Padraic McCormack - 'a writer in the John B Keane mode'
Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 03, 2015
PETER MANDLESON'S autobiography includes a photograph of him relaxing at Mick Jagger’s house. It is hard to imagine former Galway West Fine Gael TD Padraic McCormack ever wanting to hang around with rock stars. Instead McCormack has a genuine interest in the eccentricities that make otherwise unremarkable people, in unremarkable places, far more interesting than anyone photographed with the late Princess Margaret.
Read more ...Clifden Arts Festival - Connemara’s mecca for culture
Thu, Sep 03, 2015
Christy Moore, Mairtin O’Connor, Louis De Paor, Mick Flannery, and Fr Peter Mc Verry are among the many names who will be taking part in the 38th Clifden Arts Festival, which runs from Thursday September 17 to Sunday 27, and features theatre, literary, comedy and music events, workshops, and more than 200 family events.
Read more ...Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
Thu, Sep 03, 2015
GALWAY ADVERTISER arts editor Kernan Andrews, poet Kate Ennals, broadcaster Clara Rose Thornton, and writers Susan Lanigan, and Ruth Aylett, will all read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in The Kitchen, Galway City Museum, on Friday September 11 at 8pm.
Read more ...Wilde expert Michael Seeney among speakers at Oscar Wilde Festival
Thu, Aug 27, 2015
Galway’s Oscar Wilde Festival takes place next weekend for its third year, from Friday, September 4, to Sunday, September 6. The festival boasts a packed programme and will see Wilde experts and enthusiasts gather to celebrate his life and work in a west of Ireland setting.
Read more ...Autumn poetry workshops at the Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Aug 27, 2015
This September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops facilitated by renowned poet Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...Autumn creative writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Aug 27, 2015
Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre presents a daytime class for beginner and continuing creative writing students, facilitated by poetry and fiction writer Susan Millar DuMars.
Read more ...A Politicised Evening of Poetry at Byrne’s Bookshop with Mike Jenkins and Kevin Higgins
Thu, Aug 20, 2015
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop presents ‘A Politicised Evening of Poetry’ with prominent Welsh poet Mike Jenkins, and Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...Over the Edge Open Reading is back
Thu, Aug 20, 2015
The first Over The Edge Open Reading after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday August 27, from 6.30pm to 8.00pm. The featured readers are Jessica Traynor, Matt Flesk, and Aoife Reilly.
Aoife Reilly works as a psychotherapist and teacher and has been attending Kevin Higgins’s poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre since autumn 2013. Her poetry has been published in Crannóg, Skylight 47, on the Poethead website, and in a variety of other poetry magazines.
Read more ...That’s So Gay! - public talk on gender and sexual stereotyping
Thu, Aug 13, 2015
THAT'S SO Gay! is the provocative title of a public talk about the history and evolution of gender and sexual stereotyping, which will be given by Tonie Walsh of the Irish Queer Archive in Electric this weekend.
Read more ...Public lecture on Colm Ó Gaora's revolutionary, Republican life
Thu, Aug 13, 2015
COLM Ó Gaora may not be as well known as other figures from that extraordinary period of Irish history between the foundation of the IRB and the creation of the Irish Free State, but he was an important figure nonetheless.
Read more ...Fiction writing classes for September
Thu, Aug 13, 2015
THE SHORT story writer and poet Susan Millar DuMars will host a series of creative writing classes in fiction, which will take place on Wednesdays, from 7pm to 9pm, and run for eight weeks, starting September 23.
Read more ...The ghosts of 1916 get up and walk
Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 06, 2015
THERE HAS been much quiet paranoia among the political and arts establishments on the subject of how to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising. The difficulty is the Rising was a revolutionary event to which most of our political class, and your average arts sector salary drawer, are spiritually opposed.
Read more ...Autumn creative writing classes
Thu, Aug 06, 2015
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginner and intermediate levels will be taught by the poets Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars, at the Galway Technical Institute, Father Griffin Road.
Read more ...Moon’s Corner and The Stoic Man
Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 06, 2015
THE STRUCTURE of Gerald Dawe’s memoir The Stoic Man, recently published by the Lagan Press, follows much the same general outline of his Selected Poems, published in 2012, and could easily be subtitled A Tale of Three Cities, beginning in the troubled city of Belfast, continuing on to the cultural melting pot that was Galway during the 1970s and 1980s, before moving on the comfortable avenues of Dún Laoghaire and the ivory towers of Trinity College.
Read more ...Liam O'Flaherty Summer School returns in August
Thu, Jul 30, 2015
FÉILE NA bhFlaitheartach, the annual celebration of the Aran Island writers Liam and Tom O'Flaherty, takes place on Inis Mór on Saturday August 29 and Sunday 30, with discussions on history, politics, and literature.
Read more ...Charlie Adley’s Craft of Writing Course
Thu, Jul 30, 2015
GALWAY WRITER, playwright, and columnist Charlie Adley will host his Craft of Writing Course in the Westside Resource Centre, beside the church and library, from September 10, running for eight weeks.
Read more ...Deadline looms for Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
Tue, Jul 28, 2015
THE DEADLINE for the 2015 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which is open to both poets and fiction writers, is Wednesday August 5, and there is a prize fund of €1,000 up for grabs.
Read more ...Celtic tales of terror @ Galway Fringe Festival
Thu, Jul 23, 2015
BE VERY frightened! Scottish storyteller and writer Rab Fulton will host one of his popular Celtic Tales storytelling sessions as part of the Galway Fringe Festival, focussng on "tales of terror from Scotland and Ireland".
Read more ...The big open mic for 2015
Thu, Jul 09, 2015
DO YOU write stories or poems? Are you working on a novel? Would you like to take a chance to show them off and read a piece from your work in front of an audience? If the answer is yes, then read on.
Read more ...An Evening with Colm Tóibín
Thu, Jun 18, 2015
COLM TÓIBÍN, one of Ireland's most acclaimed and prolific writers, will read from his work at the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday June 25 at 8pm.
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