Joyce Carol Oates to read at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 08, 2010

JOYCE CAROL Oates, one of the most distinguished American novelists of the last 50 years will be reading at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature on Saturday April 24.

Oates was born in 1938 and grew up in the working-class farming community of Millersport, New York. She became interested in reading at an early age and was given Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as present by her paternal grandmother, Blanche Woodside (whose life would inspire Oates’ 2007 novel The Gravedigger’s Daughter).

Daniyal Mueenuddin - man of many talents

Thu, Apr 08, 2010

A FARMER, lawyer, writer, and Pakistani-American, Daniyal Mueenuddin is something of a Renaissance man, who has experienced many different kinds of life in many different parts of the globe.

Ian Rankin-Rebus Malcom Fox and me

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

FOR IAN Rankin, the internally acclaimed and best selling Scottish crime novelist, the last 18 months have seen the closing of one chapter in his writing career and the opening of another.

These, our exiles: the new generation

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

FOR OBVIOUS historic and geographic reasons, Ireland has had more than her fair share of emigrants. There are few, if any, Irish families who do not have relatives living abroad.

The dreams and furniture of Higgins & DuMars

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

KEVIN HIGGINS and Susan Millar DuMars are, after John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, Galway’s premiere literary couple and this weekend will see a joint launch of their new poetry collections.

Bowie v Blondie for Haiti

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

THE SONGS of the Thin White Duke will go head to head with those of new wave’s blonde bombshell when the Róisín Dubh hosts the Hoot Night for Haiti on Easter Sunday at 8pm.

Kevin Barry - ‘criminal amounts of fun’

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

CÚIRT COMMENCES in just a few weeks and among the luminaries gracing this year’s festival is the much-praised Irish author Kevin Barry.

Cúirt to celebrate forty years of Gallery Press

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

AS CÚIRT celebrates its 25th birthday, the festival programme is also hosting a 40th birthday celebration for Gallery Press, Ireland’s pre-eminent poetry publishing house.

Gallery authors Marina Carr, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Tom Kilroy, Tom French, and Peter Sirr will join poet-publisher Peter Fallon in a reading at the Town Hall on April 24 to mark Gallery’s huge contribution to Irish literature over the past four decades.

Cúirt to celebrate forty years of Gallery Press

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

AS CÚIRT celebrates its 25th birthday, the festival programme is also hosting a 40th birthday celebration for Gallery Press, Ireland’s pre-eminent poetry publishing house.

Max Hafler’s acting workshop

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

THE ACTOR, writer, and director Max Halfler will host his Big Play Workshop on four Fridays from 10am to 4pm, beginning April 30.

The first workshops will be focusing on John Ford’s Jacobean tragedy of lust, honour, incest, and murder ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, working from the script and through exercises culminating in a short presentation of scenes

Music at the Cúirt festival

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

CÚIRT IS a festival which celebrates prose, poetry, writers, and publications, but writing is not confined solely to novelists and poets, it can also include lyricists, wordsmiths, and songwriters.

The return of The Butterfly Explosion

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

THE BUTTERFLY Explosion, just back from playing SXSW in Texas, undertake a tour of Ireland this month to promote their long awaited debut album Lost Trails.

Leading DJ Krafty Kuts @ Kelly’s

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

KRAFTY KUTS, one of the world’s leading DJs, will be spinning the decks at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Sunday at 10pm.

Planet of sound

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

The Redneck Manifesto - Friendship (Richter Collective)

Blame @ the GPO

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

DRUM’N’BASS legend Blame plays the GPO, Eglinton Street, tomorrow where he will perform a DJ set.

Blame has enjoyed hits with ‘Music Takes You’ and ‘Planet Neptune’ on the Moving Shadow label and he also mixed the second Logical Progression compilation series. He is also the founder of the 720 Degrees label.

Classical music concert @ Town Hall

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

Cologne’s Chamber Philharmonic Europe (pictured) will perform music by Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Purcell, Albinoni, and Grieg, in the Town Hall theatre on Tuesday April 6 at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.

See John Behan at work at The Kenny Gallery

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

JOHN BEHAN, one of Ireland’s greatest sculptors, will give a public demonstration of his working methods in The Kenny Gallery in the Liosban Estate this Saturday at 2pm.

Merlin Park reminiscences

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

WE ARE Family, this year’s edition of The Cat’s Cradle, published by Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust and launched at Cúirt later this month, borrows its title from an unlikely source.

A song of the same name was a major disco hit for the American group, Sister Sledge, back in 1979, in an age when people wore white platform shoes and flared trousers without any irony at all.

Celtic Tales returns

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

THE POPULAR Celtic Tales storytelling sessions return to The Cottage Bar, Lower Salthill, every Wednesday at 8pm from April 7 to September 29.

Each evening the Scottish storyteller and writer Rab Swannock Fulton will regale listeners with Ireland and Scotland’s great myths, folklore, ghost stories, and urban legends.

Dive into the dense metal sounds of The Ocean

Thu, Apr 01, 2010

FIVE SILHOUETTES, their backlit bodies moving frenetically in front of the monstrous LED lighting rigs, the flashing lights synchronised to every little change in the music.

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