The Word welcomes writers Declan Hughes and Jessamine O’Connor on Wednesday 27th March in Sligo Central Library.
Declan Hughes is a co-founder of Rough Magic Theatre Company, a director, playwright and novelist. He is Literature Advisor to the Arts Council. His plays have won numerous awards including the Stewart Parker New Playwright award and for his crime fiction he has been nominated for the Edgar Award, the American crime writing equivalent to the Oscars.
In an essay from 2000, responding to representations of Ireland in theatre at the height of the Celtic Tiger, Declan asked “Who the hell do we think we still are?” It has been described as “one of the most important essays yet written about contemporary Irish drama,” challenging us to rethink how we represent Irishness. “Irish drama needs to show more guts” he writes. His own work is a response to this challenge, his crime novels shedding the pastoral in favour of the city and all its alienations and idiosyncrasies.
Reading with Hughes is Jessamine O’Connor, a poet living on the Sligo Roscommon border who has published five poetry chapbooks. Her next collection is coming out with Salmon Poetry in 2020. In her most recent publication, Pact, she writes about motherhood, displacement and loss. The scenes Jessamine captures, “are moments sliced open to hint at musculature and skeleton, writes Afric McGlinchey. “This is O’Connor’s strength: the small frisson, the chill that accompanies each personal encounter in these poems.”
Jessamine’s poems have won the Poetry Ireland Butlers Café Competition 2017, the iYeats; and Francis Ledwidge awards 2011 and have been shortlisted for many more, including the Hennessy Award. Her first film-poem will screen at Strokestown Poetry Festival in May. Jessamine is currently a student on the BA in Writing and Literature at IT Sligo.
The writers will read from their work followed by a Q& A and an open-mic session. Local writers/musicans are welcome to read/perform at the open-mic which operates on a first come, first served basis. The Word is a collaboration between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature at IT Sligo. There is no charge for this event.
The Word at Sligo Central Library with Ruth Fitzmaurice (I Found My Tribe)
/in Sligo Central Library /by Michelle BrennanSligo Central Library will be hosting The Word on Wednesday 29th of May at 6.30pm.
Renowned author, Ruth Fitzmaurice will be joining us and reading from her book, “I Found My Tribe”.
Ruth Fitzmaurice was a radio researcher and producer when she married her husband, Simon, in 2004 and had three children. In 2008, Simon was diagnosed with ALS and given three years to live. Simon went into respiratory failure in 2010 and was accidentally placed on a ventilator during an emergency procedure. He decided against medical advice to keep the ventilator; Ruth and Simon went on to have twins in 2012. She lives in Greystones, Ireland, with her five children, two dogs and two cats.
An astonishingly beautiful book by an astonishingly beautiful person” (Marian Keyes). One of the year’s most arresting, humbling and acute memoirs.
With music from Eddie Lee and Ray Coen, plus Author Q&A and Open Mic, this promises to be a night not to be missed.
Admission Free
Bealtaine at Sligo Library
/in Ballymote Community Library, Default, Enniscrone Branch Library, News, Sligo Central Library, Sligo Museum, Tubbercurry Community Library /by Michelle BrennanSligo Library celebrates Age and Opportunity and the Bealtaine Festival with a host of events for everyone!
SLIGO CENTRAL LIBRARY:
Craft Felting Workshop
Needle Craft Workshop with Sue Basler, Textile Designer
Tuesday 14th of May, 10.30am – 12Noon
Memoir Creative Writing Workshop
With Gerry Boland, Author and Poet
Tuesday 21st May, 2.30pm – 4.30pm
Inter-generational Creative Board Gaming Workshop
Grandparents, parents and children alike are encouraged to come join and play together with some great modern board-games. This afternoon is hosted by Wayne O’Connor from Sligo Gaming Society and will be a great way to mingle and socialise between generations in a relaxed setting.
With Wayne O’Connor
Saturday 25th May, 11.00am – 1.00pm
BALLYMOTE COMMUNITY LIBRARY:
TUBBERCURRY COMMUNITY LIBRARY:
We’re holding a Craft Exhibition with the Tubbercurry Day Care Centre:
“Tubbercurry will be launching a craft exhibition produced by residents of the Tubbercurry Daycare Centre with music and refreshments at 12pm, Friday May 10th. The exhibition will be on display until Friday May 30th. Free of charge and all welcome.”
