Woman at the Door

Coffee Break Read Thu, Nov 19, 2015

Life’s pictures flicker around me as I linger outside the weather-beaten door. A crow perches on a branch of the skeleton ash on the lawn and a hearse stands in the lane. Bodies hide under a roof of umbrellas. I recognise some, even though years of humanity have battered them. It’s not peculiar that they don’t acknowledge me. They give their condolences to my sister, Margaret. I lost Jamie a long time ago. She’s only losing him now.

Creative labs for Galway teens

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

FORÓIGE AND Galway Youth Theatre have joined forces to offer a creative lab to young people aged between 13 and 17.

Big open mic for teens

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

GALWAY TEENS who would like to perform on the stage of the Róisín Dubh are being invited to take part in the Underage Open Mic at the Dominick Street venue on Sunday November 29 at 3pm.

A sporting collection of poetry

Thu, Nov 12, 2015

PACKIE BONNER'S famous save at Italia 90, and the enjoyment of playing Gaelic football, have inspired some of the poems in Evidence of Freewheeling, the debut collection from Trevor Conway.

Public lecture on when pirates ruled the seas

Thu, Nov 12, 2015

The pirates of the late 1600s, early 1700s, conjures images of bloodthirsty bandits and violent criminals, but in some respects their outlook and ethos was an early form of the most ruthless kind of capitalism.

1916 and Noël Browne events in city this weekend

Thu, Nov 12, 2015

THE 1916 Rising in Galway and the centenary of birth of Noël Browne will be discussed and commemorated at two events in Galway city over the coming days.

Dagmar Drabent to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 12, 2015

THE ARTIST Dagmar Drabent will reveal another side to her talents, when she reads her poetry, along with novelists Gemma Marren and Caroline Healy, at the next Over The Edge Open Reading.

The Visitor

Coffee Break Read Thu, Nov 12, 2015

After he knocked, the visitor entered the house through a small narrow hallway. He ducked to avoid hitting his head on the low door frame. “Ara, Michael, it is grand to see you at last. Your brother told me you’d come up. How are they all down there in Turlough? They must be delighted to have you home in Mayo. How long has it been? Three years?”

New book examines 1916's impact on the arts

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THE SIGNIFICANCE, impact, and wider resonances of the 1916 Rising on Irish literature, culture, and society are explored in a new book, co-editied by Galway academic Seán Crosson.

John Behan: the people’s sculptor

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 05, 2015

STARTING IN the early seventies and continuing for about 20 years, there was a continuous migration into Galway of extraordinary “blow ins” whose genius and drive transfigured the cultural life of the city.

Jane Clarke - So much more than a pastoral poet

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 05, 2015

IN WHAT is probably the best poem in Jane Clarke’s debut collection, The River, published by Bloodaxe, the narrator asks “Who owns the field?//Is it the one who is named in the deeds/whose hands never touched the clay/or is it the one who gathers the sheaves//takes a scythe to the thistles, plants the beech?"

An Spidéal writer wins Irish-language Book of the Year Award

Mon, Nov 02, 2015

TADHG MACDONNAGÁIN, the An Spidéal-based author, publisher, broadcaster, and singer-songwriter has won the Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin Award, the premier prize for writing as Gaeilge, for his biography of the itinerant poet Raiftearaí.

SLIOCHT - an event for authors and readers

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

ENTHUSIASTS FOR Irish language novels will have the chance to meet authors Micheál Ó Conghaile, Jackie Mac Donncha, and Réaltán Ní Leannáin at Sliocht, a new event to bring authors and readers face to face.

Galway's Halloween ComicFest

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

SUB-CITY Comics Galway will host the fourth annual Halloween ComicFest event this Saturday, with 21 free comics available from which to choose.

Halloween tales in Oranmore

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

A night of terror filled tales and scary stories of ghoulish sitings along the coast road into Oranmore and haunted happenings in Ardrahan, will be told around the fire in the front bar of Keane’s Pub, Oranmore, this evening at 8.30pm.

The Irish Times' Kitty Holland to read in Galway

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

THE IRISH Times award winning social affairs correspondent Kitty Holland will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 29 at 6.30pm.

Public lecture on the Irish Citizen Army

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

'We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland,’ so ran the famous declaration of the Irish Citizen Army, formed by James Connolly, James Larkin, and Jack White, and which took part in the revolutionary events of 1913-23.

Eileen O’Mara Walsh booklaunch in Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

EILEEN O'MARA Walsh will launch her memoir The Third Daughter: A Retrospective, published by The Lilliput Press, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, on Thursday October 22 at 6.30pm.

Paul Mercier to give actor and directors' classes in Galway

Mon, Oct 12, 2015

PAUL MERCIER, the award winning Irish director and writer, whose debut feature film, Pursuit, premiered at the 2015 Galway Film Fleadh, will give a workshop for actors and film-makers next month.

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn - the Irishman who loved Japan

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

PATRICK LAFCADIO Hearn is the most famous Irishman you have never heard of, but for people in Japan he is an Irish writer whose stature is rivaled only by WB Yeats and James Joyce - and Galway is about to become aware of him through a celebration of his life and work in the city.

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