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The great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Oct 27 1914 - Nov 9 1953) had absolutely no interest in school. He attended Swansea Grammar where his father, DJ Thomas, was the much feared English teacher. Both the boys and the staff were afraid of his temper, so much so that when Dylan, frequently bored with school, walked out murmuring that he was gong to write ‘bloody poetry’, if he met the headmaster on his way, the head would only nod, and say; “Don’t get caught, will you?”

Due to unavoidable changes in commitments to filming a major new TV series, economist David McWilliams will not be able to host the Leviathan show on Sunday at 7pm in the Meyrick Hotel as part of Cúirt.

THE NORTH Beach Poetry Nights will host the All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship 2009 in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

The very wonderful Gare St Lazare Players bring their exciting new production of Moby Dick to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday May 7 at 8.00pm.

Mayo Concert Orchestra brings its impressive musical talents to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar for two nights on Monday May 11 and Tuesday May 12 at 8pm.

Galway writers Maureen Gallagher and Alan McMonagle will read at An Spidéal Library this evening at 7.30pm. Maureen will read from her first collection of poetry Calling The Tune, while Alan will read from his new collection of short stories Liar, Liar. Both writers are published by WordsontheStreet.

With the launch of the Paris fashion Salon de Chocolat this month and the Christmas chocolate season drawing upon us, two Kilkenny artists, poet Carmel Cummins and artist Gillian Campden, are heading to Dublin next Thursday October 22 for the press opening of the Chocolate Festival Exhibition to be held at the No Grants Gallery (NGG) Temple Bar Cultural Information Centre.

SALENA GODDEN is known to music fans as the lead singer with underground ska/jazz band SaltPeter. She is also a slam poet and the Londoner will be the guest performer at North Beach Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Monday at 9pm.

RAVEN, THE Californian poet who has shared the stage with Saul Williams, is the guest poet at the North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

The one and only Des Keogh delivers a one-man delight of comedy theatre in Confessions of an Irish Publican at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday June 8 and Tuesday June 8 at 8pm. Based on the work of one of Ireland’s best known storytellers John B. Keane’s Confessions of an Irish Publican, the lives of the inhabitants of Knockanee are brilliantly evoked in a tour de force performance by Des Keogh. Having premiered off-Broadway at New York’s Irish Rep Theatre, this hilarious one-man show sees the incomparable Des Keogh switch from character to character as he brings the play and its characters to life. Come and meet the publican MacMeer, the parish priest, the Reverend Mother, feisty Dublin woman Grace and many more…