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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE
FÉILE IDIRNÁISIÚNTA LITRÍOCHTA
23 - 29 APRIL 2018
www.cuirt.ie
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Funding Partners Programme Director’s Welcome
Fáilte is fiche go Cúirt Litríochta na bliana seo. Welcome to the 33rd annual
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Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Cúirt is anchored in a strong local and
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GALWAY CITY
The name ‘cúirt’ refers to the Gaelic tradition of the court of poets; a community of writers
CATHAIR NA GAILLIMHE
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exchanging ideas and honing their craft. Founded in the mid 1980s, Cúirt was one of only three
literary festivals in Ireland. There are now over fifty such events taking place annually. Cúirt is
rising to the challenge of sustaining the loyal enthusiasm of its core support while continuing
to nurture new audiences by offering something unique and unexpected that resonates in the
contemporary moment.
Culture and Creativity Plan 2017
Plean Cultúir agus Cruthaitheachta 2017
The idea of literature and the ‘Sister Arts’ is a loose theme this year and a number of events
creative.ireland.ie
explore continuities between words, music and image. ‘Lyrics of our Lives’ invites us to think
about the creation of song lyrics as a writing practice; ‘Play It Again’ integrates Alan Rusbridger’s
Programme Partners written reflections on world politics with the virtuoso piano of Finghin Collins; Danny Diamond’s
fiddle converses with the poetry of Tom French in ‘What To Bring When We Leave’; our Cúirt
guest artist, Sam Winston is inspired by the visuality of words themselves and weaves his art
from typography. (Thank you, Sam, for our beautiful festival image). The programme, thus, takes
an expansive approach to the primacy of words in our daily lives. While proudly keeping literary
values at the core of Cúirt, thinking about language across art forms has also allowed us to enrich
our public engagement in exciting collaborations with new partners.
I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank my colleagues at Galway Arts Centre
for their support. I am especially grateful to the Cúirt reading panel for voluntarily contributing
their insights. We thank and acknowledge the funders and sponsors who support the festival,
and the volunteers who give of their time so generously.
Above all, we thank you for your interest in Cúirt. The girl borne aloft in our festival image
invites us to ‘sail across a sea of words’. Come join us and find yourself buoyed on a tide of
literary discovery!
Dr. Emily Cullen
Programme Director
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and stay tuned for the latest updates.
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COVER IMAGE AND PROGRAMME ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAM WINSTON FROM A CHILD OF BOOKS BY SAM WINSTON (Excludes workshops, Pan Pan’s The Importance of Nothing, and Far From Literature)
AND OLIVER JEFFERS, COURTESY OF WALKER BOOKS.
2 CÚIRT DAY BY DAY ** BI-LINGUAL IRISH/ENGLISH EVENT
FREE EVENT MONDAY 23 - SUNDAY 29 APRIL 2018 3
CÚIRT LABS MONDAY 23 TUESDAY 24 WEDNESDAY 25 THURSDAY 26 FRIDAY 27 SATURDAY 28 SUNDAY 29
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PAGE THURS 26 - SAT 28
32 Caroline Busher 31 Autofiction 9 Poems for Patience 11 Cúirt/Over the Edge 16 Imtiaz Dharker 31 ‘The Box’ 25 Spotlight on 35 Visual Art
Joanna Walsh with Michael Coady New Writing & Pascale Petit Poetry Masterclass New Voices Artist’s Talk:
Realtán Ní Leannáin
Hotel Meyrick Galway University Showcase Town Hall Theatre with Imtiaz Dharker Town Hall Theatre Sam Winston
Exhibition Workshop
11am Hospital Town Hall Theatre 1pm Hotel Meyrick 11am Galway Arts Centre
9.30am - 1pm
11am 11am 11am 1pm
FRI 27 4 Getting Published: 16 Aislingí Grádha 25 Sinéad Morrissey
Tramp Press 8 Surveying the 12 After Ireland with Oídhche Lughnasa 31 Songwriting in the & Daljit Nagra 29 Storytelling with
32 Siobhán Parkinson
Office Hours Short Story Declan Kiberd Nun’s Island Theatre Classroom Workshop Town Hall Theatre Niall de Búrca
Caroline Busher
Galway Arts Centre Nun’s Island Theatre NUI Galway 1pm with Paul Linehan 1pm Nun’s Island Theatre
Exhibition Workshop
12pm 1pm 1pm St. Enda’s College 3pm
9.30am - 1pm
12pm
16 Stinging Fly Stories 26 An Focal: Cuisle
SAT 28 4 Mindshift: 9 Embodied Encounters: 13 Embodied Encounters: Launch Nun’s Island Theatre 29 The Making of Mollie:
Deirdre Sullivan &
The Business Digital Cartographies Poetry In Motion Biteclub 21 Andrew Meehan 2pm Anna Carey
33 of Writing Nun’s Island Theatre Nun’s Island Theatre 2.30pm & E.M. Reapy Nun’s Island Theatre
Karen Vaughan Town Hall Theatre
Anna Carey
Nun’s Island Theatre 3pm 3pm 26 Spoken Word Platform 5pm
1pm
Sam Winston
1pm 13 Imagining Nora Róisín Dubh
10 ROPES Launch 13 Imagining Nora Tigh Nora 3pm 30 Far From Literature
Red Bird & CAMHS
34 Jackie Mac Donncha Town Hall Theatre Tigh Nora 3pm 22 Billy O’Callaghan & We Were Raised
Narrative 4
9.30am -5.30pm
agus Dara Ó Conaola 5pm 3pm Kathleen Winter 14 Rabbit - GYT Róisín Dubh
Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr, 17 Danny Denton Town Hall Theatre Town Hall Studio 8pm
Árainn 10 Jane Clarke 14 Salmon Book Launch & Sally Rooney 4pm 3pm
EXHIBITIONS 2pm & Michael Coady Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop Town Hall Theatre
Extended Reading: Nun’s Island Theatre 4pm 4pm 23 What To Bring 27 June Caldwell
35 When We Leave
Writing as a 5 Words Ireland On 6pm & Kelly Creighton
Visual Art Mentorship & Writing 15 Cúirt Festival 17 Motherfoclóir with Nun’s Island Theatre Town Hall Theatre
5pm
Galway Arts Centre Nun’s Island Theatre 11 Public House Official Opening Darach Ó Séaghdha 4pm
3pm The Blue Note Hotel Meyrick Nun’s Island Theatre
36 Speaking Space 8pm 6pm 4pm 24 Adventures in Ideas:
27 London Writers’
The Essay Now
Galway Arts Centre 6 Eleanor Hooker Eclective Presents…
& Joseph Woods 14 Rabbit - GYT 18 World Perspectives Town Hall Theatre Róisín Dubh upstairs
36 Bosom Pals Nun’s Island Theatre Town Hall Studio Town Hall Theatre 6pm 6pm
NUI Galway Gallery 5pm 8pm 6pm
Engage Experiment 14 Juan Pablo Villalobos
28 Play it Again:
36 & Patrick McCabe
Just Art It, Dominick St 6 Eva Bourke 15 An Evening with 19 Lyrics of Our Lives: Conversation
& Joseph Woods Bernard MacLaverty The Art of Town Hall Theatre in Concert
Blood Horses Launch Town Hall Theatre Songwriting 8pm Town Hall Theatre
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The Kenny Gallery Biteclub 8pm Róisín Dubh 8pm
