The Irish Pages Press
@irishpages.bsky.social
Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
“It is not easy to find explicit statements by those who favoured the slave trade & fought hard to retain it. But note that abolition was widely viewed as an attack on the ‘right to free trade’. Clearly, only the freedom of the powerful counted...”
~ Janet Dine (2009)
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~ Janet Dine (2009)
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November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“It is not easy to find explicit statements by those who favoured the slave trade & fought hard to retain it. But note that abolition was widely viewed as an attack on the ‘right to free trade’. Clearly, only the freedom of the powerful counted...”
~ Janet Dine (2009)
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~ Janet Dine (2009)
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New guest post 📰
Glacier – Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem
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Glacier – Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/VdmjNVJ
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New guest post 📰
Glacier – Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/VdmjNVJ
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
Glacier – Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/VdmjNVJ
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
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“The cave-dark we were born in / calls us back.”
~ ‘Swifts’ by Kathleen Jamie
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~ ‘Swifts’ by Kathleen Jamie
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November 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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That is a wonderful closing coda to a poem… ❤️❤️
“The cave-dark we were born in / calls us back.”
~ ‘Swifts’ by Kathleen Jamie
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~ ‘Swifts’ by Kathleen Jamie
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November 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
That is a wonderful closing coda to a poem… ❤️❤️
“The cave-dark we were born in / calls us back.”
~ ‘Swifts’ by Kathleen Jamie
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~ ‘Swifts’ by Kathleen Jamie
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November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“The cave-dark we were born in / calls us back.”
~ ‘Swifts’ by Kathleen Jamie
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~ ‘Swifts’ by Kathleen Jamie
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TESTIMONY is in cinemas today.
Read our review linked below, among Ciarán’s best.
“When the tendency from successive Irish governments seems to favour slow progress at best, films like this keep the possibility of justice alive.”
Read our review linked below, among Ciarán’s best.
“When the tendency from successive Irish governments seems to favour slow progress at best, films like this keep the possibility of justice alive.”
"The chronicle offered here is fuelled by empathy and coloured by pain"
our TESTIMONY review
✍️ Ciarán O'Rourke
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
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our TESTIMONY review
✍️ Ciarán O'Rourke
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
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Films like Aoife Kelleher's Testimony keep the possibility of justice alive - HeadStuff
Ciaran O'Rourke reviews Testimony, Aoife Kelleher's documentary about the fight for justice by survivors of Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes
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November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
TESTIMONY is in cinemas today.
Read our review linked below, among Ciarán’s best.
“When the tendency from successive Irish governments seems to favour slow progress at best, films like this keep the possibility of justice alive.”
Read our review linked below, among Ciarán’s best.
“When the tendency from successive Irish governments seems to favour slow progress at best, films like this keep the possibility of justice alive.”
“... there’s mystery enough in the mere fact / of reality...”
~ from ‘A Dove in the House’ by Derek Mahon (2018)
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~ from ‘A Dove in the House’ by Derek Mahon (2018)
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November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“... there’s mystery enough in the mere fact / of reality...”
~ from ‘A Dove in the House’ by Derek Mahon (2018)
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~ from ‘A Dove in the House’ by Derek Mahon (2018)
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“Who knows how much longer I will last, she reflected, conscious of the question’s absurdity. This dripping, trickling, emptying was no longer separate from her, since no tiny hole can exist without its vessel...”
~ Slavenka Drakulić
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~ Slavenka Drakulić
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November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“Who knows how much longer I will last, she reflected, conscious of the question’s absurdity. This dripping, trickling, emptying was no longer separate from her, since no tiny hole can exist without its vessel...”
~ Slavenka Drakulić
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~ Slavenka Drakulić
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Kathleen Jamie’s poem “The Republic of Fife” (published in The Queen of Sheba, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1994) mentions
The very woods where my friend Isabel
once saw a fairy, blue as a gas flame
dancing on trees…
The very woods where my friend Isabel
once saw a fairy, blue as a gas flame
dancing on trees…
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Kathleen Jamie’s poem “The Republic of Fife” (published in The Queen of Sheba, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1994) mentions
The very woods where my friend Isabel
once saw a fairy, blue as a gas flame
dancing on trees…
The very woods where my friend Isabel
once saw a fairy, blue as a gas flame
dancing on trees…
“However unknowingly, by whatever mix of chance and intention, the path followed was the one that was taken. The past is inexorable.”
