Over The Edge Culture Night Open-Mic

Thu, Sep 01, 2016

GALWEGIANS WITH short stories or poems to share, will have a chance to read them in public, and maybe win prizes, at two Over The Edge open-mics, part of Culture Night 2016.

'I’ll Tell You A Story': Johnny Magory in the Magical World

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 01, 2016

THIS COMING September 13 would have marked Roald Dahl's 100th birthday. While there will be a great deal of talk with regards to his wonderful books, especially the children’s books, somehow his work for adults rarely gets a mention.

Charlie Adley’s craft of writing course

Thu, Aug 18, 2016

Writer Charlie Adley’s popular Craft of Writing Course returns to Galway’s Westside Resource Centre this September 8 for eight weeks.

“My course is designed for anyone who would like to improve their writing skills, from complete novices to published novelists,” explains Charlie. “Just as carpenters must learn how to use their tools, all writers benefit from learning the craft of writing. Anyone can learn this craft. There is no mystery to it.”

Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes

Thu, Aug 11, 2016

CREATIVE WRITING classes with the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars, suitable for beginner and continuing creative writing students, take place in the Galway Arts Centre next month.

Inis Mór to host Liam and Tom O’Flaherty festival

Thu, Aug 04, 2016

FÉILE NA bhFlaitheartach 2016, the annual festival celebrating the work of Galway left-wing writers Liam and Tom O’Flaherty, takes place on Inis Mór, the Aran Islands, on August 27 and 28.

New book explores Galway's influence on James Joyce

Thu, Aug 04, 2016

"MY WIFE is from Galway city," James Joyce told a London literary agent in 1918 when his writings began to attract international attention, and that woman and Galway had a major impact on the Dubliner.

Book review: Little poems from Little John Nee

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 04, 2016

HOW DO you take the work of a man of such great and varied talent as Little John Nee and distil it into a critique of 500 words? This man has busked with the Dice Man; became the iconic symbol of the early Galway Arts Festival parades; and was, for a period, Galway’s Pied Piper.

Red dresses, old toys, and date rape

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 04, 2016

FALLING IN Love With Broken Things, Alvy Carragher's debut collection, is exceptional in one crucial respect; first collections are typically a gathering together of a poet's best work over the previous five or six years, so tend toward thematic looseness.

Galway Arts Centre poetry workshops

Thu, Aug 04, 2016

THE POET Kevin Higgins will give a series of poetry workshops, for different levels of experience, at the Galway Arts Centre, starting in September.

Dancing To The End Of Love - new novel by Adrian White

Thu, Jul 28, 2016

AN INTERNATIONALLY successful singer and a novelist begin a stormy, passionate affair, but only when their daughter is born, do the couple realise just how different they are.

Galway memoir of an unforgettable romance

Thu, Jul 28, 2016

WHEN GALWAYWOMAN Charlie O'Sullivan goes for a fun holiday in Italy, finding love is the last thing on her mind, but on her first night in Milan, she meets Roberto.

GTI to host creative writing classes

Thu, Jul 28, 2016

CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediate level, take place in the Galway Technical Institute in September.

How well do you know your other half?

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

"WHAT ARE his favourite pair of socks?”, “How does she like her bacon?” If you think you could answer these kind of questions about your partner, you should take part in The Newlyweds Game.

Justin Conboy to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Jul 07, 2016

JUSTIN CONBOY, the Salthill based writer, whose debut novel Code Thief was published in May, will read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway City Library on Thursday July 14 at 6.30pm.

Galway to celebrate Patrick Kavanagh

Thu, Jul 07, 2016

PATRICK KAVANAGH was a novelist, songwriter, and columnist with the RTÉ Guide, but he was above all one of the giants of 20th century Irish poetry and literature.

Who do you think you are? - GIAF First Thought Talks

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

IDENTITY - ONE word but it covers a multitude of aspects within an individual. There is personal identity, political identity, cultural identity, national identity, sexual identity, and, more than ever before, a focus on gender identity that calls into question the idea of gender itself.

New children's book from Geraldine Mills launches this evening

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

TWIN BOYS Esper and Starn live in a grim world which has been almost laid waste by massive volcanic explosions. Very little grows in Orchard, which used to be a fruit-growing area, and the birds and insects are fast dying out.

Read your story at the Westside open mic

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-mic, probably the biggest literary open-mic of the year, returns on Wednesday July 6 from 6.30pm to 8pm.

Book review: Poems of experience and war

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 23, 2016

IT IS fashionable for reviewers, of the perpetually disappointed variety, to lodge Basil Fawlty style complaints against a poet’s first published collection.

Poetry of hammocks, wine, and gynaecologists

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 16, 2016

A STRIKING feature of Marie Cadden’s debut poetry collection - Gynaecologist in the Jacuzzi – is that the voice speaking to us in the more than 50 poems included is, for a first collection, a peculiarly unified one.

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