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The Galway based literary group have announced the call for submissions for their '2012 New Writer of the Year' competition

Brian Merriman, Artistic Director of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival talks to Writing.ie about the upcoming festival and the role the festival can play in today's society.

"Before Vanishing..." is a new and unique event being staged at the Focus Theatre, Dublin by Mouth on Fire Theatre as they stage English and Irish language versions of some of Samuel Beckett's best known plays.

Some research tips and pointers for those facing into exams and theses in English and the Humanities or for those just looking to write using archival sources

Tiny Plays for Ireland, currently on at the Project Arts Centre, is staged by Fishamble in association with the Irish Times and puts recession Ireland firmly under the spotlight in a series of 25 new three-minute plays. Barry Houlihan looks at how these micro-plays really puts Ireland to task.

Tony Devlin is writer and performer of the new play '1981' looking at the deaths of those on Hunger Strike at the Maze Prison. He talks to Barry Houlihan about his new play, growing up in West Belfast and his award-winning company, Brassneck Theatre.

The programme for the 2012 Galway Cùirt International Festival of Literature was launched this week and is packed with events for readers of all types and tastes. Barry Houlihan looks at the 2012 programme

News on upcoming development events for new and emerging playwrights.

Barry Houlihan looks at some upcoming competitions and events for short story writers

Barry Houlihan looks at the new play 'Zeitgeist' by Bernard Field and at times where history and theatre have crossed.

 Artsandhealth.ie is a new national resource website. 'Centre Stage' looks to see how our healthcare sites are becoming sites for the Arts.

Got a smartphone? Are you a writer? There really is an app for that! Barry Houlihan takes a look at some smartphone apps that will interest the reader and writer on the move

Barry Houlihan talks to Kevin Higgins, one half of the team behind the hugely successful Over the Edge writing group based in Galway

Barry Houlihan looks at a week of new writing and plays at Templebar's New Theatre

Barry Houlihan talks to graphic designer and illustrator Kate Brangan about her project Eighteen Theatres and how she set about producing a book of images on Dublin’s theatre buildings.

The Irish theatre spotlight falls fully on the West this week as the Galway Theatre Festival has just kicked off. Already with an opening day with sell-out productions under its belt and with many more to follow, Barry Houlihan talks to Director of the Galway Theatre Festival, Ròisìn Stack to discuss the growth of the Festival and what the audience can expect from this festival feast.

Bluepatch Productions staged one of the hits of the 2010 Galway Theatre Festival with their play Memory Palace. Now, with the Festival once again upon us, Artistic Director of Bluepatch Productions, Aoife Connolly, meets with Barry Houlihan to discuss their new work and their aims and focus as a company.

THEATREclub have brought their exploration of Irish drug abuse and culture to Smock Alley Theatre as part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival. Barry Houlihan looks at this sobering account at Ireland's dark drug problem.

Laundry is the latest site-specific work from Anù Productions and features as part of this year's Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival. Barry Houlihan witnessed this historic play that takes place behind the doors of Dublin's Magdalen Laundry.

Fight Night, a new one-man play written by Gavin Kostick and produced by Rise Productions is currently on an 18-venue tour of Ireland. The play’s star Aonghus Òg McAnally talks to Barry Houlihan on how Fight Night came to be, on shaping new work in Ireland and how for Dan Coyle Jnr, he faces the fight of his life.