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2004 - literary anniversaries

Galway and Irish Writing

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Galway and Irish Literature and Drama

WRITERS

Galway city and county are strongly associated with a number of Irish literaray and dramatic figures. These include the following:

Lady Augusta Gregory, Playwright and Founder of the Abbey Theatre (Gort)

WB Yeats, Poet and Playwright

Mairtin O Cadhain, Novelist

Tom Murphy, Dramatists and Novelist (Tuam)

Seamus O'Kelly, Playwright and writer of short stories (Loughrea)

Nora Barnacle, Wife of James Joyce (Galway City)

Edward Martyn, Dramatist.

Walter Macken, Novelist

Richard Murphy, Poet

Thomas Kilroy, Novelist, Playwright, and former Professor of English, NUI Galway.

Rita Kelly, Poet

Rita Ann Higgins, Poet

Patricia Burke Brogan, Dramatist.

Gerard Donovan, Poet and Author of the novel Schopenhauer's Telescope.

Eilis Dillon, Novelist

Edna O'Brien, Novelist and Playwright (educated in Loughrea)

JM Synge, Playwright

Joan McBreen, Poet

Desmond Hogan

Mike McCormack, Novelist

Martin McDonagh, Playwright

Garry Hynes, Founder of Druid Theatre

Vincent Woods, Playwright

Sommerville and Ross, Novelists.

Pádraic Ó Conaire, Short Story Writer.

John Huston, Filmmaker

FILM

Among the films shot or set in Galway are the following:

Man of Aran, (O'Flahery, 1934)

The Quiet Man, (Ford, 1952)

The Field (Sherdian, 1990)

Into the West (Newell, 1992)

NUIG Library

NUI Galway's Library holds archival materials for the following writers and theatres:

John McGahern

Druid Theatre

The Galway Arts Festival

The Lyric Theatre Belfast

An Taidhbearc na Gaillimhe

More at: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/resources/archives/index.html

This list is intended to provide suggestions for possible papers, and should not be regarded a comprehensive account of writing in Galway.

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