Miriam Gallagher reads at Galway City Museum

galway | arts and media | event notice Thursday August 28, 2008 18:10 by Fred Johnston - The Western Writers' centre - Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlin Maude - Galway westernwriters at eircom dot net 27 Nuns Island, Galway 0872178138

Lunchtime reading for Western Writers' Centre

Leading Irish dramatist and story writer for Galway City Museum, Friday, September 26th, at 1pm. Admission Free.

Miriam Gallagher - reading in Galway

Miriam Gallagher is an Irish author, playwright and screenwriter. Her work has been staged & screened in Ireland, Europe, USA & Canada and translated into Irish, Dutch, French, Finnish and Russian. Her Plays are published: Fancy Footwork (Dublin, Soc. Irish Playwrights, 1997, 2nd Edition) and Kalahari Blues & Other Plays (Dublin, Mirage, 2006) Her novel Song for Salamander was published in 2004 (Trafford, Canada) and launched at the United Arts Club, Dublin by Macdara Woods, a leading Irish poet who called it 'A paradigm for our times.' Her short stories are published in several anthologies of Irish Writing.
Her film Gypsies screened in Ireland, UK, New York, San Francisco and at International Children's Film Festival, Hyderabad, India. She received Arts Council & European Script Fund awards for Girls in Silk Kimonos (feature length screenplay celebrating Constance & Eva Gore Booth) Other awards include MHA Tv Script Award for Kevin, EU Theatre award, a Writer's Exchange to Finland and recently The Parting Glass (int. prizewinner of the 'Near & Far' Playwrighting Contest (USA) and her play Doracha Mór agus Seoltóirí Ghaoth Dobhair (best new script award) at An Gríanán Theatre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Miriam has served on the committees of Irish PEN, Irish Writers Union, Irish Copyright Licensing Agency, Society of Irish Playwrights and as a judge for the O.Z. Whitehead Play Competition. She has been a visiting lecturer at universities in Dublin, Galway,