An Evening with Doire Press

Doire Press, founded in 2007 has been producing and championing the best of new Irish literature from some of our finest contemporary writers. Join four of their finest poets and short story writers as they present extracts from their latest works.

Poet Stephanie Conn’s newly published Island takes inspiration from her ancestor’s homeland living and fishing on Copeland Island off the coast of County Down, whilst Emma McKervey’s The Rag Tree Speaks questions Irishness informed by history and mythology and a sense of magic.

Kelly Creighton’s Bank Holiday Hurricane focuses on dislocation and disenchantment in a beautiful collection of linked short stories whilst Rosemary Jenkinson’s Catholic Boys, set mainly in Belfast, casts a sometimes witty, but always thoughtful and profound eye towards the city and in her inhabitants.