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The Gallery Press’s contribu - The Gallery Press has an unrivalled track record in publishing the tion to the cultural life of this first and subsequent collections of poems by now established Irish country is ines timable. The title poets such as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, , ‘national treasure’ is these days Michael Coady, Dermot Healy, Frank McGuinness and Peter conferred, facetiously for the Sirr . It has fostered whole generations of younger poets it pub - most part, on almost any old lished first including Ciaran Berry, Tom French, Alan Gillis, thing — person or institution — , Conor O’Callaghan, John McAuliffe, Kerry but The Gallery Press truly is an Hardie, , Michelle O’Sullivan and Andrew enterprise to be treasured by the Jamison . It has also published seminal career-establishing titles nation. by , , Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, — John Banville , Seán Lysaght and . The Press has published books by , and John Banville and repatriated authors such as Brian Friel, Derek Peter Fallon’s Gallery Press is the Mahon and Medbh McGuckian who previously turned to living fulcrum around which the London and Oxford as a publishing outlet. swarm ing life of contemporary rotates. Fallon’s is a Gallery publishes the work of ’s leading women poets truly extraordinary Irish life, and and playwrights including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní it goes on still, unabated. Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian, Michelle O’Sullivan, Sara — Thomas McCarthy, Irish Berkeley Tolchin, Vona Groarke, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Literary Supplement Aifric MacAodha and Marina Carr .

The Press has pioneered a series of bilingual editions of Ireland’s leading Irish language poets ( , Nuala Ní [The Gallery Press] made publi - Dhomhnaill, Pearse Hutchinson, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and cation in Ireland to be a sign of Aifric Mac Aodha ). Though it is devoted to the work of Irish success rather than failure, which writers it includes world literature through the translations it I think it probably was in an publishes — from ’s Echo’s Grove to Pearse earlier period. Hutchinson ’s Done Into English , Peter Fallon ’s The Georgics — Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin of Virgil and Deeds and Their Days (after Hesiod) and Ciaran Carson ’s versions from the French — and the adaptations of European classical drama by Brian Friel, Thomas Kilroy, John The poets on the Gallery list are Banville, Paul Muldoon and others. indispensible to the art of poetry as an ongoing endeavour in The variety of the Press’s publications is evident in its collections Ireland: indispensible to the of literary and personal essays by Vona Groarke, Derek Mahon honour in which that art is held and Dennis O’Driscoll . Gallery regularly pub lishes special at home and to the honour editions including collaborations between the country’s leading which it earns for us abroad. writers and painters ( Seamus Heaney and Martin Gale , John — Seamus Heaney, Banville and Donald Teskey and Brian Friel and Basil The Abbey Theatre, Blackshaw ). Dramatists it publishes in clude Marina Carr, Jim on the occasion of Nolan and Thomas Kilroy while the acme of its play publishing The Gallery Press’s programme is the five volume set of Brian Friel ’s Collected 40th anniversary Plays (2016 ).