Resources & Publications
New Writing from Ireland
New Writing from Ireland, the annual rights catalogue published by ILE, offers the best of the latest Irish writing for which translation rights are available. Our catalogue is always available at the major book fairs from the ILE stand but if you cannot attend the fairs, send us an email and we'll be delighted to send you the latest copy by ordinary mail.
You can download past editions of our catalogue in PDF format here.
The Irish Literary Tradition & the Contemporary Irish Novel
To complement Ireland's cultural presence at Shanghai Expo 2010, ILE commissioned Irish author, Clare Kilroy, to write an essay about the Irish literary tradition and the wealth of literature produced by Irish writers today. Clare takes a poster, well-known to Irish school-children, with the faces of Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, Shaw and Beckett, as her starting point and throughout the course of the essay wonders which of today's esteemed Irish writers (e.g., Barry, Keegan, Enright, Tóibín, Murphy etc) might appear on a classic poster of the future.
Pocket-sized and double-ended, it is a valuable introduction to contemporary Irish literature. It is presented here in Englishand Chinese. 
If you are interested in receiving a copy, please send us an email and we'll be happy to post one to you.
Literary Treasures from Ireland
In September 2009, ILE produced its first catalogue for the Chinese market. Published in both English and simplified Chinese, Literary Tresaures from Ireland presents biographical and bibliographical information on twelve of Ireland's most fêted contemporary writers, from John McGahern and William Trevor to Sebastian Barry and Claire Keegan. This list will be augmented over time to include more of Ireland's great established writers as well as emerging and exciting new voices in Irish literature.
Literary Treasures from Ireland was first made available at the 2009 Beijing International Book Fair and then at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2009.
Postcards from the Edge
On 9 November 2011, Ireland Literature Exchange celebrated the release of POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, eight postcards featuring black and white photographs of some of Ireland's leading writers, situated in their places of work in Ireland.
ILE commissioned the photographer, Richard Gilligan, to visit each writer in his/her work space and to photograph them as beautifully and as sensitively as possible. The writers selected have all had books published in translation with support from ILE in recent months. Initiated as a pilot series, ILE hopes, funding permitting, to follow next year with further collections of postcards to include images of Ireland's leading poets, playwrights, children's writers and novelists.
In the coming months and into 2012, the postcards will be available for free at literature festivals both in Ireland and abroad. They will also be distributed at major international book fairs (Frankfurt, London, Beijing and Moscow). Irish embassies around the world will also make them available at the cultural events that they organise throughout the year. It is hoped the postcards will have a broad appeal, arousing interest from foreign publishers and tourists, from avid book readers and curious members of the public.
If you would like to receive a set of the first Postcards from the Edge, please contact ILE directly at admin AT irelandliterature DOT com.