Telegael seeks young actors for new film

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE EMMY award winning An Spidéal based film and animation company Telegael is in pre-production with Morten, the first stop-motion animation feature film produced in Ireland.

Calling all buskers for Buskfactor Galway

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

GALWAY’S FIRST busking competition, Buskfactor Galway, is taking place every Tuesday in The Blue Note at 9pm and jugglers, performance artists, comedians, musicians, magicians, dancers, and actors are sought to take part.

Over The Edge reading returns for 2015 season

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE FIRST Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2015 takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday January 22 from 6.30pm to 8pm, with writers Liz Quirke, Michelle Coyne, and Paula Cunningham.

Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

SUSAN MILLAR DuMars, the Galway poet and short story writer, will give a series of creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre, starting this month.

Mr Yeats, we salute you

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 08, 2015

ON A wet morning in 1948, a woman of about 30 and a man of 18 were cycling as fast as they could along Grattan Road. They were watching a boat make its way around Mutton Island, hoping they could make it to the docks before it docked.

Sexing up Greek myths and facing down the bank

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 08, 2015

THERE ARE those for whom being a poet is, to paraphrase Angela Carr’s fine poem ‘Occupied’, “the new black”. If you are young and fit, all you need do is write long poems about what is going on at street level and wave your arms around when you read them.

Creative writing classes at GTI

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediate levels take place in the Galway Technical Institute in January and bookings are now being accepted.

New book on life in Ardrahan

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

ARDRAHAN, ITS people, life, and times from the 1930s to the 1960s, is the subject of a new book, Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen, which will be launched this weekend.

Old Galway’s hidden urban landscape

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014

ONE OF the great pleasures of the early morning walk, jog, or run through the streets of Galway is that you can experience our urban landscape unencumbered with either human or motorised traffic.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

POETS MARION Cox, Christine Murray, and Edward O’Dwyer will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday December 18 at 6.30pm.

Ireland’s leading protest poet discovers hope

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014

A WOMAN told me recently that if she hears one more bad poem about water charges, she may take the extreme retaliatory action of paying her water charges bill, in the unlikely event that it ever actually arrives.

Cúirt New Writing Prize 2015

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

THE CÚIRT New Writing Prize is now open for submissions in poetry and fiction. There is a €500 cash prize in each category and an opportunity to read at Cúirt 2015.

New book collects Yeats' Galway poems

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

SOUTH GALWAY, the location of Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, was special to WB Yeats and an area where he spent some 30 summers, composing many of his finest works.

Snapshots of Galway in another time

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

GALWAY CITY: Snapshots Through Time is a new book telling the history of the city through postcards of the area produced between 1890 and 1930.

Galway author charts the Irish experience of WWI

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 13, 2014

THE LAST couple of years has seen a mushrooming of books relating to WWI, and more specifically, WWI and Ireland. For those interested in learning more about this seismic event, or wondering where to start, Cormac Ó Comhraí’s Ireland and the First World War: A Photographic History is the perfect answer.

Banned novel for discussion in Westside Library

Thu, Nov 13, 2014

BEING ONE of Ireland’s finest writers, a Gaeilgeoir, and a veteran of the War of Independence, did not prevent Liam O’Flaherty from escaping the censor.

Over The Edge open reading

Thu, Nov 13, 2014

A POET, a short story writer, and an emerging Galway writer are the readers at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 20 at 6.30pm.

Bears, wolves, and Gordon Buchanan

Thu, Nov 06, 2014

GORDON BUCHANAN, the wildlife documentary maker and TV presenter is coming to Galway to share stories of his incredible experiences with nature’s most fearsome and majestic animals.

The grandeur of Dún Aonghusa

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 06, 2014

THE STONE fort of Dún Aongusa is one of the more spectacular surviving remnants of ancient Irish civilisation. It stands at the edge of Atlantic facing cliffs on the largest of the Aran Islands, Inis Mór, and on a clear day, much of the west coast of Ireland is visible from the site.

Three short plays about IRA internal security

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 06, 2014

THE INTERNAL security procedures of the now defunct Provisional IRA (1969-2005 RIP) have lately been subjected to a certain amount of criticism. Even Gerry Adams has admitted “mistakes” were made.

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