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 […]
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 […]
July Poem of the Month – Dermot Healy
July’s Poem of the Month comes from Dermot Healy’s forthcoming Collected Poems Sea-fire It catches on calm days away out on the Atlantic; just a small flame racing inland. The billows smoke each side of the boat and a school of mackerel sparkle. Waves send up stars. The roar of flames is steady. Sea-fire! At […]
Rave Reviews for Brian Friel’s Translations
Translations by Brian Friel at the National Theatre, London, from 22nd May 2018. Brian Friel’s modern classic is a powerful account of nationhood, which sees the turbulent relationship between England and Ireland play out in one quiet community. Colin Morgan (Humans, Merlin) plays Owen and Ciarán Hinds (Game of Thrones, Girl from the North Country) plays his father. Ian Rickson […]
Peter Fallon, Saramai & Oisin Leech – Hinterland Festival, Kells – 23 June
An Evening of Words and Song with Peter Fallon, Saramai and Oisin Leech at Hinterland Festival, Kells 7.30pm Saturday 23 June 2018, Venue: Church of Ireland – Merriebelle Farm Stage Adm: €10.00 Book here After the success of their unique partnership in 2016 and 2017 Hinterland presents another intimate interlude of songs, readings and talk […]
Tom French at Galway Poetry Trail
A plaque of ‘The Crane Bar, Galway‘ by Tom French was unveiled, on Sunday 17th June, as part of The Galway Poetry Trail outside The Crane Bar on Sea Road, Galway. The plaque is sponsored by Galway City Council and was unveiled on the wall of the pub by writer, Rita Ann Higgins. The poem […]
June Poem of the Month – Medbh McGuckian
June’s Poem of the Month comes from Drawing Ballerinas by Medbh McGuckian The Orange Island It was not the fault of the day that it held objects fiercely like a rose cast in brick from a seven-sister rose bush: the pivot of the summer was so full of weather the curtain of grapes could barely […]
Listowel Writers’ Week: Michael Hartnett Event – 1 June
Michael Hartnett Poetry Event with Brian Kirk, Caoilinn Hughes & Mark Roper & MC John O’Donnell 4.00pm Friday 1 June Listowel Arms Ballroom, Listowel, Co Kerry Michael Hartnett Event with poets Caoilinn Hughes, Brian Kirk, Mark Roper and Chair of the event John O’Donnell This very popular annual event is held in honour of the […]
