One Book One Galway 2015

Mon, Feb 09, 2015

MORE THAN 500 schoolchildren across Galway city will take part in One Book One Galway - an initiative to encourage children to read one specific book - which will be launched this Thursday [February 12] at 11.30am.

Michael Murphy to read at Town Hall

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

MICHAEL MURPHY, the former RTÉ newscaster and more recently best-selling author, brings his show, Stories, Poetry, and Dreams, to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday February 14.

Book review: Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

IT IS every publisher’s dream s/he should “discover” the author who will be as iconic as James Joyce, as commercially successful as JK Rowling, and as prolific as Charles Dickens. So when a potential candidate appears above the parapet the publisher will - rightly - not hesitate to sing loud and clear that the new literary protégé will out-Joyce Joyce, out sell Rowling, and outwrite Dickens.

Michael Harding and his elephant

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE IRISH Times columnist Michael Harding reads from his book, Hanging With The Elephant, in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday February 11 at 8pm.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

LOUIS DEPAOR, Sarah Clancy, and Gerry Hanberry take part in the Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Charlie Byrne’s, on Friday February 13 from 6.30pm.

Book review: I Remember, I Remember: Galway Stories and Sketches

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

NOSTALGIA IS defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.” Tales of bygone years when the sun seemed to shine forever, and childhood days were filled with laughter are always trying to tell the reader some sort of lie.

Galway and The Great War lectures at city museum

Wed, Feb 04, 2015

THE GREAT War’s impact on Galway city, the slaughter in the trenches, and recruiting Galwegians to fight for “king and country” will be the subject of a series of public lectures taking place at the Galway City Museum, every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm.

Telegael seeks young actors for new film

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE EMMY award winning An Spidéal based film and animation company Telegael is in pre-production with Morten, the first stop-motion animation feature film produced in Ireland.

Calling all buskers for Buskfactor Galway

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

GALWAY’S FIRST busking competition, Buskfactor Galway, is taking place every Tuesday in The Blue Note at 9pm and jugglers, performance artists, comedians, musicians, magicians, dancers, and actors are sought to take part.

Over The Edge reading returns for 2015 season

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE FIRST Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2015 takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday January 22 from 6.30pm to 8pm, with writers Liz Quirke, Michelle Coyne, and Paula Cunningham.

Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

SUSAN MILLAR DuMars, the Galway poet and short story writer, will give a series of creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre, starting this month.

Mr Yeats, we salute you

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 08, 2015

ON A wet morning in 1948, a woman of about 30 and a man of 18 were cycling as fast as they could along Grattan Road. They were watching a boat make its way around Mutton Island, hoping they could make it to the docks before it docked.

Sexing up Greek myths and facing down the bank

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 08, 2015

THERE ARE those for whom being a poet is, to paraphrase Angela Carr’s fine poem ‘Occupied’, “the new black”. If you are young and fit, all you need do is write long poems about what is going on at street level and wave your arms around when you read them.

Creative writing classes at GTI

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediate levels take place in the Galway Technical Institute in January and bookings are now being accepted.

New book on life in Ardrahan

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

ARDRAHAN, ITS people, life, and times from the 1930s to the 1960s, is the subject of a new book, Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen, which will be launched this weekend.

Old Galway’s hidden urban landscape

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014

ONE OF the great pleasures of the early morning walk, jog, or run through the streets of Galway is that you can experience our urban landscape unencumbered with either human or motorised traffic.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

POETS MARION Cox, Christine Murray, and Edward O’Dwyer will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday December 18 at 6.30pm.

Ireland’s leading protest poet discovers hope

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014

A WOMAN told me recently that if she hears one more bad poem about water charges, she may take the extreme retaliatory action of paying her water charges bill, in the unlikely event that it ever actually arrives.

Cúirt New Writing Prize 2015

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

THE CÚIRT New Writing Prize is now open for submissions in poetry and fiction. There is a €500 cash prize in each category and an opportunity to read at Cúirt 2015.

New book collects Yeats' Galway poems

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

SOUTH GALWAY, the location of Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, was special to WB Yeats and an area where he spent some 30 summers, composing many of his finest works.

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