As 2025 draws to a close, we are taking a moment here at Bullaun Press to reflect on the past year. It has been an incredibly busy and rewarding twelve months, which saw us publish two exciting new titles,

Thank you @ebrd.bsky.social for the lovely mention! Pick up your copy of 'Forgottenness' by Tanja Maljartschuk (tr. Zenia Tompkins), an #ERBDLiteraturePrize2025 finalist, in store or on our website today📚 #LiteratureInTranslation #TranslatedFiction #UkranianLiterature #SupportIndiePublishing

Merry Christmas from Bullaun Press 🎄🎁 We would like to wish all of our colleagues and readers a wonderful and safe Christmas, and all the very best in 2026.

We were thrilled to travel to Dublin last month to take part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair, a two-day event held in Pearse Street Library.

Many mentorships are made possible thanks to the generous support of organisations across Ireland. Today, we’re thanking new supporter Monaghan County Council. For a full list of funders, please check out our site: irishwriterscentre.ie/national-men... Remember, applications close on 31 Dec!

'The displacement of these rural people from Negueira de Muñiz is the subject of 'What Remains'. But author Brais Lamela is not just telling a Galician story. With a subtle, light touch he uses this narrative to ask broader questions about home, belonging, displacement and migration.'

Exciting news! 📣 We are delighted to announce the workshop strands for the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School 2026. Next year’s Summer School will take place online from Monday 20 July – Friday 24 July 2026. Bursaries are available. Find out more and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

ICYMI, you can still watch back this powerful panel on class x masculinity in contemporary poetry

The countdown to Christmas is on!🎁 Give your loved ones the gift of literature in translation this festive season with our Christmas Bundle. Two titles of your choice, gift wrapped with a personalised note, and posted anywhere in Ireland for just €29!

We are happy to share that some of our titles are featured at this year’s Dublin Art Book Fair 📚 Currently running until 14 December at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, #DABF2025 features limited edition books made by artists, designers and independent publishers which can be browsed or bought.

⭐️A clear majority of MEPs have adopted an amendment to exclude printed products, including books, from EUDR⭐️ Ivan O'Brien on an important decision for publishers booksirelandmagazine.com/books-and-pr...

Our December newsletter has landed in your inbox!✉️ Catch up on Bullaun’s latest news, including an exciting shortlisting announcement, a recap of the @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social, and our Christmas Bundle!🎁 Not subscribed to our newsletter? Sign up at bullaunpress.com 📚

Give the gift of translated literature this Christmas with some brilliant books from Bullaun Press 🎁 For just €29, choose any two of our six titles in translation and we will deliver them, wrapped, along with a personalised gift note, anywhere in Ireland!

Small press publishers in the UK discuss the challenge and necessity of independent publishing: “I feel a growing sense of urgency to raise awareness of the practical realities, and to be transparent about the fight for survival that many of us are facing.”

'This beautifully written book tells a story of displacement, but also invites us to see movement and emigration on a wider scale, as a continually evolving and dynamic human story.'

We'll be at @molimuseum.bsky.social this Friday celebrating ten issues of Tolka with these fine writers. Free to attend! moli.ie/events/first...

We are in the middle of #ReadPalestineWeek, an initiative from #PublishersforPalestine which runs until this Friday 5 December 🍉 Visit publishersforpalestine.org for a full list of free eBooks written by Palestinian writers & about Palestine, and read to resist this week 🍉

Our next announcement is the shortlist for the Scott Moncrieff Prize, for translations into English of full-length French works of literary merit and general interest. The prize is generously sponsored by the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni.

Delighted to be shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff prize, together with Karen Fleetwood for our translation of Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the Door, pub. by @bullaunpress.bsky.social. Congratulations to all those shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation prizes!

Another of Gaëlle Bélem's from Bullaun Press, The Rarest Fruit, made the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2025

We are delighted to share that ‘There’s a Monster Behind the Door’ by Gaëlle Bélem (tr. Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert) has been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff Prize in this year’s @societyofauthors.bsky.social #TranslationPrizes.

What an achievement! ⭐ Congratulations to Johanna Ekström, Sigrid Rausing and @grantabooks.bsky.social #WarwickPrize #WIT #Translation

A lovely snap of @braislamela.bsky.social outside @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social, the An Post Bookshop of the Year 2025! 📚 Congratulations to the wonderful team at Chapters, such well deserved recognition ⭐ #AnPostAwards2025 #ShopLocal #ShopIrish

It’s here: Our list of 100 Notable Books of 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

Excited that @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social is finally upon us! Join us at Pearse Street Library this evening from 6-9 and tomorrow from 10-4, and support a wonderfully talented bunch of small publishers and book makers 📚 #DublinSmallPressFair2025 #SupportIndiePublishers

I can't say I'll buy nothing today as I'll be in Dublin at @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social Support the smallies but not the biggies!

