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.

Over The Edge Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

SLAM EVENTS provide an opportunity for poets to read their work in public are plenty, but there are fewer opportunities for fiction writers, so the seventh annual Over The Edge Fiction Slam is a welcome event.

Creative writing classes for young people

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE VARIATIONS Of The Compass: A World Without Maps, is a creative writing course for young people aged between 13 and 17, hosted by Dani Gill, director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Colum McCann to read at An Taibhdhearc

Mon, Oct 05, 2015

COLUM MNCANN, the Irish author of such acclaimed works as Let The Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, will be in Galway this week to read from his new novel, Thirteen Ways Of Looking.

Book review - Nuala O’Connor's Miss Emily

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 01, 2015

AT FIRST glance, Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor - aka Nuala Ni Chonchúir - is a relatively simple tale of a growing relationship, not to say friendship, between two women, one the daughter of a working class Irish family who decides America offers her a better future than the humdrum poverty stricken life in late 19th century Dublin, and the other a somewhat withdrawn daughter of a middle class New England family, in whose house the Irishwoman finds a job as a housekeeper.

Book Reviews: Robyn Rowland and Elaine Gaston

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 01, 2015

FROM WHAT some would consider inauspicious beginnings, Doire Press has flourished to become a professionally run publisher of quality new fiction and poetry. One of its publications was last year shortlisted for the massively prestigious UK based Forward poetry prize; and Doire is now, quite rightly, in receipt of Arts Council funding.

Over The Edge open reading

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

RAFIQ KATHWARI, the first non-Irish recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, will be among the featured readers at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday September 24 at 6.30pm.

When poetry, printing, and etching meet

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

THE MOUNTAIN Ash Broadside, an work combining a poem by Joan McBreen and an etching by Margaret Irwin-West, will be launched this Saturday in the Clifden Arts Festival gallery.

Galway City Library poetry reading

Thu, Sep 10, 2015

THE POETS Susan Millar DuMars, Robyn Rowland, and Elaine Gaston will read from their work at the Autumn Poetry Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 17 at 6.30pm.

Young writers sought for Comórtas Uí Chonaire competition

Thu, Sep 10, 2015

Comórtas Uí Chonaire, a competition to inspire a new generation of young writers to engage in creative writing as Gaeilge has been launched as a project for the upcoming 1916 Easter Rising commemoration.

The ten mile reversal into Irish rural life

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 10, 2015

TWENTY-NINE years later, the route directions still resonate: “You drive as far as Malin Head and reverse 10 mile”. These were given to my brother Tom in 1986 when he received an invitation to what turned out to be one of the more singular book launches he ever attended.

Over The Edge Culture Night open mics

Thu, Sep 10, 2015

OVER THE Edge will hold two special Culture Night open-mics - one for fiction writers, the other for poets - with prizes for the best readers, at Kenny’s Bookshop and Gallery, Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road, Galway on Friday September 18.

Padraic McCormack - 'a writer in the John B Keane mode'

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 03, 2015

PETER MANDLESON'S autobiography includes a photograph of him relaxing at Mick Jagger’s house. It is hard to imagine former Galway West Fine Gael TD Padraic McCormack ever wanting to hang around with rock stars. Instead McCormack has a genuine interest in the eccentricities that make otherwise unremarkable people, in unremarkable places, far more interesting than anyone photographed with the late Princess Margaret.

Clifden Arts Festival - Connemara’s mecca for culture

Thu, Sep 03, 2015

Christy Moore, Mairtin O’Connor, Louis De Paor, Mick Flannery, and Fr Peter Mc Verry are among the many names who will be taking part in the 38th Clifden Arts Festival, which runs from Thursday September 17 to Sunday 27, and features theatre, literary, comedy and music events, workshops, and more than 200 family events.

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Thu, Sep 03, 2015

GALWAY ADVERTISER arts editor Kernan Andrews, poet Kate Ennals, broadcaster Clara Rose Thornton, and writers Susan Lanigan, and Ruth Aylett, will all read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in The Kitchen, Galway City Museum, on Friday September 11 at 8pm.

Wilde expert Michael Seeney among speakers at Oscar Wilde Festival

Thu, Aug 27, 2015

Galway’s Oscar Wilde Festival takes place next weekend for its third year, from Friday, September 4, to Sunday, September 6. The festival boasts a packed programme and will see Wilde experts and enthusiasts gather to celebrate his life and work in a west of Ireland setting. 

Autumn poetry workshops at the Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 27, 2015

This September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops facilitated by renowned poet Kevin Higgins.

Autumn creative writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 27, 2015

Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre presents a daytime class for beginner and continuing creative writing students, facilitated by poetry and fiction writer Susan Millar DuMars. 

A Politicised Evening of Poetry at Byrne’s Bookshop with Mike Jenkins and Kevin Higgins

Thu, Aug 20, 2015

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop presents ‘A Politicised Evening of Poetry’ with prominent Welsh poet Mike Jenkins, and Kevin Higgins.

Over the Edge Open Reading is back 

Thu, Aug 20, 2015

The first Over The Edge Open Reading after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday August 27, from 6.30pm to 8.00pm. The featured readers are Jessica Traynor, Matt Flesk, and Aoife Reilly. 

Aoife Reilly works as a psychotherapist and teacher and has been attending Kevin Higgins’s poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre since autumn 2013. Her poetry has been published in Crannóg, Skylight 47, on the Poethead website, and in a variety of other poetry magazines.

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