6:30pm 8pm 23 Rabbit - GYT
IMTIAZ DHARKER, p.16 & p.31
37 Mind Has Mountains Town Hall Studio 14 Rabbit - GYT
Town Hall Theatre
7 The Importance 20 Sebastian Barry 8pm Town Hall Studio
of Nothing - Pan Pan & Paul Lynch 8pm
Black Box Theatre Town Hall Theatre 23 Cúirt Cois Fharraige
8pm 8pm Tigh Pheadair Mhóir, Festival Club
Rossaveal Hotel Meyrick
14 Rabbit - GYT 8.30pm 10pm
Town Hall Studio
For all the latest updates please see cuirt.ie
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE
FÉILE IDIRNÁISIÚNTA LITRÍOCHTA 8pm Festival Club STEVE WALL, p.19
Hotel Meyrick
Festival Club 10pm
Hotel Meyrick
10pm
Consider yourself invited to what promises to be a friendly and relaxing place to chat
after a day Cúirting! The Festival Club at Hotel Meyrick will run from Thursday - Saturday
BERNARD MacLAVERTY, p.15 JANE CLARKE, p.10 DECLAN KIBERD, p.12 from 10pm until late. All are welcome. SALLY ROONEY, p.17
4 MONDAY THE ANNE KENNEDY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY FOR WRITERS MONDAY 5
Getting Published
Tramp Press:
Open Office Hours
MONDAY 23 APRIL 12PM
GALWAY ARTS CENTRE FREE
Got a question about publishing, editing, or just looking for some great
recommendations? Open Office Hours was created to help open doors
On Mentorship & Writing
MONDAY 23 APRIL 3PM
around the business of books and to break down perceived barriers between
writers, readers, and publishers. We invite you to chat to us about whatever NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE FREE
books-related topic you’d like.
“A fierce and funny Cúirt International Festival of Literature in association with
Come say hi, ask about the sector, how the slush pile works, or show us the Words Ireland is delighted to present this special event – an
novel… Jason’s jaunts
projects you’re working on. information session for anybody who is curious about the
around town are
Booking is free, and no questions are off-limits! (Except, of course, legal reminiscent of Francie mentorship process and other supports available for writers.
advice! For any copyright or dispute queries we’ll strongly recommend you Brady in The Butcher Words Ireland is a collective of seven literature organisations
contact the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency or the Irish Writers’ Union Boy – young bucks who working together on behalf of writers in Ireland. One of its
respectively. Words Ireland is also a good source of information for writers.) are wonderful mimics initiatives is the National Mentoring Programme.
of adult mannerisms
Sign up online for a 20 minute chat-slot with Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen. while simultaneously Originally from Co. Galway, Julie Cruickshank lives and
To book email: bookings@cuirt.ie struggling to understand works in Dublin. She completed the six month The Stinging
the intricacies and Fly workshop in 2016. Her work will be published in the
injustices of the grown- Spring 2018 issue of Banshee.
Mindshift: ‘The Business of Writing’ up world.”
Alan McMonagle has written for radio, published two
with Various Experts
THE IRISH TIMES ON
ALAN McMONAGLE collections of short stories, and contributed to many
journals in Ireland and North America. Ithaca, his first novel,
Between the birth of the poet’s daughter and DEDALUS
PRESS
the deaths of his parents, the poems in
Photo © Sarah McCan
Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the
world, from a mid-life flight from home en
MONDAY 23 APRIL 1PM
famille to new perspectives on both the past
“O’Reilly’s voice is all his
and the future.
was published by Picador in 2017, and was nominated for
Monsoon Diary strikes an often elegiac
JOSEPH WOODS note, betraying a growing awareness of
is the award-winning mortality and the many losses that come
author of three poetry with age. But it also bears witness to a
collections. His first, country transitioning from dictatorship to
NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE FREE
democracy, finds the seeds of a new half-
own: intelligent, lyrical
Sailing to Hokkaido
Monsoon Diary | Joseph Woods
the Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels and an Irish Book
(2001) won the Patrick crown of sonnets in a line of Catullus, and, in
Kavanagh Award and, ‘Driving to Delvin’ – a poem of 84 couplets
together with his – breaks out into a kind of road movie of
second, Bearings, was spirited and sometimes random association,
reissued by Dedalus bringing all of the book’s many themes and
in a single volume ideas, its fears and hopes, together in a
and deeply funny.”
entitled Cargo in 2010. celebration of forward motion, of living itself.
Award. He lives in Galway.
Ocean Letters (2011)
has been translated “His voice is easy, melodic, seeming
into Hungarian and was sometimes casual, sometimes deceptively
awarded the Irodalmi smooth but always alert. If Woods is
Jelen Prize in 2013. A technically expert it is not to dazzle but to
past recipient of the reveal his subject matter … his work taken
Presented by the Irish Writers Centre, this MARTINA EVANS,
Katherine and Patrick as a whole shows an impressive reach
Kavanagh Fellowship, and range. …”
he was for many years — Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Director of Poetry
“The strength [of the poems] lies so much Monsoon Diary
Sean O’Reilly is the author of the short story collection
Ireland. Widely travelled,
in their alert poise to the subtlest nuances
THE IRISH TIMES
he moved to Myanmar
JOSEPH WOODS
professional development session is aimed at
in the years leading of melancholy, nostalgia, present absorption
up to the democratic and timeless epiphany.”
elections and now lives —Matthew Clegg, Staple
in Harare, Zimbabwe
DEDALUS PRESS
with his family.
established and emerging writers and will focus Curfew and Other Stories and the novels Love and Sleep,
“A poet with the whole
www.dedaluspress.com
on the business aspect of writing. There will be an The Swing of Things and Watermark. His latest collection
world in his hip-pocket.” of stories, Levitation, was published last year. He teaches
examination on the types of funding, opportunities
JAMES J MCAULEY writing at the American College Dublin and leads The
and supports available to writers including ON JOSEPH WOODS
residencies, as well as a discussion of how writers can Stinging Fly’s fiction workshop programme.
generate alternative sources of income. This session Joseph Woods was the Director of Poetry Ireland from 2001
is a must for the enterprising writer as it explores the – 2013 and will speak about supports for writers.
practicalities of life within the literary industry.