Our warmest congratulations to wonderful author and colleague @gaellebelem.bsky.social, whose novel The Rarest Fruit – translated by Hildegard Serle and published by @europaeditions.bsky.social – has been selected by @nytimes.com as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2025.

Friday! Saturday! dublinsmallpressfair.com

What a talented bunch! Join us in Pearse Library this Friday & Saturday and see what the finest small presses and book-makers both in Ireland and abroad have to offer 📚 #DublinSmallPressFair2025 #IndiePublishing #BookSky

A packed house at the fabulous first-ever Storylines Europe event last Saturday in Europe House Dublin.

Had an absolutely brilliant time at No Alibis in Belfast last week & was able to pick up this @bullaunpress.bsky.social absolute gem, which I am adoring. Gaëlle Bélem is a genius and I would follow her writing anywhere. Can't recommend this book enough. bullaunpress.com/books/the-ra...

At the Ateneo de Madrid on Tuesday at 7pm - it's free so come early #oscarwilde #madrid #readings #reading #eventos

Excited to see some of you in Pearse Library this Friday and Saturday at the @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚 Open to the public on Friday between 6-9 pm, and on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm 📚 Be sure to come by and say hello at our stand, and peruse our selection of translated titles! 📚

A year later, I still think I wrote the single best take on Han Kang’s Nobel win. I especially loved taking this essay away from the New York Times and the Atlantic and giving it to @wasafirimag.bsky.social

Proud to see TIME OF THE FLIES nominated here!

Today is the last day to reserve tickets for Storylines Europe tomorrow at Europe House 📚 Booking is essential, and tickets still available to reserve for free at storylineseurope.ie #EuropeanLiterature #LiteratureInTranslation #TranslatedLiterature #xl8

Wonderful to see What Remains front and centre among such great company on the New Fiction table in Charlie Byrne's over the weekend✨ Pick up your copy in store or online at bullaunpress.com today 📚

"A stark reminder of what it means to be constrained by others’ ideas when we imagine ourselves to be free." Thank you @annmorgan.bsky.social for including 'The Rarest Fruit' in this wonderful article about books to read to understand quests in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 📚

30 translated works in 17 languages ✨ Fantastic to see so many translated voices included in this year's line up! #DublinLitAward #DLA2026 #xl8 #LiteratureInTranslation

We were honoured to be mentioned in this fantastic article @rte.ie about the upcoming inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair alongside so many wonderful independent Irish publishers, including @lilliputpress.bsky.social, @skeinpress.bsky.social, @machapress.bsky.social, and so many more.

This Saturday in Europe House, Dublin. #StorylinesEurope #EuropeanLiterature #LiteratureInTranslation #xl8

Delighted to see an extract of 'What Remains' by @braislamela.bsky.social (tr. Jacob Rogers) included in the New Writing section over on @rte.ie! Have a read for yourself in the link below. #WhatRemains #BraisLamela #NewWriting #LiteratureInTranslation #GalicianLiterature #IrishBookSky

Join us at The Linen Hall Library for this discussion, with readings from Susanna Galbraith & Eilish Martin. Friday, 21st November 1:00 - 2:00 pm Tickets: linenhall.com/event/macha-... #ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou and @LottoGoodCauses.

Bullaun Press was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social Marketing Day at the iconic Conway Hall in London last Friday.

Just read and loved 'What Remains'!

Our November newsletter has landed in your inbox! Catch up on Bullaun’s latest news, including wrapping up the What Remains Book Tour, an exciting trip to London, upcoming publishing events, and some recommended reading! Not registered to our newsletter? Sign up at bullaunpress.com 📚

"Bullaun Press, founded by Bridget Farrell in 2021, is the first Irish publisher to focus exclusively on literature in translation, and their selections are already making waves".

Highly recommend this brilliant, super-original and thought-provoking novel by @braislamela.bsky.social translated from Galician by Jacob Rogers @bullaunpress.bsky.social

In this weekend's Irish Times, I review What Remains by Brais Lamela, tr. Jacob Rogers @bullaunpress.bsky.social The Effingers: A Berlin Saga by Gabriele Tergit, tr. Sophie Duvernoy @pushkinpress.com Eye Of The Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, tr. @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social

Last month we welcomed @braislamela.bsky.social and Jacob Rogers to Ireland to mark the publication of What Remains, and together we hit the road for Cork and Dublin!