The Irish Writers Centre is host to numerous exciting literary events over the next few months. Make sure you keep up-to-date and check our site regularly for details on events. For more information on any of the events, please call us at the Centre on 01 8721302.

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In today's globalized society translation is everywhere, be it linguistic, cultural, coded. How is this border crossed? How do we deal with the translation of culture and how do we accept it? Is translation an academic exercise, or does it serve a purpose on all levels of communication? Is it creative or functional? How does translation help us, and why is it important?

This event is hosted by the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation (T-JoLT) in partnership with the Irish Writers' Centre; T-JoLT is an an academic, student-run journal which seeks to publish works of literary translation from any language into English or Irish. Our panel discussion, chaired by T-JoLT's Editor-in-Chief Aine Josephine Tyrrell and will be followed by a Q&A session after the debate. Following the event tea and coffee will be served from 8.00-9.00pm. The panel includes Dr. Peter Arnds, lecturer of the MPhil in Literary Translation at TCD; John Kearns, editor of Translation Ireland; Dr. Borbála Faragó teaching professor at St. Patrick's College; Dr. Nick Johnson, assistant professor of drama at TCD; and Elizabeth McSkeane, a Scottish-born translator and writer of poetry and fiction based in Dublin.

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Irish Writers Centre: 6.30. Wednesday the 3rd of December. Ten years after the death of Dorothy Molloy and the posthumous publication of 'Hare Soup', followed by 'Gethsemane Day' and 'Long Distance Swimmer', friends, fans, and the uninitiated are invited to an evening at The Irish Writers Centre. Join us in a celebration of her work and to honour this great Irish poet. Please come and read your favourite Molloy poem, share your thoughts or sit back, listen and simply enjoy the occasion with a complimentary glass of wine.

"Coming at the same moment as the shocking news of Dorothy Molloy's death, her first collection of poems has the impact of an Atlantic wave, a sense of piled and travelled force bend it." Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Irish Times, April 2004

The event has kindly been organised by Nuala Leonard and Louise C.Callaghan. Any inquiries should be directed to nualaleonard@yahoo.com.

Join us on 4 December when we'll be announcing the winner of the Jack Harte Bursary Award, in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig.

This is the first year of the award – named in honour of Jack Harte, founder of the Irish Writers Centre, in celebration and acknowledgement of his contribution to Irish literature – and marks a special occasion for both centres.

There will be a reading on the night from the winner of the bursary as well as various writers and poets which we'll be announcing soon. Stay tuned for more details.

The Bealtaine poets would like to invite you to the launch of their second annthology. The Bealtaine group have been meeting at the Irish Writers Centre every month for the past fifteen and a half years. As Macdara Woods says in the Foreword of the Anthology: "They are an autonomous, serious, supportive group of writers, who believe in poetry, there are many truly marvelous realities at large in these pages and for the reader the joy of finding them."

Come along and celebrate the launch with them on Wednesday 10 December at 6.30. All are welcome.