Galway online event for Poetry Day Ireland
Mon, Apr 26, 2021
SIX STORYTELLERS and writers, from Galway, Ireland, and abroad, will read poems and discuss the inspiration behind the work, in an online event for Poetry Day Ireland.
Read more ...Cúirt 2021 - What are you going to see?
Tue, Apr 20, 2021
THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature has begun and runs until Sunday. This year, things are a little different due to Covid-19 restrictions, so audiences are encouraged to watch at home and be part of the online festival community.
Read more ...Essential Conversations at Cúirt 2021
Thu, Apr 15, 2021
RACE, FEMINISM, climate change, the alt-right, the Covid pandemic - some of the key and most urgent issues of our time, will be discussed and debated at this month’s Cúirt festival.
Read more ...Cúirt / Over The Edge showcase 2021
Thu, Apr 15, 2021
THE 15TH annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature/Over The Edge showcase for emerging writers returns on Thursday, April 22nd at 1pm, via Zoom.
Read more ...Summer poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins
Thu, Apr 15, 2021
STARTING May, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, each taught by the poet Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...Over The Edge Fiction Slam 2021
Thu, Apr 01, 2021
THE ANNUAL Over The Edge Fiction Slam, where fiction and prose writers have a chance to read their work to the public, returns on Friday April 9 at 8pm.
Read more ...Three poets go Over The Edge
Thu, Mar 18, 2021
THE POETS Helen Ivory, Bill Richardson, and Sadhbh Goodwin will read at the next Over The Edge which will take place via Zoom on Thursday March 25 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Cúirt’s Super Springtime
Mon, Mar 15, 2021
Here at Cúirt Literary Festival, we love all things books and literature! With Saint Patrick’s Day around the corner and spring well and truly underway (fine stretch in the evenings, isn’t there?!), we decided to compile a list of what we believe are excellent recent releases in children’s literature. We hope this list inspires and occupies your children during these beautiful spring evenings. Read on to find out all about our Paddy’s Day Limerick Competition! The winner will receive a whopping €200 cash prize!
Read more ...New Galway novel explores embattled family farming life
Thu, Mar 11, 2021
AN AGEING Irish farmer, Íosac Mulgannon, is trying to keep hold of his farm. He may be going senile, and as these twin battles rage, he seeks to protect and care for a mute boy, burdened with a particular curse.
Read more ...Pure Gold - strangeness and familiarity off the Mayo coast
Thu, Feb 25, 2021
"ABOVE WAS streaked blue, so divinely blue you’d believe in angels, so bright you couldn’t glance at it and not shudder...and amongst this hazy backdrop, I could hear the distant shearing of every make of lawn on the Island."
Read more ...Jake Arden to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Feb 18, 2021
JAKE ARDEN, the son of the writers and activists Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...Food On The Edge launches book on cooking after Covid
Thu, Feb 18, 2021
In August 2020, when many in the restaurant business around the world found themselves enduring the brutal consequences of a global pandemic, many without income, without their staff and their business, Food On The Edge founder JP McMahon reached out to speakers and other contributors to the Food On The Edge symposium. His request was simple - to write a letter addressed to the industry.
“The basis of the request was that their contributions would serve to provide a global record of a particularly challenging time while allowing hope to shine on the future and the next generation of young cooks, chefs, farmers, and food activists," he said. "What we got was a series of deeply personal and moving accounts of their Covid-19 experience with many recounting losses and some reminiscing on valuable gains and insights.
Read more ...Women Writers of the West - a new online book club
Thu, Feb 11, 2021
AWARD WINNING Galway writers Elaine Feeney, Mary Costello, and Nuala O’Connor will be the focus of the opening weeks of a new online book club - Women Writers of the West.
Read more ...2021 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
Rita Ann Higgins, one of Galway's most original and outspoken poets, will be among those taking part in the 2021 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase.
Read more ...‘Lockdown Diaries’ - seeking stories of older people's experience of the pandemic
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
THE GALWAY County Council and Galway Public Libraries are seeking submissions from older residents of Galway city and county to reflect on life in Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...Cúirt New Writing Prize deadline looms
Wed, Jan 27, 2021
THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature New Writing Prize is open for submissions, with poems and short stories being sought.
Read more ...Two new Galway stars in the poetry sky
Thu, Jan 21, 2021
BOTH VINNY Glynn-Steed and Aoife Reilly have an ongoing love affair with language. It is this that drives their poetry rather than any need to deliver a message.
Read more ...Over The Edge - the birthday edition
Thu, Jan 14, 2021
IF OVER The Edge were a person, it would now be eligible to vote and legally drink alcohol. This month, the literary reading series celebrates its 18th birthday with readings from Kathryn Slattery, Ciaran O’Rourke, and Stephen McNulty.
Read more ...Kevin Higgins' online poetry workshops
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
KEVIN HIGGINS, the acclaimed Galway based poet, will host three online poetry workshops, starting in January, and facilitated by the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...New Year online creative writing classes
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
IT IS said everyone has a book in them, or perhaps a poem, or a short story. Whichever it may be, if getting it onto paper is your ambition for 2021, then a new series of classes will help.
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