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Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
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Every mid-February
those first days arrive
when the sun rises
higher than the Black
Hill at last…

—Kathleen Jamie, “The Dash”
published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
#poem #poetry
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The Dash Kathleen Jamie Every mid-February those first days arrive when the sun rises higher than the Black Hill at last. Brightness and a crazy breeze course from the same airt – turned clods gleam, the trees’ topmost branches bend shivering downwind. They chase, this lithe pair out of the far south west, and though scalding to our wintered eyes look, we cry, it’s here
February 19, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Wonderful to be a regional/country finalist for the #BritishBookAwards 2026!

Many thanks to @thebookseller.com and congratulations to our fellow nominees 📚

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February 20, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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We're very much looking forward to the book fair next week in #Vilnius, where Chris Agee will join Krzysztof Czyzewski for a discussion of Avi Shlaim's "Genocide in Gaza" 📚

Krzysztof contributed to our first every journal issue (in 2002):
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#Books
February 19, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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This book is so good.
February 19, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Every year, in the third week of February, there is a day, or more usually a run of days,when one can say for sure that the light is back. Some juncture has been reached and the light spills into the world from a sun suddenly higher in the sky.
― Kathleen Jamie

#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#forest
February 16, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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“Trump Is a Catastrophe
Trump Is ‘We the Mob’
Trump Is Insecure
Trump Speaks No Languages (Not Even English)”

Anyone who spends £18/€22/$32 in our shop this spring will receive a free copy of 'Trump Rant' by Chris Agee🔥

Check out our full catalogue: irishpages.org/product-cate...

#Trump #Booksky
February 18, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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My last hours at the Berlin film fest.
Thank you to everyone
February 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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We were honoured when Francesca Albanese agreed to provide a foreword to ‘Genocide in Gaza’ (2024) by Avi Shlaim 📚
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Her eloquence and integrity in advocating for justice have provided a ray of hope in bleak times.

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naomiaklein.bsky.social Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 4d
Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.

She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.

They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
naomiaklein.bsky.social Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Jul 9
It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
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February 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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🇮🇱🇵🇸Israeli Historian Avi Shlaim:

"Under Netanyahu's leadership, Israel has also committed the crime of all crimes, Genocide... in the WWII, the Jews were the defenseless victims of Nazi Germany, today it's the Palestinians who are the defenseless victims of the Jewish state."
February 16, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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“This is my heartland, my home, where I belong; rooted, as Yeats said, “In one dear perpetual place”.”

~ Cathal Ó Searcaigh
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February 16, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Historian Avi Shlaim talks about his new book 'Genocide in Gaza', the history of coexistence devastated by the project of colonial Zionism, and about when and why he became an anti-Zionist.
"My disenchantment with Zionism was a very gradual process" w/ Avi Shlaim
YouTube video by Makdisi Street
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February 14, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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CIARÁN O’ROURKE is a freelance writer from Dublin. His film essays and reviews have been widely published, and his poetry collections are available from The Irish Pages Press.

The last time he cried in a movie theatre?
Steven Soderbergh's bio-epic CHE 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...
Crying at the Movies with... Ciarán O'Rourke
Che | "Sometimes, if you kill a revolutionary, the revolution fades away."
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February 15, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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“When you make a documentary, you need to submit, to be humble about how little you know and how much you want to know. Documentary makes you feel young, unjaded, alive, hungry.... The greatest films are documentaries.”

~ Mark Cousins 🎬
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February 14, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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📰 [TMR WEEKLY]: Rebecca Ruth Gould on the histories shaping October 7 and its aftermath, Amal Ghandour on the meaning of justice in an unjust world, and Arie Amaya-Akkermans on Art Basel’s debut in the SWANA region.
Read all three: https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
February 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Berlin world premiere of The Story of Documentary Film today.
February 13, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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“For the hour or two they spent together the world around them did not exist. Is it possible yearning alone could bestow such intense pleasure? While she looked at him from the other side of the table, she knew that this is possible.”

~ Slavenka Drakulić
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February 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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“As a whole it might be understood as the final flare of an aurora borealis that once seemed nearly permanent, & unassailable, in its rich, revelatory shining.”

Ciarán O’Rourke reviews 'Namanlagh' by Tom Paulin
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Review: Namanlagh by Tom Paulin | Cassandra Voices
As a whole it might be understood as the final flare of an aurora borealis that once seemed nearly permanent, and unassailable, in its rich, revelatory shining.
cassandravoices.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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“Elusive poem
of a deer,
moving in
and out of vision;
my yearning
for a place that’s out of reach,
the articulable earth
of Duncan Ban–”

~ Garry MacKenzie, 'Ben Dorain' 🍃
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February 11, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Heading back to Berlin on Thursday, for the film festival.
Think I've only had one film premiere there before.
This one - The Story of Documentary Film - is close to my heart. It's one of the better things I've done.
Wish me luck.
February 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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“As Eliot says, here and there cease to matter as one grows older. Only the common human fate remains. And the city named in a poem — be it Bangkok, Paris, Dublin, Belfast — is incidental, no more than a prism through which a universal experience refracts itself.”

~ Harry Clifton
February 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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“One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counter-statements to the reigning pieties. Even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness.”

The great Susan Sontag, writing in our 'Empire' issue (2003):
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February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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“What the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz wrote is true: “If a thing exists in one place, it will exist everywhere.” There is nothing that cannot happen, nothing impossible where humanity is concerned.”

~ Carolyn Forché (read her full essay here):
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February 5, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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A bit more on The Story of Documentary Film.
Took 4 years to make this, so glad it's coming out.
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The Story of Documentary Film Review: The Art of Documenting Documentaries - POV Magazine
The Story of Documentary Film review: Mark Cousins chronicles the history of cinema in his signature fashion with this look at the art of non-fiction.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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This new book on documentary is very good
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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“If we don’t explore the past, then how can we understand the journey that has brought us to where we are? This, too – tracing the route – is a form of recovery.”

~ James Robertson, writing in our ‘Scotland’ issue (2025):
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February 4, 2026 at 9:10 AM