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Galway’s international literary magazine, Crannóg, will launch its 65th issue next Friday, September 25 in the The Crane Bar on Sea Road, at 6.30pm.

William Butler Yeats died in the Hotel Idéal Beauséjoue in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in France on the January 28, 1939 aged 73. His wife Georgie and himself had often discussed his death, and he told her, “If I die, bury me up there at Roquebrune and in a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” His funeral was a discreet and private affair. His body was later exhumed and removed to the ossuary. Because of the outbreak of the war, it was not possible to bring his coffin back to Ireland for several years.

A special Made in Galway showcase will be the city and county’s contribution to Cultúr 2026, the official cultural programme of Ireland’s current Presidency of the European Union.

A Special Made in Galway showcase will be the city and county’s contribution to Cultúr 2026, the official cultural programme of Ireland’s current Presidency of the European Union.

The 49th Clifden Arts Festival, from Thursday, September 17 to Sunday, September 27, has lined up its most ambitious and wide-ranging music schedule to date, beyond its multidisciplinary programme of literature, visual arts, theatre, film, architecture and ideas across Clifden and Connemara.

The Other Poet Drives a Black Mercedes from Foyle is a paean to a writer’s imagination and experience, where the liminal border between the conscious world and the other world exists.

Following the launch of its fifth issue in May, by celebrated Galway/Congolese poet Nithy Kasa, Ragaire is calling on creatives to contribute to its next edition.

Tony O’Dwyer’s new poetry collection Waiting for the Mason will be launched this Friday, July 10, at 6pm, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop.

President Catherine Connolly quietly attended the inaugural Siúlóid Sióchána – Steps for Peace initiative which aims to gather like-minded people on the first Sunday of each month, at 11.30, to walk from Nimmo’s Pier to Blackrock, in Salthill, via South Park and The Prom.

Portumna Castle will host a talk on the woman who erected Ireland's greatest manor house of the early seventeenth century, on Sunday, May 24, at 4pm.