Galway Cartoon Festival makes its bow

Tue, Oct 17, 2017

A NEW entry into the city’s crowded calendar of festivals is the Galway Cartoon Festival, which arrives next week and runs from October 21 to 30, with the aim of celebrating and showcasing drawings which make us laugh and make us think.

Book review: Poets unblinking in the face of breast cancer

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 12, 2017

IF YOU are a woman, or have a mother, wife, girlfriend, sister, or daughter, the poems included in this new anthology, Bosom Pals: Eight Poets Share Their Experience of Breast Cancer could, some day, perhaps even today, prove invaluable.

Fiction Slam - read your story out loud!

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THERE ARE many slam events for poets, but fiction writers never get the same look it. To rectify this, the ninth Over The Edge annual fiction slam returns to The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum next week.

Tá scéal san mBéaloideas

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THE BLURB on the back of City of Streams - Galway Folklore and Folk life in the 1930s by Caitrîona Hastings, published by the History Press is clear and concise:

Irish and Indian poetry anthology

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

POETS FROM Ireland and India ponder questions of home, belonging, identity, exclusion and homogenisation, in a new anthology to be launched in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop.

Over The Edge Open Reading at Galway City Library

Mon, Sep 25, 2017

THE WRITERS Oisín Fagan, Dara Ó Foghlu, and Paul Denby will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday September 28, from 6.30pm to 8pm.

Over The Edge Culture Night Open-Mic

Thu, Sep 14, 2017

OVER THE Edge is holding two special Culture Night open-mics - one for fiction writers, the other for poets - with prizes for the best readers, at Kenny's Bookshop and Gallery in Liosbán Retail Park on Friday September 22.

Michael Longley to read at Clifden Arts Festival

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

MICHAEL LONGLEY, one of Northern Ireland’s foremost political poets, will read at the 40th Clifden Arts Festival, on a bill which also includes fellow poet Bernard O’ Donoghue, commonly referred to as the "nicest man in Oxford".

The experiences of the Irish in Occupied France

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 07, 2017

IF EVER evidence was needed to give credence to the cliché that there is more to a book than just words on the page, then The Irish in Wartime France 1939-1945, by Isadore Ryan, is a prime example of a book that talks to you before you pick it up. It exudes an intriguing atmosphere.

Stories that confront, not console

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 07, 2017

I HAVE, what some of the refined types who rely on the deluxe end of the social welfare system that is Áosdána, would consider a nasty confession to make: though June Caldwell is only now publishing her first book of stories, she has long been my one of my favourite Irish writers.

'I had to write this book'

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 31, 2017

Prize-winning author Paul Lynch will discuss his new novel Grace — an epic tale about a young girl in famine-era Ireland — in a public conversation with Alan McMonagle at The Black Gate Cultural Centre next Thursday, September 7.

Two Aran Islanders and the Russian Revolution

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

FÉILE NA bhFlaitheartach is different from other summer schools. It is not a talking shop for Official Ireland, but a commemoration of two Aran Island born brothers, who went into the world with a desire to change it.

Paul Muldoon brings his Picnic to the Town Hall

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

PAUL MULDOON, the Pulitzer Prize winning Irish poet and former Oxford professor of poetry, librettist for operas, and rock lyricist who has worked with The Handsome Family and Warren Zevon, is coming to Galway.

The crime solving taxi driver

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

GREEDY BUILDERS, resilient prostitutes, trafficked East European women, and rogue cops, all set in the Galway of 2009 - this is A Very Personal Service, a Galway noir novel by Seán Gibbons.

Autumn creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will give a series of beginner and continuing creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre, starting in September.

Craft of Writing Course returns

Thu, Aug 10, 2017

GALWAY WRITER Charlie Adley will host another series of his popular Craft of Writing Course which returns to the Westside Community Centre, starting Thursday September 7.

Alan McMonagle to read at Utter Word

Thu, Aug 03, 2017

THE WRITERS Alan McMonagle and Nicole Flattery, and the artist Dolores Lynn, will headline the next Utter Word, the series of literary events at the Oranmore Library, which takes place on Wednesday August 9 at 7.30pm.

Poetry on the political end of the spectrum

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 03, 2017

THE NEW poetry collections by Karen J McDonnell, This Little World published by Doire Press, and Butterflies Of A Bad Summer, by Karl Parkinson, published by Salmon, have two things in common.

Poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 03, 2017

THE POET Kevin Higgins will give a series of poetry workshops for beginners, intermediate, and advanced, at the Galway Arts Centre, starting in September.

Richard Ford's happy book

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 03, 2017

ONE OF the main reasons readers are reverting to reading physical books as opposed to the Kindle is that, despite all its conveniences, the Kindle cannot provide the full book experience.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.