EU BUSINESS NEWS / Irish Enterprise Awards 2022 11 , providing a museum-like tourist experience, and in regular bookshops (independent and chains). The company sells rights internationally at book fairs (London and Frankfurt) where it is at the Irish stand along with other Irish publishers. While the company is based in Ireland, a small country of 5 million, according to Alison, "Being in the EU matters as we have access to a large well-regulated marketplace and a strong relationship with the US with access to the Irish diaspora. Moreover, Ireland has a powerful literary heritage, with historic connections to the UK, EU and US cultural environs." Its titles have recently been added to the collections of prestigious US institutions such as Notre Dame and Harvard Universities and the Library of Congress. New connections have opened up by the publication of American, Arnie Yasinski’s poetry collections: Arnie writes an informal sonnet about swimming in Ireland at the Forty Foot where James Joyce swam when he first imagined Ulysses, a book that shaped modern fiction; Arnie reflecting on being a nineteenyear-old, one of the young men in the US draft lottery for Vietnam; Arnie inspired by a workshop he attended at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin which kick-started his writing. What for the future? In the short term 21st Century Renaissance is developing the brand’s visual identity across all its publishing platforms. In the pipeline, a coming-of-age graphic novel by Nick Geoghegan, based on a story about the Japanese mafia, presented in his signature style inspired by the Manga books he read as a child; another children's picture book in the Knot of Toads series with the title “Parliament of Owls” (think owls debating in Westminster) to be launched for the Christmas market. A medium term plan is for The Visual Time Traveller gallery/shop to have a retail footprint in spaces like Dublin airport. Longer term developments include a new book, talk and exhibition in The Visual Time Traveller series based around medicine with the working title: From Dark Art to Enlightened Science. On a grander scheme, the publishing house wishes to be invited to bring The Visual Time Traveller full exhibition of the 100 artworks to MOMA in New York and to present a copy of this legacy Irish-imagined visualization of world history since the Renaissance to President Joseph Biden when he visits Ireland. Nothing is as it seems with 21st Century Renaissance. The publishing house produces the wondrous, the beautiful and the compelling and does it all with dignity, professionalism, innovation, and a passion that guides the overall direction of the business. With hopes of greater expansion and international success, recognition will not be far behind as the Best Independent History Publishing Company in Dublin, 21st Century Renaissance, becomes a name known around the globe. Company: 21st Century Renaissance Name: Alison Hackett Email: [email protected] Publicist: Claire Mason [email protected] Web Address: https://www.21cr.ie/
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