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The tragic early suicide of the poet Sylvia Plath, February 11 1963, was to haunt Richard Murphy - who turned down her request to remain with him at Clegan after she was abandoned by her husband Ted Hughes. Murphy, conscious that he was a stranger in a rural society that still very much represented a Catholic ethos, and which had accepted and befriended him, would, he feared, be unforgiven if a married woman lived in his house.

THE CHILDREN Of The Nation: An Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland, edited by Galway academic, Dr Jenny Farrell, will be officially launched this weekend.

SLYRYDES, THE critically acclaimed Galway punk/post-punk band will be among the acts performing at the opening night of A Modern Movement, a new clubnight for the city.

HE SIGNED Oasis and put out The Jesus and Mary Chain’s first single. He turned Primal Scream on to acid house, paving the way for Screamdelica; and his label, Creation, released some of the greatest British (and Irish) music of the 1980s and 1990s.

ASLAN, ONE of Ireland's best loved rock bands, plays the Black Box Theatre on Saturday April 25 at 7pm.

For the past three years, São Paulo's Davi Hora has been artist in residence with Galway Community Circus. In this interview, he tells of how he made the move from the samba and sunshine of Brazil to cloudy and rainy Galway, and his no-less remarkable shift from studying philosophy to the world of circus.

Once you enter the Ecofuel HQ at Ballybane, you get that rich smell of fresh kiln dried timber; evenly cut logs, cylindrical wood briquettes, all holding their original scent — the woody aroma of the Latvian forests from where they came. There in beautiful pallets and bags lie the finest sustainable firewood; so dry you want to touch it, to lift it to your nostril and smell it.

O’Donnellan & Joyce Auctioneers had a wonderful day in the auction room for its nationwide property auction on Friday November 8, with more than 50 properties going under the hammer. Properties sold all along the Wild Atlantic Way including Donegal, Sligo, Longford, Mayo, Galway, and Clare and across the nation taking in properties in Westmeath, Kildare, Kilkenny, Wexford, and Dublin. It was the east coast properties that drew in the majority of internet and phone bidders while the room was packed to capacity with those who wanted to purchase the large number of Galway city properties.

Eleven young Galway people will represent the county tomorrow Friday 15 November, when the RTÉ Youth Assembly on Climate, in association with the Houses of the Oireachtas, will host the Youth Assembly which will be convened in Dáil Éireann.

Galway City Museum currently have on loan, for a short time only, one of the most important medieval Irish legal manuscripts ever written called The Book of O’Davoren. It was written in the Irish-language by scribes between 1564 and 1570 for the Co. Clare lawyer Donal O’Davoren, much of it at the MacEgan law school, near Tuam, Co. Galway.