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The judges of this year’s Poetry Now competition reflect on this year’s entries, and find that although Ireland ‘is coming down with moans’, our literary culture is thriving. 
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Silent is the touching story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all–including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Award-winning writer and performer Pat Kinevane and Fishamble: The New Play Company return to the Irish Arts Center with Silent, following sold-out runs at The Abbey, Ireland’s National Theatre and Cork Midsummer Festival.
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A FLEDGLING theatre company has landed a world first by gaining the rights to translate the work of Samuel Beckett into Irish and to perform one of his plays in Gaeilge for the first time.
Mouth on Fire Theatre Company – which was founded in 2010 – will stage the world premiere of Rocabaí, the Irish-language translation of Beckett’s short play Rockaby, at Southampton University on September 8.
The play has been translated by acclaimed author, poet and translator Gabriel Rosenstock.
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Athlone’s Literary Festival (October 4-7) which is now in its ninth year, has announced its 2012 line-up.
It features diverse events such as a a poetry evening with Paul Durcan, a discussion with eminent Irish psychiatrist and author Professor Ivor Browne, a creative writing workshop with author Anne Skelly and a play writing workshop with Thomas Conway, Literary Manager of Druid Theatre.
This year the festival also includes a Literary Walking Tour of Athlone, a Poetry Slam with the Gombeens, exhibitions, a number of children’s events and a Flash Fiction competition.
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IMRAM, founded in 2004, aims to take its audiences on a ‘voyage of discovery’ that reveals the rich diversity of modern Irish language literature through a programme of eclectic events that blend poetry, prose and music in lively, upbeat venues.
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Literary Belfast iPhone app...
There are few better ways to get to know a city than through its writers, whether they are locals who appreciate every nuance of the complex city, or visiting scribes, writing of how Belfast assaults the senses of those who meet it for the first time.
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Malarky, Schofield’s wonderfully deranged debut novel, marries her interests in realism and invention with great results...
Malarky, Schofield’s wonderfully deranged debut novel, marries her interests in realism and invention with great results. It tells the story of “Our Woman,” also known as Philomena, an aging farmer’s wife who is slowly coming apart at the seams. The simple life she leads in County Mayo, Ireland, is first threatened then shattered by myriad events: her son’s homosexuality, her husband’s philandering ways, her own sexual awakening, and, eventually, the deaths of both her son and husband.
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HISTORY:Paul Muldoon’s writing life has taken him from Armagh to New Jersey, and from a professorship at Princeton to life as a lyricist.
PAUL MULDOON looks utterly at home as he takes a seat in Blake’s bar in Enniskillen. “I used to meet John McGahern here the odd time. He and his wife would come to Enniskillen for the day and have a drink before they’d go back to Leitrim. It’s a nice town, Enniskillen,” he says. “Actually, I bumped into a cousin of mine on the way here, would you believe.” It might be more than 20 years since he moved to the US, but the poet is still very much on home ground. “I don’t feel disconnected. I don’t feel as if I’ve left the country in the way that I know people once did. It sounds trite, but the modern world means that travelling back to Belfast is like taking a bus.”
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Big US hits line up against British poetry and Irish short stories for this year's £10,000 prize...
Eleven titles have been chosen for the £10,000 prize, from Mary Costello's collection of Irish short stories The China Factory, released by small publisher Stinging Fly Press, to Harbach's novel, which follows the story of baseball player Henry Skrimshander and arrives garlanded with praise from Jonathan Franzen and John Irving. For the second year running, Guardian readers nominated a title, this year choosing Sarah Jackson's "assured and mysterious" poetry collection Pelt.
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POETRY FRINGE Sept 4 – 9 curated by myself and Triona McMorrow, most events free, and check out our really special Night at the Museum on Weds 5th!
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A new Samuel Beckett festival was inaugurated in Enniskillen, a town in Northern Ireland that until now was more famous for a troubled past than for the arts.
