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From the cages of Long Kesh in the 1970s, to the lecture halls and classrooms of NUI Galway this century, a love of writing and a passionate belief in the importance of education has been central in the life of Paddy McMenamin.

THIS YEAR marks the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s groundbreaking work of modernist fiction, Ulysses, but while that book, and its author, are profoundly rooted in Dublin, Joyce himself had Galway connections.

LAND OF The Ever Young is a new anthology of writing for children by working class authors - the final volume in a trilogy of working people’s writing from contemporary Ireland.

THE POET and singer-songwriter, Denis Mockler, will launch his latest collection of poetry live on Facebook this Saturday, December 4, at 6.30pm.

Do you ever tell yourself that you are the architect of your destiny? That you have the power to realise your ambitions, fulfil your deeply cherished dreams, and be the person you were meant to be.

“AS A reader you want to hear about other lives, but you need to see that you too are worth something, that you and your community deserve to be at the literary top level. Representation matters. Working class voices are still struggling for representation in a middle class industry.”

MICHAEL SILKE

GALWAY WRITER Jim Ward will feature alongside Kevin Barry, Lisa McInerney, and Roddy Doyle in a new anthology, The 32 – Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices.

AN TAOIBH Eile Den Scamall, the new novel by Galway born author Conor Bowman - his first novel as Gaeilge - has just been published by Arlen House.

PETE MULLINEAUX is rarely a man with little to do, being a poet, a playwright, and an active force in youth theatre and education in Galway.