Joseph O’Connor in conversation at Kennys Bookshop
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
One of Ireland’s great authors, the award-winning Joseph O’Connor, will join Tomás Kenny in conversation at Kennys Bookshop on Thursday, January 19, to celebrate the publication of his new novel, My Father’s House.
Read more ...Moya Roddy celebrates Nollaig na mBan
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
January 6, the twelfth and final day of Christmas, was always known in Ireland as Nollaig na mBan, Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas. As a reward for their hard work over the festive season, women were rewarded with a day off from the house work and traditional roles were meant to be reversed in the home - the men did the women’s house work while the women rested and gathered together casually.
Read more ...Brush up on your Irish this spring at Áras na nGael
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
Want to brush up on your Irish skills? Or perhaps you have a passion for languages and want to learn Irish from scratch? Áras na nGael are offering a brand new set of Irish language classes this spring. From beginners to more advanced, they have a wide range of classes available so there really is something for everyone!
Read more ...Over The Edge Celebrates 20th Birthday this month
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
The event will feature Ferdia Mac Anna, Terri Metcalfe & Séan Gibbons
Read more ...Treats at the final Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2022
Thu, Dec 08, 2022
Over The Edge, Galway City's literary events organisation, organise readings of poetry and fiction at a variety of venues around Galway City. The December ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ will take place in Galway City Library on Thursday, December 15 from 6-7.30pm.
Read more ...Galway writer, Maureen Gallagher, launches her debut novel Limbo
Thu, Oct 20, 2022
Having long had an interest in writing short stories and poetry, which she loved, it was not until Gallagher's children were in their late teens that Maureen "dipped her toe in the literary world."
Described as an "accidental crime writer", the foray into the social climate of Ireland during that time was no accident for Gallagher, who as an activist has lent her voice to a multitude of causes over the decades. She found that due to the structure of novel it "allowed her to explore social issues, something dear to her heart."
Read more ...Autumn poetry workshops via Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Sep 01, 2022
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.
Read more ...Book an online creative writing class
Thu, Aug 18, 2022
Creative Writing for Beginners with Kevin Higgins takes place one evening per week (Monday) from 7-9.30pm (10 weeks). It commences on Monday, September 12, 2022. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €140. Kevin Higgins will provide writing exercises for, and give gentle critical feedback to, those interested in trying their hand at writing stories, poems, or memoir.
To book a place, go to https://www.gti.ie/parttime/courses/detail/5342
Read more ...Time to choose your favourite bookshop
Thu, Aug 11, 2022
Galwegians have the chance to choose their favourite bookshop in the search for the ‘An Post Bookshop of the Year’ 2022.
The ‘An Post Bookshop of the Year’ category is designed to acknowledge the significant role played by independent bookshops and local branches of bookshop chains in helping their local communities to find and savour the titles of their choice. The new category was unveiled last year and thousands of votes were cast, with Kenny’s Bookshop in Galway crowned the overall winner.
Read more ...An inspiring journey — McMenamin book to be launched in Oranmore tomorrow
Thu, Jul 14, 2022
From the cages of Long Kesh in the 1970s, to the lecture halls and classrooms of NUI Galway this century, a love of writing and a passionate belief in the importance of education has been central in the life of Paddy McMenamin.
Read more ...Book review - Unforgiveable by Barbara McKeon
Literature Reviews Thu, Jul 07, 2022
A young woman falls for a married man, and as their relationship slides towards its inevitable collapse, she is drawn into a chain of events that will have devastating consequences for her and everyone around her.
This is the premise of Unforgiveable, a new novel by journalist, author, and Galway Advertiser proofreader Barbara McKeon. In it, she takes us on a journey of disfunction, remorse and, ultimately, redemption. And it is quite the ride.
Read more ...From the drill to the quill
Wed, Apr 27, 2022
Des Kavanagh’s poems are full of the names of people and places he knows or has known well. Names are great familiarisers and Kavanagh’s Ireland is a close and familiar place. But it also bears within it the ache of absence, not just for specific people, but for the world they inhabited, a world that made them and that they also made. Kavanagh’s ancestral Inishowen in Donegal, his family, in it’s old and new generations, often provide the pivot that turns him to the past, although it also allows for glimpses of the future, through children and grandchildren — so said the late Seamus Deane of the Galway poet.
Read more ...Brian Arkins - new poetry collection
Thu, Mar 24, 2022
BRIAN ARKINS, professor emeritus of Classics at NUI, Galway, will launch his new collection of poems, Towards a Credo, tomorrow evening, Friday March 25.
Read more ...Poetry and fiction at Over The Edge
Wed, Mar 16, 2022
TWO POETS and a fiction writer will be the main readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom on Thursday March 24 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Groundbreaking new book on Irish trad to be launched
Thu, Mar 03, 2022
A GROUNDBREAKING new book on Irish traditional music, particularly the music of the Aran Islands, will be launched next week.
Read more ...Galway author nominated for European Union Prize for Literature
Thu, Mar 03, 2022
MADAME LAZARE, the Irish language novel by Galway author Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, has been nominated for the European Prize for Literature 2022.
Read more ...Russian writer to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Feb 17, 2022
THE WRITERS Polina Cosgrave, Sharon Black, Claire Loader, and Vincent Flannery will read from their work at the February Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...Edel Coffey and Miriam O’Callaghan at Cúirt 2022
Mon, Feb 07, 2022
EDEL COFFEY, the former Sunday Tribune editor and now a best selling novelist, will be in conversation with RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan at Cúirt 2022.
Read more ...Looking anew at James Joyce’s Galway connections
Thu, Feb 03, 2022
THIS YEAR marks the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s groundbreaking work of modernist fiction, Ulysses, but while that book, and its author, are profoundly rooted in Dublin, Joyce himself had Galway connections.
Read more ...Take a stroll through Joyce’s Ulysses
Thu, Feb 03, 2022
A GALWAY made, two-part radio drama adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses will be aired on Newstalk on February 6 and 13 at 7am.
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