headquarters cork ireland key people se n feehan founder products irish history biography literature kids sport politics business and current affairs website http www.mercierpress.ie mercier press is a publisher based in cork ireland . it is the longest established independent irish publishing house . 1 history edit the company was founded in 1944 by se n feehan and initially published religious books . in 1946 they published this tremendous lover by dom eugene boylan which sold over a million copies . at the frankfurt book fair feehan secured the translation rights of german books on philosophy and religion that sold well . in the 1960s they launched a successful range of paperbacks on irish literature culture religion and history . 2 feehan remained chairman until his death in 1991 after which john spillane took over until 2003 when clodagh feehan was appointed manager director . 2 in the 1960s and 1970s the mercier paperback books had a distinctive cover style . 3 this usually consisted of an illustration in both pen & ink and brush & ink and always in two colour . the format and back cover layout remained the same on each book . the artist john skelton 1925 2009 was mercier s main cover designer he worked as an art director and book illustrator before concentrating full time on painting in 1975 . references edit mercier press web site . mercier press . retrieved november 27 2012 . a b irish publisher whose printed pages keep turning in pace with history . under the radar . dublin . the irish times . 26 february 2010 . access date requires url help john m. feehan . an irish publisher and his world . mercier press cork 1969 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mercier press & oldid 647210395 categories publishing companies of the republic of irelandbook publishing companies of irelandhidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no url navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 07 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view