Edel Coffey and Miriam O’Callaghan at Cúirt 2022

Mon, Feb 07, 2022

EDEL COFFEY, the former Sunday Tribune editor and now a best selling novelist, will be in conversation with RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan at Cúirt 2022.

Looking anew at James Joyce’s Galway connections

Thu, Feb 03, 2022

THIS YEAR marks the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s groundbreaking work of modernist fiction, Ulysses, but while that book, and its author, are profoundly rooted in Dublin, Joyce himself had Galway connections.

Take a stroll through Joyce’s Ulysses

Thu, Feb 03, 2022

A GALWAY made, two-part radio drama adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses will be aired on Newstalk on February 6 and 13 at 7am.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 03, 2022

THE ANNUAL Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, takes place in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, on Friday February 11 at 6pm.

What a Complete Aisling authors to read at Cúirt 2022

Mon, Jan 24, 2022

SARAH BREEN and Emer McLysaght, the authors of the immensely popular Aisling comic novels, and young adult fiction writer Bethany Rutter, will read at Cúirt 2022.

Representation matters - Breaking Ground Ireland at Cúirt 2022

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

IN APRIL, Galway will host a landmark project showcasing and celebrating 80 writers and illustrators from ethnic minority backgrounds in Ireland.

Cúirt New Writing Prize 2022 seeks entries

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

The Cúirt New Writing Prize 2022 is seeking entries for its poetry and short fiction categories, while the judges will be novelist Lisa McInerney and poet Gail McConnell.

Kae Tempest - live at the Róisín Dubh

Mon, Jan 17, 2022

KAE TEMPEST, the award winning poet, spoken word artist, and Sunday Times bestselling author releases a new album in April, the same month they play the Róisín Dubh.

Poets and playwrights go Over The Edge

Thu, Jan 13, 2022

POETS AND playwrights, and the launch of issue 15 of Skylight 47, will make up the first Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2022.

Galway Arts Centre New Year poetry workshops

Thu, Dec 23, 2021

STARTING IN January, the Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, facilitated by the acclaimed poet Kevin Higgins.

Final Over The Edge of 2021

Thu, Dec 09, 2021

TWO LOCAL writers - Denise Commins and Ódhrán Reidy - and an American writer - Sue Pace - will read at the Final Over The Edge of 2021.

New anthology of children’s stories by working class writers

Thu, Dec 02, 2021

LAND OF The Ever Young is a new anthology of writing for children by working class authors - the final volume in a trilogy of working people’s writing from contemporary Ireland.

New poetry collection from Denis Mockler

Thu, Dec 02, 2021

THE POET and singer-songwriter, Denis Mockler, will launch his latest collection of poetry live on Facebook this Saturday, December 4, at 6.30pm.

New Year online creative writing classes

Thu, Dec 02, 2021

WITH 2021 winding to a close and 2022 on the horizon, many will be looking ahead to what they can finally get around to doing in the New Year.

An Spidéal author wins An Post Book Awards for Irish language novel

Thu, Nov 25, 2021

MADAME LAZARE, a novel as Gaeilge by the An Spidéal author and songwriter, Tadhg MacDhonnagáin, has won the 2021 An Post Book Awards in the Irish language category.

Gift Fraser! A storybook for children

Thu, Nov 18, 2021

HAVE YOU heard about Fraser, the tallest fir tree in the forest? There is a new story book for children aged between six and 10 this Christmas - and all year - about a fir tree who longs to be picked as a Christmas tree.

Nicaragua’s Gioconda Belli to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 11, 2021

GIOCONDA BELLI, the Nicaraguan poet, novelist, Feminist, and defender of human rights, will read at Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom on Thursday November 18 at 6.30pm.

Loyalist Billy Hutchinson to read at Over The Edge

Mon, Oct 11, 2021

LOYALIST BILLY Hutchinson, a Belfast city councillor, will be among the readers at the Over The Edge annual non-fiction special on Thursday October 28 at 6.30pm.

‘There's a definite need for more working-class voices’

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

“AS A reader you want to hear about other lives, but you need to see that you too are worth something, that you and your community deserve to be at the literary top level. Representation matters. Working class voices are still struggling for representation in a middle class industry.”