Sligo Library: May Public Holiday Opening Hours
/in Ballymote Community Library, Default, Enniscrone Branch Library, Local Studies Library, News, Sligo Central Library, Sligo Museum, Tubbercurry Community Library /by Michelle BrennanSligo Library will be closed the weekend of Saturday 4th of May for the Public Holiday.
Ballymote Community Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 7th of May at 9.30am
Enniscrone Community Library:
Re-Opening Wednesday 8th of Mayl at 11.00am
Sligo Central Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 7th of May at 9.30am
Tubbercurry Community Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 7th of May at 9.30am
Local Studies:
Re-opening Tuesday 7th of May at 9.30am
Sligo Museum:
Open Saturday 4th of May: 9.30 – 12.45pm, 2.00pm – 4.45pm
May Day with The Word featuring Nicole Flattery and Caragh Maxwell
/in Sligo Central Library /by Michelle BrennanThe Word will be held on the 1st May and features writers Nicole Flattery and Caragh Maxwell both, as it happens, originally from Mullingar.
Nicole Flattery’s first collection of short stories, Show Them A Good Time, is published by the Stinging Fly and has received critical acclaim for its humour and insight. Colin Barrett says Flattery’s stories ‘are startling, daring and dazzingly dark.’ Sally Rooney calls the collection a master class in the short story, ‘bold, irreverent and astonishingly funny.’ Flattery’s stories have been published in the Irish Times, The Dublin Review, the White Review and Winter Papers. Her forthcoming novel Nothing Special will be published in 2021.
Described as ‘…a startling new talent,’ Caragh Maxwell’s essay, ‘Anatomy of a Sinking Ship’, was published in the Irish Times in February to huge acclaim. Her short story ‘Spelunking’ will be featured in the Irish Times Summer Fiction Series and she’ll be appearing in the Emerging Writers Showcase at Listowel Writer’s Week in late May. Maxwell is student on The BA Writing and Literature programme at IT Sligo.
The writers will read from their work followed by a Q& A and an open-mic session. Local writers are welcome to read at the open-mic which operates on a first come, first served basis. The Word is a collaboration between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature at IT Sligo. There is no charge for this event. 1st May, 6.30 pm, Sligo Central Library.
May Day with The Word featuring Nicole Flattery and Caragh Maxwell
/in Sligo Central Library /by Michelle BrennanThe Word will be held on the 1st May and features writers Nicole Flattery and Caragh Maxwell both, as it happens, originally from Mullingar.
Nicole Flattery’s first collection of short stories, Show Them A Good Time, is published by the Stinging Fly and has received critical acclaim for its humour and insight. Colin Barrett says Flattery’s stories ‘are startling, daring and dazzingly dark.’ Sally Rooney calls the collection a master class in the short story, ‘bold, irreverent and astonishingly funny.’ Flattery’s stories have been published in the Irish Times, The Dublin Review, the White Review and Winter Papers. Her forthcoming novel Nothing Special will be published in 2021.
Described as ‘…a startling new talent,’ Caragh Maxwell’s essay, ‘Anatomy of a Sinking Ship’, was published in the Irish Times in February to huge acclaim. Her short story ‘Spelunking’ will be featured in the Irish Times Summer Fiction Series and she’ll be appearing in the Emerging Writers Showcase at Listowel Writer’s Week in late May. Maxwell is student on The BA Writing and Literature programme at IT Sligo.
The writers will read from their work followed by a Q& A and an open-mic session. Local writers are welcome to read at the open-mic which operates on a first come, first served basis. The Word is a collaboration between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature at IT Sligo. There is no charge for this event. 1st May, 6.30 pm, Sligo Central Library.
Sligo Library and Museum: Easter Arrangements
/in Ballymote Community Library, Default, Enniscrone Branch Library, Local Studies Library, News, Sligo Central Library, Sligo Museum, Tubbercurry Community Library /by Michelle BrennanSligo Library and Museum will be closed the weekend of Friday 19th of April for the Easter Public Holiday.
Happy Easter from All at Sligo Library.
