Dolmen Press
Dates
- Existence: 1951 - 1987
Historical Note
The Dolmen Press was founded in 1951 by married couple Liam Miller and Josephine Browne Miller in Dublin, Ireland. It published and printed works by Sigerson Clifford, Richard Murphy, Austin Clarke, and Thomas Kinsella (such as an elaborate edition of his translation of The Táin), as well as a series of collected essays about W.B. Yeats called The Yeats Papers. It also printed programs, cards, bookplates, and invitations. The Press operated up until Liam Miller's death in 1987.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Boston College collection of Dolmen Press
The Boston College collection of Dolmen Press contains advertisements, broadsides, catalogs, correspondence, dummy books, ephemera, and manuscripts documenting the administration of the Dolmen Press, an Irish fine print publisher that was in operation from 1951-1987.
Collection is open for research.
Leslie MacWeeney collection
Materials documenting Irish artist, art educator, and community activist Leslie MacWeeney's work as an illustrator and hand‑colorist for the Dolmen Press, an Irish fine-print publisher. Items include a nineteenth-century Tarot deck, proofs, and Dolmen Press catalogs and publications.
Collection is open for research.