Mike McCormack to read at Over the Edge Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

MIKE MCCORMACK, the Galway based author whose latest novel Solar Bones, has been nominated for the prestigious Goldsmith Prize, will be the featured reader and judge at the eighth annual Over The Edge Fiction Slam.

Creative writing classes for young people

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

EVERYONE HAS a story to tell and if you are a teenager with ambitions to write, why not tell your story through prose or poetry, and help is at hand with a new series of creative writing classes.

Why Shakespeare's tragedies still matter

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

A FASCINATING and insightful book on four key Shakespeare tragedies, aimed at Leaving Cert and undergraduate students, theatregoers, and those who would like to ‘get’ Shakespeare, will be launched next week.

Fred Johnston to give creative writing classes

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

THE POET, author, and critic Fred Johnston will give a creative writing course, for those interested in writing poetry or prose, in NUI Galway, starting Monday October 3.

Over The Edge open reading

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

THE POETS Caitríona O’Reilly, Colin Dardis, and James Anthony, will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 29 at 6.30pm.

Claddagh actor Aidan Dooley to launch new book on Tom Crean

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

CLADDAGH BORN actor Aidan Dooley, who has enjoyed international acclaim and success with his show Antartic Explorer, about the life of Tom Crean, will launch his new book, Travels with Tom Crean, tomorrow.

The vanished world of Cork’s Jews

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 15, 2016

JEWTOWN, SIMON Lewis’s debut poetry collection, published by Connemara's Doire Press, tells the story of Cork’s Jewish community, from their arrival fleeing pogroms in 19th century Czarist Russia, to the closure of the last synagogue at South Terrace in February 2016.

Clifden to explore the hidden world of Lawrence of Arabia

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

TE LAWRENCE, immortalised by Irish actor Peter O'Toole in the epic 1962 film, Lawrence of Arabia, won fame and controversy as a British author, archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat, but he had strong Irish connections.

Olwen Fouéré reads at Town Hall this Saturday

Thu, Sep 08, 2016

OLWEN FOUÉRÉ will read Déirdre Carr's epic poem, 'Tweet Tweet Mothertongue-Fatherland-Talamh Athair Snapchattin', in the Town Hall Theatre Bar this Saturday from 3pm to 6pm.

Public lecture on the pistol wielding typist of 1916

Thu, Sep 08, 2016

WINIFRED CARNEY, an active feminist and significant figure of the 1916 Rising, known as "the typist with a Webley", will be the subject of a public lecture which takes place in the Galway Mechanics Institute on Thursday September 15 at 8pm.

Author Paul Kingsnorth to read at Charlie Byrne's

Thu, Sep 08, 2016

PAUL KINGSNORTH, author of The Wake, the acclaimed novel about the aftermath of the Battle Of Hastings, is in Galway this week to read from his new book The Beast.

Over The Edge Culture Night Open-Mic

Thu, Sep 01, 2016

GALWEGIANS WITH short stories or poems to share, will have a chance to read them in public, and maybe win prizes, at two Over The Edge open-mics, part of Culture Night 2016.

'I’ll Tell You A Story': Johnny Magory in the Magical World

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 01, 2016

THIS COMING September 13 would have marked Roald Dahl's 100th birthday. While there will be a great deal of talk with regards to his wonderful books, especially the children’s books, somehow his work for adults rarely gets a mention.

Charlie Adley’s craft of writing course

Thu, Aug 18, 2016

Writer Charlie Adley’s popular Craft of Writing Course returns to Galway’s Westside Resource Centre this September 8 for eight weeks.

“My course is designed for anyone who would like to improve their writing skills, from complete novices to published novelists,” explains Charlie. “Just as carpenters must learn how to use their tools, all writers benefit from learning the craft of writing. Anyone can learn this craft. There is no mystery to it.”

Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes

Thu, Aug 11, 2016

CREATIVE WRITING classes with the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars, suitable for beginner and continuing creative writing students, take place in the Galway Arts Centre next month.

Inis Mór to host Liam and Tom O’Flaherty festival

Thu, Aug 04, 2016

FÉILE NA bhFlaitheartach 2016, the annual festival celebrating the work of Galway left-wing writers Liam and Tom O’Flaherty, takes place on Inis Mór, the Aran Islands, on August 27 and 28.

New book explores Galway's influence on James Joyce

Thu, Aug 04, 2016

"MY WIFE is from Galway city," James Joyce told a London literary agent in 1918 when his writings began to attract international attention, and that woman and Galway had a major impact on the Dubliner.

Book review: Little poems from Little John Nee

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 04, 2016

HOW DO you take the work of a man of such great and varied talent as Little John Nee and distil it into a critique of 500 words? This man has busked with the Dice Man; became the iconic symbol of the early Galway Arts Festival parades; and was, for a period, Galway’s Pied Piper.

Red dresses, old toys, and date rape

Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 04, 2016

FALLING IN Love With Broken Things, Alvy Carragher's debut collection, is exceptional in one crucial respect; first collections are typically a gathering together of a poet's best work over the previous five or six years, so tend toward thematic looseness.