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“Socialism will confiscate the property of the capitalist and in return will secure the individual against poverty and oppression; it, in return for so confiscating, will assure to all men and women a free, happy, and unanxious human life. And that is more than capitalism can assure anyone today.”

THE PHYSICAL presence and classy design of Julian Gough’s new novel, Connect, really does debunk the classic cliché of 'You can’t judge a book by its cover'.

Roscommon Arts Centre is gearing up for this year’s Bookworms Festival for children, with a busy programme of events planned for school and family audiences.

IF YOU cannot make it to Nick Cave's concert with Patti Smith in Kilmainham in June, you can enjoy a week of concert films and documentaries on the Australian genius at the Palás Cinema.

BALLINASLOE-BASED author Nuala O’Connor has won the prestigious UK-based Short Fiction Prize for her story ‘Gooseen’, about Galway woman Nora Barnacle, wife and muse to James Joyce.

FOUR NEW books will be launched at the next Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering - poetry collections by Stephanie Conn, Robyn Rowland, and Kate Ennals, and a new short story collection from Rosemary Jenkinson.

GROWING AFFLUENCE and increased leisure time are said to be the main reasons for the growing presence of sport in the daily lives of more and more people. The sports sections in newspapers are getting bigger, and there is rarely a news bulletin on radio or TV without a sports report.

After an absence of almost 20 years, the Esso trophy is returning to its spiritual home of Athlone.

CREATIVE WRITING classes in poetry and fiction will be given by the writers Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, from May.

DANNY DENTON, author of the acclaimed new novel, The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow, will join artists from Galway's Engage studios to discuss their collaborative exhibition, Fragmented Shore.