Creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Dec 27, 2018

THE SHORT story writer and poet Susan Millar DuMars, will teach a class on creative writing at the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, starting January.

There's more to mythical Ireland than leprechauns

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

IF YOU can only think of leprechauns when you think of mythical Irish creatures, think again! Ireland’s mythology is bursting with mysterious and fantastical characters, as a new book reveals.

Kilroy was here

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THE FIRST chapter of Over The Backyard Wall - A Memory Book, Thomas Kilroy’s 'autobiography', is entitled 'The Eye of Memory' and opens thus: “I have been asked more than once to write a memoir and I’ve always had to say no. I couldn’t do it. I could scarcely remember what happened the previous week, never mind the distant past, at least with any degree of accuracy. Then in 2006, at the age of seventy-two, something odd happened to me - rather, something routine occurred - but it had an odd result. I had a cataract operation in both eyes.”

Poetry workshops for 2019 at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Dec 20, 2018

THE POET Kevin Higgins will teach a new series of poetry workshops in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominck Street, with classes for beginner and experienced levels.

Cúirt Announces first names for 2019 festival

Thu, Dec 13, 2018

Jeanette Winterson, best known as the author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, and Joshua Cohen, listed as one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists in 2017, will read at next year's Cúirt festival.

Man gives birth to alarm clock

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 13, 2018

GALWAY WRITER Brian Coughlan is a clever comedic writer in the Alan McMonagle/Karl MacDermott mode. His characters tend to be no good types, the sort who, in what the career guidance teachers of my youth called the real world, end up in middle management, or as unsuccessful Fianna Fáil county council candidates. Such characters populate Coughlan's short story collection, Wattle & Daub.

New Year creative writing classes

Thu, Dec 13, 2018

IF FINALLY getting around to penning those poems, that story, or your memoir is high on the list of 'Must Do' tasks for 2019, then take a look at the creative writing classes in the Galway Technical Institute.

Galway Advertiser editor to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Dec 06, 2018

DECLAN VARLEY, the editor of the Galway Advertiser, will read from his new novel, The Confession of Peadar Gibbons, at the final Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2018.

The unhinged poetry of Ken Bruen

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 29, 2018

KEN BRUEN'S writing is like Charles Bukowski’s in that people tend to either love it, or be allergic to it. No one pretends to like Bruen’s writing in the way they do, say, the poetry of Ocean Vuong or Doireann Ní Gríofa because, to paraphrase WH Auden, they think it is the correct opinion to have for the time of year.

Poet Trevor Conway launches new collection

Thu, Nov 29, 2018

GALWAY POET Trevor Conway launches his second collection, Breeding Monsters, at The Crane Bar, where there will also be music from singer Sandra Coffey and guitarist Gregory Prendergast.

A timely reminder of Irish life during the recession

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 22, 2018

AS WELL as having a successful career in journalism, Declan Varley is the author of four works of fiction - Kittyland (1992), which described his life as a student in the then RTC, Sure It Could Happen (1993), The Elephant’s Graveyard (1994), and Nightmusic (2001).

James Connolly event in Galway City Library

Thu, Nov 22, 2018

GALWAY WILL mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Irish revolutionary republican, socialist, trade unionist, and writer James Connolly, with an event in the Galway City Library.

Ballinasloe author shortlisted for Writing.ie award

Thu, Nov 15, 2018

BALLINASLOE-BASED author Nuala O’Connor has been shortlisted for the Writing.ie Short Story of the Year, at the An Post Irish Book Awards, for her story ‘Gooseen’, inspired by Nora Barnacle, the Galway-born wife of James Joyce.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin to go Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 15, 2018

THE POET Annemarie Ní Churreáin, along with Maurice Devitt and Amy Barrett, will read from her work at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 22 at 6.30pm.

Murder and subversion in Ballinasloe

Thu, Nov 08, 2018

NESSA O'MAHONEY is primarily a poet, the author of three well received collections, and a verse novel. Much of her previous writing has interrogated the subjects of family and history, often dealing in quite innovative ways with how the two intersect.

In her 2014 poetry collection, Her Father’s Daughter, she published a parallel sequence of poems - one relating to her relationship with her own father, whose decline and passing she charted with sometimes aching candour, the second exploring the life of her grandfather, whose story emerges through her mother’s memories and O’Mahony’s own research.

Amy Barrett, Maurice Devitt, and Annemarie Ní Churreáin for November Over The Edge: Open Reading

Thu, Nov 08, 2018

The November ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday November 22, from 6.30 to 8pm.

A poetry night at Galway City Library

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

THE POETS Louis Mulcahy, Susan Lindsay and Maurice Devitt, all published by Galway based publishing house Doire Press, will conclude their A Crack In Everything literary tour, with a reading in the Galway City Library.

An evening with Siren and Dave Rock

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

AN EVENING songs and poetic firework, laughter, magic, and harmonies, takes place this Saturday from 7.30pm to 10.30pm in the Granary Therapy Centre, The Granary Suites, 58 Lower Dominick Street.

Over The Edge goes political for October

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

INDEPENDENT SENATOR Lynn Ruane and the Irish Examiner's Michael Clifford, will be reading at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading at the Galway City Library.

Michael Harding's Buddhist Tuesdays

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

MICHAEL HARDING, the writer, actor, raconteur, and Irish Times columnist, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre to read from his latest memoir, On Tuesdays I’m A Buddhist.

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