The crime solving taxi driver

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

GREEDY BUILDERS, resilient prostitutes, trafficked East European women, and rogue cops, all set in the Galway of 2009 - this is A Very Personal Service, a Galway noir novel by Seán Gibbons.

Autumn creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will give a series of beginner and continuing creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre, starting in September.

Craft of Writing Course returns

Thu, Aug 10, 2017

GALWAY WRITER Charlie Adley will host another series of his popular Craft of Writing Course which returns to the Westside Community Centre, starting Thursday September 7.

Alan McMonagle to read at Utter Word

Thu, Aug 03, 2017

THE WRITERS Alan McMonagle and Nicole Flattery, and the artist Dolores Lynn, will headline the next Utter Word, the series of literary events at the Oranmore Library, which takes place on Wednesday August 9 at 7.30pm.

Poetry on the political end of the spectrum

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 03, 2017

THE NEW poetry collections by Karen J McDonnell, This Little World published by Doire Press, and Butterflies Of A Bad Summer, by Karl Parkinson, published by Salmon, have two things in common.

Poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 03, 2017

THE POET Kevin Higgins will give a series of poetry workshops for beginners, intermediate, and advanced, at the Galway Arts Centre, starting in September.

Richard Ford's happy book

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 03, 2017

ONE OF the main reasons readers are reverting to reading physical books as opposed to the Kindle is that, despite all its conveniences, the Kindle cannot provide the full book experience.

Crime fiction @ the Fringe

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

MONDAYS ARE Murder, an afternoon of noir and crime fiction, featuring Galway based writers Séamus Scanlon, Aoibheann McCann, Órfhlaith Foyle, and Kernan Andrews, takes place as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

GTI creative writing classes

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

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

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

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.

Prose, poetry, and drama - Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Tue, Jul 04, 2017

AUTHORS, POETS, and dramatists - from Ireland, Canada, and the USA - will read from their work at the July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, next week.

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering June 2017

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THE WRITER June Caldwell launches her debut short story collection, Room Little Darker, at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering, which takes place next week in the Kitchen Café of the Galway City Museum.

Colm Tóibín - a classic menagerie

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE OPENING paragraph of Colm Tóibín’s new novel House Of Names is a surprise: “I have been acquainted with the smell of death...So much has slipped away, but the smell of death lingers. Maybe the smell has entered my body and been welcomed there like an old friend come to visit. The smell of fear and panic."

Creative writing course for young people

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

DANI GILL, author of the poetry collection After Love, and the former director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, is to host a creative writing seminar for teenagers.

The Cure's Lol Tolhurst to read at the Róisín

Wed, Jun 07, 2017

LOL TOLHURST, a founder member of The Cure with Robert Smith, and a former member of the legendary goth-pop band, is coming to Galway to read from his acclaimed autobiography, Cured - The Tale Of Two Imaginary Boys.

Windows marks quarter century of giving voice to new writers

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 01, 2017

THE WINDOWS authors and artists anthology, co-edited by Cavan based poets Heather Brett and Noel Monahan, has for the past quarter century been an important outlet for emerging artists, and writers who have yet to publish a first book.

Irish Times' Eileen Battersby to read at Over The Edge

Thu, May 18, 2017

EILEEN BATTERSBY, the chief literary critic of The Irish Times will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday May 25 at 6.30pm, along with Kathryn Guille and Chris Connolly.

Elaine Feeney - poetry at the edge

Literature Reviews Thu, May 11, 2017

LAST YEAR marked the 35th anniversary of the founding of Salmon press, during which its incredible contribution to Galway's cultural life was fully celebrated. Those heady days of the eighties were brought back to mind when Rita Anne Higgins, Mary O’Malley, and Eva Bourke were given a platform to present their challenging poems to a bewildered, if generally receptive, audience.

Free Comic Book Day 2017

Thu, May 04, 2017

THIS SATURDAY is Free Comic Book Day, so if you are a new reader who is curious, a lapsed reader looking to get stuck back in, or even an avid comic book fan, this is the excuse you need.

Poetry from Warrenpoint to the Kalahari Desert

Literature Reviews Thu, May 04, 2017

THOUGH THERE is much that separates them as poets, Siobhan Campbell and Galway based Aoife Reilly share an unsentimental earthiness about the human body which few of their male counterparts manage to put into words.

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