VACANCY: Marketing and Communications Manager Cúirt International Festival of  Literature is seeking to appoint a Marketing and Communications Manager to support the delivery of the 2021 festival. The role of Marketing and Communications Manager will lead the effective communications and marketing of the festival, managing the campaign for the 2021 festival and building year-round

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 in association with Laureate na nÓg, Sarah Crossan and Claddagh of poetry by the children of Claddagh National School who have been working on this special project with poets, Geraldine Mills and Terry McDonagh. In Charlie Byrne's Bookshop at the Town Hall we will have the #WeAreThePoets bookmarks available when you purchase a

Cúirt International Festival of Literature in association with Paddy Irish Whiskey are presenting an impromptu/pop up programme of stories, poems and music in public houses in the Latin Quarter and Galway City. These will  be hospitable and entertaining gatherings, a coming together to share stories, yarns and songs. The sessions are free to the

Leading Irish and International Writers for Cúirt 2018 23 – 29 April, 2018 | Galway Cúirt International Festival of Literature has announced highlights of the 2018 festival, which runs from April 23 – 29 in Galway. The 2018 programme has been curated by the new Programme Director for Cúirt, Emily Cullen. The full festival line-up will

Thank you to everyone that helped make Cúirt 2017 such a fantastic week! Thank you to all of the writers/artists/performers that participated in Cúirt 2017, to all of our amazing sponsors for their continued support of the festival, to our team of interns and volunteers who were as always a brilliant addition to the team,