It is with a sense of shock and sadness that I learn this evening of the death of puppeteer and Dubliner Pat Bracken, resident of Galway for many years. I knew him well. There are apparently no immediate details. My condolences to members of his family and friends from myself and the Centre. May he rest in peace. - Fred Johnston
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfsZahvR_D4
Noel King reading from his collection, ‘Prophesying the Past,’ published by Salmon Poetry, at The Gallery Café, Gort, Co. Galway, with Clare Sawtell and Mary O’Sullivan providing the music. Clare Sawtell also read poetry from her collection. We are grateful to the proprietor and staff of the Gallery Café.
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Galway’s Western Writers’ Centre has made a statement deploring the recent actions of Israeli forces on the high seas and expresses condolences with the families of those relief activists killed on the m.v. Marmara
“The Western Writers’ Centre - Ionad Scribhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - Galway deplores the illegal blockade of Gaza by Israel and the recent boarding of the relief vessels m.v. Rachel Corrie and the m.v. Marmara by Israeli forces. Further, we express our condolences to the families of the nine relief activists killed by Israeli commandos on the m.v. Marmara.”
Fred Johnston
Frank Golden
Richard Tillinghast
Brian Mooney
Sylvia Crawford (Secretary)
Aoife NicFhearghusa (Chair)
The Western Writers’ Centre,
Canavan House,
Nuns Island,
Galway
087.2178138
westernwriters@eircom.net
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