Arts Council needs to do more to support Irish publishing industry

2014 has been a remarkable year for Irish writing by any standards.

Writers in all genres have produced work that has gained attention and recognition at home and internationally. Irish publishing continues to produce poetry, non-fiction, fiction for children and adults of the highest quality.

This year O’Brien Press celebrated 40 years of publishing. “Down the years, the company has broken new ground for the domestic trade in the fields of culture, conservation and environment, true crime and, most strikingly, children’s literature,” Mick Heaney commented in a recent profile of Michael O’Brien.