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AT FIRST glance the reader could be forgiven for thinking Gerald Dawe’s new book, In Another World - Van Morrison and Belfast, is a memoir of Van and his life in Belfast. There is some justification for this, but Dawe's short volume is so much more, and in fact packs one hell of a punch.

DANNY MORRISON, the former national director of publicity for Sinn Féin, and now an acclaimed novelist and playwright, reads at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 25 at 6.30pm.

THE SUPERIOR Inferior, aka Belfast DJ and producer Graeme Morrison, makes his Galway debut in Factory this Saturday night.

DERRY DJ Andrew Morrison, aka The Cyclist, plays the Bap to the Future night at The Electric Garden’s Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday at 10.30pm.

James Morrison, the BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter and guitarist, comes to The Royal Theatre on Wednesday, August 22. As the title of James Morrison’s third and by far best album suggests, The Awakening is the sound of an artist coming of age. In his personal life Morrison has become a father, while losing his own father after the latter’s long battle with alcoholism and depression. At the same time, Morrison, 26, has matured as a singer, songwriter, and musician, enabling him to channel all of that emotion into his most accomplished collection of songs yet. “My first two albums felt like practice shots,” he says, “and now I’ve graduated. In many ways this feels like my first proper album.”

James Morrison, the BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter and guitarist, comes to The Royal Theatre on Wednesday, August 22. As the title of James Morrison’s third and by far best album suggests, The Awakening is the sound of an artist coming of age. In his personal life Morrison has become a father, while losing his own father after the latter’s long battle with alcoholism and depression. At the same time, Morrison, 26, has matured as a singer, songwriter, and musician, enabling him to channel all of that emotion into his most accomplished collection of songs yet. “My first two albums felt like practice shots,” he says, “and now I’ve graduated. In many ways this feels like my first proper album.”