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — “Happy Days!” said the waiter as he neatly deposited plates of the “Beckett Special Antipasti” (chicken and foie gras terrine, a curried soup with mussels, smoked haddock fish cake) at our table. As this phrase is the title of Samuel Beckett’s 1961 play, and also of a new Beckett festival in this small town, he might well have been joking. But he wasn’t. “Happy days,” as it turns out, is a commonly used salutation in these parts.
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The jury for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced on Monday and, continuing recent tradition, features a couple of renowned international authors.
This year’s jury features Anna Porter, founder and publisher of Key Porter Books and author of several books of fiction and non-fiction, including Kasztner’s Train, which won the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Canadian Jewish Book Award, and The Ghosts of Europe, which won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for excellence in political writing; Irish author Roddy Doyle, who won the Man Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha; and
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A feature on the launch of the Belfast Festival at Queen's...
As the 2012 programme launches, Queen's graduate Seamus Heaney recalls his favourite festival moments
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Hear Pat Kinevan talk about his play Silent in interview with Pat Kenny on RTE podcast, showing at the Irish Arts Center during 1st Irish...
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Headlining this year’s festival in Clare are Marita Conlon McKenna (The Children of the Famine Trilogy), and literary superstar Derek Landy who will be celebrating the publication of the latest title in his Skulduggery Pleasant series, Kingdom of the Wicked. Both authors are making a one-off visit to Glór Theatre, Ennis, to celebrate Children’s Book Festival in County Clare.
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Strategies to increase the numbers of Irish speakers reading Irish language literature will be discussed at a conference to take place in the Marion Conference centre in Dublin on 21st and 22nd September.
Organised by Foras na Gaeilge, the workshop will discuss the current state of Irish literature and how best to promote it. Particular attention will be paid to the current number of readers of Irish language literature and the main objective of the weekend is to come up with ways to increase that number.
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Irish novelist Claire Kilroy explains why she set her new new novel against the mounting international debt crisis, and Paul Durcan hymns the crusty glories of the Irish loaf...
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I didn’t make it over to Ireland in mid-July for the big 2012 European Science Open Forum (ESOF) conference/science party in Dublin, so I was pleased to see one of ESOF’s more unusual offshoots land in my in-tray this week.
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A savage satire on Ireland's property boom impresses Stevie Davies...
In this carnivalesque allegory of Ireland's property boom, Claire Kilroy presents a satiric danse macabre of brio and linguistic virtuosity. The profiteers are an array of vulpine nasties and asinine greedies who've sold both soul and reason to Old Nick. Tristram, scion of an ancient Anglo-Norman house, has unknowingly sold his birthright for a mess of potage.
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Throughout September the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is bringing James Joyce's classic short story collection Dubliners to people using Dublin Airport.
As part of Dubliners @DublinAirport, every day in September five free copies of Dubliners will be left at the airport with the note, "Take me, I'm free."
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‘STEPHEN AND I first met when we were six or seven, when we were altar boys together in Balally, Dundrum. I grew up in Sandyford, he lived three or four minutes walk away. We took being altar boys seriously but it was fun. We’ve fallen in and out of friendship since then, have gone several years without seeing each other. Stephen was living in London for the past 10 years, and came back to Ireland a year ago. I had a strong desire to rebuild the friendship and we’ve seen a lot of each other since then.
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So This Is How It Ends by Kathleen MacMahon bought by Little, Brown in one of this year's biggest publishing deals...
Bookshops are beleaguered and publishers are struggling, but it appears that the money is still there for the right books: Irish debut novelist Kathleen MacMahon has just landed a £600,000 advance from a publisher in one of the biggest book deals so far this year.
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Irish poet Macdara Woods reads three poems (The Welder Embracing Silence, Maenads and We Have Given Up On Hills) from his comprehensive Collected Poems, publ...
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The cast and writer of THE TALK OF THE TOWN on how the first week went. Including writer Emma Donoghue and cast members Lorcan Cranitch, Michéle Forbes, Barr...
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