First digital Directory of Irish Publishers

The directory is the first digital all-island map of the Irish publishing landscape, listing over 180 active book and journal publishers. From Belfast to Bantry and from Dublin to the Galway Gaeltacht, Irish publishers are active as never before. The Directory of Irish Publishers 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, the Directory of Irish Publishers reveals the rich publishing ecosystem in Ireland today. The Directory of Irish Publishers is the work of PublishOA.ie – the research consortium funded by the National Open Access 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. There are eight affiliate organisations.

Commenting on the Directory, Ruth Hegarty, project lead of PublishOA.ie and the Managing Editor of the Royal Irish Academy said ‘Ulysses was published by a brave publisher who took a risk on a dangerous book. I’m delighted to publish such a diverse list of publishers on the island and look forward to working with them over the coming year’.

Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub stated: ‘We welcome 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 manager who compiled the directory said ‘The aim in compiling this Directory is to create a snapshot of the publishing landscape in Ireland, which we hope will prove useful to publishers, authors, readers and others. This iteration will be updated next Bloomsday, 2024.’

PublishOA.ie partners:

• Royal Irish Academy - RIA
• Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, TCD - TLRH
• Technological University of the Shannon - TUS
• University of Galway - UG
• Publishing Ireland
• Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology - IADT
• Technological University Dublin - TU Dublin
• Munster Technological University - MTU
• University of Limerick - UL
• South East Technological University – SETU

PublishOA.ie affiliates:

• Irish Humanities Alliance - IHA
• United Nations Sustainable Development Academy at University College  Dublin – UN SDSN
• Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ
• Finnish Federation of Learned Societies
• Openjournals.nl
• Queen’s University, Belfast - QUB
• Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies – DIAS
• JSTOR – Journal Storage

Other coverage

Books Ireland Magazine - First digital Directory of Irish Publishers launches on Bloomsday 2023

Irish Times Books Newsletter - First digital directory of Irish publishers and Literature Ireland translation series launched; MoLI wins award

Trinity College Dublin - What if Ulysses had never found a publisher?