Afternoon. One of us has a small (but growing!) online archive. Follow the project at @oldzinescene.bsky.social and you'll see pieces of Irish (and occasionally other) literary history! #Irishmagazines #irishpoetry #irishliterature

From 1980s Belfast...Anybody know who the Editor was? Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/72 for free!

And from 1994... An issue of The Big Spoon. Again from Queen's University, Belfast. Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/71 for free!

From 1941, Queen's University, Belfast. The New Northman, formally the Northman, then The Northman again! Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/70 for free!

An issue of The Lace Curtain (the final issue I think) from 1978 is now online at oldzinescene.com/items/show/60 and free to read! #irishpoetrymagazine

One more for today. A copy of the Gown from 1984....Some familiar faces! Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/59 for free.

Afternoon. Here's a slightly obscure mag (with a great name) from 1959. Nonplus only lasted for 4 issues but had some very well known names in its pages. This issue will be of interest to Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien fans in particular...Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/57 for free.

Though the Archive is for Irish (or related) literary magazines in the main, I'll also add some interesting stuff from elsewhere. This is the first copy of Gemini and features one Sylvia Plath (I'm a fan) plus other names you might recognise. Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/56 for free.

Some new (old) magazines have been added to the Archive, mainly Northern Irish mags from the 40s - 90s. Read them at oldzinescene.com for free. If anyone has issues of Quarto, North (the Belfast magazine) or any Irish others no longer published and would like to send them to us, let me know sure.

A few issues of North magazine have been added. From Belfast in the 1980s...if anyone has any other copies send them my way and I'll scan and return them. Ta! Read them at oldzinescene.com for free!

Here's a Quarto from 1987 with a slightly grouchy looking Paul Durcanon the cover...Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/23 for free! These are hard to come by nowadays. If anybody has copies they'd like to sent so we can scan and return, we'd be grateful! Ta!

From 1963, the first issue of New Ireland, mostly a political journal but containing familiar Irish literary names. Anyone know who the editor was? Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/21 for free!

Spectrum was a Science/Tech/Engineering mag from Queen's University in Belfast. It included some 'Science Fiction' so falls into our remit. This issue is from 1967 so may be of interest to tech nostalgists also! See it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/20 for free!

The first mag is on the new Archive. It is a copy of Ireland Today from 1937. Read it at oldzinescene.com for free! #Irishliterature #poetry #art #Ireland #history

Coming soon on www.oldzinescene.com