Irish Pages

Irish Pages

Cover of Vol 5, Issue 1: Language and Languages
Editors	Chris Agee, Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Categories	Literary magazine
Frequency	Biannual
First issue	2002
Country	Northern Ireland
Based in	Belfast
Language	English and Irish
Website	http://www.irishpages.org
ISSN	1477-6162

Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing is a literary magazine published in Belfast and edited by Chris Agee and Cathal Ó Searcaigh. It was launched in 2002 and appears biannually.

The journal regularly publishes articles related to Belfast and Northern Ireland generally, as well as works with a more international view. It prints both established and previously unpublished writers. According to the Irish Pages website

Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, memoir, essay reviews, nature-writing, translated work, literary journalism, and other autobiographical, historical, religious and scientific writing of literary distinction. There are no standard reviews or narrowly academic articles. Irish Language and Ulster Scots writing are published in the original, with English translations or glosses.

Irish Pages has grown considerably since its inception in 2002, with a print run that has now risen to 2800, and an international audience. It receives subscriptions from all over Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America.

Irish Pages does not associate itself with any political movements in Ireland or elsewhere. To quote from the journal's brochure:

"IRISH PAGES is a non-partisan, non-sectarian, culturally ecumenical, and wholly independent journal. It endorses no political outlook or cultural tradition, and has no editorial position on the constitutional question. Its title refers to the island of Ireland in a purely apolitical and geographic sense, in the same manner of The Church of Ireland or the Irish Sea. The sole criteria for inclusion in the journal are the distinction of writing and the integrity of the individual voice. Equal editorial attention will be given to established, emergent and new writers."

Each issue of Irish Pages contains a number of regular features, including "The View from the Linen Hall", an editorial on cultural or political issues, domestic or international; "From the Irish Archive", a biographical note on and work from a non-contemporary Irish writer; and "The Publishing Scene", a commissioned piece which examines issues and trends in the literary world of Ireland, Britain or the United States.

In Other Words features work in translation, with each issue featuring writing from a different country. This section has included translations from Arabic, Bosnian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, and Turkish.

Each issue also includes a set of 16–24 captioned photographs, appearing under the name "Portfolio." Previous photographic contributors have included Bobbie Hanvey,John Minihan, and Paul Seawright.