Each portrait places a writer in a setting that holds personal or creative significance, from homeplaces to landscapes to everyday urban spaces that reflect their imaginative world.
Irish literature is widely translated into the languages of Europe, carrying stories shaped both at home and abroad into new contexts, where they are read, reinterpreted, and shared again.
Selected for their distinctive voices and international reach, the writers featured here are both rooted in Irish experience and widely read across different cultural contexts. Their work reflects journeys - literary, linguistic, and physical - shaped through translation, movement, and exchange.
The portraits are accompanied by a library of Irish books by the writers in European translations, which can be borrowed from the European Parliament to be read and enjoyed.
At its heart, the exhibition is a celebration of writing as connection - where stories are not fixed in one place, but continually carried, shared, and reimagined.
These striking portraits offer a moment of insight into the faces of some of Ireland's most ground-breaking and original literary artists.