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SUMMARY:Arlen House 50th - 25 November
DESCRIPTION:We are sorry to report that we will not be joined tonight by Nuala O’Connor as planned. Our apologies\, this is due to unforeseen circumstances preventing her travel. We have more than a dozen poets reading their poems and reflecting on the work of the press.\n\n\nWe’re delighted to welcome back to the Society Nuala O’Connor and Alan Hayes representing Arlen House as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this pioneering press with a group of writers drawn from the latest in the Washing Windows series of poetry collections: Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry\, 1975–2025\, the largest anthology of Irish women poets ever published. The night will also feature the London launch of O’Connor’s latest collection\, Menagerie. Washing Windows V is the final volume in the series honouring the groundbreaking work of publishers Catherine Rose and Eavan Boland\, Arlen House’s pioneering editors in the 1970s and 1980s. \n\n\n\nThe first Arlen House book came out in September 1975\, the same month that Virago in London published their first book. The first Virago book was a gentle oral history of women in the Lake District while the first Arlen House was a radical exposé of women’s lives in 20th century Ireland and the controlling power of the Church.Alan Hayes\n\n\n\nCatherine Rose founded Arlen House\, Ireland’s first feminist press\, in Galway during the 1975 International Women’s Year. The press’s early work focused on championing women’s writing in Ireland\, the first publication was Rose’s The Female Experience: The Story of the Woman Movement in Ireland\, the work of Margaret Mac Curtain\, Janet Martin\, and Terry Prone featured and the Press revived the work of neglected writers such as such as Kate O’Brien and Norah Hoult. Since 1999 the extraordinarily prolific editor and publisher Alan Hayes has run the press.\n\n\n\n\n\n \nThe event will be followed by a booksale and signing. Tickets available below or you can purchase membership from the shop page which covers all tickets for the 2025-6 season. \n\n\n  Speakers:  Nuala O'Connor\n\n\n\n  Nuala O’Connor\nNuala O’Connor was born in Dublin\, Ireland\, in 1970. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin\, she is a novelist and short story writer and lives in County Galway with her husband and three children. Nuala has won many prizes for her short fiction including the Short Story Prize in the UK and Ireland’s Francis MacManus Award. She is editor at flash e-zine Splonk. Nora was her fifth novel\, she is also the author of several short story and poetry collections\, Menagerie being the latest.. \n\nAlan Hayes\n Alan Hayes\nAlan Hayes is publisher and editor of Arlen House\, Ireland’s oldest feminist press\, specialising in equality and diversity. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/arlen-house-50th-25-november/
LOCATION:Irish Cultural Centre\, Hammersmith\, 5 Black’s Road Hammersmith\, W6 9DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,feminism,history,interview,Irish language,publishing,Reading,special event,women
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