This event will be chaired by Declan Meade, publisher and
To book visit: www.irishwriterscentre.ie founding editor of The Stinging Fly magazine and press.
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POETRY
Eleanor Hooker
THEATRE
& Joseph Woods “Adding Wilde to the list of
canonical authors that Pan Pan
MONDAY 23 APRIL 5PM
Pan Pan Theatre have absorbed and radically
NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE €10/€8 presents repurposed, director Gavin
Quinn and the ensemble employ
The Importance of Nothing a rigorous and wide-ranging
understanding of their subject in
PHOTO GEORGE HOOKER
order to fracture him in so many
MONDAY 23 APRIL 8PM disarming ways.”
BLACK BOX THEATRE €20/€16 THE IRISH TIMES
A comedy about a drama therapy class in an Cast
“Hooker has a brilliantly Eleanor Hooker has published two poetry collections; A Tug imaginary prison. ANDREW BENNETT
nurtured and culturally of Blue (2016) and The Shadow Owner’s Companion (2012) UNA McKEVITT
stretched imagination.” with Dedalus Press. She holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Picture an imaginary prison where the drama therapy is MARK O’HALLORAN
THOMAS McCARTHY, Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. She is working twenty four hours a day. Drama therapist, Lady Lancing DYLAN TIGHE
POETRY IRELAND REVIEW on her third poetry collection and a novel. Her poetry has has dedicated her life to conducting anti-homophobic JUDITH RODDY
been published internationally in Poetry, Poetry Ireland workshops utilizing the life and works of Oscar Wilde.
The prisoner’s patience and imaginations are teased to Director
Review, PN Review and The Cherry Tree.
refashion or to completely overhaul Wilde’s material and GAVIN QUINN
“Woods can’t help but evince his Joseph Woods has authored four poetry collections. His the threads that are interwoven through his works and Set Design
deep and extensive engagement first, Sailing to Hokkaido (2001) won the Patrick Kavanagh the social conventions of the past century. AEDÍN COSGROVE
with contemporary poetry. Wide- Award and Ocean Letters, translated into Hungarian, was
ranging but subtle effects suggest awarded the Irodalmi Jelen Prize in 2013. He was Director Lighting Design
there’s much held in reserve here; of Poetry Ireland from 2001 to 2013. Widely travelled, ZIA HOLLY
and more to come.” he moved to Myanmar in the years leading up to the
FIONA SAMPSON democratic elections and now lives in Harare, Zimbabwe Music
THE IRISH TIMES
with his family. SI SCHROEDER
Costumes
CATHERINE FAY
BOOK LAUNCH Empathy, historical awareness and a meticulous attention to detail have
long been among the trademarks of Eva Bourke’s poetry. In Seeing “Pain unlike pleasure
Eva Yellow, her seventh collection, the German-born Galway resident makes wears no mask.”
Bourke
her readers mindful of “the disasters and joys” of the past and of those OSCAR WILDE
who face them. Though her poetry cannot be reduced to a function, its
& Joseph power to build connections between here and there, now and then, is
everywhere evident in a book of heartfelt and graceful expression.
Woods Joseph Wood’s Monsoon Diary is bookended by birth and death; the birth
of a daughter and the death of parents. Woods seeks to inhabit poetic
MON 23 APRIL 6.30PM spaces with a deftness and ingenuity that is both disarming and original.
BITECLUB FREE The poems record many partings, witnessing a country transitioning from
dictatorship to democracy and reaching middle age but above all, it’s a
recourse to poetry and a belief in its redemptive and celebratory qualities.
8 TUESDAY TUESDAY 9
FICTION DIGITAL LITERATURE
Surveying the Short Story Embodied Encounters:
PHOTO HAZEL COONAGH
TUESDAY 24 APRIL 1PM
NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE €10/€8
Digital Cartographies
TUESDAY 24 APRIL 3PM
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne writes fiction, drama “Ní Dhuibhne is funny NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE FREE
and non-fiction in Irish and English. She but much quieter;
has published over 25 books, including six she steals up on you.
collections of short stories. She received MARTINA EVANS Featuring works which combine elements of digital literature, non-digital
the Irish Pen Award for an Outstanding THE IRISH TIMES objects and mixed media, these events present creative intersections between
Contribution to Irish Literature in 2015, and the digital and other art forms and materials. The authors performing in these
“O’Reilly’s voice is all his events work across digital and non-digital domains: they engage with a variety
a Hennessy Hall of Fame Award for Lifetime
own: intelligent, lyrical of aesthetic objects and use embodied performance to query the borders of
Achievement in 2016. Her latest book is
and deeply funny.” the literary. Curators: Anne Karhio & Justin Tonra.
Selected Stories.
MARTINA EVANS
Sean O’Reilly is the author of the short story THE IRISH TIMES J. R. Carpenter, artist, writer, performer, and researcher carries out work in
collection Curfew and Other Stories and the Performance Writing, Digital Literature, and Media Archaeology. In her long-
“This is the real thing, awaited poetry début she transforms the dense, fragmented archive of the
novels Love and Sleep, The Swing of Things a powerful, chiselled
and Watermark. His latest collection of North Atlantic into an astonishing sea of fresh new text. Haunting, politically
collection of short stories charged and formally innovative, An Ocean of Static presents an ever-shifting
stories, Levitation, was published last year. which are by turns
He teaches writing at the American College array of variables.
funny and bleak and
Dublin and leads the The Stinging Fly’s fiction compassionate, the truth In Augmented spaces and narrative interactions, the works of Jason Nelson
workshop programme. rings out on every page.” and Alinta Krauth engage with narrative fiction through interaction with
Ger Reidy has published three collections of MIKE McCORMACK objects and non-sentient actors within the surrounding environment. Alinta
poetry; Pictures from a Reservation, Drifting Krauth’s performance addresses issues related to ecology and political injustice
“Walsh’s clever, self- by presenting narratives generated from plants through bio-feedback. Jason
Under the Moon, and his most recent, Before parodying stories
Rain, which was shortlisted for the Pigott Nelson’s contribution, provisionally titled Translating the World into Narrative,
capture the existential will draw on encounters with printed books through augmented reality
Poetry Prize at Listowel Writers’ Week. His disarrangement of the
début collection of short stories Jobs for a technologies, thus combining and examining the exchanges between print and
writer, but also the digital materiality.
