Editors’ Choice

Holmes: Writer in Residence Máire Holmes the Editor-in-Chief of The Galway Review has recently been appointed as Writer in Residence with Kerry Co. Council in her native Irish and English for 2015. Her tenure will start in early March. Thankfully, technology will allow …Read More…	The Galway Review 3 As Mayor of Galway, I wish to express my support and indeed my thanks to The Galway Review… The Galway Review enhances Galway’s reputation and place on a literary world map… Read more…
An artist opened Galway’s ‘Secrets Box’By Ronnie O’Gorman	Most families, most adults, and most communities have secrets; Read more…
Frank Dullaghan – Five Poems The Road is Heavy The children have learned to be silent. They look through you, their eyes dark with age. *Read more…*	Michael D. Higgins – The Prophets are Weeping To those on the road it is reported that The Prophets are weeping, At the abuse…*Read more…*
Mary Madec – Five Poems Mary Madec has a B.A. and M.A from NUI, Galway and a PhD from The University of Pennsylvania. She has published poems here and abroad and in 2008 she won The Hennesy Prize .. *Read more…*	Moya Cannon – Two poems Moya Cannon studied History and Politics at University College Dublin, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She has taught at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Cannon is member of Aosdána. *Read more…*
Eva Bourke – ‘Everyone in Galway seemed to be a poet’ Eva Bourke teaches in the MA in Writing program at National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published seven collections of poetry, has received numerous awards and bursaries and is a member of Aosdána. .. *Read more…*	Patrick Deeley – Nine poems Patrick Deeley served on the Council of Poetry Ireland from 1984 to 1989. His ‘Groundswell: New and Selected Poems’, is due for publication by Dedalus Press in April 2013…. Read more…
Quay Street, Galway By Jessie Lendennie There are ghosts on Quay Street Not the Claddagh *..Read more…*	Galway-v-Silicon Valley By Brendan Smith Galway can rightly claim to be the country’s first and .. *Read more…*