~ Gerard McCarthy
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~ Gerard McCarthy
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November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“However unknowingly, by whatever mix of chance and intention, the path followed was the one that was taken. The past is inexorable.”
~ Gerard McCarthy
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~ Gerard McCarthy
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Kathleen Jamie and Peter Mackay headline a special event at the Scottish Poetry Library to welcome the Poetry Jukebox to Scotland.
Date: 4 Dec
6.30pm-8pm
Details/Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-juk...
Date: 4 Dec
6.30pm-8pm
Details/Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-juk...
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Kathleen Jamie and Peter Mackay headline a special event at the Scottish Poetry Library to welcome the Poetry Jukebox to Scotland.
Date: 4 Dec
6.30pm-8pm
Details/Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-juk...
Date: 4 Dec
6.30pm-8pm
Details/Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-juk...
Irish Pages author Patricia Craig features in the latest issue of the Dublin Review of Books: writing on the life and times of Muriel Spark, and her "sedately subversive, strikingly elliptical style" 📚
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November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Irish Pages author Patricia Craig features in the latest issue of the Dublin Review of Books: writing on the life and times of Muriel Spark, and her "sedately subversive, strikingly elliptical style" 📚
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“A movie is a love letter. Poetry, not prose.”
~ from “Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays” by Mark Cousins (2024) 📽️
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~ from “Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays” by Mark Cousins (2024) 📽️
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November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
“A movie is a love letter. Poetry, not prose.”
~ from “Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays” by Mark Cousins (2024) 📽️
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~ from “Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays” by Mark Cousins (2024) 📽️
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Wonderful to host PATHOS in-conversation event @dublinbookfest.bsky.social this Sat in collab w/ @irishpages.bsky.social - it was a privilege to hear Suad Aldarra, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Ciarán O Rourke & Natalya Korniyenko speak very movingly on Conflict and Creativity to a large audience at IMMA.
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Wonderful to host PATHOS in-conversation event @dublinbookfest.bsky.social this Sat in collab w/ @irishpages.bsky.social - it was a privilege to hear Suad Aldarra, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Ciarán O Rourke & Natalya Korniyenko speak very movingly on Conflict and Creativity to a large audience at IMMA.
Thanks to @immaireland.bsky.social & @dublinbookfest.bsky.social for hosting the 'Conflict & Creation' panel discussion over the weekend, chaired by PATHOS researcher Prof. Ailbhe McDaid:
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Natalya Korniyenko & Ciarán O'Rourke both took part 🎨
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Natalya Korniyenko & Ciarán O'Rourke both took part 🎨
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November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thanks to @immaireland.bsky.social & @dublinbookfest.bsky.social for hosting the 'Conflict & Creation' panel discussion over the weekend, chaired by PATHOS researcher Prof. Ailbhe McDaid:
www.pathos-project.com
Natalya Korniyenko & Ciarán O'Rourke both took part 🎨
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www.pathos-project.com
Natalya Korniyenko & Ciarán O'Rourke both took part 🎨
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“if there is something to write that would raise the cities
from the ruins the apartment blocks hospitals schools
that would put the cities back as they were
I would give everything to fill my pen with it”
~ Carolyn Forché
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from the ruins the apartment blocks hospitals schools
that would put the cities back as they were
I would give everything to fill my pen with it”
~ Carolyn Forché
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November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“if there is something to write that would raise the cities
from the ruins the apartment blocks hospitals schools
that would put the cities back as they were
I would give everything to fill my pen with it”
~ Carolyn Forché
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from the ruins the apartment blocks hospitals schools
that would put the cities back as they were
I would give everything to fill my pen with it”
~ Carolyn Forché
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Melissa Chevin, our Sales and Marketing manager, on the project of “championing independent, ethical publishing” – speaking after her recent shortlisting at @thebookseller.com awards 2025!
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November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Melissa Chevin, our Sales and Marketing manager, on the project of “championing independent, ethical publishing” – speaking after her recent shortlisting at @thebookseller.com awards 2025!
