Still looking for that perfect Christmas present? Signed books from a range of our authors are now available online will also be available at Conor Bowman's launch at Ráth Mór this week, including copies of:  * BBC broadcaster and latter-day seanchaí Ken McCormack's collection of curious old tales from the North West, The Lady in Black * Guitar maestro Colum Arbuckle's memoir, Radio, Romance & Rock'n'Roll (CA will also be playing a tune or two) * Royal Literary Fellow Feli

Writer Conor Bowman at the cemetery in Castlepollard Mother & Baby Home, where he was born COLMCILLE PRESS is hosting a pre-Christmas  launch and Oíche Airneáil at Ráth Mór’s Hive Studios on Friday, December 5. Proceedings will open at 5.30pm with the launch of ‘The Half-Life of Edith Hopkins and Other Stories’, new fiction collection centring on the Tuam Mother & Baby Home, penned by barrister Conor Bowman.  Following on from this, the guitar virtuoso and recent author, Colu

You think you know Derry? But how much do you really know? Take up the gauntlet today!

Scores of writers, readers, journalists, trade union activists, friends and relatives of Felicity McCall descended on Derry's Central Library on Saturday November 15th for the launch of her new short story collection What We Did on Our Holidays.

It has been a busy time for Colmcille Press authors, whose new books have been making waves in regional and national media this week. Financial journalist Paul Gosling has been writing about the island's readiness for a referendum in The Irish Times and has also featured in an extended interview on Newstalk . Royal Literary Fellow Felicity McCall was interviewed on BBC Radio Foyle's Mark Patterson Show (@40 mins) and also featured in both the Derry Journal and Derry News .

Felicity McCall featured on the Mark Patterson Show, on BBC Radio Foyle.

Go raibh suaimhneas síoraí ar anam Anne Craig, ár gcara mór a fuair bás ar 18 Deireadh Fómhair. Anne (née O'Leary) and her husband Jim were the backbone of the Derry Theatre Club for more than twenty years - they actually met at a club rehearsal in the early 1970s, when they shared the bar of the Aga range in Seán McMahon's kitchen. Jim heard the southern brogue - Anne was born and reared in the South - and was smitten. They married and were devoted to one another for more th

Colmcille Press author Jim Simpson took time out from finishing his new novel to host the opening night of this year's Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival, which runs until Sunday October 19. In this podcast, the Belfast-born adopted-Derryman talks to Garbhán Downey about how he developed a highly-successful second career in the arts after retiring from the Health Service. Many thanks to Declan McLaughlin (Music), Oisín Farrell (Production) and Derry City & Straba

In the second in the series of interviews with authors from northwest Ireland, former Derry Journal editor Pat McArt talks about life at the coalface in the 1980s and 1990s.

ANDREA CARTER, Roy Greenslade, Pat McArt, Paul Charles, Orsolya Szabó-Yélamo, and Deirdre Hines are just some of the big names guesting...

For decades, Irish citizens in the North have argued that they should, by right, be included in the selection process for the Irish head of state. People in Donegal, of course, already have a vote. But their friends, neighbours and co-workers in Derry - which for centuries has been Donegal’s traditional county town and which, since the border has become fully porous, is the de facto regional capital - are excluded. 

The late Hugh Gallagher, on left, with Kevin Hippsley, at the launch of A Foyle Tale at Ráth Mór in 2019 . Our great friend and...

Our friends at the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival are producing a series of podcasts to mark their tenth anniversary,...

Suaimhneas síoraí ar ár gcara mór, an t-údar Pat Bradley, a fuair bás inné. Our heartfelt condolences to the family of our friend and...

In the first of a new series of podcasts from Colmcille Press, Felicity McCall talks to Garbhán Downey about her new short story...

Autumn is becoming the season for literature in Donegal and we're delighted to say that our authors will be giving readings and lectures...

Tá Colmcille Press tar éis scríobh chuig na trí pháirtí is mó sa Deisceart agus chuig an neamhspleách Catherine Connolly, ag tabhairt...

Photograph by Stephen Latimer What We Did on Our Holidays, the new short story anthology from writer-broadcaster Felicity McCall is to be...

Colmcille Press has written to the three largest parties in the South and to the independent Catherine Connolly, inviting them to take...

Packed house at Ráth Mór saw referendum expert Professor John Doyle launch Paul Gosling's New Ireland: A Five Year Reivew, chaired by Catherine Pollock