Celebrate the life of writer Walter Macken

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

WALTER MACKEN, one of Galway’s most famous writers, was born 100 years ago this May, and An Taibhdhearc and Galway’s West End community will hold commemorative events.

Read your favourite poem at Galway City Museum

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

WHAT IS your favourite poem? Would you like to hear other people’s favourites too? Would you like to discover new poets? If the answer is Yes to any of these, then read on.

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

FREE COMIC Book Day takes place this Saturday at Sub-City Comics in the Corbett Court Shopping Centre, and there will be a range of comics available absolutely free.

Galway Arts Centre poetry workshops

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

POETRY WORKSHOPS, for beginners, intermediate, and advanced levels, taught by acclaimed Galway poet Kevin Higgins, take place in the Galway Arts Centre next month.

How artists see the west of Ireland and her people

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE WAYS in which artists, both Irish and foreign, have depicted the country’s Atlantic seaboard and people will be the subject of a public talk.

Far From Literature We Were Reared

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

FAR FROM Literature We Were Reared the annual hooley of prose, poetry, music, and craic by Galway writers and performers, returns to the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 8pm.

Booker listed Joseph O’Neill returns to Cúirt

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

IRISH AUTHOR Joseph O’Neill, who has previously been long listed for the Booker, will take part in a public interview for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Tongue Fu - poetry, but not as you know it

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

TONGUE FU, a riotous experiment in live literature, music, film, and improv, and one of London’s best attended spoken word nights, is coming to Galway.

Celebrate the legacy of Lady Gregory

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

THE LEGACY of Lady Augusta Gregory will be celebrated in the Lough Cutra Castle and estate, outside Gort in south Galway, next month.

Public lecture on Liam O’Flaherty by his publisher

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

LIAM O’FLAHERTY, had the dubious honour of being the first novelist to endure the wrath of the Free State censors, when his The House Of Gold was banned.

Launch of ROPES Literary Journal today

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

Ropes 2015, a literary journal published by the MA in Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway, will be launched during this year’s Cúirt Festival.

Cúirt/Over The Edge New Writing Showcase

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

EMERGING WRITERS Alvy Carragher, Mary McGill, Teresa Sweeney, Daniel Roy Connolly, and Sonya Gildea, will read at the Cúirt and Over The Edge New Writing Showcase.

Cúirt Fringe to remember Nora Crubs - “Galway’s first nightclub”

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

NORA CRUBS, a one time Quay Street venue, described by some as “Galway’s first nightclub” will be remembered and celebrated at an event at the Cúirt Fringe next week.

Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

THE GALWAY Arts Centre is hosting daytime classes for beginner and continuing creative writing students, taught by Susan Millar DuMars.

Leading poets to read at Cúirt

Wed, Apr 15, 2015

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature began life 30 years ago as a festival dedicated exclusively to poetry. Its remit is wider today, but poetry remains a key factor.

Tree planting to mark thirty years of Cúirt

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and one of the events to mark this milestone will be a tree planting ceremony.

Naomi Shihab Nye: Palestine and poetry meet at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

NAOMI SHIHAB Nye has had both the good fortune, and the bad luck, to have lived in interesting times and places. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1952 to a Palestinian father and an American mother; she grew up in (the now notorious) St Louis suburb of Ferguson, in Jerusalem, and in San Antonio, Texas, where she currently resides.

On being autistic: a personal witness

Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 02, 2015

IN HIS extraordinary book, The Reason I Jump - One Boy’s Voice From The Silence Of Autism, Naoki Higashida, an autistic boy aged 13, writes: “We are misunderstood and we’d give anything if only we could be understood properly...Please, understand what we really are, and what we’re going through.”

Sean-nós singing in Pennsylvania

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

UNLIKELY AS it might seem, for a time, Pennsylvania was a hot-bed of sean nós singing, as a public lecture at the Galway City Library will show.

The Canadians are coming to Cúirt

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

A HOST of leading Canadian authors, such as Dionne Brand, Lawrence Hill, and DW Wilson, will be in Galway for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

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