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 📚📚📚

Very much looking forward to the Padraic Colum Gathering this Saturday 10th October in Granard Community Library, Longford. Author Margaret Kelleher will be speaking & her book on Mary and Padraic Colum will be on sale all day. Copies of Lives and the Dream are available in bookshops nationwide

Please note an RSVP is required for entry into the Embassy. Contact [email protected] with any questions.

Thanks for the kind endorsement Tim

It is a fresh and thought-provoking collection that will enhance our understanding of the Irish Revolution and its broader international impact through an Antipodean lens.

All welcome to the Dublin launch of New Zealand’s Irish Revolution edited by Lisa Marr and Rory Sweetman ⏰ 5pm to 6.30pm sharp 🗓️ Tuesday, 20 October 2026 📍 New Zealand Embassy, Level 3, 2–4 Merrion Row, Dublin, D02 YN56 👥 RSVP at [email protected]

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.