Creative writing classes at GTI
Thu, Dec 18, 2014
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediate levels take place in the Galway Technical Institute in January and bookings are now being accepted.
Read more ...New book on life in Ardrahan
Thu, Dec 04, 2014
ARDRAHAN, ITS people, life, and times from the 1930s to the 1960s, is the subject of a new book, Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen, which will be launched this weekend.
Read more ...Old Galway’s hidden urban landscape
Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014
ONE OF the great pleasures of the early morning walk, jog, or run through the streets of Galway is that you can experience our urban landscape unencumbered with either human or motorised traffic.
Read more ...Over The Edge reading
Thu, Dec 04, 2014
POETS MARION Cox, Christine Murray, and Edward O’Dwyer will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday December 18 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Ireland’s leading protest poet discovers hope
Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014
A WOMAN told me recently that if she hears one more bad poem about water charges, she may take the extreme retaliatory action of paying her water charges bill, in the unlikely event that it ever actually arrives.
Read more ...Cúirt New Writing Prize 2015
Thu, Dec 04, 2014
THE CÚIRT New Writing Prize is now open for submissions in poetry and fiction. There is a €500 cash prize in each category and an opportunity to read at Cúirt 2015.
Read more ...New book collects Yeats' Galway poems
Thu, Nov 27, 2014
SOUTH GALWAY, the location of Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, was special to WB Yeats and an area where he spent some 30 summers, composing many of his finest works.
Read more ...Snapshots of Galway in another time
Thu, Nov 27, 2014
GALWAY CITY: Snapshots Through Time is a new book telling the history of the city through postcards of the area produced between 1890 and 1930.
Read more ...Galway author charts the Irish experience of WWI
Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 13, 2014
THE LAST couple of years has seen a mushrooming of books relating to WWI, and more specifically, WWI and Ireland. For those interested in learning more about this seismic event, or wondering where to start, Cormac Ó Comhraí’s Ireland and the First World War: A Photographic History is the perfect answer.
Read more ...Banned novel for discussion in Westside Library
Thu, Nov 13, 2014
BEING ONE of Ireland’s finest writers, a Gaeilgeoir, and a veteran of the War of Independence, did not prevent Liam O’Flaherty from escaping the censor.
Read more ...Over The Edge open reading
Thu, Nov 13, 2014
A POET, a short story writer, and an emerging Galway writer are the readers at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 20 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Bears, wolves, and Gordon Buchanan
Thu, Nov 06, 2014
GORDON BUCHANAN, the wildlife documentary maker and TV presenter is coming to Galway to share stories of his incredible experiences with nature’s most fearsome and majestic animals.
Read more ...The grandeur of Dún Aonghusa
Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 06, 2014
THE STONE fort of Dún Aongusa is one of the more spectacular surviving remnants of ancient Irish civilisation. It stands at the edge of Atlantic facing cliffs on the largest of the Aran Islands, Inis Mór, and on a clear day, much of the west coast of Ireland is visible from the site.
Read more ...Three short plays about IRA internal security
Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 06, 2014
THE INTERNAL security procedures of the now defunct Provisional IRA (1969-2005 RIP) have lately been subjected to a certain amount of criticism. Even Gerry Adams has admitted “mistakes” were made.
Read more ...Syrian writer to read in city
Thu, Oct 30, 2014
SYRIAN WRITER Amani Maihoub will read her fiction at the launch of issue 37 of Galway based magazine Crannóg.
Read more ...New poetry collection from Sarah Clancy
Thu, Oct 23, 2014
A new collection of poetry, entitled The Truth & Other Stories, by Sarah Clancy, will be launched at the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, on Saturday (3pm).
The Truth and Other Stories is Sarah Clancy’s third collection of poetry in which she excavates the personal and psychological wreckage caused by a grim and unrelenting recession in her native Ireland and further afield.
Read more ...Public lecture on Oscar Wilde’s father
Thu, Oct 09, 2014
SIR WILLIAM WILDE, the father of Oscar Wilde, will be the subject of a public lecture in the Galway City Museum next week.
Read more ...Fiction Slam - read your story aloud
Thu, Oct 09, 2014
THE ANNUAL Fiction Slam returns for it’s six year in The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum on Friday October 17 at 8pm.
Read more ...Bulletproof Ideas - creative writing for teens
Thu, Oct 09, 2014
BULLETPROOF IDEAS is a creative writing course for young people aged between 14-and 17, which starts next month.
Read more ...Galway Percy French Society journal launch
Thu, Oct 09, 2014
THE GALWAY Percy French Society will launch its journal To The West, featuring prose, poetry, local history, folklore, traditions, reflections, and humour.
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