Bailieborough Poetry Festival 2015 – Programme of events Friday 9th October: (Murtagh’s Lounge, Main St.) 18.30 Official launch o...

Hawk’s Well Theatre and County Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Centre: Sligo Gaol. Wed 23 Sept, 7.30pm, €8 We invite you to discover ...

PRIZES: 1st  £1000; 2nd £300; 3rd £200; Six Commended Prizes of £50; Funniest Poem not winning another prize £100. SOLE JUDGE Tiffa...

The Wild Atlantic Words Poetry Festival will be held in Castletownbere, County Cork on 5-6 September 2015. The festival will include poetry ...

The third Bailieborough Poetry Festival will take place over the weekend of 9 & 10 October 2015. The LitLab group of writers ar...

AT The Edge, Cavan, Tuesday 25 August 6.30pm Johnston Library AT The Edge, Cavan returns to the Johnston Library on Tuesday 25 August with...

Meath County Council Arts Office is delighted to present Curtain Call, a one day theatre production workshop that is part of the FEACH profe...

I was lucky to win the poetry competition at Dromineer last year. A great festival, friendly welcome and a beautiful location. This ye...

Allingham 2015 Festival takes place in Ballyshannon, County Donegal 5 - 8 November. In connection with the Festival they are holding Fl...

Boyle Arts Festival event on Saturday next 1st August at 5.30pm in King House, Boyle, Co Roscommon. Entry: €5. Join the Moylurg Writer...

The SiarScéal Festival is held every year in Roscommon, Ireland. The 2015 festival will take place 5, 6, 7 November. SiarScéal celebrat...

Details of the 2015 Dromineer Literary Festival competitions . The festival will take place 1 to 4 October, 2015. 2015 POETRY COMPETITIO...

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is open for entries. Now in its eighth year, the award is internationally renowned and judged by indu...

The submission period for Boyne Berries 18 will close on Saturday 11 July 2015. Boyne Berries 18 will be published in September 2015. S...

The Stony Thursday Book is seeking submissions from local, national and international poets for its next issue, to be published in October 2...

This poem of mine was part of a series of Ox Mountains poems published in their Carthography anthology by Imagination and Place Press, L...

Three very different and exciting poets. Rebecca O’Connor, Richard Halperin and Angela Carr, will be reading with AT The Edge, Cavan on T...

Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary...

It's W.B. Yeats' birthday today and when I got in touch with him earlier to wish him a happy birthday he seemed a little grumpy. H...

One of the most valuable historical sources is local newspapers. While researching the history of the 1912-1923 period in Sligo I read a lot...