Wet Day was nominated for the Edge Hill existential disarrangement
Prize. of anyone who finds real
Joanna Walsh is the author of Worlds From life strange and, at times,
the Word’s End, Vertigo, Hotel, Grow a Pair, quite unreal.” LAUNCH Poems for Patience is a long-running programme established by
JOANNA KAVENNA Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust. Poems are displayed on the
and Fractals. She is also published by Granta,
Dalkey, Salt and others. She writes literary
THE GUARDIAN Poems for Arts Corridor of the hospital and also displayed in waiting areas
Patience
criticism, edits at 3:AM and Catapult, and throughout the hospital and associated hospital units. In the past,
founded @read_women. She was a 2016 the series has featured poems by leading Irish and international
Goldsmiths Prize judge and a 2017 Arts poets such as Seamus Heaney, Philip Schultz, Yrsa Daley-Ward,
TUESDAY 24 APRIL 11AM
Foundation Fellow. Vona Groarke, Jane Hirschfield and Tess Gallagher. This year’s
GALWAY UNIVERSITY selection has been kindly chosen by Michael Coady.
Chaired by Dr John Kenny, founding director HOSPITAL FREE
PHOTO LAUREN ELKIN
of the BA with Creative Writing programme Michael Coady has received short story prizes, the Patrick
at NUI Galway, where he is now director of Kavanagh Poetry Award (1979) and the 2004 O’Shaughnessy
the MA in Writing. Poetry Award. His most recent book from Gallery Press is Given
Light which integrates poetry, prose and photographs.
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POETRY
BOOK LAUNCH The 2018 issue of ROPES, and 26th publication in the
history of this literary and arts journal, is the production
Public House
and passion project of the students of the Masters in TUESDAY 24 APRIL 8PM Over time the Public Houses have served their patrons as a
Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway. This year all THE BLUE NOTE FREE place where they can gather together in a sanctuary, removed
sales proceeds will go to Jigsaw Galway. Jigsaw is a free from the worries of the working world. Where joys and
and confidential organisation that provides support and sorrows, losses and little victories are shared, stories told and
guidance to young people aged 15-25 who are going confessions aired.
through difficult or distressing times.
A night of spoken word, poetry and stories from a variety of
TUESDAY 24 APRIL 5PM The 2018 issue of ROPES features short fiction, poetry, talents welcoming both the adept and the novice. Not serious
TOWN HALL THEATRE BAR and visuals with varied interpretations of the theme but sincere, things that are hard to say and hard to hear. A space
FREE ‘Sparks’ - from exciting new voices and from writers such where performers can challenge themselves and their audience.
as Nuala O’Connor, E.R. Murray and Kevin Higgins.
POETRY POETRY
Jane Clarke Cúirt/Over the Edge
PHOTO TOM GRACE
& Michael Coady New Writing Showcase
TUESDAY 24 APRIL 6PM WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 11AM
NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE €10/€8 TOWN HALL THEATRE FREE
Highlighting emerging talent in poetry and fiction, The New Writing Showcase features readers and
Jane Clarke’s first collection, The River, winners from the popular Over the Edge Literary Series in Galway and the 2018 Cúirt New Writing
“Clear, direct, lovely: Jane Clarke’s
was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015 Prize. This event is a firm favourite amongst Cúirt audiences, and one not to be missed. Winners of the
voice slips into the Irish tradition
to both public and critical acclaim. In 2018 Cúirt New Writing Prize (Poetry: Eoin Hegarty & Short Story: Eimear O’Callaghan) will join the
with such ease, it is as though she
2016 she won the Listowel Writers’ Week showcase line-up to read their winning entries.
had always been at the heart of it.”
ANNE ENRIGHT Poem of the Year Award, the Hennessy Fiction writer Dara Ó Foghlú graduated from the Writing MA in NUI Galway in 2008. He has published
Literary Award for Poetry and The River his fiction in ROPES and in three collections of short stories with The Atlantis Collective. He has been
was shortlisted for the Royal Society of a freelance editor for seven years, and has recently returned from Vietnam where he was editing state
Literature Ondaatje Literary Award. propaganda for the Communists. Dara was a Featured Reader at the September 2017 Over The Edge:
Michael Coady lives in Carrick-on- Open Reading.
Coady’s writing is principally
concerned with the mystery of time, Suir, the town of his birth. Writer, Poet Vinny Steed’s poems have featured in the Galway Review, Headstuff, Skylight 47, Crannóg and Into
transience and continuity, finding photographer and musician, he was the Void. He has been long listed for the Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition and short
its motifs of individual human elected to Aosdána in 1998. He has listed for the 2016 Doolin poetry competition. One of his poems was nominated by Into the Void for the
destiny, community, mortality and received short story prizes, the Patrick Pushcart Prize. Vinny was a Featured Reader at the January 2017 Over The Edge: Open Reading.
memory in an intimately-known Kavanagh Poetry Award (1979) and the
anchorage of place – in his case, 2004 O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award. His Paul Denby has been in Galway since 2005, having previously lived in England and Germany. He studied
that of the lower Suir valley. most recent book from Gallery Press Mathematics and Economics, and works as a Software Engineer. Paul participates in poetry workshops
is Given Light which integrates poetry, at Galway Arts Centre and was shortlisted for the 2017 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year
prose and photographs. Competition. Paul was a Featured Reader at the September 2017 Over The Edge: Open Reading.
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“A major contribution
indispensable to
contemporary Irish writing.
Declan Kiberd’s range and
acuity are impressive.”
PRESIDENT MICHAEL D HIGGINS
ON AFTER IRELAND.
DIGITAL LITERATURE
Embodied Encounters: Poetry In Motion
WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 3PM
NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE FREE
Featuring works which combine elements of digital literature, non-digital objects, and mixed
media, these events present creative intersections between the digital and other art forms and
materials. The authors performing in these events work across digital and non-digital domains:
they engage with a variety of aesthetic objects and use embodied performance to query the
borders of the literary. Curators: Anne Karhio & Justin Tonra.
Álvaro Seiça is a writer, researcher, and PhD Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway,
where he teaches courses in digital culture and edits the ELMCIP Knowledge Base. He recently
defended his PhD dissertation “setInterval(): Time-Based Readings of Kinetic Poetry” (2017).
In the new work, eÖ, Seiça proposes a multilingual performance, dependent on stable human
translation and variable machine translation. eÖ is a live performance that stems from Álvaro
Seiça’s source poem Ö, a book of poetry published in Portuguese (2014), and translated into
PUBLIC TALK English by Ana Hudson for Publication Studio Malmö (2018). Custom software: Sindre Sørensen.
