian Holton 🍃 irishpages.org/product/aa-c... @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk
- “The Nazi dehumanization of the Jews was a major factor in paving the way for the death camps. Israeli demonization of the Palestinians is a similarly dangerous dynamic that can be used to justify the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.” ~ Avi Shlaim irishpages.org/product/geno... @naamoduk.bsky.social
- “... life is unquestionably impoverished if you do away with bluebells, conkers, larks and other common words denoting nature and natural forces.” ~ Patricia Craig 🍃 irishpages.org/product/kilc...
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- “The placename can be the incantation that turns a tract of space, a mere location, into a place… the totality of the world’s placenames constitutes humanity’s full address; if we knew it we would know where we are.” ~ Tim Robinson (2005) irishpages.org/product/the-...
- “What, do we imagine, is the smell of the Braan? The water of the falls of the Braan must surely smell of schist and granite-gravel, peat and fish, alder, microbes and leaf-rot, earth, silage, moss and oxygen...” ~ ‘The Braan Salmon’ by Kathleen Jamie 🌊 irishpages.org/product/the-... @asls.org.uk
- “The consumer is essentially somebody who feels or is made to feel lost unless he or she is consuming. Brand names and logos become the place names of the Nowhere.” ~ John Berger (2006) irishpages.org/product/the-...
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