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.

Book review: The Lonely Sea and Sky

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 09, 2016

DERMOT BOLGER has been one of the central movers on the Irish Literary landscape since the early 1970s. Founder of the Raven Arts, now New Island Press, he published Paul Durcan’s first book and created a publishing platform for a generation of Irish poets.

New Gothic horror collection from Al Shine

Thu, Jun 02, 2016

WELCOME TO Coldwood, a town not unlike HP Lovecraft's Arkham - the focal point of strange happenings, murders, disappearances, insanity, degradation, and terrifying encounters.

Garry Hynes and Steven Sharpe in new book on impact of Yes vote

Thu, May 26, 2016

DRUID THEATRE Co's Garry Hynes, Galway based singer-songwriter Steven Sharpe, along with other Galwegians, feature in a new book about LGBT Irish lives and the impact of the Yes vote in the marriage equality referendum.

The achievement of Jessie Lendennie

Literature Reviews Thu, May 26, 2016

THERE IS a memory, somewhat hazy, probably romanticised, of the shop door opening one morning in the early eighties, and a young, statuesque, lady sailing in, wearing a flowing colourful cloak, somewhat reminiscent of an Adrienne Monnier or a Sylvia Beach.

Justin Conboy to launch debut novel

Thu, May 26, 2016

CODE THIEF, the debut novel by Galwayman Justin Conboy, about a hacker, a CIA agent, and the development of a super-virus to end the Iranian Nuclear Program, will be launched in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop tomorrow at 6.30pm.

A guide to islands of Clew Bay

Thu, May 26, 2016

JOHN LENNON was so enchanted with Clew Bay he bought Dorinish Island in 1967. Ireland's pirate queen Granuaile ruled the seas around those parts; while the bay also attracted Sid Rawle, the ‘King of the Hippies’.

Paul McVeigh to read at Over The Edge

Thu, May 19, 2016

AWARD WINNING Belfast short story writer, Paul McVeigh will be the main reader at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 26 at 6.30pm.

1916 exhibition and wreath laying events

Thu, May 19, 2016

THE CENTENARY of the 1916 Rising and its aftermath will continue to be marked in Galway with two events taking place, one today, the other later this month.

Mike McCormack launches new novel this weekend

Thu, May 12, 2016

SOLAR BONES, the new novel from Galway writer Mike McCormack, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, tomorrow at 6.30pm, with comedian Tommy Tiernan as guest speaker.

Public lecture on centenary of James Connolly's execution

Thu, May 12, 2016

The centenary of James Connolly's execution for his role in the 1916 Rising will be marked in Galway with a public lecture on the history of socialism and republicanism, including Connolly's contribution to both.

Charity event in celebration of James Connolly

Thu, May 05, 2016

JAMES CONNOLLY was executed for his leading role in the 1916 Rising on May 12 1916. On Thursday May 12 his life and ideals will be celebrated at a charity event to raise funds for Médecins Sans Frontières.

Free Comic Book Day

Thu, May 05, 2016

FREE COMIC Book Day, the yearly event when you can show up at Sub-City Comics in the Corbett Court Shopping Centre and grab a comic of your choice from the FCBD selection for free, returns this Saturday.

Poetry workshops @ Galway Arts Centre

Thu, May 05, 2016

THE POET Kevin Higgins will host a series of poetry workshops this month in the Galway Arts Centre, where participants will be given writing exercises and feedback on their work.

Today is Poetry Day -what are you going to do?

Thu, Apr 28, 2016

POETRY IS one of humanity's oldest forms of artistic and personal expression, found across all eras, languages, and cultures. Today is Poetry Day and Galway will mark the venerable form with a number of events.

Public lecture to remember the women of 1916

Thu, Apr 21, 2016

Were the Irish women who fought for freedom in 1916 “airbrushed out of Irish history”, just as nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell was airbrushed out of the famous photograph of Patrick Pearse’s surrender on Moore Street?

Mayor of the city to launch The Galway Review 4

Tue, Apr 19, 2016

Fianna Fáil Galway West TD Éamon O'Cuív is among those whose writings are featured in The Galway Review 4, the new anthology of prose, poetry, and essays.

Go Over The Edge during Cúirt

Mon, Apr 18, 2016

EMERGING NEW voices in Irish writing, including Kathryn Guille, winner of the Cúirt New Writing Poetry Prize 2016, and John O’Donnell, winner of the 2016 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize, will read at this year's Cúirt literary festival.

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