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So pleased you are doing this!
Less than an hour to go before our screening of @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social’s A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things.
This documentary dives into the life & art of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a visionary 20th-century artist who saw the natural world in new ways
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This documentary dives into the life & art of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a visionary 20th-century artist who saw the natural world in new ways
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Screening: A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Can paying closer attention change the way we live on this planet? Join us for a screening Mark Cousins’ documentary about artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), t...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So pleased you are doing this!
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'From 'Moor' Kathleen Jamie
We bring the past out of the land and bear the land
into the future, but at heart of all is the land, contested,
exploited and beloved. (The turbines, plantations, the
missile-test sites.)
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#poetry
We bring the past out of the land and bear the land
into the future, but at heart of all is the land, contested,
exploited and beloved. (The turbines, plantations, the
missile-test sites.)
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
#poetry
Poem of the week: Moor by Kathleen Jamie
Haunted by a softly luminous mistiness, the moor combines, as if by double exposure, the passing of time and the full-lit present moment
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November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
'From 'Moor' Kathleen Jamie
We bring the past out of the land and bear the land
into the future, but at heart of all is the land, contested,
exploited and beloved. (The turbines, plantations, the
missile-test sites.)
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
#poetry
We bring the past out of the land and bear the land
into the future, but at heart of all is the land, contested,
exploited and beloved. (The turbines, plantations, the
missile-test sites.)
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
#poetry
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Kathleen Jamie is a Scottish poet and former Makar (national bard) of Scotland.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Kathleen Jamie is a Scottish poet and former Makar (national bard) of Scotland.
Hearty congratulations to our colleague Melissa Chevin, shortlisted this week for "Sales Professional of the Year" by @thebookseller.com 📚
We consider ourselves lucky to be able to work with Melissa in bringing brilliant books to discerning readers: she deserves every accolade!
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We consider ourselves lucky to be able to work with Melissa in bringing brilliant books to discerning readers: she deserves every accolade!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Hearty congratulations to our colleague Melissa Chevin, shortlisted this week for "Sales Professional of the Year" by @thebookseller.com 📚
We consider ourselves lucky to be able to work with Melissa in bringing brilliant books to discerning readers: she deserves every accolade!
www.irishpages.org
We consider ourselves lucky to be able to work with Melissa in bringing brilliant books to discerning readers: she deserves every accolade!
www.irishpages.org
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The Sales Professional(s) of the Year Award shortlist has been revealed 👏
Congratulations to our fabulous shortlistees! #FutureBook
Congratulations to our fabulous shortlistees! #FutureBook
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Sales Professional(s) of the Year Award shortlist has been revealed 👏
Congratulations to our fabulous shortlistees! #FutureBook
Congratulations to our fabulous shortlistees! #FutureBook
Great to see two of our editors interviewed on the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social blog this week, ahead of our co-hosted event on Saturday!
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Tickets for Saturday's panel discussion here:
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Tickets for Saturday's panel discussion here:
dublinbookfestival.com/event/confli...
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Great to see two of our editors interviewed on the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social blog this week, ahead of our co-hosted event on Saturday!
dublinbookfestival.com/2-minutes-wi...
Tickets for Saturday's panel discussion here:
dublinbookfestival.com/event/confli...
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
dublinbookfestival.com/2-minutes-wi...
Tickets for Saturday's panel discussion here:
dublinbookfestival.com/event/confli...
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
“Art serves the soul not least by demanding and creating attention. This same attention in its early stages allows us to winnow the meaningful signal from the distracting noise, and ultimately rejuvenates the connection of self to the world.”
~ Sven Birkerts (2007)
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~ Sven Birkerts (2007)
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November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“Art serves the soul not least by demanding and creating attention. This same attention in its early stages allows us to winnow the meaningful signal from the distracting noise, and ultimately rejuvenates the connection of self to the world.”
~ Sven Birkerts (2007)
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~ Sven Birkerts (2007)
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Fab list of mosaics around the world
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The most beautiful mosaics in the world
Amazing mosaics from throughout history and across the world.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Fab list of mosaics around the world
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