The Lace Curtain Explained

The Lace Curtain was an occasional literary magazine founded and edited by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce under their New Writers Press imprint. Both press and journal were dedicated to expanding the horizons of Irish poetry by rediscovering a native modernist tradition, publishing younger Irish poets who were working in modes that sat outside the mainstream and introducing innovative non-Irish writing to an Irish audience.

The journal ran to six issues spanning the period 1969–1978. Contributors included Anthony Cronin, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Michael Hartnett, Augustus Young, John Montague, Antonio Machado, Paul Durcan, Desmond O'Grady, Brian Coffey Denis Devlin, Georg Trakl, Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Thomas Kinsella, Derek Mahon, Austin Clarke and Pablo Neruda.

Ní Chuilleanáin co-founded Cyphers, which first appeared as The Lace Curtains penultimate edition was published.^[1]

References

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• Checklist of New Writers Press publications including full contributor listings for The Lace Curtain

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eiléan. Ní Chuilleanáin. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Cyphers 70 launched at Ranelagh Arts Festival. 30 September 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20111003070755/http://www.cyphers.ie/events/. 3 October 2011. In 1975 the four editors, Leland Bardwell, Pearse Hutchinson, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Macdara Woods, produced the first number. When we started up, The Dublin Magazine had closed and The Lace Curtain’s penultimate issue had appeared. We wanted to be as regular as the first and as open to the wide world as the second..