The Western Writers Centre

Dylan Thomas Literary Weekend
May 18th-20th 2012
Organised by
The Western Writers’ Centre
& The Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, Co. Clare

Friday May 18th

6.30p.m. Opening reception followed by a few words of Welcome from The Western Writers’ Centre, and The Falls Hotel,
opening the festival will be
Mayor of Clare Pat Hayes

Followed by lecture on Dylan Thomas by Andrew Lycett

Saturday May 19th

10a.m. Eddie Lenihan

11a.m.John F. Deane and Robert Minhinnick
1p.m. Lunch
2.30p.m. Clairr O’Connor and Jo Slade
4.30p.m. Free time for an excursion to the village or to have a chat or a debate or……….
6p.m TBC
8p.m. Dinner followed by music in the bar

Sunday May 20th

11a.m. Informative and leisurely walk led by a member of the local historical society
12.30p.m. Lunch
2p.m. Fred Johnston, Diarmuid Johnson and Paul O’Mahony (subject to change)

INFORMATION: 091.564822 EXT 312 BARBARA QUINN

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Friday 30th March

6.30p.m. Opening of the festival with Fiona Clarke Echlin in Sullivans Royal Hotel. Speaker Cllr Bridie Willers
Music by Mary O’Sullivan and Claire Sawtell
8p.m.       Gerry Hanberry reading from his new book on Oscar Wilde’s family
10p.m.     Music Session and craic with Locho Cullen and Fred Johnston in Sullivans Royal Hotel

Saturday 31st March

10a.m.    Poetry Workshop in Sullivans Royal Hotel with Fred Johnston: 10 euros and 7 euros  concession (ALL OTHER EVENTS ARE FREE)
12p.m.    Eddie Lenihan in Gort Public Library
1p.m.     Clare Three Leggéd Stool poets in O’Grady’s Bar and Restaurant
2p.m.     Mary Ellen Fean and Knute Skinner in Sullivans Royal Hotel
4p.m.      ‘I spent yesterday with Kate O’Brien’ a talk by Brian O’Rourke in Sullivans Royal Hotel
5p.m.      A lecture on Æ (George Russell) by Pearl Finn in The Gallery Café
7.30pm. Wine reception at Gort Public Library
8p.m.      Concert in Gort Library with music by harper Siobhán Armstrong and Roisín Elsafty and readings from the poets Ciarán O’Driscoll and Martin Dyar

Enquiries to 091.564822 or 087.2178138 or westernwriters@eircom.net

(www.twwc.ie)

THIS FESTIVAL IS FUNDED BY THE ARTS COUNCIL, GALWAY CITY AND COUNTY COUNCILS, SCÉAL EILE BOOKSHOP (ENNIS), MINIHAN’S SUPERVALU (GORT), AND BY INDIVIDUAL WRITERS AND SPONSORS, TO WHOM WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL

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Starting Tuesday, February 14th, the Western Writers’ Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlin Maude - Galway, will recommence its unique lunchtime Creative Writing classes, kicking off at 1.05pm and ending at 1.55pm. These lunchtime courses in poetry and prose proved a great success when they were launched last year. They are coupled with morning classes beginning on the same date, for two hours from 10am to 12 noon. The lunchtime classes last eight weeks and are €80 and €60 concession, while the morning classes, also running for eight weeks, cost €100 and €75 concession.

“The courses proved very successful last year,” says course tutor, novelist and poet Fred Johnston, whose collection of stories, ‘Dancing In The Asylum,’ (Parthian UK) was reviewed favourably recently in The Irish Times. “People who wouldn’t always be available to attend evening courses found them particularly valuable. Creative writing, both prose and poetry, are the mainstay of both courses, with a concentration also on reading contemporary writers. These are courses that would suit the beginner as well as those who have published or written to some degree.”

Booking is through westernwriters@eircom.net or by ‘phoning 091.564822.

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