Three poets go Over The Edge

Thu, Mar 22, 2018

THE POETS Simon Lewis, Geraldine Dardis-O’Kane, and Alice Kinsella, will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday, March 29, at 6.30pm.

Sebastian Barry to read at Cúirt

Wed, Mar 21, 2018

Sebastian Barry, the award-winning author and new Laureate for Irish Fiction, has been added to the line-up for this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

‘Salty’ and ‘sustaining’ Cúirt programme unveiled at House Hotel

Thu, Mar 08, 2018

“A great wave of salty, sustaining literary fare” was how guest speaker Vincent Woods vividly described the joys of Cúirt at the launch of this year’s programme, at the House Hotel on Tuesday evening. The venue was thronged as Galway’s readers and writers turned out in force for the occasion.

Spring creative writing classes

Thu, Mar 08, 2018

THE WRITERS Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins will hold creative writing classes, for beginners and intermediate levels, in the Galway Technical Institute, Father Griffin Road, starting in April.

Vietnam war veteran to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

VIETNAM WAR veteran Jack Grady will be among the poets reading at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering, which also includes award-winning Australian poet Joel Deane, and Galway’s Sighle Meehan.

Elaine Feeney and Orfhlaith Foyle - in conversation

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

THE POET Elaine Feeney and the poet and novelist-Orfhlaith Foyle will be in The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street, next week, for a public conversation under the heading Writer’s Block, Reader’s Block.

A 'positive and uplifting' book about death

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

DEATH IS one of the very few experiences everybody will have. It is looked on with fear and suspicion, and is rarely, if ever, welcomed as a subject of conversation.

Eamonn McCann to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

ACTIVIST, JOURNALIST, author, social justice campaigner, and briefly a Stormont MLA, Eamonn McCann has long been an outspoken and independent voice in Irish politics and society.

Jessamine O’Connor - a new, powerful, lyrical poetic voice

Thu, Feb 08, 2018

OVER THE last 10 years, women’s poetry in the west of Ireland has re-energised itself. Taking its cue from the pioneering work of Rita Anne Higgins, Mary O’Malley, Eva Bourke, and Anne Kennedy, it seems to have matured on to another level, adding a new dimension, energy, and maturity to the female poetic voice.

Neil McCarthy - 21st century troubadour

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 01, 2018

I FIRST heard Neil McCarthy read his poems in 1998 at the open-mic in the now long defunct Apostasy Café, Dominick Street, back when Neil was a university student, Bertie Ahern was popular, and history had temporarily ended.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

THE 2018 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring 14 different poets, takes place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow evening at 6.30pm.

Cillian Murphy to launch new history book in Galway

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

Cillian Murphy, the acclaimed Irish actor and star of Peaky Blinders and Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley film, will launch a new book on politics of memory in post-independence Ireland.

Cúirt New Writing Prize deadline nears

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE DEADLINE for The Cúirt New Writing Prize is Thursday January 25 at 5pm. The categories are poetry and short stories with a €500 cash prize for the winner of each category and the opportunity to read at Cúirt 2018.

Take up creative writing in 2018

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

CHARLIE ADLEY, the Galway based columnist and prize-winning playwright, will host his popular Craft of Writing Course in the Westside Resource Centre this March.

Photographic reflections on the smallest of the Aran Islands

Literature Reviews Tue, Jan 16, 2018

FOR THE past three years, under the astute curatorship of Margaret Nolan, the Town Hall Theatre bar has been one of the more unlikely but liveliest city venues for art exhibitions with a steady succession of high quality shows.

Akumakon 2018 - three days of anime and manga

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

AKUAMKON - GALWAY'S annual celebration of anime and manga, and Japanese culture - returns for its eighth year, with this year's special guests including Josh Grelle, an American voice actor on Attack On Titan, and Hirokazu Yashuhara, best known for his work on the Sonic the Hedgehog games.

First Over The Edge reading for 2018

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

THE OVER The Edge readings will not only be marking its first event of 2018, but it's 15th birthday when Martina Evans, Edna Faye Kiel, and Nicola Geddes, read from their work at the Galway City Library next week.

The poet, Van Morrison, and their native Belfast

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 04, 2018

AT FIRST glance the reader could be forgiven for thinking Gerald Dawe’s new book, In Another World - Van Morrison and Belfast, is a memoir of Van and his life in Belfast. There is some justification for this, but Dawe's short volume is so much more, and in fact packs one hell of a punch.

Creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

DAYTIME CREATIVE writing classes take place this month, in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, and will be taught by the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars.

A poet of whom Markievicz would have approved

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 04, 2018

THE RECENT Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets has been criticised on the grounds that the gender balance is skewed in favour of those in permanent possession of a penis.

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