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IT SAYS something about the ambition of Cúirt 2014 that an eminent author like Sebastian Barry; Irish fiction’s rising star Dónal Ryan; and the Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton, are among the major - but far from only major - names coming to this year’s festival.

Two of Ireland’s leading novelists, Sebastian Barry and Roddy Doyle, will be among the writers coming to the 2014 Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Free creative writing workshops for primary schools in Tuam wil begin next week following a collaboration between Fighting Words and the Cinemobile.

NUI Galway has announced the creation of a new scholarship in honour of the late Professor Pat Sheeran.

The Arts Council, the Government agency responsible for funding and developing the arts in Ireland, met with Dáil deputies and members of Seanad Éireann at the council's office in Dublin to brief them on the arts in Ireland, on the work of the Arts Council and the activities of local arts organisations in constituencies around the country.

IAN RANKIN, JOYCE Carol Oates, Colum McCarthy, and The New Yorker’s Deborah Treisman, will take part in this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which returns from Tuesday April 20 to Sunday 25.

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature celebrates its 25th birthday this year and to honour this milestone will present a strong contemporary programme of events from April 20 to 25.

Irish Times journalist, Fintan O’Toole, will be the guest of honour at a meeting of the Literary and Debating Society at NUIG on Thursday, October 23.