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The castle home of WB Yeats was the location for the launch of a major new poetry competition to mark the 100th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the renowned Irish poet.

Over 2,000 people attended two multidisciplinary ritual beach performances to celebrate the ocean last weekend. The unique events took place in Kinvara on Trácht Beach and Ladies Beach in Salthill, Galway City as part of Galway Theatre Festival.

This Bealtaine, on Sunday April 30 and Monday May 1, as part of Galway Theatre Festival 2023, two multidisciplinary ritual beach performances that celebrate our ocean will take place in Kinvara on Trácht Beach and Ladies Beach in Salthill. People are invited to the beaches at dusk where they will be immersed in a performative ritual.

Now in its ninth year, Poetry Day Ireland is an annual island-wide celebration of poetry which invites the nation to read, write, and share a poem on Thursday, April 27.

'So much of this festival is about celebrating Irish writers.' - Manuela Moser, Festival Director for Cúirt.

Club Scannán Sailearna's spring season of world cinema continues with German film The Ordinaries, shown in partnership with the Dublin International Film Festival, this Thursday March 2 in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, at 8.15pm.

In sonnet 78, by Shakespeare we catch the poet’s oblique allusion to the physical effects of the destruction wrought by the Reformation –

‘Threading the Táin’ is an inter-county community visual arts project showcasing five tapestries created in celebration of the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley.

In 2016 The Stinging Fly magazine described Kevin Higgins as ‘likely Ireland’s most read Irish poet’. Kevin who passed away this week was a passionate and popular poet, a satirist, a fine wordsmith, a romantic with real powers of evocation and a gentle presence too.

President Michael D Higgins paid tribute last night to poet Kevin Higgins who passed away on Tuesday after a short illness.