Has Jack Taylor met his match?
Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 11, 2015
JACK TAYLOR was always a man with few close friends. These days he has none. Stewart is dead and Ban Garda Ridge has had enough of him, but the whiff of sulphur around this former guard turned vigilante for hire, is always enough to lure people to him.
Read more ...From Market Street to a brave new world…..and back
Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 04, 2015
SINCE 1900 Galway has produced a number of quality children’s authors, beginning with Pádraic Ó Conaire on his M'Asal Beag Dubh, and continuing with Eilis Dillon's The Lost Island and Island of the Horses; Walter Macken's Flight of the Doves and The Island of the Great Yellow Ox, and, of course, Pat O’Shea from Bohermore, with her now classic The Hounds of The Morrigan.
Read more ...Buskers, beggars, and degenerates of every persuasion
Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 04, 2015
IT HAS been said elsewhere, but bears repeating, that Galway city is probably the most important character in Máire T Robinson’s debut novel Skin Paper Stone, published by New Island.
Read more ...A troika of Doire Press Poets to read at The Crane
Thu, Jun 04, 2015
DOIRE PRESS will host a reading at The Crane Bar, Sea Road, next Monday June 8, featuring Breda Wall Ryan, John MacKenna and Robyn Rowland, all three of whom have recently had had new collections published by the Indreabhán-based company.
Read more ...Public talk on Yeats' The Wild Swans at Coole
Thu, May 28, 2015
WB YEATS The Wild Swans at Coole, published in 1917 and again, in an expanded edition in 1919, is one of his finest collections, containing such enduring works as the title poem, 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death', 'The Phases of the Moon', and 'Ego Dominus Tuus'.
Read more ...Advanced fiction writing classes
Thu, May 28, 2015
ADVANCED FICTION writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars start on Friday June 19, running for six weeks, but advance booking is required as there are only five places available.
Read more ...Performance poet Catherine Brogan to read in Galway
Thu, May 21, 2015
CATHERINE BROGAN, the performance poet, educator, and social activist is coming to Galway as part of her Wee Irish Tour, and will be in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop on Thursday May 28 at 8pm.
Read more ...Luke Kennard to read at Over The Edge
Thu, May 21, 2015
BRITISH POET Luke Kennard will launch the latest edition of the Skylight 47 poetry newspaper, and read from his own work, at the Over The Edge reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 28 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Rainbow Rain author to read in Galway schools
Thu, May 21, 2015
LAURA BRETT, the Galway born author of the new children's book Rainbow Rain, will be in Galway on Wednesday May 27, visiting a number of schools.
Read more ...Fiction writing classes
Thu, May 21, 2015
POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will teach classes in advanced fiction writing, starting June 17 and running for six weeks every Wednesday from 7pm to 9.30pm.
Read more ...Book review: Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond
Literature Reviews Thu, May 14, 2015
"THERE WERE lines across the pages but they were imperceptible because of how dark it had become and once a word was written it was irretrievable, as if abducted. I went on, sinking words into the pages, perhaps wondering what or who was taking them in. And, then, for the first time that day, just as it was ending, I knew where I was – I was beneath the ground. I was far beneath the ground at last, and my blood thronged and my heart flounced back and forth bewitchingly. The pen came to settle in the seam of my notebook. Sooner or later, I thought, you’re going to have to speak up.”
Read more ...Poet leaves Enniscorthy to drive around America
Literature Reviews Thu, May 14, 2015
EAMONN WALL has, over the past two decades, written a body of work that has made him one of Ireland’s leading diaspora poets, though he is nothing like as famous as he should be.
Read more ...Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
Thu, May 07, 2015
IRISH WRITERS Paul Perry, Anne Irwin, Rachael Hegarty, James O’Toole, and Australian poet Ross Donlon will read at the next Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering.
Read more ...At Home With Yeats in Thoor Ballylee
Thu, May 07, 2015
GALWAY POETS and musicians will gather in Thoor Ballylee in south Galway, the one-time home of WB Yeats, for an evening of poetry, song, and story when The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society presents At Home With Yeats, on Poetry Ireland Day this eveing at 8pm
Read more ...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 more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
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