Happy Birthday!
Contributors, subscribers, visitors, friends - May Day Greetings!
The Irish Literary Revival is a year old today. Founded on May Day, 2006, the site was received warmly by authors whose books were out of print or circulation.
Under a Creative Commons licence, which allows the reader to download the texts while protecting the authors’ copyrights, the Irish Literary Revival gives a new audience to work that would otherwise remain unread since its last print run. Authors are still free to sell any copies of their books that they have in stock. Both the authors and the publishers, we hope, receive new interest in their body of work as a whole.
We recently moved to the WordPress platform, as you can see, which makes it easier for everyone concerned to present these texts to the world, and for readers to comment and contact. We hope you will.
In the coming year we hope to expand the site with more books and more writers. Take a look at the Submissions page and see if your book is eligible for inclusion. For now, welcome to the Irish Literary Revival, year two.
Best regards,
Philip Casey and Patrick Chapman, librarians
PS He’s too modest to mention it so I’ll say it for him. Today is a red letter day also because it marks the publication of Patrick Chapman’s book of stories, The Wow Signal. Do have a look.
One of the new features of the site will be to highlight new work by contributors. Many congratulations to Patrick.
Philip
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