Great novels set in Galway will be celebrated in the city at Aon Chathair Aon Leabhar (One City One Book ), a new event which takes place this Saturday in the Galway Arts Centre at 2pm.
The Arts Council and Galway City Arts Office will launch the initiative and the classic Irish novel by Breandán Ó hEithir, Lig Sin I gCathu, has been selected. A new edition of the English translation, specially published by Clo Iar Chonnachta for the occasion, will be launched.
Actors from An Taibhdhearc, directed by Seamus Ó hAoidh, will perform exciting and entertaining excerpts from the dramatised version of the book in the arts centre directly after the launch.
Lig Sin I gCathu is a bawdy novel about Galway undergraduate life, centring around the protagonist Martin Melody, the pub-crawling university student and his disreputable friends who are too busy drinking and lusting after girls to pay much attention to the political developments of the Easter Weekend in 1949. Lig Sinn I gCathu was the first Irish-language novel to lead the best-seller list in Ireland.
This event will mark the first of a series of literary and artistic events scheduled to take place throughout the city up until December 12.
“Breandán was born in Galway city and his book is hugely popular especially among Gaelgoirs and those studying for the Leaving Cert,” said city arts officer James Harrold. “We thought it would be the perfect representation of Galway literature.”
For more information on Aon Chathair Aon Leabhar contact James Harrold on 091- 536546 or see www.galwaycity.ie
