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UCD Press are delighted to invite you to the launch of The Stained Glass of Earley Studios 1864–1975 by Michael Earley Guest Speaker Finola Finlay. Historian, blogger and stained glass expert 6pm, Wednesday, 4 November 2026 Royal College of Surgeons 118 St Stephen’s Green Dublin 2

Thanks again to everyone who attended yesterday’s launch of New Zealand’s Irish Revolution edited by Lisa Marr and Rory Sweetman at the New Zealand Embassy, Dublin. If you missed out on picking up a copy in person, you can find it in bookshops nationwide or order online at www.ucdpress.ie

A wonderful celebration of New Zealand's Irish Revolution here at the New Zealand Embassy on Merrion Row, Dublin tonight. Congrats Rory and Lisa and thanks to the warm NZ community in attendance to celebrate Available in bookshops nationwide and at ucdpress.ie

Just received (a few days ago)! ✨😀📚📖🙏 Check out the packed schedule of talks and events over 5 days in November at dublinbookfestival.com/event_catego... @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social

A warm reception for both Mary and Padraic Colum at Granard Community Library Longford as part of the 'Padraic Colum Gathering'. Beautiful readings and discussions. Special thanks to wonderful team at Glanard Library, guest speaker Chair of Poetry Vona Grourke and our author Margaret Kelleher 👏👏

Frankfurt Buchmesse was wonderful to experience. Many thanks to all the publishing houses that shared, pitched and listened through a number of very fruitful discussions. We will continue the dialogue once we return. The future of the printed book - in many languages - is bright 🌞 📚🇩🇪👌🙌

Frankfurt Book Fair 🇩🇪 here we come! A first of many to come for UCD Press we hope. Looking forward to learning and connecting 📚📚📚

Thanks for the kind endorsement Tim

...and was the ninth Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2022 to 2025, a position jointly held across UCD, Queen's University Belfast, and Trinity College Dublin. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

A long-time faculty member at Princeton University until he retired in 2025, he also held the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1999 to 2004...

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In addition to his poetry, Paul has published notable works of criticism, children’s literature, opera libretti and song lyrics, and has written for radio and television.

“His compositional style, the wayward power of his critical voice and his commitment to collaborative process have all changed how we engage with the written word.”

“In awarding the Ulysses Medal, UCD recognises the exceptional impact of his work internationally, and the extent to which his linguistic inventiveness not only brings new energies to the writing of poetry but reinvigorates the English language itself.

“In Muldoon’s work we find language in its most elusive yet direct form, revealing to us the transformative power of thought and, despite the darkness of our present moment, a strange yet unmistakable joy.

Delivering the citation for Paul, Associate Professor Lucy Collins, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, described him as “a writer of immense versatility and formal mastery” who had a long and distinguished career “as a poet, essayist, librettist and performer”.

Previous recipients include Nobel Laureate and Godfather of AI Professor Geoffrey Hinton (2024); Booker Prize-winning Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood (2018); and world-leading philosopher and social theorist Professor Jürgen Habermas (2010).

Inaugurated in 2005, as part of the University’s 150th anniversary celebrations, to highlight the ‘creative brilliance’ of its most famous alumnus, James Joyce, the UCD Ulysses Medal is awarded to individuals whose work has made an outstanding global contribution.

“I re-read it every couple of years. In some sense, of course, read it for the first time because, with any great work of art, there's always a sense of adventure. One realises something, one discovers something each time one goes back to it. So it's a terrific thrill really to have this medal.”

“And also, of course, because of my adoration of James Joyce and his great representation of Ulysses. It's probably my favourite book."

“I'm absolutely thrilled to have this medal. It's very meaningful to me because of UCD itself and what a great institution it is,” said Paul.

...and became one of the youngest members of the Belfast Group, a gathering of poets that would play a defining role in the development of contemporary Irish poetry.

Born in County Armagh in 1951, he studied English at Queen’s University Belfast, where he met future Nobel Laureate and fellow Ulysses Medal awardee Seamus Heaney...

One of the most acclaimed poets of his generation, Paul is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry, and has received numerous major literary honours, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Griffin International Poetry Prize.

💙💛 Described as "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War”, writer and poet Paul Muldoon has received the UCD Ulysses Medal, the highest honour the University can bestow. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social #poetry

For over 20 years, Emmet O'Connor published a wide array of books on Irish socialist and wider Labour history - & forthcoming from @ucdpress.bsky.social is his WAR TO THE DEATH! centered on events in Civil War era Waterford. Preorder here - €23 with delivery included! thebookshop.ie/emmet-o-conn...