11.00 am Saturday 18 August Celebrating Derek Mahon Venue: The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle Kilkenny Arts Festival presents Stephen Rea, Peter Fallon and Maureen Kennelly (Poetry Ireland) in an onstage discussion evaluating and celebrating Derek Mahon’s work including his just published new collection of poems ‘Against the Clock’. https://bit.ly/2KU8qV6
Kilkenny Arts Festival: New York Time – 17/18 August
The 45th Kilkenny Arts Festival takes place from 9-19 August this year. Including open-air theatre, a first-time full-staged opera, world premiere productions, exhibitions, an extensive music programme offering a more diverse range of concerts, spoken word events including a number of event on politics, history and culture as well as the premiere of the Arts […]
Healy Collected Poems Launch – Cootehill Arts Festival
The Gallery Press in association with Cootehill Arts Festival hopes you will join us to celebrate the publication of Collected Poems by Dermot Healy. 6.30pm Thursday 23 August Enterprise Centre, Cootehill, Co Cavan Free admission
Poetry Reading with Aifric Mac Aodha – 3 August
Skibbereen Arts Festival presents a Poetry Reading with Aifric Mac Aodha 5.00pm Tuesday 3 August The Time Traveller’s Book Shop, Bridge Street, Skibbereen, Co Cork Free admission Sa bhliain 1979 a rugadh Aifric Mac Aodha. D’fhoilsigh An Sagart an chéad chnuasach filíochta léi, Gabháil Syrinx, sa bhliain 2010. Chaith sí seal ina heagarthóir ar Comhar […]
Peter Fallon at Boyne Music Festival – 5 August
Peter Fallon Poetry Reading at Boyne Music Festival 4.00pm Sunday 5 August Boyne Music Festival Townley Hall, Drogheda, Co. Louth €6.00 (student) €10.00 Peter Fallon’s poetry began in Loughcrew in County Meath and has found its way around the world. He will read from his latest collection Strong, My Love. The talk will be interspersed with […]
Gerald Dawe in Belfast – 6 & 9 August 2018
EastSide Arts Festival 8.00pm Monday 6 Aug St. Martin’s Church £10 / £8 concession Everyone Sang (in association with the Seamus Heaney Centre) In the run up to the centenary of the Armistice in November, the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s presents an evening of poetry and music from the war years and in commemoration […]
John McAuliffe at the Bluedot Festival: 20-22 July
John McAuliffe will be taking part in the Bluedot Festival again this year. Bluedot is an award-winning festival of discovery at the grounds of a deep space observatory. Set against a backdrop of the iconic Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, Bluedot combines a truly stellar line-up of music with a ground-breaking programme of live science […]
Yeats Summer School Readings
Poetry Reading at Yeats Summer School on 24 July with Peter Fallon, Aifric Mac Aodha, Kelly Sullivan and J T Welsch. 8.00pm Tuesday 24th July Methodist Church, Sligo. Justin Quinn will take part in a lecture and a poet-critic panel at the Yeats Summer School on 24 and 25 July. Full programme here
Dermot Healy Collected Poems Book Launch- 24 July
The Gallery Press in association with Yeats International Summer School hope you will join us to celebrate the publication of Collected Poems by Dermot Healy. Collected Poems is a harvest of almost half a century’s remarkable work — a book rich in imaginative reach and empathy. 5.00pm Tuesday 24 July The Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge, Sligo […]
David Wheatley Poetry Workshop at John Hewitt Summer School – 23-25 July
John Hewitt Summer School Creative Writing Workshop with David Wheatley 2:45pm Monday 23 July – 4.15pm Wednesday 25 July 2018 Time: 90 mins Tickets: £50 for three day writing workshop Book now Develop your writing skills under the direction of one of our eight tutors who are all experienced facilitators and published authors. Each workshop […]
