February 7th - Gabriel Fitzmaurice in Gort, Co. Galway

galway | arts and media | event notice Wednesday January 06, 2010 13:58 by Fred Johnston - The Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scribhneoirí Chaitlin Maude - Galway westernwriters at eircom dot net Canavan House, Nuns Island, Galway 0872178138

Gallery Café, Gort, for rescheduled reading with music

Weather cancelled the previous outing - now we're set to go again on February 7th. Mary O'Sullivan and Clare Sawtell provide the music. Admission is free.

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in Moyvane, Co Kerry, in 1952. A former Chair and Literary Advisor of Writers’ Week, the Writers' Conference in Listowel, Co. Kerry, he is author of more than twenty books, including poetry in English and Irish, children’s verse in English and Irish, translations from the Irish, essays, and collections of songs and ballads. His poetry collections in English include Rainsong (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1984); The Space Between: New and Selected Poems 1984-92 (Gallimh, Cló Iar-Chonnachta Teo, 1993); The Wrenboy’s Carnival: Poems 1980-2000 (Dublin, Merlin Publishing, 2000). He has edited The World of Bryan MacMahon: Essays from the Bryan MacMahon Symposium (Mercier Press, 2005); Come All Good Men and True: Essays from the John B. Keane Symposium (Mercier Press); and various anthologies, including, with Declan Kiberd, Flowering Tree: Contemporary Poetry in Irish with Verse Translations (Merlin Publishing, 1991); Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices (Merlin Publishing, 1993); and The Kerry Anthology (Mercier Press, 2000). A musician and singer, he has played and sung on a number of albums of Irish traditional music. He frequently broadcasts on Irish radio and television and local radio stations on education and the arts. He lives in Moyvane.
Mary O'Sullivan (guitar, accordeon and vocals) and Clare Sawtell (cello) have played numerous music gigs around the country and have worked previously with the Western Writers' Centre.