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The castle home of WB Yeats was the location for the launch of a major new poetry competition to mark the 100th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the renowned Irish poet.

There are plenty of literary treats in-store all round Galway this week for the 38th Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which is on until Sunday April 23.

The Cúirt International Festival of Literature will take place April 18–23, 2023, bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers.

Bríd Ní Chonghóile is a native of Ceathrú na gCloch in the Mayo Gaeltacht. She is CEO of Gaillimh Le Gaeilge, the body which promotes Galway as a bilingual city. Bríd drives a Dacia Sandreo Stepway.

'So much of this festival is about celebrating Irish writers.' - Manuela Moser, Festival Director for Cúirt.

‘Threading the Táin’ is an inter-county community visual arts project showcasing five tapestries created in celebration of the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley.

Galway Arts Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of Manuela Moser as Festival Director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Manuela brings a wealth of experience to Galway Arts Centre having held roles as a director, programmer and project manager across the literature field.

Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.

The Cúirt International Festival of Literature is back, filling venues across Galway with wordsmiths and their works from April 4 to 10.

Mayor Colette Connolly is delighted Patricia Burke Brogan and Ena McEntee will be awarded Freedom of Galway City.