WELCOME TO CALLENDER PRESS
Incorporating Hearing Others' Voices & Callender Vision
Callender Press publish original voices in Contemporary World Literature, Humanities, Social Sciences and Anthropology. The Press was set up in 1991 jointly by Agnes Finnegan (Campbell) and Ruth, her eldest daughter, both from the ancient City of Derry in Northern Ireland and fresh from the beautiful sea and countryside of Donegal. Like all her family now and in the past she was inspired by the faerie ‘gentle’ woods and sea of Donegal. But in a way the origin was earlier still for the Press was named after two earlier maternal forebears both named Callender before marrying into the notable Campbell family and becoming loyal residents of Ulster, Ireland. It was at her mother’s request that Ruth, the eldest daughter, named this enterprise Callender Press, a happy and historic name.
Ruth Finnegan was born on the last day of 1933 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Largely brought up in Derry, she spent most of the war years in Donegal, in a ‘gentle’ (faerie) wood, an experience vividly described in her mother’s entrancing ‘Reaching for the Fruit’ and her own semi-autobiographical novel, ‘Black Inked Pearl’.