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GTI creative writing classes

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THE POETS Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will host a series of creative wiring classes in the Galway Technical Institute, Fr Griffin Road, starting in October.

Westside Arts Festival open-mic

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THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer open-mic - possibly the biggest literary open-mic of the year - returns to the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, on Wednesday July 12 from 6pm to 8pm.

Yrsa Daley-Ward - ‘We’ve all experienced the same emotions’

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HER SURNAMES are Irish, her parentage is Afro-Carribean, she grew up with Seventh Day Adventists, and she is an LGBT writer; Yrsa Daley-Ward is a one-woman rainbow coalition. This month, Cúirt audiences can savour her exhilaratingly raw and sensual writing when she reads at the Town Hall Theatre.

Kevin Higgins to release his poetic 'Greatest Hits'

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“AS NASTY a man as he is poor as a 'poet'” was what John McTernan, a former advisor to Tony Blair called Kevin Higgins - but then, that's Blairites for you. Diarmaid Ferriter though was on the mark, when he described the Galwegian as “Ireland’s accomplished political poet and satirist".

Exciting programme launched for Cúirt 2017

The rain was splish splashing in its Galway fashion on Tuesday evening but that didn’t deter the many literature devotees who gathered at the House Hotel for the programme launch of this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Ballinasloe man asks court to find out what happened to his sister in Tuam home

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A solicitor for an elderly man described as “extremely ill” with cancer has urged the High Court to help him find out what happened to his infant sister after she was born at St Mary’s mother and baby home in Tuam.

Cúirt 2017 programme launched

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THE RAIN was splish splashing in its Galway fashion on Tuesday evening but that didn’t deter the many literature devotees who gathered at the House Hotel for the programme launch of this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Remembering Patrick Kavanagh in Galway

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“IF EVER you go to Dublin Town/In a hundred years or so/Inquire for me in Baggot Street/And what I was like to know” wrote the poet Patrick Kavanagh, but you do not have to go to Dublin to find out about him.

Over The Edge opening reading

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WRITERS JAKI McCarrick, Ciaran Ferriter, and Paul Lewis, will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 23 at 6.30pm.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

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LEADING GALWAY poets like Gerry Hanberry, Alvy Carragher, Miceál Kearney, Pete Mullineaux, and Marie Cadden will read at the 2017 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, which takes place next week.

 

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