Charlie Adley’s Craft of Writing Course

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

ASPIRING WRITERS and those looking to put pen to paper can take note of Charlie Adley's Craft of Writing Course, taking place at the Galway's Westside Resource Centre in March.

Public lecture on Galway city and the 1916 Rising

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

OUTSIDE OF Dublin, Galway saw the most significant action of the 1916 Rising, but this took place in the county. Galway city by contrast was hostile to the rebellion and firmly supported the British.

The outspoken vicar who called Pearse a 'mincing floor-walker'

Mon, Feb 08, 2016

The Rev Richard Henebry was not shy about speaking his mind, particularly when it came to his great passion - the Irish language. Indeed he called Pádraig Pearse's Irish language stories, "the mincing of an underassistant floor-walker of a millinery shop".

Public lecture on the life and ideas of Eoin MacNeill

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

Eoin MacNeill is best known as the man who countermanded the order for the 1916 Rising to begin, and for representing the Government at the boundary commission which left the country still partitioned.

2016 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

THE 2016 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring readings by poets, and book launches, takes place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday February 12 at 6.30pm.

Leaving Cert art history and appreciation study day

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

The Galway Arts Centre will hold a study day for students taking art history and appreciation in the Leaving Cert on Friday March 11, from 9am to 3pm at the Nuns Island Theatre.

Public lecture on the man who wrote our national anthem

Tue, Feb 02, 2016

'Amhrán na bhFiann', the Irish national anthem, is by its very nature is one of the most performed songs in Ireland, and sometimes has controversy thrust upon it, becayuse of where it is, and is not, performed - but what of the man who wrote it?

NUIG to hold major conference on 1916 Proclamation

Thu, Jan 21, 2016

The 1916 Proclamation has been claimed across the last 100 years as the founding values of the State, or a vision the State has abandoned, or as something that has yet to be fully realised.

1916 Rising lectures in the Galway City Library

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

The man who coined the word ‘poblacht’, the Galway born 1916 Proclamation signatory Éamonn Ceannt, anarchists, aunties, and Welsh miners will all be discussed in a new series of public lectures.

Over The Edge - thirteen years of readings

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

THIRTEEN MAY be unlucky for some, but not for the Over The Edge Open Readings which marks its 13th year in existence this month with readings by Stephen De Burca, Nuala Keher, and Vona Groarke.

Short Tales, Long Nights

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

SHORT TALES, Long Nights is a new storytelling evening which has its first outing in the Clarinbridge Parish Hall on Wednesday January 20 at 8pm.

Grace upon a time

Coffee Break Read Thu, Jan 14, 2016

He is sitting there, all alone, huddled in the chilly May dew upon a rock dressed in seaweed. His scruffy, woollen coat wrapped tightly around his frailing 84 year old body. The waves, roughly batter around his black, scuffed ankle boots as he licks on an icecream cone. A lonesome seagull is perched on the rock beside him trying to peck at the cornet. ‘Away with you,’ he flummoxed with his tar stained, crinkly hand. ‘Shoo.’ It has always baffled me as to where he can get an icecream cone for his breakfast. The town is a distance away and his feeble waddle would take him a good two hours to walk. I am convinced he lives in the icecream truck hiding behind the Burrishoole, Grace O’Malley castle, over towering beside us. I often hear the jingle of the icecream van but I can never see it.

Public debate on WWI's ‘separation women’

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

Fighting for 'King and country' was never a great motivation for Irishmen to fight in The Great War, but there was motivation to be found in the form of the payment of separation allowances to the dependents of servicemen.

The Famine - Gaeilge's Armageddon?

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THERE IS a popular perception that “The Great Hunger” of 1845 to 1849 was a one-off affair, a unique event, and that there are two totally different Irelands - the one before and the one after The Famine.

Galway hospital's poetry competition

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THE GALWAY University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries again for annual poetry competition. Poems entered should be no more than 30 lines long and entries are being accepted up to Friday March 11.

Poems to disturb your peace

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THERE ARE people, those with the better variety of accent, and PhDs mostly purchased for them their parents, who will use the fact that James O’Toole’s debut poetry collection, The Street, is self-published to try and dismiss it.

ROPES journal to raise funds for Simon

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

ROPES, THE literary journal produced by the students of NUI Galway's MA in literature and publishing, is seeking donations to cover the costs of its upcoming 24th volume.

Creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

PEOPLE WHOSE New Year resolutions include finally getting around to writing that novel or those poems that have been in their head for ages, should check out upcoming classes at the Galway Arts Centre.

Galway writers to read at city's pop-up bookshop

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

GALWAY WRITER Alan McMonagle, who recently landed a two book deal with Picador, along with Geraldine Mills, Aoife Casby, James Martyn Joyce, and Galway Advertiser arts editor Kernan Andrews, will read from their work this weekend.

A story to make the Marquis de Sade twitch in his crypt

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 17, 2015

THIS NEAR horror story of a novel contains a positive message which surely applies to most of us: however messed up your relationships are, or have been, even the most embarrassing catastrophe in the history of your love life was a paragon of balance and sanity compared to an average day in the life of most of the characters in this darkest of tales.

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