Your Local Arena presents: Three Irish Writers films, poetry, writing masterclass This film was screened from 10am on Tuesday 10 November 2020 to 10pm on Saturday 14 November 2020 ‘It has been said that the English hoard words like misers and the Irish spend them like sailors. This Arena film presents three great Irish
VACANCY: Programme Manager Cúirt International Festival of Literature is seeking to appoint a Programme Manager to support the delivery of the 2021 festival. The role of Programme Manager will lead the efficient administration and delivery of the festival, and support the development of its artistic and outreach programmes. You will bring with you a
2020 marks the centenary year of one of the West of Ireland’s most versatile writers, Eilís Dillon. Galway Public Libraries and Cúirt International Festival of Literature will host a special event celebrating Eilís Dillon. This will launch a month-long series of events exploring Dillon’s life and work as part of Galway’s Great Read which takes place in November. This event is
Cúirt International Festival of Literature, in partnership with Kenny’s Bookshop, present a special online event for Culture Night 2020. Irish writing knows little of boundaries, spanning from sublime realism to brilliant genre fiction to gound-breaking experimentation, and nowhere is this more clear than in the short story. The Art of the Glimpse , soon
Cúirt International Festival of Literature, in partnership with Tramp Press and Kenny's Bookshop, present a special online event celebrating the launch of A Ghost in the Throat, the latest book from multi-award winning writer, Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Doireann Ní Ghríofa makes her prose debut with A Ghost in the Throat, weaving candid personal memoir with a literary mystery
Cúirt International Festival of Literature, in partnership with One World Publications and Dubray Books, present a special virtual event celebrating the launch of The Wild Laughter, the latest novel from Caoilinn Hughes on Wednesday 22nd July at 7pm. A Galway native, Caoilinn will be joined in conversation with Kevin Barry. The Wild Laughter is
Cúirt is Bringing Literature Directly to You this Month Cúirt International Festival of Literature is pleased to announce that they will be present a digital festival this month. It will be broadcast online, entirely free of charge, between Thursday 23 and Saturday 25 April. Bringing Authors to Audiences Events include Jan Carson and Kevin Barry
The Cúirt Festival Team is excited to announce its programme for its upcoming digital literary festival, taking place Thursday, April 23 through Saturday, April 25, 2020. A number of exciting events have been arranged in video and podcast formats, the times and dates for which can be found in the schedule below. All event
Update: Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2020 In light of the current global pandemic, Ireland has imposed restrictions on cultural events in order to decrease the spread of COVID-19 through our population. At Cúirt, we have been undertaking contingency planning for a range of scenarios to ensure the safety of our authors and audiences.
This week, Cúirt International Festival of Literature announced the winners of the Cúirt New Writing Prize. An annual competition, the Cúirt New Writing Prize allows the festival to support emerging writers and to highlight and showcase new voices. Prizes are awarded in two categories – short fiction, and poetry – and this year were
