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Sin Poetry Competition Calling all poets on campus – SIN needs you! It’s time for the annual SIN poetry Competition. This year’s judge is the Galway-based poet and writer, Fred Johnston. A founder of Cúirt literature festival and the Forge Festival at Gort, which takes place next month. Fred Johnston also runs Galway’s Western [...]
Rain Rain Rain Rain, Rain, Rain, Your fingers trailin’ through the lane, Seeps into my brain And slowly drives me insane. Leave my door, And do not drip along my floor. Atop my bed, Do not put your drenching head. Rain, we are done, Now I yearn for the sultry summer sun. [...]
I was reminded of February 2013 during a late day in February 2014. Back then I was researching in the James Hardiman Library for a paper I chose to compose on the writer André Gide. I was being a silly creative writing first-year who worked on a subject that was a little outside of his grasp, but [...]
The Bridge He slid two twenty euro notes across the table. “That’s all we have left,” he said, but that didn’t stop her when she reached for them. That could easily be a lie, but Mabel didn’t think so. It had been hard living these last few months, and most caches of savings were [...]
It’s that time again; the lights are up, the songs are being piped out of the shops and Santa is starting to put the elves to hard work. But what about the reindeer? This week Michael Healy wonders if its all not looking a little bit like a reindeer Christmas chain-gang… The Bells on [...]
Who wouldn’t love a pack of little, yellow, evil masterminds to worship your every scheme? If not then you clearly need to get acquainted with Despicable Me ASAP. This week Shannon McHugh writes how she would spend a week with minions by her side.
With one day left to go until All Hallows Eve, Liam King’s short story brings the supernatural to NUIGalway, leaving us with the protagonist, Nate, as he climbs up the chilly and fly-infested stairwell of the English Department Tower Block to submit his essay… but something isn’t quite right.
As we begin our spiral into the world of the supernatural this Halloween, lets take a moment to remember literatures contributions to the pantheon of ghoulish figures and traditions. This week Kristina Reynolds’ dark poem, ‘The Estranged’, revives the ghost of a lady in white… The Estranged These long bitter days, these cold [...]
The hospital. The colours. In this short story by Niamh Clarke, we follow a young girl as she makes her way to Alice’s room… ‘The marks of stool feet stomp out a circle and then another circle and then another.’ I first knew I was there by looking at the floor. The linoleum [...]
Space can be a scary place when you’re all alone and waiting for death. In this short story, David Nevin takes us through the thoughts of his protagonist in what could be the final moments of his life…
Photos: Two boys search through litter to find anything they can sell in the Philippines; Mother and child at Médecins Sans Frontières feeding programme in Mozambique; a tea picker with fair trade organization Commercio Equo e Solidale.
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