The Galway Review

Guest Editor: 
Máire Holmes
Contributing Editors: 
Prof. Adrian Frazier, Eva Bourke, 
John Kenny, Gerard Hanberry, 
Trevor Conway, Luke Morgan
General Administrator: 
Uinseann Mac Thómais
Managing Editor: 
Ndrek Gjini 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Máire Holmes
Introduction

Prof. Adrian Frazier
Men and Beauty

Maureen Gallagher
Patrick Kavanagh – Mystic or Realist?

Kate Smyth
On Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall (2009)
Bring Up the Bodies (2012)

Des Kenny
On Reading in Pubs

Adrian Martyn
“English rebels, Irish enemies”

Dick Donaghue
Partying

Kate Ennals
A Worm’s Eye View

Maeve Mulrennan
Saturday

Kernan Andrews
Ronnie O’Gorman – a life in the printed world

Christian Wallace
New Boots

Ann Henning Jocelyn
A hundred years from now

Dave Duggan
Visits

Moya Roddy
Lachrimae Christi

EM Reapy
The Guest

Kernan Andrews
She Knows Where Syd Barrett Lives

John Walsh
Winter Sun

Nicola Geddes
Star Maps

Gottfried Benn (translated by Eva Bourke)
Chopin

Harald Hartung (translated by Eva Bourke)
Glance into the Yard

Thomas Rosenlöcher (translated by Eva Bourke)
The Garden

Friedrich Hölderlin (translated by Eva Bourke)
When I was a boy

Emily Cullen
A Promenade
Suspension

Tim Dwyer
ANGEL ON EARTH
ROAD TO GALWAY, 1949

Fred Johnston
A QUESTION
CHANSON DE LA JARDINIÈRE

Mary Madec
Diptych
Persephone: Coming of Age

Michael Farry
Six things I miss about teaching
Limerick Café

Eva Bourke
Homage to Leland Bardwell
Snow Story
Feeding Time
Evening near Letterfrack

John Arden
The Great Gas Giveaway

Anne Irwin
Summer in Galway
All we can do is Wait

Laurie Allen
Road chill

Jack McCann
Is Love Alive?
The Water’s Edge
Bullied

David J McDonagh
The hills go on
After the scan

Neil McCarthy
Sirens
Six Dictionaries

Eithne Reynolds
Binn Guaire

Mary Murray
A walk on the prom

Miceál Kearney
Neé Lianne
Grandmother Clock

Pd Lyons
Anarchist
Grey Horse In Connecticut

Uinseann Mac Thómais
Aimhreas
Louise Tinn
T – léine

Louis Mulcahy
Dóchas sna hAibhleoga
Cleachtadh Domhnaigh
Cruach Mhárthain
Ó Chloichear go Glaise

Trevor Conway
Atlantic
Black and White

Gerard Hanberry
DID SHE EVER LAUGH?
BETRAYAL
WHAT OUR SHOES SAY ABOUT US
NIGHT-CALLERS

Allison Long
blue eyes
Epitaph

Margaretta D’Arcy
Girl Angst
Hymn
Valentine

Pete Mullineaux
Requiem
Salthill Air Show

Robert Jocelyn
PLAYA
THE LAND

Jean Andrews
Ventilation
Lipoczi

Kate O’Shea
The Trout
Fish

Patrick Deeley
Axe
Sub-fossil Tree Shore

Jean Folan
WOODQUAY PANORAMA
A PAIR OF NECKLACES

Liz Quirke
Ashes

Mairéad Donnellan
Buried

Stephen Byrne
Sea

Mary Ellen Fean
CHE

Peter O’Neill
Leo

Gerry Galvin
Weather on a Summer Afternoon
REFERENDUM

Luke Morgan
Amendment
First Music

Sarah Clancy
Beetroot Soup
Her sisters remember it differently

Cúirt International Festival of Literature

Ronnie O’Gorman
Galway farewells a champion of Irish food

Biographical Notes