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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement
Global Sumud Flotilla Statement
Statement on drone attacks against the Global Sumud Flotilla
Statement on Israeli attack on the Nasser Hospital, Gaza.
Statement on arrests following Palestine peaceful protest in London
Statement on Gaza
#FreeAlaa – Joint appeal for Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Raids on Kurdish language associations and bookstore
Calls for Peace
Ilhan Sami Çomak, Turkey
İlhan Sami Çomak on Books for Breakfast podcast
Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak is FREE
Free the Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Çomak
Day of the Imprisoned Writer: Ilhan Sami Çomak
Letter to Irish PEN members from Ilhan Sami Çomak, translated by Paula Darwish.
Ilhan Sami Çomak to be the first Honorary Member of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
Nedim Turfent, Turkey
New poetry by Nedim Türfent
Meral Şimşek, Turkey
Mahvash Sabet/English PEN
Paola Ugaz, Peru
Paola Ugaz and the judicial harassment of journalists in Peru
Irish PEN featured writer Paola Ugaz
Belarus
Poetry Jukebox
Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, Bahrain
Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, 2022 PEN Pinter Prize
PENWrites: Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace (Bahrain)
Gezi Park
GEZI PARK EXPLAINER
Osman Kavala & Co-Defendants
Afghan
Varavara Rao, India
Amanuel Asrat
Campaigns and Statements, April-June 2021
Galal el Behairy, Egypt
English PEN Centenary
Margaret Keane gravestone Appeal
Ukraine
Victoria Amelina
Victoria Amelina wins 2025 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
Victoria Amelina wins Chytomo Special Jury prize (posthumously)
Statement from Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann on the death of Victoria Amelina
PEN INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT ABOUT THE MURDER OF VICTORIA AMELINA
Philippe Sands: Remembering marvellous Victoria Amelina
WRITER AND PEN UKRAINE MEMBER VICTORIA AMELINA SERIOUSLY INJURED IN RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE ON KRAMATORSK
Victoria Amelina in the Dublin Review of Books
Victoria Amelina essay in today’s Irish Times online
“The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language” by Askold Melnyczuk, via LitHub
Olha Mukha address to the PEN International Women Writers’ Committee Meeting, 91st International Congress, September 2025
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Courage, Justice and Resistance: Lessons from Ukraine
Ukrainian Culture Under Attack
Letters to Free Crimea
Chytomo Interviews
Chytomo: Natalya Korniyenko Interview with Victoria Amelina (undated)
From Words to Bullets: Ukrainian Writers and Journalists on the Russo-Ukrainian War
Solidarity
Pen Ukraine
Writing from Ukraine
SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE
“Record of war”
Books for Ukraine
International Writers in solidarity with UKRAINE
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Events 2026
Events 2025
PEN Heaney Prize 2025
İlhan Sami Çomak on Books for Breakfast podcast
Day of the Imprisoned Writer @ Dublin Book Festival
Announcing the full programme for the FIILI in Ireland 2025
Looking at Women, Looking at War (Dublin)
Looking at Women, Looking at War (Armagh)
Events 2024
PEN/Heaney Prize
Day of the Imprisoned Writer – İlhan Sami Çomak
Freedom To Write
FIILI – FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN AND IRISH LITERATURE IN IRELAND 2024
Poetry from the Edge
War, Identity, and the Process of Reconciliation
Belfast Book Festival: writing to writers at risk or in prison
Upcoming events
Events 2023
Human Rights Under Threat: The Arts Respond
Culture in a Time of War – Dublin Book Festival
The Light of Home: Ukraine and Ireland. A Celebration of Ukrainian and Irish Culture – Dublin Book Festival
FIILI – FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN AND IRISH LITERATURE IN IRELAND
Events 2022
DUBLIN BOOK FESTIVAL 2022. Screening of the Documentary WHITE TORTURE by Narges Mohammadi
Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022
PEN Afghanistan PEN for Peace
IWC Evolution Programme 2021
‘Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened: Stories and Poems from Ukraine’: Reading and discussion with Victoria Amelina (Ukraine).
Events 2020/21
Winter Solstice party 21st December 2021
LAUNCH of the new Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann – 15th November 2020
LAUNCH
PEN Norway Event concerning the Iranian writer Narges Mohammadi
Wales PEN Cymru event
PEN Friends letter-writing event
PEN America EVENT: Cracking Down on Creative Voices: Turkey’s Silencing of Writers, Intellectuals and Artists Five Years After the Failed Coup
VARAVARA RAO EVENT, 29th September 2021
News
News 2026
In Brief: John Hewitt International Summer School Freedom to Write event with Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC (Armagh, July 2026)
URGENT (from the PEN International Translation & Linguistic Rights Committee)
URGENT: Statement on the rise of anti-migrant violence in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
News 2025
OPPORTUNITY for Creative Non-fiction writers (Lviv, Ukraine) i.m Victoria Amelina
Writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan dies aged 55
Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale banned in Edmonton Schools (Canada)
Irish Writers Join Global Summit Flotilla for Gaza
Who Has the Right to Be Grieved?
Ben Okri – For PEN International Congress 2024
News 2024
Writers in a world at war
Forgottenness … a novel by Tanja Maljartschuk
News 2023
“Culture in a Time of War” event at the RIA
News 2022
Dialogues on War
News 2021
Myanmar
Ronan Lee’s book on Rohingya Genocide banned in Myanmar
Imprisoned Catalan Writers Pardoned
News 2020
Ceremony to celebrate retirement of J. Anthony Gaughan from PEN committee – August 2020
In Memory of Lyra McKee
Italian Honour for Board Member/Secretary Catherine Dunne
Open Call: Common Currency Writer in Residence
Edna O’Brien’s TSL Eliot Lecture (Abbey Theatre) 15/12/2020
“Under Fire: Journalists in South America”
Eavan Boland 1944-2020
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