'Forge at Gort' Literature Festival
What? The Forge at Gort Literature Festival is organised by the Western Writers’ Centre. Author readings and workshops take place in venues throughout the town of Gort over a two day period in March. The festival is themed around Yeats' symbolic use of the old Gort forge in his poetry: the forge is still there in the main street of the town.
When? March 2010 tbc
Where? Gort, County Galway, Eire - AA Route Planner | multimap
Who ? 2010 TBA
How much? All events will be free, though donations will be accepted.
Festival Website: Further details of the festival can be obtained by mailing westernwriters@eircom.net or checking the website at www.twwc.ie or 'phoning 087.2178138
Previous festivals: From 2009..... The literary town of Gort, Co. Galway, will see its second 'Forge at Gort' literature festival kick off on Friday, March 27th, at Sullivan's Royal Hotel, Gort, with a reading by renowned writer, critic and poet, Ulick O'Connor. A host of novelists, poets and musicians are due for this year's festival, which is organised by the Western Writers' Centre, Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude, Galway.
Among the events taking place are a a presentation by Original Writing Ltd of a workshop on self-publishing, at 11am at Sullivan's Royal Hotel, on Saturday morning; a children's reading by Gabriel Fitzmaurice at Gort Library on Saturday, March 28th at 12 noon; poet and playwrights Patriciai Burke Brogan and Dubliner Gerry McDonnell at noon on Saturday also at the Alcazar Pizza Restaurant; novelist Juliet Bresson, Sullivan's Royal Hotel, Saturday, at 1.15pm; archaeologist Michael Gibbons will give a talk at Gort Library at 3pm; poet Tim Cunningham and the Limerick White House poets, O'Grady's Bar, Saturday, at 4. 30pm; a discussion by the editors of Albedo 1, Ireland's only alternative fiction magazine, at 6pm in Sullivan's Royal Hotel, also on Saturday; Cork poet Gerry Murphy at 7. 30pm at Sullivan's Royal Hotel, also on Saturday; and John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy at The Gallery Café bringing everything to a close on Saturday evening at 11pm.