After Ireland Justin Tonra is a conceptual poet and lecturer in English literature. EverVerse is a collaborative
with Declan Kiberd
work which has received support from colleagues in NUI Galway, Maynooth University, and the
European Association for Digital Humanities. EverVerse is a work which uses biometric data
to automatically generate poetry which responds to the poet’s varying physical and emotional
WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 1PM
states. A conceptual response to the common view of the poet as a creative vessel or conduit,
AULA MAXIMA, NUI GALWAY €10/€8
admitting the sensory input of the world and producing poetic output, EverVerse literalises the
abstract relations between self and art.
Declan Kiberd is Professor of Irish studies at Notre Dame. Among his
books are Synge and the Irish Language (1979), Idir Dhá Chultúr (1992),
Inventing Ireland (1995), Ulysses and Us (2009) and, most recently, After THEATRE
Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present (2017). His works
have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Polish, Japanese and Turkish. Imagining Nora – James Joyce’s Women
Dr. Rióna Ní Fhrighil is a lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures Presented by Sarah O’Toole and Tara Breathnach
and Cultures, NUI Galway. Her research and publications focus on Ireland’s
WEDNESDAY 25 & THURSDAY 26 APRIL 3PM
dual-language literary tradition.
TIGH NORA FREE
Nora Barnacle’s influence on James Joyce is celebrated with a theatrical presentation of
extracts from his most seminal works. Greta Conroy from The Dead and Molly Bloom from
Ulysses are brought to life by actresses Tara Breathnach and Sarah O’Toole. Presented in the
intimate setting of Tigh Nora, come and get to know these extraordinary characters who owe
This event has kindly been sponsored by NUI Galway.
so much to the strong willed Galway girl who ran away with the penniless author.
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Official Opening
BOOK LAUNCH WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 6PM
HOTEL MEYRICK FREE
Salmon Book Launch Join us at the Hotel Meyrick, Eyre Square, for
WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 4PM music and refreshments as we officially open Cúirt
International Festival of Literature 2018.
CHARLIE BYRNE’S BOOKSHOP FREE
Originally from West Clare, Anne Casey lives in Sydney, Australia.
Anne is co-editor of Other Terrain and Backstory literary journals. FICTION
Her writing and poetry rank as most-read pieces in The Irish Times.
In 2017 Salmon Poetry published her debut poetry collection An Evening with
PHOTO CLAIRE McNAMEE
Bernard MacLaverty
where the lost things go. She won the Glen Phillips Novice Writer
Award in Australia and has been shortlisted for many international
competitions.
WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 8PM
Paul Kingsnorth is the author of two novels: The Wake, longlisted TOWN HALL THEATRE €14/€12
for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, and Beast, published in 2016 by
Faber and Faber. He has also written three non-fiction books, and is Bernard MacLaverty is a Northern Irish writer based in
co-founder of the Dark Mountain project, an international network Glasgow. He has written five collections of stories and five
of writers and artists. His début poetry collection Kidland and other novels, all critically acclaimed. His fifth novel, Midwinter
poems was published by Salmon in 2011. He lives in County Galway. Break won the ‘Irish Novel of the Year’ Award at the 2017
Out of the Ordinary is Galway-based writer Moya Roddy’s début Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards.
poetry collection. She was shortlisted in 2017 for the Hennessy Bernard MacLaverty is a master storyteller, and Midwinter
Award and her collection of short stories Other People was long- Break is the essential MacLaverty novel: accurate,
listed for the Frank O’Connor Award. Her work has been broadcast compassionate observation, effortlessly elegant writing
on Channel 4 and on RTÉ television and radio and she has received and a tender, intimate, heart-rending story – but it is also
commissions from the British Film Institute and Scottish Television. a profound examination of human love and how we live
together, a chamber piece of real resonance and power.
Forty years on from his first book, Bernard MacLaverty has
written his masterpiece.
THEATRE It’s Bella’s 25th birthday. Friends and former lovers
In conversation with Dr John Kenny, founding director of
meet for a drink to celebrate. But as the Bloody
Drama and Theatre Studies Marys flow, the bar becomes a battlefield… the BA with Creative Writing programme at NUI Galway,
at NUI Galway & Galway Arts where he is now director of the MA in Writing.
In the uncivil war between the sexes, what happens
Centre present when the females have the real fire-power- stockpiles
of testosterone, lethal wit and explosive attitude?
NINA RAINE’S And what happens when patriarchy gets personal; “MacLaverty is an exhilarating, tender, humorous
when it’s your own father who is tragic and terminal? writer…who can set a scene and create a character
When the only man you really love is dying? with Chekhovian delicacy and economy… He
reminds us that although life is a dangerous, painful
Nina Raine’s debut play, Rabbit, transferred for a business, we should never despair.”
West End run, won the Evening Standard and Critics SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
WED 25 - SAT 28 APRIL 8PM
Circle awards for most promising play.
MATINEE SAT 3PM
TOWN HALL STUDIO €14/€12 Directed by Andrew Flynn This event has kindly been sponsored by Tigh Nora.
16 THURSDAY THURSDAY 17
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POETRY
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FICTION
Imtiaz Dharker
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& Pascale Petit Danny Denton & Sally Rooney
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 4PM
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 1PM TOWN HALL THEATRE €10/€8
TOWN HALL THEATRE €10/€8
Danny Denton is from Cork and is “This is a blast, this book.
currently the writer-in-residence for It’s a gangster ballad, a
“Reading her, one feels that Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary
PHOTO JONNY L DAVIES
Cork County Library. The Earlie King & love story, a dystopian
were there to be a World film-maker. Awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for
The Kid In Yellow is his first novel. vision of a flooded Ireland
Laureate, Imtiaz Dharker Poetry in 2014, she has six collections including
Postcards from god, The Terrorist at my Table,
stalked by Mister Violence.
would be the only candidate.” Sally Rooney’s work has appeared in
Over the Moon and the latest, Luck Is the Hook, all
It’s full of extraordinary
CAROL ANN DUFFY The New Yorker, Granta, The White
published by Bloodaxe Books UK.
poetry, myth and dark
Review, The Dublin Review and other
hearted theatre.”
publications. In 2017 she won The
“This is a major literary feat, Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives MAX PORTER
Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of
and this a brilliant sequence in Cornwall. Her seventh collection, Mama
the Year award and was shortlisted for “Truman Capote (with his
of poems. It burns in its own Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017) was a Poetry Book
The Sunday Times EFG Short Story sharpest scalpel) reborn,
supranatural light.” Society Choice. Her sixth, Fauverie, was her fourth
Award for ‘Mr Salary’. Conversations with more than a dash of
TIM LIARDET & VONA to be shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and five
GROARKE, POETRY BOOK with Friends is her first novel. the high intelligence of
poems from it won the Manchester Poetry Prize.
SOCIETY BULLETIN ON
In 2015 she received a Cholmondeley Award and Chaired by Alan McMonagle whose
Elizabeth Bowen.”
