What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Apr 30, 2020

Fred Johnston, poet, author, critic
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans

Online writing workshops with Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

THE CORONAVIRUS lockdown has placed huge restrictions on our movements and ceased our social gatherings for the time being, but it has not dented our creativity.

Poems for the Lockdown - Curran's Hotel, Eyre Square

Coffee Break Read Mon, Apr 27, 2020

THIS TRIBUTE to Curran’s Hotel on Eyre Square is from my second poetry collection Time Gentlemen, Please, published in 2008. Curran’s was one of the main venues in the city for Left wing political meetings of all stripes from the 1970s until its eventual closure in 2002.

Cúirt 2020 - a weekend of literature online

Thu, Apr 23, 2020

THE CORONAVIRUS has curtailed Cúirt, but it could not stop it. The city's international festival of literature has moved online and over the next few days, Galway can enjoy a feast of author interviews, readings, and interaction.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Apr 23, 2020

Sasha de Buyl, director of Cúirt
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing

Poems for the Lockdown - the Leaving Cert

Coffee Break Read Mon, Apr 20, 2020

THIS POEM is from my first collection, The Boy With No Face, which came out in 2005. If I remember right, I wrote it in 2000. It was inspired, or rather provoked, by walking down St Mary’s Road one evening.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Apr 16, 2020

Susan Millar DuMars, poet and short story writer
Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Apr 09, 2020

John O'Connor, presenter of On My Radio, Flirt FM
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

Cúirt literature festival goes online

Mon, Apr 06, 2020

CÚIRT INTERNATIONAL Festival Of Literature will become the first literary festival in the world to be a completely digital event, when it goes online later this month.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Apr 02, 2020

Cecilia Danell, visual artist, songwriter
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Mar 26, 2020

Gugai - Róisín Dubh music promoter and founder of Strange Brew Records, chooses Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Simon Armitage - British Poet Laureate comes to Cúirt

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

SIMON ARMITAGE combines an ability to speak to a broad, non-specialist audience – he is one of the few living British poets the bloke down The Dog and Duck might be able to name – with a knack for acquiring establishment accolades.

Cúirt 2020 Reading List announced

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

THE CORONAVIRUS has placed massive restrictions on our work, movement, and socialising, but we can still look forward to the Cúirt literary festival at the end of April, and in the meantime catch up on some reading.

As You Were – as you will be

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 19, 2020

ANY CLAIM, like that on the back cover of the proof copy of As You Were, Elaine Feeney’s debut novel, to be published on April 16 by Harvill Secker, that this is “The Irish fiction debut of 2020” needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Attracta Fahy launches new poetry collection

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

GALWAY WRITER Attracta Fahy, winner of the 2019 The Irish Times New Irish Writing award, releases her new poetry collection, Dinner In The Fields, tomorrow.

Spring creative writing classes

Thu, Mar 05, 2020

BEGINNERS AND intermediate creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute, hosted by Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars, take place in March and booking is open now.

Three women go Over The Edge

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

THE POETS Fiona Foster, Meabh Ann McCrossan, and Grace Wilentz are the featured readers at this month's Over The Edge, which takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 27 at 6.30pm.

On the joy and benefits of reading

Thu, Feb 13, 2020

WHEN THE hiatus caused by the General Election, Brexit, and the upcoming exams is over, time will allow for the opportunity to discuss the greatest of joys - the joy of reading.

The Scotsman who cycled the world

Thu, Feb 13, 2020

IT TOOK Phileas Fogg 79 days to journey around the world in Jules Verne's celebrated novel, but British cyclist Mark Beaumont went one better, making that epic trek in just over 78 days.

Anthology challenges Irish poetry’s official version of itself

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 13, 2020

THERE HAS been much tweeting lately about inclusivity in Irish poetry publishing and reviewing, particularly in relation to women poets. I’m all in favour of giving platforms to poets who are not white heterosexual males.

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