First digital directory of Irish publishers launched on Bloomsday 2023

Posted on: 16 June 2023

The first digital directory of Irish publishers will be launched this Bloomsday by PublishOA.ie. The Directory of Irish Publishers is an all-island map of the Irish publishing landscape, listing over 180 active book and journal publishers. From Belfast to Bantry and from Dublin to the Galway Gaeltacht, Irish publishers are active as never before. 

The Directory of Irish Publishers, available at www.PublishOA.ie from June 16, reveals the wide range of Irish publishing, including fiction and non-fiction, scholarly, reference, professional, Irish language, children’s and young people, lifestyle, culture and more. From Irish language comic books to astrophysics, history and archaeology to fiction and poetry, thrillers and crime to legal textbooks, the new directory reveals the rich publishing ecosystem in Ireland today.

Ruth Hegarty, project lead of PublishOA.ie and the Managing Editor of the Royal Irish Academy said:

"Ulysses was published by a brave publisher who took a risk on a dangerous book. I’m delighted to publish such a diverse list of publishers on the island and look forward to working with them over the coming year."

The Directory of Irish Publishers is the work of PublishOA.ie – a research consortium funded by the National Open Access Forum (NORF) – which is conducting an all-island feasibility study into creating a comprehensive Open Access digital infrastructure designed to meet the needs of authors, readers, publishers and funders in Irish scholarly publishing. The research consortium has 10 partners and is co-led by the Royal Irish Academy and the Trinity Long Room Arts & Humanities Research Institute. There are eight affiliate organisations.

Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, stated:

"We welcome the Directory of Irish publishers as a valuable step in creating a national response to the Open Access publishing revolution and to supporting Irish research scholarship into the future."

Lucy Hogan, PublishOA.ie manager who compiled the directory, added:

"The aim in compiling this Directory is to create a snapshot of the publishing landscape in Ireland, which we hope will prove useful to publishers, authors, readers and others. This iteration will be updated next Bloomsday, 2024."

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