July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
at Galway City Library
showcases Galway publishers
& presents readings by Máire T. Robinson & Mary
Madec
on Thursday, July 9th, 6.30-8pm.
The July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by Horslips drummer Eamon Carr, Máire T. Robinson, John Fogarty, Mary Madec, Lorne Patterson, and Paul O’Reilly. At this event Over The Edge will showcase authors published by Galway-based publishers Doire Press and Wordsonthestreet. The reading takes place at Galway City Library on Thursday, July 9th, 6.30-8pm. All are welcome and there is no cover charge.
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| Máire T. Robinson |
Máire T. Robinson
is a graduate of the MA in writing at NUI, Galway. In 2013, she was the overall
winner of the Doire Press Chapbook Competition. Her short story collection Your
Mixtape Unravels My Heart was published as a result. Máire's recently
published début novel Skin, Paper, Stone (New Island, 2015) was
described by the Irish Times as “a deceptively
simple novel that packs a punch. Robinson writes with warmth and understanding,
giving the reader a bird’s-eye view of a modern, post-boom Galway through a
diverse and credible cast of characters.” Kevin Higgins’s Galway
Advertiser review of Skin, Paper, Stone
can be read here http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/77976/buskers-beggars-and-degenerates-of-every-persuasion
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| Eamon Carr and friend in 1975 |
Eamon Carr was born in Meath. Along with
Peter Fallon, he formed poetry-performance group Tara Telephone, before
concentrating his energies as writer, conceptualist and drummer
for Horslips, the band he co-founded and remains a member of. A
journalist and occasional broadcaster, he is a former recipient of
the Sarah Purser Scholarship and Prize in the History of European
Painting from Trinity College, Dublin. In 2005, his poster poem ‘A Tale of
Love’, originally designed in 1969 by Che Guevara poster artist
Jim Fitzpatrick, was included in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of
Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition. In 2008, as lyricist, he
collaborated on an album of new songs with former Sweeney's Men and Wings
guitarist Henry McCullough. In 2010, his five-poem cycle Ascension:
Ireland was staged in the Walled Garden of the Pearse Museum, Dublin
by composer and intermedia artist Daniel Figgis. In 2011, Horslips
recorded a live performance of music suites adapted
from The Táin and The Book of Invasions concept
albums in concert with the Ulster Orchestra, conductor Brian
Byrne. In 2012, Eamon contributed a reading of ‘Dublin’, a
lyric by deceased friend and colleague Philip Lynott,
to Sound City Beat, an album by the Radiators from Space. His
first book, The Origami Crow, Journey into Japan World Cup
Summer 2002 (Seven Towers) was published in 2008. Deirdre Unforgiven:
A Journal of Sorrows, a one-act play based on Deirdre of
the Sorrows, was published by Doire Press in 2013.
John Fogarty is a fiction writer whose
debut novel Scenes from an Indian Summer will be published in September
by Galway based publishers Wordsonthestreet. Scenes from an Indian Summer
has already been shortlisted for the RTÉ 1/Penquin book prize. He has had work
published in Connect Magazine and a range of other publications
at home and abroad. He is also an actor
and has taken demanding roles in numerous productions, most notably, in JB
Priestley’s An Inspector Calls and in Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry
Men.
Lorne Patterson is an Edgeworthstown writer and member of the
Ballymahon Writers Group, Co Longford, Ireland. He is a psychiatric nurse and
community educator who has worked in a number of countries, including Britain,
the United States and Russia. A past runner-up in the Sean Ó Faoláin
short-story competition, he published his first book, Witch, in 2012 to critical
acclaim. Witch was followed by
another novella, Bad Blood , published in 2013 by Wordsonthestreet.
Lorne is currently working on a non-fiction history of drug addiction treatment
and on Hour of the Witch, the follow-up to Witch’.
Paul
O’Reilly lives Co. Wexford and has
been published in Necessary Fiction; Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing;
Natural Bridge; Stinging Fly; and the Irish Times. He has been
shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize and the Hennessy First Fiction Award;
was runner up for Bristol Short Story Prize and the William Trevor/Elizabeth
Bowen International Short Story Prize; was a joint-winner of The Lonely Voice:
Short Story Introductions competition hosted by the Irish Writers’ Centre;
received honourable mention in Glimmer Train’s Family Matters
competition; and had a story nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is also an
award-winning traditional Irish singer and musician and was awarded Deis
funding by the Arts Council in 2008. As well as working in fiction, music and
song, Paul has produced several albums, two film documentaries, adapted a
Claire Keegan short story for film that was later produced and screened at the
Galway Film Fleadh in 2013, and for the past twelve years has been active in
the promotion of culture and new writing in the south-east of Ireland. Visit
pauloreilly.ie for more details. The Girl Missing From The Window,
Paul’s debut collection of short stories, is just published by Doire Press.
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| Mary Madec |
Mary Madec was born and raised in Mayo. She studied
at NUI, Galway (B.A., M.A., H.Dip Ed.) and at the University of Pennsylvania
from which she received a doctorate in Linguistics in 2002. She has published
widely (Crannóg, West 47, The Cuirt Annual, Poetry
Ireland Review, the SHOp, The Sunday Tribune, Southword, Iota, Nth Position,
Natural Bridge and The Stand Orbis, The
Fox Chase Review, The Recorder among others. Her first collection, In Other Words, appeared with Salmon Poetry in 2010 ; her
second collection, Demeter Does Not Remember also with Salmon
Poetry at the end of 2014. She has received several awards and prizes most
notably the Hennessy XO Prize for Emerging Poetry
in 2008. She co-founded the community writing project, Away With Words, and
works for Villanova University. Kevin Higgins’s Galway Advertiser review of Demeter Does Not Remember can be read
here http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/74755/sexing-up-greek-myths-and-facing-down-the-bank
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Council, Poetry
Ireland, and Galway City Council.