Gallery Press is an independent Irish publishing company, publishing Irish poetry, drama, and prose by contemporary Irish writers. Founded by poet Peter Fallon as the Gallery Books imprint of Tara Telephone Publications, itself an offshoot of a

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poetry performance group, it has released more than 400 books by a wide range of artists.

History

Gallery Books began with the release on 6 February 1970 of ''Answers'' by Des O'Mahony and Justin McCarthy. Peter Fallon founded the press when he was eighteen years old and has been the editor and publisher for the life of the publisher. Gallery operated out of a family home in Dublin for many years but now works from a small 19th-century stone house and its adjacent outbuildings, in Loughcrew in the centre of North

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. It has been described as the "leading poetry publisher in the Irish Republic".

Notable writers published by the press

Sara Berkeley Sara Berkeley (born 1967 Dublin) is an Irish poet, long resident in the US, where she works as a hospice nurse. Life Sara Berkeley grew up in Ireland, and attended secondary school at Manor House School, Raheny. After 30 years in the San F ...

Ciaran Carson Ciaran Gerard Carson ( Irish: ''Ciarán Gearóid Mac Carráin''; 9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Early life and education Ciaran Carson was born on 9 October 1948 in Belfast Belfast ...

* Michael Coady *

Gerald Dawe Gerald Dawe (22 April 1952 – 29 May 2024) was an Irish poet, academic and literary critic. Life and career Gerald Dawe was born in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up with his mother, sister, and grandmother. He lived mostly in the S ...

Eamon Grennan Eamon JR Grennan (born 13 November 1941) is an Irish poet born in Dublin, Ireland. He attended University College Dublin where he completed a BA 1963 and an MA 1964. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He ...

* Vona Groarke *

Brian Friel Brian Patrick Friel (c. 9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. (subscription requ ...

* Kerry Hardie * Michael Hartnett *

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

* Pearse Hutchinson *

Michael Longley Michael George Longley (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was a Northern Irish poet. In his later years Longley observed: "It's a mystery where poems come from. If I knew where poems came from I would go there ... When I write a poem I am movi ...

Medbh McGuckian Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Biography She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaste ...

Derek Mahon Norman Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, ...

* John Montague *

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (; born 1942) is an Irish poet and academic. She was the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–19). Biography Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942, the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuillean� ...

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.gallerypress.com/ Poetry publishers Literary publishing companies Irish poetry Book publishing companies of Ireland Publishing companies of Ireland Publishing companies established in 1970 Irish companies established in 1970