HAPPY WOMEN'S CHRISTMAS

It is Women's Christmas today in Ireland - Oíche Nollag na mBan. (So why am I the one slaving over the removal of all things Christmassy from the house, I ask myself? Hmmm.) Anyway, the Irish Writers' Centre are hosting a reading and music with some fine Irish women artists to mark the day. I wish I was going but I can't. Details:

Oíche Nollag na mBan

This year The Irish Writers' Centre , in association with Dublin City Council Arts Office, invite you to celebrate Oíche Nollaig na mBan a little differently. Whether you want to listen to some of Ireland’s finest writers, celebrate an age-old Irish tradition, or you’re just glad the 12th Day of Christmas has finally come about – join us in the Irish Writers' Centre, Parnell Square Nth., Friday January 6th  at 6pm for an early  evening of prose, poetry, spoken word and music in the company of

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Celia De Fréine

Mary O’Donnell

Éilis Ní Dhuibhne

Mia Gallagher

Sarah Clancy

and musicians Jane Hughes & Ellen Cranitch

POETRY COMP - GALWAY WRITERS

Pic from Galway.net

Galway resident writers are being invited to enter a poetry competition with the theme Eyre Square.

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill will judge and the prizes include €1000 first prize and residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and Áras Éanna on Inis Oírr.

Closing date: 20th September 2009

Entries to: Eyre Square Poetry Competition, Arts Office, City Hall, College Road, Galway.

Winners will be announced on All Ireland Poetry Day, 1st October.

Love Poems in a Dublin Church

Poetry Ireland, Imram and Cois Life present
A special reading of love poetry in Irish on Valentine's Day:

Saturday 14 February @ 10.45am
Whitefriar St Carmelite Church, 56 Aungier St, D2

This sounds lovely, but I will be hotel-bound with my beloved elsewhere... I wouldn't mind only we got engaged in that church, beside the tomb of Saint Valentine, so we belong there. Still, I'm happier not to be travelling too far for a relaxing day of shopping, eating and whatever else!

Filíocht le Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile, agus Colm Breathnach. Amhránaíocht ar an sean-nós le Lorcán Mac Mathúna. Beidh na filí ag léamh rogha dánta ón leabhar Filíocht Ghrá na Gaeilge, curtha in eagar ag Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, agus foilsithe ag Cois Life.

Poetry read by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile and Colm Breathnach. With traditional love songs in Irish sung by Lorcán Mac Mathúna. The poems and songs that will be performed come from the recently published anthology Filíocht Ghrá na Gaeilge/Love Poems in Irish, edited by Ciarán Mac Murchaidh and published by Cois Life.

Reading begins at 10.45am, just prior to 11.00am mass, with additional poems and songs performed during and after mass.

For more information contact
T 087 2912797 E liamog62@mac.com W coislife.ie
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