MAMA AMAZONICA SEBASTIAN BARRY,
in 2018 she won a RSL Literature Matters Award. first novel Ithaca was nominated for
THE GUARDIAN
the Desmond Elliott Prize for first
novels and an Irish Book Award.
THEATRE
Aislingí Grádha
Oídhche Lughnasa NON-FICTION
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 1PM Motherfoclóir
NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE FREE
Reading and dramatic enactments from the newly published play by Mick Óg McGee, (written
with Darach Ó Séaghdha
in conjunction with Beartla M. Ó Flatharta and Tom Sailí ó Flaithearta). / Léiriú ar mhíreanna ón THURSDAY 26 APRIL 4PM
ndráma nua-scríofa le Micheál Óg Mac Aoidh, (scríofa i gcomhar le Beartla M. Ó Flatharta agus Tom NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE €6
Sailí ó Flaithearta). Leis na haisteoirí Fionnuala Ní Fhlatharta, Seán Mistéal agus Eoin Mac Diarmada.
This event, mainly in English with use of some Irish words, will include a lively discussion about the
work of Flann O’Brien and will be recorded live for the Motherfoclóir podcast.
BOOK LAUNCH
Darach Ó Séaghdha is the author of Motherfoclóir: Dispatches From A Not-So Dead Language
Stinging Fly Stories Edited by Sarah Gilmartin and Declan (published by Head of Zeus) and the presenter of the Motherfoclóir podcast (produced by the
Headstuff Podcast Network). Both of these projects were initiated in response to the popularity of his
Meade, Stinging Fly Stories includes
Celebrating 20 years of The Stinging Fly Magazine Twitter account, @theirishfor, which shares new and old Irish words of interest. As a fellow writer-civil
work by some of the most highly
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 2.30PM acclaimed writers to have emerged servant hybrid, he is a huge fan of Flann O’Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O’Nolan.
BITECLUB FREE over the past two decades.
Darach’s second book is expected in September 2018.18 THURSDAY THURSDAY 19
NON-FICTION/MUSIC
Lyrics of Our Lives:
The Art of Songwriting
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 8PM
RÓISÍN DUBH €18/€16
This unique event explores the art of composing lyrics as a writing practice by
uncovering the inspiration, the anecdotes and the craft behind some of our
favourite songs.
FICTION Julie Feeney performs as a one woman show, with ensemble, with choirs or
World Perspectives with full orchestra; and she composes, arranges and orchestrates all of her
own music and words. Her three albums have been widely critically acclaimed
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 6PM internationally, receiving numerous awards.
TOWN HALL THEATRE €10/€8
Paul Linehan is the lead singer and songwriter with the Frank and Walters. He
Eduard Márquez is a Catalan writer and the author of “This novel resonates has been writing songs with the band for nearly 30 years. The band, who have
poetry books, children’s stories, tales and novels. He with detail and wonder; recorded seven albums had a top 20 hit with “After All”. Their latest album Songs
lives in Barcelona and is professor of Creative Writing art, history and human For The Walking Wounded received critical acclaim.
at the Escola d’Escriptura de l’Ateneu Barcelonès. experience as well as shafts Brendan Murphy from Newry, Northern Ireland is the singer and principal
Brandes’ Decision won three awards (2005 Octavi of recognition exciting the
PHOTO KATHRIN BAUMBACH
songwriter with The 4 of Us who have notched up an enviable catalogue of
Pellissa Prize, 2006 Catalan Critics Prize and 2007 senses and emotions.” timeless songs, including six top 20 Irish charting albums. Their latest album
Qwerty Prize). EILEEN BATTERSBY, Sugar Island tells tales of growing up in the North in the 1970s.
THE IRISH TIMES
Norbert Gstrein, was born in the Tyrol, Austria, in Steve Wall is an Irish musician, actor and lead singer and songwriter with
1961. He studied mathematics in Innsbruck and at “One of the foremost
legendary Irish bands The Walls and The Stunning. Known for roles in “Vikings”,
AS ETHNIC TENSIONS ESCALATE INTO WAR,
Stanford, California. He is the author of the novels The novelists not only of
MARIJA returns in confusion to her native
A Sense
Croatia – call it a mid-life crisis. She soon
takes up with a young soldier, but her
age does not give her the least power over
him. On the other side of the world, her
of the
“Silent Witness”, “Moone Boy”, “Rebellion” and “An Klondike”, his latest project is
estranged father is gearing up to enter the
fray, raising the funds to raise an army.
English Years, Winters in the South and A Sense of the German, but of
Exiled to Argentina, he has been waiting for
this moment since 1945.
Beginning But war is a young man’s game, and even
his closest comrades cannot be trusted. If
playing the jazz musician Chet Baker in My Foolish Heart, due out this year. The
the Old Man is to meet his daughter again
it will be in a world altered beyond his
understanding, where the only soldiers he
European literature”
NORBERT GSTREIN was born in 1961 in the Austrian commands are in his head.
Tyrol, and studied mathematics at Innsbruck
Beginning. His novels have been translated into more
and Stanford, California. He is the author of The
Norbert
Winters in the South is a subtle but
English Years, which won widespread critical chilling evocation of the confusions and
acclaim in Germany and was awarded the coveted
Stunning’s new album is Twice Around the World.
contradictions that marked the Balkans
Alfred Döblin Prize.
War. Gstrein’s gift for mirroring political
Gstrein
ANTHEA BELL has won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for
tumult in the personal dramas of his
characters opens an intimate perspective on
than a dozen languages. He lives in Hamburg, Germany. FRANKFURTER
German translation four times. In 2010 she was
awarded an O.B.E. for her services to literature. this most senseless of civil conflicts
ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG
Sharon Vaughn is an undisputed living legend in the world of songwriting, having
Hédi Kaddour is a French novelist and teaches creative
MACLEHOSE PRESS Fiction
An imprint of Quercus
“Brilliant scene-setting composed hits for a diversity of artists such as Willie Nelson, Randy Travis, Dolly
www.maclehosepress.com
“A magnificently achieved game of
memory, guilt and multiple layers of time”
Jacket design by James Nunn
£18.99
Front panel photographs: soldiers © Corbis; portrait © Eric Rose
maclehose press Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Photograph of Norbert Gstrein © Isabelle Boccon-Gibod MacLehose Price in the UK
writing at the Gallimard literary workshop in Paris. His and resonant ideas make Parton, Kenny Rogers, Boyzone and Agnes to mention but a few. In 2017 Sharon
first novel Waltenberg (Gallimard, 2005) was awarded this a thinking reader’s was honoured by the Country Music Hall of Fame with the ‘Poets and Prophets,
the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and his last Les espionage blockbuster that - Legendary Songwriter’ award.
