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.

Far From Literature returns to Cúirt

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

FAR FROM Literature We Were Reared, the night showcasing prose, poetry, spoken word, music, and comedy from local writers and performers, returns to the Róisín Dubh this weekend as part of the Cúirt literary festival.

'Reading, writing, and thinking together will sustain us'

Tue, Apr 25, 2017

WITH THE Galway Theatre Festival having wound down on Sunday, it was time for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature to take the baton in Galway’s annual cultural relay race.

AL Kennedy and Conor O’Callaghan for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

AL KENNEDY, the Scottish author, columnist, commentator, and stand-up comic, is coming to Cúírt to read at an event alongside Conor O’Callaghan, shortlist nominee for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year.

Cúirt Over The Edge showcase 2017

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

PAUL BREGAZZI, Una Mannion, Eileen P Keane, and Rena Garrett, will read at this year's Over The Edge's annual New Writing Showcase as part of the 2017 Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

The French connection - Cúirt to celebrate Michel Déon

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

THE HIBERNOPHILE French author Michel Déon will be celebrated at a series of events at this month's Cúirt International Festival of Literature, organised in conjunction with the French Embassy and NUI, Galway.

Kevin Higgins to release his poetic 'Greatest Hits'

Thu, Apr 13, 2017

“AS NASTY a man as he is poor as a 'poet'” was what John McTernan, a former advisor to Tony Blair called Kevin Higgins - but then, that's Blairites for you. Diarmaid Ferriter though was on the mark, when he described the Galwegian as “Ireland’s accomplished political poet and satirist".

Martina Evans - the poetry of untrustworthy dentists

Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 06, 2017

THERE IS a school of thought popular among middle-brow critics of both genders, who tend to prevail in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, and in the literary pages of formerly important newspapers, that poetry should avoid two particular ailments.

Demystifying Hamlet

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

GALWAY'S JAMES Connolly Forum has set itself the task of 'Demystifying Hamlet' and explaining, in layman’s terms, the world of William Shakespeare’s tragedies with a public talk tomorrow at 7.30pm in The Western on Prospect Hill.

Sara Baume - walking the thin line

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 30, 2017

THERE IS something of a desolate feeling about the opening line of Sara Baume’s second novel, A Line Made By Walking, just published by Tramp Press: “A smudged-sky morning, mid-spring. And to mark it, a new dead thing, a robin."

Paisiún‎..... talking is the first step in the right direction

Wed, Mar 15, 2017

The why?
In Ireland, over 400 people each year end their lives by suicide and we have one of the highest suicide rates in Europe among 15-24 year olds.

What is poetry?

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 09, 2017

BACK IN the day, when the only poetry textbooks in our secondary schools were Intermediate Cert Poetry and Leaving Cert Poetry, should an intrepid pupil have the temerity to ask “What is poetry?” the answer generally given was “a lyric”.

Cúirt 2017 programme launched

Wed, Mar 08, 2017

THE RAIN was splish splashing in its Galway fashion on Tuesday evening but that didn’t deter the many literature devotees who gathered at the House Hotel for the programme launch of this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Two women’s poems of experience

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 02, 2017

POST-HEANEY, Irish poetry is in desperate need of a 'next big thing'. It should, preferably, be a poet with a haircut sufficiently stylish to allow him/her at least pretend to be young.

Remembering Patrick Kavanagh in Galway

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

“IF EVER you go to Dublin Town/In a hundred years or so/Inquire for me in Baggot Street/And what I was like to know” wrote the poet Patrick Kavanagh, but you do not have to go to Dublin to find out about him.

Public lecture on Irish-Americans and Independence

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

WHILE THE contribution of Irish Americans to the events of 1916 are well documented, their campaign to undermine British imperial rule in Ireland in the decades before the Great War is often neglected.

Cúirt labs - creative workshops for young people

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THE CÚIRT The Labs, the education and youth strand of Galway's international festival of literature, aimed at schools and young people, returns from Monday April 24 to Saturday 29.

NUIG to celebrate the work of Mike McCormack

Tue, Feb 21, 2017

A public reception to celebrate the work and teaching of Galway-Mayo writer Mike McCormack, to mark the success of his acclaimed novel Solar Bones, will take place tomorrow evening [Wednesday February 22] in NUI Galway.

New book launched to honour NUI Galway professor

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

STEPHEN G ELLIS, professor of history at NUI Galway, and an expert on Tudor Ireland, is to be honoured with the launch of a new book of essays covering the period from late medieval to early modern Ireland.

Over The Edge opening reading

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

WRITERS JAKI McCarrick, Ciaran Ferriter, and Paul Lewis, will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 23 at 6.30pm.

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