Last of Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novels is finally republished
Thu, Oct 22, 2020
LIAM O'FLAHERTY'S banned novel, The Martyr, has just been republished by Nuascéalta, 87 years since its first and only publication in 1933.
Read more ...Tariq Ali to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Oct 15, 2020
"THE SERVICE of great kings may carry its own rewards, but the service of truth goes unrewarded and is, for that very reason, worth far more.”
Read more ...Life will be different - Rita Ann Higgins' Covid poems
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
ONE OF the most direct and immediate responses to the Covid crisis from any Irish artist, has come from the pen of Galway poet, Rita Ann Higgins.
Read more ...Over The Edge September reading
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
THE WRITERS Ron Silliman, Molly Harris, and Fintan Coughlan will read from their works at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...The Dilemma - new poetry from Danielle Holian
Thu, Aug 27, 2020
THE DILEMMA, a work in three chapters charting the loving, breaking, and healing of a relationship, is the second poetry collection from Galway writer Danielle Holian.
Read more ...Poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Aug 27, 2020
GALWAY ARTS Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, starting in September, and facilitated by the poet Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...An online evening with Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Thu, Aug 20, 2020
THE MULTI-award winning writer, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, will read from her new work, A Ghost in the Throat, in a special online event, taking place later this month.
Read more ...Three poets go Over The Edge
Thu, Aug 20, 2020
THE POETS Knute Skinner, Derek Coyle, and Sinead Mongan will read from their work at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading via Zoom on Thursday August 27 from 6.30pm.
Read more ...Bard Yard to host Belfast poet Elizabeth McGeown
Mon, Aug 17, 2020
BELFAST POET Elizabeth McGeown, a four time finalist in the All-Ireland Poetry Slam, will read at this week's Bard Yard, Galway's new, online, poetry open mic event.
Read more ...Autumn Creative Writing Classes
Thu, Aug 13, 2020
THE POET Kevin Higgins will begin a new series of his Creative Writing For Beginners classes at the Galway Technical Institute.
Read more ...The Word Ark: a voyage worth taking
Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 06, 2020
On a bright Good Friday morning when Good Friday was Good Friday I was sitting behind the counter of the bookshop, then in High Street. Suddenly, the front door windows blacked out, the door opened and one of the biggest men I have ever seen walked in, followed by a much older man, obviously a relation. They greeted me in Irish and then passed through to the Gallery.
Read more ...Skylight 47 gets Over The Edge Zoom launch
Thu, Jul 16, 2020
SKYLIGHT 47, regarded as “possibly Ireland's most interesting poetry publication”, will have the launch of its latest issue broadcast live from Galway.
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jul 09, 2020
Ibrahim Noonan
Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Maryam Mosque, Ballybrit
What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jul 02, 2020
Barry Richardson, musician
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
Poetry reading with Trotsky's great-granddaughter
Thu, Jul 02, 2020
LEON TROTSKY'S great-granddaughter, Veronica Volkow, will, along with fellow-poets Kim Moore and Ailbhe Darcy, read at this month's Over The Edge: Open Reading via Zoom.
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 25, 2020
Jenny Farrell
Department of Languages & Humanities, GMIT
What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 18, 2020
Pauline O’Reilly
Green Party Senator
Poems for the Lockdown - romance in a Galway bookshop
Coffee Break Read Mon, Jun 15, 2020
THE FINAL of my nine Poems For The Lockdown is from my third poetry collection, Frightening New Furniture, which was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010. It was inspired by an interaction I observed in a famous Galway bookshop. Any resemblance to Charlie Byrne’s is entirely deliberate.
Read more ...What Do You Mean You Haven't Read?
Coffee Break Read Thu, Jun 11, 2020
Anna McCarthy, lead singer/songwriter with indie-rock band, Dott
Read more ...The Little Book of Galway; a perfect little guide to the county
Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 11, 2020
As someone who is absolutely fascinated by the subject of history, it is rather inexplicable that in my five and half years of living in Galway that the only real historical fact I knew about the county was Mayor James Lynch Fitzstephen hanged his own son Walter for murder and thus came the term lynching. So when the opportunity to read The Little Book of Galway presented itself, I finally had a chance to bring my Galway history knowledge up to scratch and it did not disappoint.
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