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THE ANNUAL Forge at Gort Literature festival, organised by the Western Writers’ Centre, returns to south Galway in March next year.

Coole Park will hold a free family event to celebrate the start of the festive season on Sunday December 9. The event, which will take place in the Coole Park Visitor Centre and tea rooms from 2pm to 4pm, will feature stories, winter scavenger hunts, and a visit by Santa.

Week III

If anyone thought that academics sharing their enthusiasm for the landscape, writers and artists associated with Coole Park, Co Galway, would be boring and stuffy, they had a surprise last weekend. There were some jaw-dropping moments when Lady Augusta Gregory’s secret love affair was revealed; and when WB Yeats went off the rails in the years following her death, and had a series of love affairs.

The Eighteenth Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering - a celebration of one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival, 19th century Irish writing and culture, and south Galway - returns from September 28 to 30.

It is almost two decades since the first Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering at Coole and the event goes from strength to strength with an impressive line-up of speakers and events announced at the launch at Coole last weekend.

A family walk will take place at Coole Park this Sunday, with a tree walk on Bank Holiday Monday. Both walks will start at 3pm.

A five-bedroom dormer bungalow just three miles from the bustling town of Gort will be sold at public auction by Michael Cunnigham on August 9 at the Lady Gregory Hotel in Gort.

COOLE LADY, a play which reveals the character and feelings of Lady Augusta Gregory, comes to County Galway next week for performances in Loughrea and Gort, on May 18 and 19.

The auction of this fine Gort home will take place in the front garden of the house tomorrow (Friday), marking the first time an auction has taken place at the property being sold.