Welcome to Yellow House Publishing Ltd Est 2022, we are an independent Northern Ireland based publisher. Committed to bringing contemporary poetry and short story fiction from across our shared Islands directly to our readers.
Our mission is to support the creative bardic tradition, propagated by diverse communities for millennia across our shared Isles. The oral traditions of story and place expressed through the written word. Traditions held fast to core principles of openness, critical discussion, tolerance, and free speech, are all at the centre of our publishing ethos.
Our vision for Yellow House Publishing is to produce literary publications and support the Irish and British writer. We are funded not through arts grants or government funding models, but by our readers and individual patrons. While recognising that public funding avenues for arts and literature are important, the goal for Yellow House Publishing is to retain independence and autonomy of the publishing process. This will allow us to minimise those external factors that stifle creative freedom, and in the process also allow us as a publisher to evolve in terms of further developing our own ethos and fulfilling our own goals.
YHP is committed to having dedicated space for authors writing in the Gaelic language. Whether in Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Manx Gaelic and Ulster Scots, we encourage you to submit your work. The freedom and liberty of Yellow House Publishing Ltd is also freedom for the author, because we are simply in the business of publishing good artistic work from new and emerging writers from within the Island of Ireland and United Kingdom only. New Isles Press, Issue 5 open call for submissions 1st Out 2025. We are thrilled and delighted to welcome
Dr. Arthur Broomfield to our editorial team. Dr. Broomfield will serve as Editor-in-Chief for this issue. The theme for Issue 5 is:
“Flying Machines, Meaisíní Eitilte” We are seeking short articles and poetry that explore or are inspired by this theme in creative, thoughtful, or experimental ways.
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Atrocity Ár By: Dr Ciarán Ó Coigligh. Atrocity Ár is a haunting poetic chronicle of lives lost to violence. Each victim’s story is distilled into a Haiku, blending historical documentation with minimalist lyricism. The result is a stark yet deeply moving tribute, where the brevity of the form intensifies the weight of each loss. By using Irish bilingual Haiku, it has been a personal journey for Ciarán; ensuring that no life is reduced to a statistic. Each poem captures a moment, an essence, a tragedy inviting reflection. Victims of atrocities such as the Dublin and Monaghan bombings (1974) and the Enniskillen bombing (1987) are memorialized with striking simplicity capturing the humanity of the individual victim.
“In this book Ciarán contemplates, in a powerful way, on the violence which beset us for over 30 years. He uses his poetic skills to summarise lives cut short by the harm and poison of terrorism”.
Baroness Arlene Foster of Aghadrumsee DBE PC"In Atrocity Ár, Cíarán Ó Coigligh brings poetic force to bear on one of the deepest moral concerns of our time, the sanctity of human life. Using the sharp clarity of haiku, he crafts verses that speak to the tragedy of loss, the dignity of every person, and the hope of reconciliation. Writing in Irish, not to divide but to unite, he reclaims a language too often politicised, offering it instead as a bridge between communities. This is a bold and moving collection from a poet who speaks for life".
Rónán Mullen Rónán Ó Maoláin
Independent Senator, National University of Ireland Panel