Category Archives: Launches

Launch of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Lia Mills

On Sunday, 15th November 2020, the new Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann held an event to mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer and to launch our new organisation. Strange to say of an online event but: there was a really … Continue reading →

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HANNA SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON: SUFFRAGETTE AND SINN FÉINER by Margaret Ward (Launch)

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Lia Mills

In Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Féiner, Margaret Ward has undertaken the vast and painstaking task of compiling Hanna Sheehy Skeffington’s own writing (journalism, speeches, memoir), so that we can now get to know her in her own words. … Continue reading →

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THE GLASS SHORE: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland (Launches)

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Lia Mills

The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland has been thoroughly launched – first in Belfast, then in Dublin (take a bow, New Island). The Belfast launch was held in a packed and buzzing Ulster … Continue reading →

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AT HOME IN THE REVOLUTION: Lucy McDiarmid’s book launch

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Lia Mills

Passion. The word has been hijacked, abused, overused, trampled on and generally depleted to an extent where I can hardly bring myself to use it any more. But it came back to me in force at the launch of Lucy … Continue reading →

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LAUNCH!

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Lia Mills

The day has finally arrived.  I’m sure everyone will be glad when I move on to talk about something else, but give me this one last chance to thank you all.  Every book has had its sweetnesses and its excitements, … Continue reading →

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Stinging Fly Launch

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Lia Mills

The Writers’ Centre was jammed to the rafters for the launch of the latest issue of The Stinging Fly.  Declan Meade talked about the transition to Tom Morris’s stewardship and introduced the issue’s featured poet, Dimitra Xidous, whose first collection … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 28, 2010 by Lia Mills

A lovely new anthology was launched in the Cervantes Institute in Dublin on Wednesday.To The Winds Our Sails: Irish Writers Translate Galician Poets, edited by Mary O’Donnell and Manuela Palacios, (Salmonpoetry) offers introductions to the work of 10 Galician poets … Continue reading →

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