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Derry volunteers needed to help children and young people find creative spark

Creative Writing charity, Fighting Words Northern Ireland, is appealing for volunteers in the North West to support a series of creative writing workshops for children and young people in local arts venues over the coming months. Volunteers need no ...

09 Mar 2022 at 18:33

Arts & Entertainment

Volunteers wanted for creative writing workshops

The Central Library in Letterkenny is looking for volunteers for its Fighting Words creative writing workshops which will start later this year. Established in Dublin in 2009 by Roddy Doyle and Séan Love, Fighting Words is hugely successful ...

02 Feb 2022 at 13:33

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Jerry Fish about expression...

Thursday's wisdom for 'Blue January Week' is a throwback Thursday to a Day in the Life of an indie legend and ringmaster of exceptional renown, Jerry Fish. During our interview, an ever-entertaining vagabond Jerry Fish left the following ...

20 Jan 2022 at 22:33

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Four-day Tipperary summer celebration of music concludes in Cahir

This four-day LITHA celebration of music and spoken word poetry across Tipperary coincides with the longest day of the year, the Summer solstice. To welcome the long summer days, CWB in collaboration with Department of Tourism, Culture, ...

30 Jun 2022 at 09:33

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Call for young writers from Derry to submit their creative writing

Creative writing charity Fighting Words NI is calling for young writers from Derry to submit their original stories, poems and plays to be included in The Irish Times Fighting Words 2023 supplement. Selected pieces will be published in ...

13 Nov 2022 at 11:33

Ireland

Paid domestic violence leave should be based on an ‘honour system’

Paid domestic violence leave should be based on an “honour” system, rather than forcing victims to prove they are entitled to leave through a doctor’s sick note, an Oireachtas committee has been told. Dr Laura Bambrick, head of Social ...

22 Sept 2022 at 14:14

News

National Theatre to stage play based on Grenfell survivors perspective

The National Theatre is staging a new play in London that is based on the first-hand account of survivors of the Grenfell blaze. Written by Gillian Slovo and co-directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Anthony Simpson-Pike, the story is based ...

12 Apr 2023 at 13:08

Newsletter LeitrimLive

A three-day poetry festival takes place in Carrick-on-Shannon

“Winter Wishes - Words for Winter”, a three-day festival of poetry and storytelling for young people, curated by poet Hazel Hogan, takes place at The Dock from December 14-16. The event aims to bring together young writers from 1 ...

10 Dec 2023 at 17:33

Queen voted Children’s Word of the Year for 2022

Queen has been voted the Children’s Word of the Year after the country mourned the loss of Elizabeth II. The Oxford University Press (OUP) said the findings highlight that the news has an impact on children and they absorb the ...

17 Jan 2023 at 00:01

Music

Charli XCX-coined phrase named Word of the Year 2024

Brat, the term coined by British singer Charli XCX, has been named the Collins Word of the Year 2024. The music star, real name Charlotte Aitchison, sent TikTok into a spiral earlier this year when her sixth studio album ...

01 Nov 2024 at 12:29

Friend of Deborah James feels inspired by campaigner amid ‘waves of loss’

A friend of Dame Deborah James has said she still feels “waves of sadness and loss” nearly a year after the cancer campaigner’s death but her “overriding feeling” is admiration for her inspiring “spirit”. Dame Deborah ...

11 Apr 2023 at 11:27

Inishowen

Greencastle Writers Group seeking writing submissions for next public event

Greencastle Writers Group is seeking submissions of writing ahead of its next public event. The next Words by the Water event is taking place on March 2 at Greencastle Community Centre from 7.30pm to 9pm at ...

05 Feb 2024 at 16:33

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