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THE STRUCTURE of Gerald Dawe’s memoir The Stoic Man, recently published by the Lagan Press, follows much the same general outline of his Selected Poems, published in 2012, and could easily be subtitled A Tale of Three Cities, beginning in the troubled city of Belfast, continuing on to the cultural melting pot that was Galway during the 1970s and 1980s, before moving on the comfortable avenues of Dún Laoghaire and the ivory towers of Trinity College.

BOOK COLLECTORS tend to be strange animals who will resort to any device in order to acquire their prey.

Horslips matter. They mattered in the 1970s and their reunion proves they matter still. Why? Perhaps, to quote from the opening narration of Return of The Dancehall Sweethearts, the 2005 documentary on the band, “We saw in Horslips something that was ours, something that was of us...[they are] part of what makes us, us.”

Award-winning Connemara Hotel, Ballynahinch Castle, is to celebrate its 65th birthday with a special evening of music and entertainment in aid of Cancer Care West.

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.

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.

IAN RANKIN, JOYCE Carol Oates, Colum McCarthy, and The New Yorker’s Deborah Treisman, will take part in this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which returns from Tuesday April 20 to Sunday 25.

TOMMY TIERNAN will launch the literary journal ROPES Unravelled, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature in the Town Hall on Thursday April 23 at 5pm.

EAMON CARR, the music journalist, poet, and former Horslips drummer, will read at the North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

As part of the celebrations of All Ireland Poetry Day 2009, Kilkenny County Council Library would like to invite local poets (who have been born or are based in Co Kilkenny) to submit a selection of their work for showcasing in John’s Quay Library.