Friday, 10 October 2025

Arlen House 1975-2025 Celebration Cork City Library

I am delighted to have helped in supporting Cork City Libraries and Arlen House for the Cork launch of Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry, 1975‒2025 celebrating 50 years of Arlen House on Saturday 11th October 2025

with special guest Catherine Rose, Ireland's first feminist publisher...

and readings by many of the contributing poets

Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry, 1975‒2025 edited by Alan Hayes and Nuala O'Connor, is the biggest anthology of poetry by Irish women writers ever compiled, with over 300 contemporary women poets, from all over the island and further afield, writing in English and Irish, poems of power, potency and poignancy.


plus a celebration of Irish Women: Image and Achievement (Arlen House, 1985) the first Irish women's studies book, originally launched in Cork City Library in 1985 with special guest, editor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin