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Nuns Island Theatre
Tue, Apr 21, 2026 · 11:00 AM
Brendan Mac Evilly’s Deep Burn is a tale of art and the value of obsession; fame and the price of envy; friendship and the uncertainty of love. In this fascinating novel, Martha Knox explores an unusual artistic career, burning emotionally charged objects and photographing the results. Tom O’Connell’s Lichtenberg is set in a frozen and hopeless future, showing how easily lies can spread in modern society, through a breathtaking dystopian story. Riven is finding cracks in the propaganda and discovering long-kept secrets of the city.
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Tue, Apr 21, 2026 · 1:30 PM
Selected emerging writers from the Over the Edge Literary Series and Skylight 47/ Open Window will share their work, alongside the 2026 winners of the annual Cúirt New Writing Prize.
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Tue, Apr 21, 2026 · 4:30 PM
An Asylum for my Affections , edited by Molly Hennigan, is an anthology of new essays by Irish writers, inspired by the life and work of Meave Brennan, a key figure of twentieth century Irish diaspora writing. Maeve Brennan moved from Dublin to America in 1934, and during her lifetime, published two collections of short stories and a book of essays. Join Molly Hennigan, Jess Traynor and Niamh Campbell as they explore her life and work, from cityscapes, girlhood, and mythology, to loneliness and the emotional impact of history and diaspora.
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Tue, Apr 21, 2026 · 6:00 PM
We’re delighted to welcome Galway-based authors Mary Costello and Edel Coffey to discuss their latest novels. Mary Costello’s A Beautiful Loan is a heart-wrenching novel set in 1980s Dublin, where introverted, naïve Anna falls for an older man. An intimate portrait of a woman claiming the life she yearns for. Edel Coffey’s In Glass Houses is a propulsive thriller about power and privilege in wealthy New York City. With a shocking twist, this novel will keep you guessing until the very end.
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Tue, Apr 21, 2026 · 7:00 PM
Join us for an exhilarating night full of spoken word, music and immersive performance, featuring artists from Galway city and further afield. The Oil Slick Showcase offers artists space to express themselves in the spaces between genres and mediums. Be ready to experience literature in a way you never have before. Join us afterwards in Electric’s upstairs venue The Garden, for an opening night reception. In partnership with creative partner Electric.
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Wed, Apr 22, 2026 · 12:00 PM
Rosamund Taylor and Anthony Shapland, in conversation with Paul Maddern, discuss the queer themes in their debut novels. Rosamund Taylor’s verse novel Filly tells the coming-of-age of Orla navigating school in Ireland. This genre-bending story explores sexual awakening, masochistic love, and the transformative possibilities of community. Anthony Shapland’s A Room Above a Shop explores the complexities of love against the backdrop of the age of consent debate and the HIV and AIDS crisis in South Wales. Supported by the Welsh Government.
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Wed, Apr 22, 2026 · 1:30 PM
How as artists should we engage with the consequences of climate change? What can writers – or any of us – do in the face of impending climate catastrophe? These were two of the questions that The Stinging Fly sought to answer when it put out the submission call for its latest issue, which takes the ongoing climate emergency as its theme. This Earth Day, join The Stinging Fly ’s editor Lisa McInerney, visual artist Ríonach Ní Néill and poet Joey Connolly in conversation with climate activist and academic Dr Nessa Cronin to discuss the capacity for artists and writers to intervene and to help save our planet.
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Wed, Apr 22, 2026 · 3:00 PM
We are delighted to welcome two remarkable poets to Cúirt. Their poetry is written in precise, luminous language, exploring identity and deconstruction with playfulness and wit. The Current Ireland Professor of Poetry, Vona Groarke’s ninth collection Infinity Pool explores the thin veil between poetry and the world it seeks to process. These poems write into the point where anything might slip into something else — the Atlantic become an actor; a luggage carousel be a reckoning; a poem nudge itself gently over its own fourth wall. Jessica Traynor’s fourth collection New Arcana explores grief, bad boyfriends, and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies.
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Wed, Apr 22, 2026 · 4:30 PM
ROPES , produced by students of the MA in Literature and Publishing in University of Galway, is delighted to launch the 34th edition of ROPES Literary Journal, featuring both established names and emerging talents. All proceeds from the 2026 edition will go to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Find out more at ropesliteraryjournal.com
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Wed, Apr 22, 2026 · 4:30 PM
Following Just Ignore Him , the bestselling memoir of his childhood, White Male Stand-Up explores what happens next. Join us as Alan brings us on a journey through his assent to life-changing fame, the camaraderie of the comedy circuit and echoes of his past.
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Wed, Apr 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM
An intimate, darkly comic essay-performance that reflects on the meanings and functions of fire in life and art. Moving between childhood experiments with homemade fireworks, family and national history and the author’s novel Deep Burn , Brendan Mac Evilly traces a lifelong fascination with flame. At its centre sits an elusive story about the burning of an inherited uniform—a moment that hovers between memory and invention—asking why we are drawn to fire and what can it transform? Combining live reading, projected media, sound and ceramics, the piece considers fire as a force of attraction, creation, remembrance and release. Written and performed: Brendan Mac Evilly Director and media design: David McGovern Music: Irene Buckley Recorded Readings: Aisling Flynn
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Wed, Apr 22, 2026 · 7:00 PM
Cúirt is delighted to welcome The Moth & Butterfly Storytellers Órla Mc Govern and Niceol Blue back to Cúirt. Experience traditional tales, new myths and personal stories based around the theme Wild Thing. Órla and Niceol are acclaimed performers and founding artists of The Moth & Butterfly International Festival of Storytelling & Improvisation.
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Wed, Apr 22, 2026 · 7:30 PM
We’re delighted to be hosting this special event celebrating the life and work of Seamus Heaney to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney . The definitive edition of his work, it encompasses all the poems that Seamus published in his lifetime (from Death of a Naturalist (1966) to Human Chain (2010)) along side a number of previously unpublished poems. Editor Rosie Lavan will be joined by Ireland Chair of Poetry Vona Groarke and poet Dean Browne for readings and reflections from the book, celebrating a body of work that has shaped modern poetry and continues to resonate across generations.
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