Cúirt Fringe to remember Nora Crubs - “Galway’s first nightclub”

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

NORA CRUBS, a one time Quay Street venue, described by some as “Galway’s first nightclub” will be remembered and celebrated at an event at the Cúirt Fringe next week.

Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

THE GALWAY Arts Centre is hosting daytime classes for beginner and continuing creative writing students, taught by Susan Millar DuMars.

Leading poets to read at Cúirt

Wed, Apr 15, 2015

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature began life 30 years ago as a festival dedicated exclusively to poetry. Its remit is wider today, but poetry remains a key factor.

Tree planting to mark thirty years of Cúirt

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and one of the events to mark this milestone will be a tree planting ceremony.

Naomi Shihab Nye: Palestine and poetry meet at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 02, 2015

NAOMI SHIHAB Nye has had both the good fortune, and the bad luck, to have lived in interesting times and places. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1952 to a Palestinian father and an American mother; she grew up in (the now notorious) St Louis suburb of Ferguson, in Jerusalem, and in San Antonio, Texas, where she currently resides.

On being autistic: a personal witness

Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 02, 2015

IN HIS extraordinary book, The Reason I Jump - One Boy’s Voice From The Silence Of Autism, Naoki Higashida, an autistic boy aged 13, writes: “We are misunderstood and we’d give anything if only we could be understood properly...Please, understand what we really are, and what we’re going through.”

Sean-nós singing in Pennsylvania

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

UNLIKELY AS it might seem, for a time, Pennsylvania was a hot-bed of sean nós singing, as a public lecture at the Galway City Library will show.

The Canadians are coming to Cúirt

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

A HOST of leading Canadian authors, such as Dionne Brand, Lawrence Hill, and DW Wilson, will be in Galway for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

SEAN LYSAGHT, Tim Dwyer, and Gráinne McHale are the featured readers at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday March 26 at 6.30pm.

Creative writing classes

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediates take place at the Galway Technical Institute, Father Griffin Road, next month.

Cúirt hits thirty

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

ON TUESDAY evening at the House Hotel the programme for the 2015 Cúirt International Literature Festival was officially launched and, as ever, there is a rich feast of readings, talks, workshops, launches, and more to look forward to.

Paul Durcan and Joseph O’Neill to read at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

The poets Paul Durcan and John Montague, as well as the Booker nominated novelist Joseph O’Neill will read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature which will run from April 21 to 27 in venues across Galway city and county.

Gort to celebrate the life and work of WB Yeats

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THIS WEEKEND marks the start of a series of events in County Galway, as part of Yeats2015, celebrating WB Yeats and his connections to south Galway.

The stormy life of Granuaile

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2015

IRISH HISTORY and mythology, and indeed the points where they intersect, are rich materials for the graphic novel, leading, over the last number of years, to Irish writers and artists exploring the potentialities of such as Cúchulainn and The Táin.

Book review: John O’Donohue

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THERE WAS a day in January 2008 when suddenly the valleys, streams, rivers, and lakes of Connemara and the Burren lost their colour and blackened, when the silent music of the stones, hills, and mountains abated for just a moment, for at that moment, in far off Italy one of the few men who fully understood their physical and spiritual presence experienced, to quote his own words,

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

WRITERS FROM Galway, Dublin, Cork, and Belfast will read at The Over The Edge March Writers’ Gathering in the The Kitchen, Galway City Museum, Friday March 13 at 8pm.

Youth to celebrate Yeats in south Galway

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

THIRTY YOUNG harpists from the Athenry Music School and 15 students of Kiltartan National School will join forces for an event to celebrate WB Yeats.

Japanese and Irish poetry @ Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

THE ANNUAL Japanese and Irish poetry evening returns this Saturday to Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop at 6pm, with Hisa Kagawa and Gerry Hanberry.

Creative writing classes

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

THE SHORT story writer Susan Millar DuMars will give an advanced fiction writing class. The classes start on April 8 and bookings are now being taken.