Irish PEN presents: A Fact-Finding Mission:  Insights into the World of Non-Fiction publishing.
Was Dickens’s Thomas Gradgrind secretly the first non-fiction commissioning editor, when he exclaimed: ‘Now, what I want is, Facts…. stick to Facts, Sir!’? Or did he just have a healthy respect for the breadth and wondrous world of communicating factual information, recording lives and [...]

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Irish PEN presents: ‘Finding a Home for your Writing’: opportunities in the print media.’ This is our annual meeting dedicated to Associate Members, who like nothing more than to write, write, write, but who occasionally would like to see their words on the printed page. The format will consist of short presentations from a Panel of [...]

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Words by Joe Armstrong, Photo by Caroline Brady
Brendan Kennelly is probably the best-loved figure in Irish public life, said Senator David Norris, speaking at the Irish PEN award ceremony on Friday 29th January 2010.  He described Kennelly as one of the world’s greatest teachers. In a funny and entertaining speech that had the captive audience at [...]

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The launch of Sarah Webb’s new novel The Loving Kind, published by Pan Macmillan, took place at Hughes and Hughes, Dun Laoghaire on Wednesday 3rd Feb 2010. It was launched by Irish PEN Treasurer and former Chair, Marita Conlon McKenna and then at the Royal St George Yacht Club. Sarah’s books Amy Green 2 and Emma the Penguin are ever popular books with younger readers.

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The Irish PEN Annual Dinner, and the presentation of the Irish PEN Award for Contribution to Literature to Brendan Kennelly, took place on Friday 29th January 2010 at The Royal St George Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Senator David Norris made the presentation. For a brief report, see ‘I see you dancing, Brendan’ in the February 2010 Archives

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