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		<title>Cúirt Festival Kicks Off With Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Galway is the place to be right now if you are a fan of the arts and great literature. The Cúirt International Festival of Literature has kicked off and now hitting its 28th year, it still has the power to draw crowds and great artists and writers. This is my favourite time of the year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Poems and a New Poetry Book To End with on 12/12/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crack the Spine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a very busy year, especially since the summer and will continue into the new year. The summer here in Galway was nuts, so busy with festival after festival and the Volvo Ocean Race was huge and a great success, but, meant I had to work more hours than I needed to but was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Create Your Own Book Through Self Publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The joy and Horror of Creating Your Own Book A few months back our writing group, well a combination of writers who had participated in Kevin Higgins creative writing classes in Galway on  Tuesday nights, decided to get together and produce an Anthology of poetry, which was exciting since not one of us had ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Brilliant Books You Need To Read Before The End Of The Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherbet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federico Garcia Lorca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graeme Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Gibson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jack kerouac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin higgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Carr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richard dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S.C.Gwynne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Mitchell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Books That Were Read Half Way Through The Year There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury I wanted to do this post at the end of July, but time was not on my side. I tend to squeeze in a lot of reading. Always at once, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Creation Of A New Super Poetry Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple of years I have attended a poetry workshop slash creative writing class to help me burst out of my writing shell and pen more poems, basically keep me preoccupied with poetry. While attending these classes, classes that always seemed to fall on a Tuesday evening, I met other eager poets, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne McCabe To Read At Dalkey Writers Festival and New Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherbet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Barry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maeve Binchy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting from today June 15th until Sunday is the Dalkey Book Festival which has I have to say, an excellent line up. Reading, on the Saturday in Our Lady&#8217;s Hall at 2.30 from her popular and much talked about book &#8216;Under the Avalanche&#8217; is the TV broadcaster Anne McCabe. Anne is a well known writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins: A God In The Temple Of The National Concert Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherbet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[charles darwin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though from Dublin, I had never been to the National Concert Hall of Stephen&#8217;s Green and when a chance came to go see and listen to the brilliant mind of Richard Dawkins, I quickly purchased a ticket and made my way last night to join the sell out crowd with a wonderful evening of discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come See Bernie Ashe At The May Over The Edge Open Reading Thursday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherbet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adam white]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eimear ryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin higgins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again I&#8217;m lucky enough to have a Thursday off (very rare) this week and lucky enough it coincides with the May Over the Edge readings at the Galway library. If you have the night off too and looking for something to do, I highly recommend coming along to the reading as a fantastic writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Brave To Open and Share Your Creativity Through Creative Writing Classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherbet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anne irwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Ashe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Erin Buttner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan Millar DuMars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I like myself better when I&#8217;m writing regularly.&#8221; Willie Nelson And that is a fact Willie, I feel the same as I am sure a lot of people do, writing regularly is a good habit to have and a fine way of escapism from the jaws of the day. For many people, writing poetry or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Online In The New And Exciting Emerge Literary Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherbet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alejandra Olavarria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ariana D. Den Bleyker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coop Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerge Literary Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Ridgeway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Cantrell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Quinlan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samantha Duncan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah O’Toole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Myers-Yawnick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought it that the love of eating a delicious sandwich would turn in to a poem and then eventually be published online in a literary journal; well that&#8217;s what happened with my Ode To A Gourmet Sandwich, a poem I had written one day in a coffee shop in Galway after eating [...]]]></description>
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