A week-to-view diary, this elegant and practical publication gathers fiction, nonfiction, and poetry extracts
from twenty years of outstanding writing from
Irish Pages
(the island’s premier literary journal) and
The Irish Pages Press (“British Book Award Small Press of the Year 2022, Island of Ireland”).
With an array of distinguished Irish and international authors,
The 2025 Irish Pages Literary Diary
is an essential holiday gift for readers, writers and anyone interested in the life of the mind and the state of the world. The Diary features classic texts by celebrated authors such as Seamus Heaney, Kathleen Jamie, Susan Sontag, Patricia Craig, Slavenka Drakulic, Julia Kristeva and Chinua Achebe, as well as the remarkable work of emerging writers living in Ireland. The Diary includes quotations in English, Scots, Scots Gaelic and Irish, highlighting the linguistic range across Ireland and Britain. Offering illuminating insights throughout the year, the Diary pairs literary passages with corresponding holidays, historical anniversaries and elegant illustrations. Irish Pages and its authors inhabit “the space outside” the Pale of the Received – business-as-usual in all its (especially Western) forms: literary, intellectual, cultural, social, political. The Diary celebrates this emphasis on original imaginative engagement with the world and its dilemmas, and is intended especially for all those readers for whom ethical issues count. Similar to the
Faber & Faber Poetry Diary, The LRB Diary
or
The Redstone Diary
,
The Irish Pages Diary
offers a unique combination of Irish and international literary perspectives.