Icarus (magazine)
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| founder = Alec Reid
| editor = Catherine Grogan, Louise Norris (2024/25)
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| frequency = 2-3 issues per academic year
| founded = 1950
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| based = Dublin
| country = Ireland
| language = English
| website = [http://www.icarusmagazine.com icarusmagazine.com]
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Icarus is a student literary magazine based in Trinity College Dublin, publishing work by students, alumni and staff of the university.{{cite web|title = On the Wings of 'Icarus'|url = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/on-the-wings-of-icarus-1.644834|work=The Irish Times|date=27 March 2010|access-date = 9 September 2015}} The magazine is the earliest-founded arts publication still extant in Ireland.{{cite news|title=Icarus|url=http://www.thereviewreview.net/magazines/icarus|access-date=5 August 2015|work=The Review}}
The current editors are Catherine Grogan and Louise Norris.{{Cite web |title=Icarus Magazine — Masthead |url=http://www.icarusmagazine.com/editorialteam}}
History and profile
Icarus was founded in 1950 by Alec Reid, and has been published with regularity at least twice a year ever since. The magazine focuses on creative writing and publishes poems, prose and drama written by students, staff and alumni of Trinity College.{{cite news|title=Icarus Magazine|url=http://writerscentre.ie/blog/blog/2010/01/29/icarus-magazine/|access-date=5 August 2015|work=The Irish Writers' Centre|date=29 January 2010}}
Former editors include Rudi Holzapfel, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Iain Sinclair, David Norris, John Haffenden, Maurice Scully, Sebastian Barry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, David Wheatley, Paul Nash, Selina Guinness, Sue Rainsford, Joanne O'Leary and Jonathan Creasy.
Notable contributors have included John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan, Louis MacNeice, Matthew Sweeney, E. A. Markham, Donald Davie, Dermot Bolger, John F. Deane, Thomas Kinsella, W. R. Rodgers, Frank O’Connor, Edward Lucie-Smith, Eavan Boland, Seamus Deane, Gerald Dawe, Caitriona O'Reilly, Sinéad Morrissey, Justin Quinn, Thom Gunn, Colm Tóibín, Vona Groarke, Brian Keenan, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Desmond Hogan, Monk Gibbon, Arland Ussher, Ciaran Carson, Kevin Barry, Cyrus Cassells, Simon Armitage, and Lucy Caldwell.
References
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Category:1950 establishments in Ireland
Category:Literary magazines published in Ireland
Category:Magazines established in 1950