Prépondérants (Gallimard, 2015) the Grand Prix du in David Coward’s luminous
Roman de l’Académie-Française. translation - stimulates Chaired by Tony Clayton-Lea, an award-winning freelance journalist who writes
and grips.” about music, pop culture, film and travel.
To be chaired by Dr. Kate Quinn, Lecturer with the BOYD TONKIN,
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at NUI THE INDEPENDENT
Galway. ON WALTENBERG
In association with the French Embassy of Ireland and the
Institut Ramon Llull for Catalan Language and Culture This event has kindly been sponsored by Róisín Dubh.20 THURSDAY FRIDAY 21
FICTION FICTION
Sebastian Barry & Paul Lynch Young, Irish, Displaced
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 8PM FRIDAY 27 APRIL 1PM
TOWN HALL THEATRE €14/€12 TOWN HALL THEATRE €10/€8
“Mesmerising, inventive, Andrew Meehan‘s first short story won the Cúirt New
Cúirt International Festival of Literature is delighted to welcome heart-wrenching, and Writing Prize in 2010, while other work was anthologised
award-winning author and new Laureate for Irish Fiction, brilliantly realised. The most in Town and Country: The Faber Book of New Irish Stories
Sebastian Barry, to this year’s festival. He will join acclaimed interesting début of 2017.” and Winter Papers. In 2017 his first novel One Star Awake
Irish novelist, Paul Lynch. THE IRISH EXAMINER was published to great acclaim by New Island Books.
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays E.M. Reapy is from Mayo and has an MA in Creative
“Red Dirt is timely in
have won numerous awards, including the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast. In 2016 her
its subject matter – the
Prize, Costa Book of the Year award, Irish Book Awards Best Novel, début novel Red Dirt was published by Head of Zeus. It
migration of Ireland’s young
Independent Booksellers Prize, Walter Scott Prize and James Tait won Newcomer of the Year at the 2016 Irish Book Awards
generation – inventively
Black Memorial Prize. Two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way and the 2017 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
narrated in three voices
(2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), were shortlisted for the
(‘Me’, ‘You’ and ‘Them’),
MAN Booker Prize. His most recent novel Days Without End was This event will be chaired by Mike McCormack, award-
and displays a sure footed
published in 2016 and won the Costa Book of the Year Award and winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. In 2016
mastery of the novel form.”
The Walter Scott Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. he won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Bord Gáis Energy
JONATHAN WILLIAMS
In 2018, Sebastian Barry was named Ireland’s Laureate for Irish Irish Book Award for best novel for Solar Bones.
Fiction, 2018 – 2021. He has three grown children and lives in
Wicklow with his wife Alison.
FICTION
Paul Lynch is the internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning author of
Novel Approaches
PHOTO JOEL SAGET
Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky in Morning. He won the French
booksellers’ prize Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel and was
a finalist for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book to History
Prize). US author Ron Rash has called Paul, “one of his generation’s FRIDAY 27 APRIL 4PM
very finest novelists”.
TOWN HALL THEATRE €10/€8
“Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the year.”
Billy O’Callaghan, from Cork, has written three short story
THE OBSERVER ON DAYS WITHOUT END
collections: In Exile, In Too Deep, and The Things We Lose,
“The Irish writer’s third novel raises timeless questions about the Things We Leave Behind (awarded the 2013 Bord
suffering and survival through the story of two children expelled from Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for the short story); and a
their impoverished home in the midst of the Great Famine. When novel, The Dead House which fuses contemporary and
you’re starving, Lynch seems to be asking, are you truly alive?” pre-Famine history in a compelling modern ghost story.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ON GRACE My Coney Island Baby will be published by Jonathan Cape
in February 2019.
Kathleen Winter is the internationally renowned Canadian “Winter’s Lost
PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately due to ill-health, Daniel Woodrell is unable to
author of the novel Annabel, the memoir Boundless and in September is
attend. Sebastian Barry will now join Paul Lynch in his place.
story collections boYs and The Freedom in American evocative, humane and
Songs. Her novel Lost in September, based on letters of totally original.”
General James Wolfe to his mother, was short-listed for THE GLOBE AND MAIL
This event has kindly been sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop. the 2017 Governor General’s Award.22 FRIDAY FRIDAY 23
NON-FICTION
MUSIC/POETRY
Adventures in Ideas: the Essay Now
What To Bring FRIDAY 27 APRIL 6PM
When We Leave TOWN HALL THEATRE €10/€8
FRIDAY 27 APRIL 5PM Kevin Breathnach is a writer from Dublin. His essays have appeared in the
NUN’S ISLAND THEATRE €10/€8 Dublin Review, The White Review, Granta (online), gorse, The New Inquiry,
DURATION: APPROX. 40 MINUTES The Tangerine and elsewhere. His first book - a sequence of critical essays
and personal essays about internalized homophobia, misogyny and racism -
PHOTO CHRIS DIXON
is forthcoming in January 2019.
Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism, The
Cúirt in association with Solstice Arts Centre Great Explosion, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives
and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction.
“French’s ability in each of What To Bring When We Leave is a collaborative His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, London
his books, is to find a way commission culminating in a unique continuous live Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. He is UK editor of
into such places, where performance by poet Tom French (word) and music Cabinet magazine, and teaches at the Royal College of Art, London.
the “beautifully executed Danny Diamond (fiddle). Each artist stretches the
wounds” are shown for other’s narratives in spoken and unspoken airs, finding Susan Tomaselli is founder and editor of Gorse journal, and editor at
what they are” solace in the unexpected places between. Tom French’s Gorse Editions. She is former co-editor of 3:AM Magazine and editor at
JOHN McAULIFFE poetry draws on the traditional arts, folklore and rural 3:AM Press. Her essays have been published in The Guardian, The Irish
(ON TOM FRENCH). Irish life; he writes vividly about traditional music, the Times, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. Her introduction for a new edition
people who play(ed) it, and the context in which it of Mervyn Wall’s Leaves For the Burning will be published by Swan River
lives. As a traditional fiddle player, music archivist and Press later this year. She is currently working on a novel in essays.
“Seldom does a musician
researcher, Danny Diamond’s compositions bring a This event will be chaired by Dr. Rebecca Barr, Director of the MA in
utterly inhabit a tradition
corresponding unconventional sensitivity to a similar
while still expressing Literature & Publishing at NUI Galway.
sphere that informs French’s work. A unique What To
him or herself with such
Bring When We Leave publication of photography,
originality”
poetry and music will accompany the tour. What POETRY/FILÍOCHT
SIOBHAN LONG,
THE IRISH TIMES
(ON DANNY DIAMOND).
