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CREATIVE WRITING classes with the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars, suitable for beginner and continuing creative writing students, take place in the Galway Arts Centre next month.

THE MULTI-AWARD winning Galway artist Jennifer Cunningham is taking bookings for her one day art workshops on Sundays August 20 and 27, and Monday 28.

A NUMBER of exhibitions are taking place in Galway city throughout the month of August, including shows by Helen Roberts' and Breda Fox.

JUSTIN CONBOY, the Salthill based writer, whose debut novel Code Thief was published in May, will read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway City Library on Thursday July 14 at 6.30pm.

THE COLOURS Fringe Festival runs from Monday June 27 to Saturday July 2. The festival is in its seventh year and will host events on the NUI Galway campus and in the city centre.

AWARD WINNING Belfast short story writer, Paul McVeigh will be the main reader at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 26 at 6.30pm.

THE ARTIST Paula Vallar Garate will exhibit a series of her illustrations at her new exhibition in the Galway City Library, the official opening of which is this evening at 6pm.

There’s something strange about being alone in a library in the dead in night, when everyone has gone home; the ‘librarial’ silence is even more silent, the expectant hum of a noiseless space long extinguished, the flapping of a turned page no longer a possibility. That sort of silence. Dead silence.

A new library campus for the city, along with technological advances including access to ebooks and 3D printing, are among the plans set out in an ambitious five-year development plan for Galway’s library service.

ROGER CASEMENT was a human rights and progressive anti-colonial campaigner, also involved in the 1916 Rising, and will be the subject of a public talk in Galway next week.