‘Invisible Woman and Other Stories’ by Slavenka Drakulić and translated by Jacob Agee: EBRD Literature Prize 2023 shortlist announcement

‘Phantom Gang’ by Ciarán O’Rourke longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2023

The Irish Pages Press wins British Book Awards – Small Press of the Year 2022 (Island of Ireland)

Gerard McCarthy (1949-2022): an appreciation 

Love (Volume 11, No 2) The Editors are now completing this forthcoming issue advertised for some time. Work in any genre and any style will be welcome on this vast and complex theme. The OED lists several dozen senses of the word for both the noun and the verb. There are many more compound uses […]

Garry MacKenzie – shortlisted for “Poetry Book of the Year” in Scotland’s National Book Awards 2021

Garry MacKenzie longlisted for The Highland Book Prize 2021

Ampersand: Irish Pages Online is the online supplement of the biannual print journal, Irish Pages, Ampersand publishes shorter pieces, generally but not exclusively by younger writers, as a complement to the long-running Irish Pages. Ampersand is not just another blog. Rather, it aims to publish work of outstanding literary merit and genuine intellectual content, by a wide variety of writers, […]

The Anthropocene (Volume 11, No 1) The Editors of Irish Pages – Chris Agee, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Kathleen Jamie and Meg Bateman – have been assembling a new issue of the journal, provisionally entitled “The Anthropocene”. It will appear in early 2020 and aims to evoke the escalating global ecological crisis in the round, through many of its key […]

BELFAST “From Begrudgery to Hyperbole: On Recent Irish Fiction” Launch of “Criticism” (Vol 10, No 1) Belfast Book Festival Saturday 16 June at 6.30 pm Crescent Arts Centre 2-4 University Road Belfast BT7 1NH With readings and discussion from Patricia Craig, David Park, Kerry Hardie and Chris Agee From “Irish Fiction in Three Acts” by […]