Charlie Adley’s Craft of Writing Course
Thu, Feb 19, 2015
GALWAY WRITER Charlie Adley’s popular Craft of Writing Course returns to the Galway Arts Centre. The course is for those who would like to improve their writing skills, from beginners to published writers.
Read more ...One Book One Galway 2015
Mon, Feb 09, 2015
MORE THAN 500 schoolchildren across Galway city will take part in One Book One Galway - an initiative to encourage children to read one specific book - which will be launched this Thursday [February 12] at 11.30am.
Read more ...Michael Murphy to read at Town Hall
Thu, Feb 05, 2015
MICHAEL MURPHY, the former RTÉ newscaster and more recently best-selling author, brings his show, Stories, Poetry, and Dreams, to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday February 14.
Read more ...Book review: Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015
IT IS every publisher’s dream s/he should “discover” the author who will be as iconic as James Joyce, as commercially successful as JK Rowling, and as prolific as Charles Dickens. So when a potential candidate appears above the parapet the publisher will - rightly - not hesitate to sing loud and clear that the new literary protégé will out-Joyce Joyce, out sell Rowling, and outwrite Dickens.
Read more ...Michael Harding and his elephant
Thu, Feb 05, 2015
THE IRISH Times columnist Michael Harding reads from his book, Hanging With The Elephant, in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday February 11 at 8pm.
Read more ...Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase
Thu, Feb 05, 2015
LOUIS DEPAOR, Sarah Clancy, and Gerry Hanberry take part in the Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Charlie Byrne’s, on Friday February 13 from 6.30pm.
Read more ...Book review: I Remember, I Remember: Galway Stories and Sketches
Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015
NOSTALGIA IS defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.” Tales of bygone years when the sun seemed to shine forever, and childhood days were filled with laughter are always trying to tell the reader some sort of lie.
Read more ...Galway and The Great War lectures at city museum
Wed, Feb 04, 2015
THE GREAT War’s impact on Galway city, the slaughter in the trenches, and recruiting Galwegians to fight for “king and country” will be the subject of a series of public lectures taking place at the Galway City Museum, every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm.
Read more ...Telegael seeks young actors for new film
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
THE EMMY award winning An Spidéal based film and animation company Telegael is in pre-production with Morten, the first stop-motion animation feature film produced in Ireland.
Read more ...Calling all buskers for Buskfactor Galway
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
GALWAY’S FIRST busking competition, Buskfactor Galway, is taking place every Tuesday in The Blue Note at 9pm and jugglers, performance artists, comedians, musicians, magicians, dancers, and actors are sought to take part.
Read more ...Over The Edge reading returns for 2015 season
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
THE FIRST Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2015 takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday January 22 from 6.30pm to 8pm, with writers Liz Quirke, Michelle Coyne, and Paula Cunningham.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes
Thu, Jan 08, 2015
SUSAN MILLAR DuMars, the Galway poet and short story writer, will give a series of creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre, starting this month.
Read more ...Mr Yeats, we salute you
Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 08, 2015
ON A wet morning in 1948, a woman of about 30 and a man of 18 were cycling as fast as they could along Grattan Road. They were watching a boat make its way around Mutton Island, hoping they could make it to the docks before it docked.
Read more ...Sexing up Greek myths and facing down the bank
Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 08, 2015
THERE ARE those for whom being a poet is, to paraphrase Angela Carr’s fine poem ‘Occupied’, “the new black”. If you are young and fit, all you need do is write long poems about what is going on at street level and wave your arms around when you read them.
Read more ...Creative writing classes at GTI
Thu, Dec 18, 2014
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediate levels take place in the Galway Technical Institute in January and bookings are now being accepted.
Read more ...New book on life in Ardrahan
Thu, Dec 04, 2014
ARDRAHAN, ITS people, life, and times from the 1930s to the 1960s, is the subject of a new book, Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen, which will be launched this weekend.
Read more ...Old Galway’s hidden urban landscape
Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014
ONE OF the great pleasures of the early morning walk, jog, or run through the streets of Galway is that you can experience our urban landscape unencumbered with either human or motorised traffic.
Read more ...Over The Edge reading
Thu, Dec 04, 2014
POETS MARION Cox, Christine Murray, and Edward O’Dwyer will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday December 18 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Ireland’s leading protest poet discovers hope
Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014
A WOMAN told me recently that if she hears one more bad poem about water charges, she may take the extreme retaliatory action of paying her water charges bill, in the unlikely event that it ever actually arrives.
Read more ...Cúirt New Writing Prize 2015
Thu, Dec 04, 2014
THE CÚIRT New Writing Prize is now open for submissions in poetry and fiction. There is a €500 cash prize in each category and an opportunity to read at Cúirt 2015.
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