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?”

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.

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.

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?"

An Spidéal writer wins Irish-language Book of the Year Award

Mon, Nov 02, 2015

TADHG MACDONNAGÁIN, the An Spidéal-based author, publisher, broadcaster, and singer-songwriter has won the Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin Award, the premier prize for writing as Gaeilge, for his biography of the itinerant poet Raiftearaí.

SLIOCHT - an event for authors and readers

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

ENTHUSIASTS FOR Irish language novels will have the chance to meet authors Micheál Ó Conghaile, Jackie Mac Donncha, and Réaltán Ní Leannáin at Sliocht, a new event to bring authors and readers face to face.

Galway's Halloween ComicFest

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

SUB-CITY Comics Galway will host the fourth annual Halloween ComicFest event this Saturday, with 21 free comics available from which to choose.

Halloween tales in Oranmore

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

A night of terror filled tales and scary stories of ghoulish sitings along the coast road into Oranmore and haunted happenings in Ardrahan, will be told around the fire in the front bar of Keane’s Pub, Oranmore, this evening at 8.30pm.

The Irish Times' Kitty Holland to read in Galway

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

THE IRISH Times award winning social affairs correspondent Kitty Holland will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 29 at 6.30pm.

Public lecture on the Irish Citizen Army

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

'We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland,’ so ran the famous declaration of the Irish Citizen Army, formed by James Connolly, James Larkin, and Jack White, and which took part in the revolutionary events of 1913-23.

Eileen O’Mara Walsh booklaunch in Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

EILEEN O'MARA Walsh will launch her memoir The Third Daughter: A Retrospective, published by The Lilliput Press, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, on Thursday October 22 at 6.30pm.

Paul Mercier to give actor and directors' classes in Galway

Mon, Oct 12, 2015

PAUL MERCIER, the award winning Irish director and writer, whose debut feature film, Pursuit, premiered at the 2015 Galway Film Fleadh, will give a workshop for actors and film-makers next month.

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn - the Irishman who loved Japan

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

PATRICK LAFCADIO Hearn is the most famous Irishman you have never heard of, but for people in Japan he is an Irish writer whose stature is rivaled only by WB Yeats and James Joyce - and Galway is about to become aware of him through a celebration of his life and work in the city.

Over The Edge Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

SLAM EVENTS provide an opportunity for poets to read their work in public are plenty, but there are fewer opportunities for fiction writers, so the seventh annual Over The Edge Fiction Slam is a welcome event.

Creative writing classes for young people

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE VARIATIONS Of The Compass: A World Without Maps, is a creative writing course for young people aged between 13 and 17, hosted by Dani Gill, director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Colum McCann to read at An Taibhdhearc

Mon, Oct 05, 2015

COLUM MNCANN, the Irish author of such acclaimed works as Let The Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, will be in Galway this week to read from his new novel, Thirteen Ways Of Looking.

Book review - Nuala O’Connor's Miss Emily

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 01, 2015

AT FIRST glance, Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor - aka Nuala Ni Chonchúir - is a relatively simple tale of a growing relationship, not to say friendship, between two women, one the daughter of a working class Irish family who decides America offers her a better future than the humdrum poverty stricken life in late 19th century Dublin, and the other a somewhat withdrawn daughter of a middle class New England family, in whose house the Irishwoman finds a job as a housekeeper.

Book Reviews: Robyn Rowland and Elaine Gaston

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 01, 2015

FROM WHAT some would consider inauspicious beginnings, Doire Press has flourished to become a professionally run publisher of quality new fiction and poetry. One of its publications was last year shortlisted for the massively prestigious UK based Forward poetry prize; and Doire is now, quite rightly, in receipt of Arts Council funding.

Over The Edge open reading

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

RAFIQ KATHWARI, the first non-Irish recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, will be among the featured readers at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday September 24 at 6.30pm.

When poetry, printing, and etching meet

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

THE MOUNTAIN Ash Broadside, an work combining a poem by Joan McBreen and an etching by Margaret Irwin-West, will be launched this Saturday in the Clifden Arts Festival gallery.

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