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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.”
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...Over The Edge reading
Thu, Mar 19, 2015
SEAN LYSAGHT, Tim Dwyer, and Gráinne McHale are the featured readers at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday March 26 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Creative writing classes
Thu, Mar 19, 2015
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediates take place at the Galway Technical Institute, Father Griffin Road, next month.
Read more ...Cúirt hits thirty
Wed, Mar 11, 2015
ON TUESDAY evening at the House Hotel the programme for the 2015 Cúirt International Literature Festival was officially launched and, as ever, there is a rich feast of readings, talks, workshops, launches, and more to look forward to.
Read more ...Paul Durcan and Joseph O’Neill to read at Cúirt
Thu, Mar 05, 2015
The poets Paul Durcan and John Montague, as well as the Booker nominated novelist Joseph O’Neill will read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature which will run from April 21 to 27 in venues across Galway city and county.
Read more ...Gort to celebrate the life and work of WB Yeats
Thu, Mar 05, 2015
THIS WEEKEND marks the start of a series of events in County Galway, as part of Yeats2015, celebrating WB Yeats and his connections to south Galway.
Read more ...The stormy life of Granuaile
Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2015
IRISH HISTORY and mythology, and indeed the points where they intersect, are rich materials for the graphic novel, leading, over the last number of years, to Irish writers and artists exploring the potentialities of such as Cúchulainn and The Táin.
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