Media coverage on the Northern Literary Lands
The Guardian: Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’
Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGee https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/08/plan-to-turn-irish-borderlands-into-unesco-region-of-literature
BBC Radio 4: Artistic director Seán Doran talks about a new Northern Literary Lands initiative, celebrating the literary legacy of eleven border counties in Ireland. With the new Samuel Beckett Biennale, several festivals and nine cross-border literary travel paths, the area is applying to become the world’s first UNESCO Region of Literature.
