
The Cúirt Poetry Sessions, in association with Poetry Ireland
Join us for an evening of poetry featuring the first two authors published by Macha Press, a new publisher dedicated to marginal, experimental, and interdisciplinary works.
Eilish Martin’s third collection, titled ! All’arme / ? And what… if not, is composed of two experimental poetic works and designed as a ‘head-to-tail’ book which can be read from either end.
Sam Furlong is a writer from Dublin. Their first book Crowd Work (forthcoming in May 2025) showcases a new voice on the Irish poetry scene.

Cork World Book Festival
Diversity in the Arts Today: with contemporary artist Jesse Jones, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe (Skein Press) and Alanna Offield (Macha Press). In conversation with Sarah Harte
Diversity in the arts today in Ireland has so much to teach us. Some of the most active proponents at the vanguard of diversity join us today for what promises to be a challenging and inclusive debate about where we are today and where we can grow.
Artist in Residence for the King’s Inn Society of Ireland, Jesse Jones proposes a re-imagining of the relationship between the Law and the body through speculative feminism. Working across film, performance, installation, and community-arts activism, Jesse has represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, and has shown at ICA Singapore and Guggenheim Bilbao.
Skein Press are a writer-centred publishing house supporting traditionally underrepresented voices in Irish literature and have curated and championed some of the most thought-provoking stories to be held in reader’s hands today. With programmes such as their Play it Forward Fellowships, they are persistently broadening conversations around diversity, inclusion, access and opportunity across the literary landscape.
Recently founded by seven poets, Macha Press work as a collective endeavour and actively challenge dichotomous and binary modes of thinking. All the founders are currently based on the island of Ireland, though each has a visionary reach that is integral to the international and trans-generational character of Macha. They promote the appreciation, performance and recognition of the endeavour of both emerging and recovered poets to the local community and beyond.
Wednesday 23 April 2025
City Library | 6.30pm | Free

Strokestown Poetry Festival
New Voices, New Work from Macha & Revival Press
Sam Furlong, Eilish Martin & Bernadette Gallagher present new work.
Venue : Stables
Time : 12:15
Ticket Price : €8.00

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Exhibition Reception: [‘sing/what draws/the eye’s belief’] book works, paintings & ephemera by Eilish Martin
Thursday October 17th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Rear Foyer, School of Art at Ulster University
Level 00 Birley Building Block BA
York Street, Belfast City Campus
Book Launch: ! All’arme / ? And what… if not by Eilish Martin
! All’arme / ? And what… if not
by Eilish Martin
Thursday, October 17th, 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Ulster University Art Gallery, Block BC
York Street, Belfast City Campus
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Exhibition: [‘sing/what draws/the eye’s belief’] book works, paintings & ephemera by Eilish Martin
Rear Foyer, School of Art at Ulster University
Level 00 Birley Building Block BA
York Street, Belfast City Campus
9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Monday – Friday
Saturday 14th October through 24th October 2024