Cúirtin’ in the kitchen
Thu, Apr 03, 2014
CONSCIOUS OF the fact that Galway’s literary festival, Cúirt, was becoming somewhat estranged from the people of Galway, for whom it was inaugurated, it was decided four years ago to organise a number of events in and for local communities, to bring the festival back to the people.
Read more ...Liz Lochhead: hickies, nappies, and twelve inch tellies
Thu, Apr 03, 2014
I DISCOVERED Scottish poet Liz Lochhead in the 1993 Bloodaxe anthology The New Poetry, and a few years later she came to Galway to read at the 1998 Cúirt Festival.
Read more ...Get inside the mind of Lara Croft
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
RHIANNA PRATCHETT, the video game scriptwriter for Bioshock, the Overlord series, and the recently rebooted Lara Croft, is coming to Cúirt 2014.
Read more ...Second collection of Tom Duddy’s poems
Thu, Mar 13, 2014
THE YEARS, a collection of poetry by the late philosopher and academic Tom Duddy, is to be launched in Galway city this month.
Read more ...Stickies, Provos and the ‘genius’ of Sir Ian Freeland
Literature Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2013
YOU WERE always a great one for your turning points,” one of Samuel Beckett’s characters says. Northern Ireland is similarly a great place for forks in the road after which next to nothing is the same again.
Read more ...New novel from Galway based writer
Literature Reviews Thu, May 23, 2013
WHO IS Alice?, the debut novel by Galway based writer Miranda Manning has just been published by Poolbeg press.
When Alice arrives home from school with her two children, she finds herself locked out of her apartment. From herre she begins to discover that the man she loves is in line for the top job in the country, and a secret mistress and two daughters are not part of the plan.
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