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Conversation on Mike McCormack’s stunning new work at Kennys launch
Award winning Irish author Mike McCormack will be at Kennys Bookshop for an event on Tuesday, October 17 at 6pm to celebrate the launch of his new novel, This Plague of Souls. He will join author Lisa McInerney in conversation and the event is free to attend.
The need to future proof our culture
So here we are, at the turn of the Galway year. They used to say that if there were intercounty players at the Galway Races, that they must be out of the championship, their boots hung up for another year.
‘Books are an empathy machine. They bring people together’
AS THE Covid pandemic begins to wane, as restrictions ease, and people can gather for arts and cultural events once more, how appropriate it is that Cúirt 2022 should be themed around meetings and interactions.
‘Working class voices are still struggling for representation in literature’
TO BE a Booker Prize winner is to be in a distinguished club of novelists working in the English language, but the 2020 winner Douglas Stuart is within an even more select group of recipients.
‘Cúirt will make you think, will entertain you, it won’t hold back’
MERE DAYS after the programme for the 2020 Cúirt International Festival of Literature was announced, the Republic of Ireland went into Lockdown. And yet, in the face of that unprecedented setback, Cúirt emerged triumphant.
