First digital Directory of Irish Publishers launches on Bloomsday 2023
The first digital Directory of Irish Publishers has been launched today, Bloomsday 2023, by PublishOA.ie.
Through this Directory, the Irish publishing landscape—including over 180 active book and journal publishers—has been mapped. From Belfast to Bantry and from Dublin to Inverin, Irish publishers are active as never before.
The Directory reveals the wide range of Irish publishing, including fiction and non-fiction, scholarly, reference, professional, Irish language, children’s and young people, lifestyle, culture and more.
From Irish language comic books to astrophysics, history and archaeology to fiction and poetry, thrillers and crime to legal textbooks, a rich publishing ecosystem in Ireland today has been revealed.
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The Directory of Irish Publishers is the work of PublishOA.ie – the research consortium funded by the National Open Research Forum (NORF) – which is conducting an all-island feasibility study into creating a comprehensive Open Access digital infrastructure designed to meet the needs of authors, readers, publishers and funders in Irish scholarly publishing.
The PublishOA.ie research consortium has 10 partners and is co-led by the Royal Irish Academy and the Trinity Long Room Arts & Humanities Research Institute, with eight affiliate national and international organisations.
Commenting on the Directory, Ruth Hegarty, project lead of PublishOA.ie and the Managing Editor of the Royal Irish Academy said that Ulysses was published by a brave publisher who took a risk on a dangerous book, and that she was delighted to publish such a diverse list of publishers on the island.
Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub welcomed the Directory of Irish Publishers as a valuable step in creating a national response to the Open Access publishing revolution, and to supporting Irish research scholarship into the future.
Lucy Hogan, PublishOA.ie project manager who compiled the Directory said that the aim in compiling the Directory was to create a snapshot of the publishing landscape in Ireland.
“We hope this will prove useful to publishers, authors, readers and others. This iteration will be updated next Bloomsday, 2024.”
The Directory is a great first step in this project—but expect more to follow from the PublishOA team, so keep an eye on the PublishOA.ie website for updates.
