Galway writers to read at city's pop-up bookshop
Thu, Dec 17, 2015
GALWAY WRITER Alan McMonagle, who recently landed a two book deal with Picador, along with Geraldine Mills, Aoife Casby, James Martyn Joyce, and Galway Advertiser arts editor Kernan Andrews, will read from their work this weekend.
Read more ...A story to make the Marquis de Sade twitch in his crypt
Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 17, 2015
THIS NEAR horror story of a novel contains a positive message which surely applies to most of us: however messed up your relationships are, or have been, even the most embarrassing catastrophe in the history of your love life was a paragon of balance and sanity compared to an average day in the life of most of the characters in this darkest of tales.
Read more ...New Year creative writing classes
Thu, Dec 17, 2015
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediate levels will be held in the Galway Technical Institute in January and bookings are being taken now.
Read more ...Poet Kim Moore to give public reading
Thu, Dec 10, 2015
KIM MOORE, one of the leading new voices in British poetry, will read from her work at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday December 17 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Horror story writing workshops
Tue, Dec 08, 2015
FROM THE ghost stories of Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James to HP Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror, there is nothing more enjoyable than a story that sends a shiver of fear through you.
Read more ...Once upon a child - children's books for Christmas
Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 03, 2015
DESPITE PUBLIC perceptions that fewer children are reading books, there has been a major increase in the publication of books for children in recent years. This is due in no small measure to the work of Children’s Books Ireland, and more especially Siobhán Parkinson.
Read more ...GRCC writing competition seeks entries
Thu, Dec 03, 2015
THE GALWAY Rape Crisis Centre has announced its third annual writing competition, with entries being accepted for its poetry, flash fiction, and short story categories.
Read more ...Call for entries for Cúirt New Writing Prize
Thu, Nov 26, 2015
THE CÚIRT New Writing Prize 2016 is now open for submissions in poetry and fiction, a cash prize of €500 and a chance to read at next year's Cúirt/Over the Edge Showcase are up for grabs.
Read more ...New year advanced fiction writing classes
Thu, Nov 26, 2015
POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will teach an advanced fiction writing class, on Fridays from 2pm to 4pm, starting January 22.
Read more ...Woman at the Door
Coffee Break Read Thu, Nov 19, 2015
Life’s pictures flicker around me as I linger outside the weather-beaten door. A crow perches on a branch of the skeleton ash on the lawn and a hearse stands in the lane. Bodies hide under a roof of umbrellas. I recognise some, even though years of humanity have battered them. It’s not peculiar that they don’t acknowledge me. They give their condolences to my sister, Margaret. I lost Jamie a long time ago. She’s only losing him now.
Read more ...Creative labs for Galway teens
Thu, Nov 19, 2015
FORÓIGE AND Galway Youth Theatre have joined forces to offer a creative lab to young people aged between 13 and 17.
Read more ...Big open mic for teens
Thu, Nov 19, 2015
GALWAY TEENS who would like to perform on the stage of the Róisín Dubh are being invited to take part in the Underage Open Mic at the Dominick Street venue on Sunday November 29 at 3pm.
Read more ...A sporting collection of poetry
Thu, Nov 12, 2015
PACKIE BONNER'S famous save at Italia 90, and the enjoyment of playing Gaelic football, have inspired some of the poems in Evidence of Freewheeling, the debut collection from Trevor Conway.
Read more ...Public lecture on when pirates ruled the seas
Thu, Nov 12, 2015
The pirates of the late 1600s, early 1700s, conjures images of bloodthirsty bandits and violent criminals, but in some respects their outlook and ethos was an early form of the most ruthless kind of capitalism.
Read more ...1916 and Noël Browne events in city this weekend
Thu, Nov 12, 2015
THE 1916 Rising in Galway and the centenary of birth of Noël Browne will be discussed and commemorated at two events in Galway city over the coming days.
Read more ...Dagmar Drabent to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Nov 12, 2015
THE ARTIST Dagmar Drabent will reveal another side to her talents, when she reads her poetry, along with novelists Gemma Marren and Caroline Healy, at the next Over The Edge Open Reading.
Read more ...The Visitor
Coffee Break Read Thu, Nov 12, 2015
After he knocked, the visitor entered the house through a small narrow hallway. He ducked to avoid hitting his head on the low door frame. “Ara, Michael, it is grand to see you at last. Your brother told me you’d come up. How are they all down there in Turlough? They must be delighted to have you home in Mayo. How long has it been? Three years?”
Read more ...New book examines 1916's impact on the arts
Thu, Nov 05, 2015
THE SIGNIFICANCE, impact, and wider resonances of the 1916 Rising on Irish literature, culture, and society are explored in a new book, co-editied by Galway academic Seán Crosson.
Read more ...John Behan: the people’s sculptor
Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 05, 2015
STARTING IN the early seventies and continuing for about 20 years, there was a continuous migration into Galway of extraordinary “blow ins” whose genius and drive transfigured the cultural life of the city.
Read more ...Jane Clarke - So much more than a pastoral poet
Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 05, 2015
IN WHAT is probably the best poem in Jane Clarke’s debut collection, The River, published by Bloodaxe, the narrator asks “Who owns the field?//Is it the one who is named in the deeds/whose hands never touched the clay/or is it the one who gathers the sheaves//takes a scythe to the thistles, plants the beech?"
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