Ballymote Community Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 23rd of April at 9.30am
Enniscrone Community Library:
Re-Opening Wednesday 24th of April at 11.00am
Sligo Central Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 23rd of April at 9.30am
Tubbercurry Community Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 23rd of April at 12Noon
Local Studies:
Re-opening Tuesday 23rd of April at 9.30am
Mango Languages: The next evolution in language learning
/in Ballymote Community Library, Default, Enniscrone Branch Library, News, Sligo Central Library, Tubbercurry Community Library /by Michelle BrennanClick Here To Find Out More
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Spring into Storytime at your Library
/in Ballymote Community Library, Enniscrone Branch Library, News, Sligo Central Library, Tubbercurry Community Library /by Michelle BrennanSpring Into Story Time
Spring into Story Time is a national programme delivering a minimum of one children’s story time in every library during the month of April.
Spring into Story Time in April 2017 was the first countrywide focus on story time in public libraries. Part of the Right to Read Campaign within the Opportunities for All national strategic plan for public libraries 2013 – 2017, Spring into Story Time arose from a recommendation of the Public Libraries Literacy and Reading Development Working Group and the findings of a 2016 pilot initiative.
The Goal was to hold at least one story time session in every public library in the country. Spring into Story Time was designed to be inclusive and open to all. Beyond its comprehensive national goal, individual library services were free to select their markets and local delivery arrangements.
Over the past two years Spring into Story Time has become a fundamental part of the Right to Read service with story times being one of the most common and most popular services available to library users. The number of story times delivered grows each April, providing greater access to this programme to more users.
The following Spring into Story Time events are happening in your local Library:
Ballymote Community Library:
Enniscrone Library:
Sligo Central Library:
Tubbercurry Community Library:
The Word: Crime, Plays and Poetry with Declan Hughes and Jessamine O’Connor
/in Sligo Central Library /by Michelle BrennanThe Word welcomes writers Declan Hughes and Jessamine O’Connor on Wednesday 27th March in Sligo Central Library.
Declan Hughes is a co-founder of Rough Magic Theatre Company, a director, playwright and novelist. He is Literature Advisor to the Arts Council. His plays have won numerous awards including the Stewart Parker New Playwright award and for his crime fiction he has been nominated for the Edgar Award, the American crime writing equivalent to the Oscars.
In an essay from 2000, responding to representations of Ireland in theatre at the height of the Celtic Tiger, Declan asked “Who the hell do we think we still are?” It has been described as “one of the most important essays yet written about contemporary Irish drama,” challenging us to rethink how we represent Irishness. “Irish drama needs to show more guts” he writes. His own work is a response to this challenge, his crime novels shedding the pastoral in favour of the city and all its alienations and idiosyncrasies.
Reading with Hughes is Jessamine O’Connor, a poet living on the Sligo Roscommon border who has published five poetry chapbooks. Her next collection is coming out with Salmon Poetry in 2020. In her most recent publication, Pact, she writes about motherhood, displacement and loss. The scenes Jessamine captures, “are moments sliced open to hint at musculature and skeleton, writes Afric McGlinchey. “This is O’Connor’s strength: the small frisson, the chill that accompanies each personal encounter in these poems.”
Jessamine’s poems have won the Poetry Ireland Butlers Café Competition 2017, the iYeats; and Francis Ledwidge awards 2011 and have been shortlisted for many more, including the Hennessy Award. Her first film-poem will screen at Strokestown Poetry Festival in May. Jessamine is currently a student on the BA in Writing and Literature at IT Sligo.
The writers will read from their work followed by a Q& A and an open-mic session. Local writers/musicans are welcome to read/perform at the open-mic which operates on a first come, first served basis. The Word is a collaboration between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature at IT Sligo. There is no charge for this event.
St. Patrick’s Day Arrangements at Sligo Library, Local Studies and Sligo Museum
/in News /by Michelle BrennanSligo Library and Museum will be closed the weekend of Saturday 16th of March for the Public Holiday.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from All at Sligo Library.
Ballymote Community Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 19th of March at 9.30am
Enniscrone Community Library:
Re-Opening Wednesday 20th of March at 11.00am
Sligo Central Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 19th of March at 9.30am
Tubbercurry Community Library:
Re-opening Tuesday 19th of March at 12Noon
Local Studies:
Re-opening Tuesday 19th of March at 9.30am