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King Edward VII was known as ‘Peacemaker’ for his role in fostering good relations between Britain and France, he was renowned for his politeness and good manners, and throughout the continent he was affectionately called the ‘Uncle of Europe’.

TIME WAS that British poetry was the preserve dusty old English professors and eccentric maiden aunts, with the occasional hippy chick in floral dress or angry young man in black French polo neck thrown in.

TWO NEW books by Prof Brian Arkins of the Classics Department in NUI, Galway will be launched tomorrow.

MISCHIEVOUS DINOSAURS, friendly bears, and curious snails are all to be found in Reminders Of Then, a wonderful and charming new exhibition from Galway artist Morgan O’Brien.

I find it hard to imagine that not everyone liked Lady Augusta Gregory of Coole Park. What few readers there are of the Diary, I am told, sigh with exasperation when they see her name appear. They know that I will eulogise endlessly about how her home at Coole became a ‘workshop’ for writers, poets and artists during those exciting days at the beginning of the last century, leading to such remarkable talents as WB Yeats, John M Synge, Sean O’Casey and others to stand as giants on the European literary stage. She was the co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, its director and organiser during its shaky early days. She was a substantial playwright, journal keeper, folklorist, scholar, etc, etc, and, in my opinion, this amazing Galway woman never got the recognition she deserved.

JEFF O’CONNELL, the author and Galway Advertiser columnist, will give a series of six talks on poets and novelists in Johnston’s Hall, Kinvara.

What would have happened to James Joyce had he come to the relative comforts of Coole, instead of opting for hardship and exile and the life of a wandering artist in Europe?

Mike Scott, Steven Wickham, and an international mix of talented musicians will visit the Royal Theatre in November, bringing their tour, The Waterboys: An Appointment With Mr Yeats, to Castlebar. A selection from at least 25 of WB Yeats’ poems and plays, spanning both famous and lesser known works, will be put to music.

MAEVE CARNEY, the Kinvara based singer, will officially launch her new album, Let It Happen, with a concert in Johnston’s Hall, Kinvara, on Saturday at 8.30pm.

On several occasions I have purposely let myself get lost along the narrow roads of the Sliabh Aughty (Echtge*) uplands which extend over some 250 square miles over the southeast Galway and west Clare borders. It’s a territory way off the tourist trail. On either side of the road hedgerows are positive gardens of wild flowers in June. In August they collapse drunkenly along its edge.