Galway - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970
Thursday January 01 1970
Micheal O'Siadhail to read in Galway
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Tuesday May 19, 2009 17:04
by Fred Johnston - Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scribhneoiri Chaitlin Maude, Galway
westernwriters at eircom dot net
Canavan House, Nuns Island, Galway
087.2178138
Prize-winning poet at The Imperial Hotel
The Western Writers' Centre, Galway – Ionad Scribhneoiri Chaitlín Maude – in collaboration with Poetry Ireland, presents a reading by Micheal O'Siadhail commencing at 7 o’clock in the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway on Thursday, July 23rd -
Micheal O’Siadhail has published twelve collections. The most recent are Poems 1975-1995 (1995), Our Double Time (1998), The Gossamer Wall (2002), which resulted from many years immersion in testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Love Life appeared in 2005 and his most recent collection, Globe (2007) explores how the past and our memories shape our present. Among his various awards for his work are the Marten Prize for Literature and The Irish American Cultural Prize for Poetry. The Centre is supported by The Arts Council. Details of the reading from westernwriters@eircom.net and 087.2178138 Admission is €5 and €3.
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Jump To Comment: 1Last night's reading with Micheal O Siadhail was a tremenduous success, giving us the largest audience (full house) to attend one of our events at Galway's Imperial Hotel. Our thanks to the hotel and to all who helped in advertising the reading, including The Galway Advertiser, Indymedia Ireland, Galway Independent, Connacht Sentinel, The Irish Times; and Poetry Ireland and The Arts Council for their funding support. Most especially, our thanks to everyone who turned up to the event. It was indeed heartening to see that, in spite of inexplicable numerous attempts to undermine the Western Writers' Centre - even at City Council level - prominent Aosdána members, local writers and others who enjoyed O Siadhail's work turned up. Thank you one and all.
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