To Bring When We Leave is a Solstice Arts Centre
commission creatively produced by Belinda Quirke.
Cúirt Cois Fharraige
As traidisiún filíocht na muintire atá céad chnuasach Paddy Mhéime
DÉ hAOINE 27 AIBREÁIN
fuinte. Sa bhreis / is mó tír inar shaothraigh sé a chuid,
ar a bpréamh san
agus tá rianta na mblianta san le braith ar mórán dánta anseo.
FRIDAY 27 APRIL 8.30PM
TIGHAgus
PHEADAIR
é ag moladh go MHÓIR,
mbronnfaíROS A do
an duais MHÍL SAOR/FREE
chnuasach air ag Oireachtas
Cheanada dúirt Brian Ó Baoill, moltóir:
“Is maith liom go mór an cnuasacht seo agus intinn agus sprid an
As Conamara ó dhúchas, tá Áine Durkin ina cónaí infhile Inisa scríobh
Eoghain na dánta.
ó 1980.Ceapaim go n-aontódh
Scríobhann an file le hEpicurus a
sí filíocht
dúirt:
agus amhráin,Paddy
agusMhéime
is blagálaí í. Bhain sí duais liteartha‘Nuair
Ó Súilleabháin ag Oireachtas na Samhna 2010 dá
is ann dúinn, ní ann don bhás; nuair is ann blag,
don bhás,
Mise Áine. Bhuaigh a hamhrán ‘Le Do Thaobh’ an Comórtas Amhrán
ní ann dúinne. MarNáisiúnta
sin, déanannag an bhFéile
tuiscint cheart ar an mbás,
básmhaireacht na beatha níos taitneamhaí, ní de bhrí go
Pan Cheilteach i 2013; agus bhuaigh ‘Féile na Nollag’ comórtas amhránaíochta a d’eagraigh Ros
gcuireann sé seal ama éigríochta léi, ach go mbaineann sé an dúil
na Rún/Raidió na Gaeltachta. sa neamhbhásmhaireacht asainn.’
Tarraingíonn an file seo pictiúir bhreátha den nádúr, de radharcana,
I Loch Con Aortha, Conamara a rugadh Paddy Mhéime Ó Súilleabháin
de dhaoine i 1944.
agus léiríonn na Tá cáil
mothúcháin, na bainte
mianta, agus gnéithe
amach ag a chuid dánta go mór mór, a foilsíodh ar an deniliomad
ghaol idiririsí.
daoine.
TáLéiríonn
duaiseannaan file, chomh
bronnta maith,
airaiféala
ag na
beatha. Buaine an droichid, neamhbhuaine an duine. Tá f íric an
féilte i gConamara, ag Oireachtas na Gaeilge, agus Oireachtas Cheanada. D’fhoilsigh Coiscéim
bháis ina hábhar i gcuid de na dánta seo, neamhbhuaine na beatha,
a chéad chnuasach filíochta, Fuaim na Gaoithe Aniar, mar aon
réaltacht le dírbheathaisnéis
na beatha, ach i slí thomhaiste, aréalaíoch.
shaol oibre:
Breathnaíonn sé
Seachrán Deoraí thar trí mhór-roinn. go díreach isteach i súile na réaltachta. Agus tá áilleacht san insint.”
Nára fada uainn comharbaí an leabhair seo.24 FRIDAY SATURDAY 25
POETRY
PHOTO BRYAN MEADE
PHOTO RITA PLATTS
Spotlight on New Voices
SATURDAY 28 APRIL 11AM
TOWN HALL THEATRE €10/€8
Rachel Coventry’s poetry has appeared in journals including Poetry The début collection draws on
Ireland Review. Her début collection Afternoon Drinking in the Jolly quantum mechanics, myth,
Butchers is published by Salmon poetry. religion and philosophy to
fragment its perspective and
Annemarie Ní Churreáin has been awarded three literary fellowships
FICTION to tell and retell stories of
and in 2016 received a Next Generation Artists Award. Her début
memory and loss.
Juan Pablo Villalobos collection of poetry BLOODROOT is published by Doire Press.
“Among the strongest debut
& Patrick McCabe Liz Quirke’s poetry has appeared in many publications, including New
Irish Writing in The Irish Times. Her poem “Directions for Use” was
collections of the decade.”
DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA
nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2013 by The
FRIDAY 27 APRIL 8PM Poetry Bus. “An assured and distinctive
TOWN HALL THEATRE €14/€12 voice, balancing intelligence
As part of the Cúirt Poetry Mentorship programme in memory of and feeling in a series of
Anne Kennedy, renowned local poet Mary Madec has been mentoring moving and deep reflections
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in “One of the wittiest, two young writers who will also have an opportunity to read at this on motherhood.”
Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He is the author most whimsical, most event. Mary Madec’s third collection, The Egret Lands With News MARTINA EVANS
of Down the Rabbit Hole, Quesadillas, and enjoyable novels to From other Parts is in press.
I’ll Sell You a Dog, all published by And have been published in
Other Stories, and translated into many Spanish for a long time.”
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languages. He writes for several Spanish and ALBERTO MANGUEL
THE GUARDIAN ON I’LL
POETRY
English-language publications, and translates
Brazilian literature into Spanish. He lives in
SELL YOU A DOG
Sinéad Morrissey
& Daljit Nagra
Barcelona and is married with two Mexican-
Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children.
Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, Co. “McCabe is a SATURDAY 28 APRIL 1PM
Monaghan in 1955. His many published novels true original.” TOWN HALL THEATRE €10/€8
include The Dead School and The Butcher JOHN BANVILLE
Boy. The director and novelist Neil Jordan
has adapted two of his novels The Butcher Sinéad Morrissey has published six collections of poetry, “Poet Sinéad Morrissey
Boy and Breakfast on Pluto into films. His the most recent of which is On Balance, which was awarded gains power with each
novel Heartland which he describes as an the Forward Prize in 2017. She has served as Belfast Poet collection.”
“outlaw country song” and “electric hillbilly Laureate (2013-2014) and is currently Professor of Creative HILARY MANTEL
opera” is due from New Island in April. Writing at Newcastle University.
Chaired by freelance journalist and critic, Daljit Nagra’s first collection of poetry, Look We Have “To anyone experiencing
JP O’Malley. Coming to Dover! won the Forward Prize for Best First the sinking feeling that
Collection in 2007. His subsequent two collections, Tippoo poetry in Britain is
Sultan’s Incredible White-Man Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!! becoming depoliticised,
This event has kindly been sponsored by Galway Business School and Galway and his version of the Ramayana were nominated for the Nagra’s work is a tonic.”
Cultural Institute. TS Eliot Prize. His latest collection is British Museum (2017). SEAN O’BRIENYou can also read
