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Dublin Small Press Fair
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28-29 Nov. 2025: join us at the Pearse St. Library in Dublin (IE) to celebrate small-scale publishing in Ireland and abroad.

Info + press applications: dublinsmallpressfair.com
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come and pick up a free postcard while supplies last on Friday evening or Saturday morning at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025! Pearse Street Library, FREE and open to the public. details on dublinsmallpressfair.com. we have all the breakfasting gentlemen and bastardized Joyce quotations you could want
a white person's hand holding a white rectangular card on which, in an upright serif typeface is printed "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a small press fair coming down along the road and this small press fair that was down along the road met a nicens little reader named well that reader was named baby it's you // O the wild rose blossoms / On the little green place" and under that there are smaller lines of text reading "With our sincere apologies to Mr Joyce, come along to the Dublin Small Press Fair at Pearse Street Library on Nov. 28 and 29. It's a portrait of small publishing from this island and abroad that will surely stand you now and ever in good stead". Under that there are the logos of our sponsors—Dublin City Council, Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, Publishing Ireland, and Skein Press.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025

Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library

dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
A blue rectangle with a red outline. Text reads: The DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR is pleased to present the Literary Magazine Showcase, coordinated by Leabharlann Beag Ropes Tolka Profiles Channel SWERVE Sans. Press Holy Show Skylight 47 Southword The Storms Paper Lanterns The Pig's Back The Waxed Lemon Poetry Ireland Review Unapologetic Magazine The Four Faced Liar The Dublin Review
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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presses! presses! presses! distros! #DublinSmallPressFair2025 is this Friday 6-9 p.m. and Saturday 10-4 at Pearse St. Library in Dublin!
a blue rectangle outlined in yellow, with the following text: the DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR is pleased to welcome Annabelle Frankham Antiphon Editions Arlen House Arkbound Banshee Press Bullaun Press Cailleach Books Hi Tone Books Irelandia Press James Holcombe a purple rectangle outlined in light green, with the following text: the DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR is pleased to welcome Little Island Macha Press Mossy Press Nathan O'Donnell & Claire Bell New Island Books Plaintext Distro PVA Books Renard Press Road Books a light green rectangle outlined in yellow, with the following text: the DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR is pleased to welcome Roberts Print Scratch Books Sinoist Books Skein Press Swan River Press The Lilliput Press W.S. Frankham Written Off Publishing Zena Van den Block
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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here's what I'm making today ( come see them on vendors' jumpers on November 28 + 29!):

#DublinSmallPressFair2025
dublinsmallpressfair.com
white person's hand holding varicolored buttons that read DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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looking forward to meeting Luke from Antiphon Editions (from whose instagram I stole this image) at the Fair later this month!

antiphon.co.uk
on a white background, two grayscale photos of stellae and two letters in black (A and E), plus the text "Dublin Small Press Fair / 28-29 November, 2025 / Pearse Street Library, Dublin)
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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she knows.
etching: a woman with her head bent in absorbed reading. overlaid: a thought bubble with the text "couldn't be me—I get my reading materials at the DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR" and a banner that says "FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, November 28 + 29 2025, Pearse Street Library"
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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*voiceover* Little did Mr. Newspaper Express know, his life was about to change for the better—in just over 28 days. *whispers* And it was all thanks to the #DublinSmallPressFair2025
an etching: a man reclines with a newspaper. an applied speech balloon says "everything bores me these days"
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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January! The Drogheda Zine Fair is back. Information at
www.droichead.com/show-detail/...
Flyer for the Drogheda Zine Fair, Saturday 24 January 2026, 11-5 at the Droichead Arts Center, Stockwell St., Drogheda. Sponsors include the Arts Council, the Droichead Arts Centre, and Louth County Council. The flyer is on yellow paper and includes drawings of a pencil, scissors, tape, pencil shavings, and a pencil sharpener.
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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with apologies to Mr. Joyce, we think that even Gabriel would not be late for the #DublinSmallPressFair2025

November 28 (opening panel 5 p.m.; book sales 6-9)
November 29 (book sales 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; closing panel 4-5)

Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2

snow may or may not be general all over Ireland
a white postcard with the following text set in Bodoni: "It was always a great affair, the [text color changes to blue] Dublin Small Press Fair in Pearse Street Library on November 28 and 29, 2025. [back to black text here] Everybody who knew about it came to it, members of the family, old friends of the family, the members of Julia's choir, any of Kate's pupils who were grown up enough, and even some of Mary Jane's pupils too. Never once had it fallen flat." At the bottom of the card, in a smaller point size, the text reads "With our sincere apologies to Mr. Joyce, come along to the Dublin Small Press Fair and bring your family, friends, and neighbours. We can't promise that snow will be general all over Ireland, but we can guarantee you'll find a new book to enjoy!". Beneath that are the logos of the fair and its sponsors—Dublin City Council, Dublin UNESCO City of Literatyre, Poetry Ireland, Publishing Ireland, and Skein Press—and the URL dublinsmallpressfair.com.
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad.
two men sit at a breakfast table in a 19th-century print by Utagawa Yoshitora (Metropolitan Museum's Open Access collection). One is reading a book. Speech balloons have been applied. One says, "I got this book at the first annual DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR. November 28 + 29, 2025. Pearse St Library. free + open to all." The other says, "how delightful. I shall attend". At the lower edge is information about the event's sponsors—Dublin City Council, Dublin UNSECO City of Literature, Poetry Ireland, Publishing Ireland, and Skein Press. The URL (dublinsmallpressfair.com) appears at the right edge.
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM