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Athlone Literary Festival is delighted to welcome to the festival writer Nuala Ní Chonchúir. Born in Dublin in 1970, Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a full-time fiction writer and poet, living in Ballinasloe.

A huge crowd turned up in the Bailey Allen Hall last week for a poetry reading by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The programme began with some exquisite music by Mozart and Debussy played by Galway’s musical quartet, Contempo, and it was followed by music of a different kind that will resonate in the memories of those who were present as Heaney read from his new book Human Chain.

POETS FEATURED in the new book, Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets, will read at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, tomorrow at 6pm.

Athlone Film Club is delighted to be taking part in the St Patrick’s Day celebrations by showing the classic Irish film Mise Eire, on Tuesday March 16 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre.

GALWAY ACADEMIC and musician Seán Crosson has published a new book entitled The Given Note - a major study on the relationship between poetry and Irish trad and song.

Galway poets Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will take part in a Greek-Irish Literary Symposium at the Melina Merkouri Theatre, Ilion, Athens, tomorrow.

THE CLIFDEN Community Arts Week returns from Thursday September 17 to Sunday 27 and will feature readings from such major Irish poets as Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley.

As part of the celebrations of All Ireland Poetry Day 2009, Kilkenny County Council Library would like to invite local poets (who have been born or are based in Co Kilkenny) to submit a selection of their work for showcasing in John’s Quay Library.

Renowned Irish Times journalist and poet Gerard Smyth will be on hand to officially launch the 2009 Clifden Community Arts Week programme which boasts an unforgettable line-up of national and international talent.

THE POET Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan will read for Over The Edge at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday September 11 at 8pm.