Doire Press launch of Galway Stories featuring readings by Mary Costello, Alan McMonagle
and Nuala Ní Chonchúir

By touching the pulse of some of the highways and byways of the city and county, the authors of these twenty stories bring into sharp relief Galway's human heart and soul in all its joy and sorrow, in all its aspirations and disappointments, in all its victories and defeats. It is, in effect, the alternate guide to this beloved city and county of ours, filling in all the gaps left out by the official guides, giving a real sense of what makes it the magical place it is to live in. Des Kenny

Galway Stories, featuring many of Ireland's best contemporary writers, takes the reader on an intimate tour of the city and county of Galway.The launch will feature readings three authors in the anthology: Mary Costello, author of 'Sleeping with a Stranger' (also featured in her collection The China Factory, Stinging Fly, 2012); Alan McMonagle, author of 'Women Drivers on Taylor's Hill (also featured in his collection, Psychotic Episodes, Arlen House, 2013); and Nuala Ní Chonchúir, author of 'Cri de Coeur' (also featured in her collection Mother America, New Island, 2012).

The collection includes stories byAileen Armstrong, Celeste Auge, Kevin Barry, Edward Boyne, Ger Burke, Mary Costello, Susan Millar DuMars, Lisa Frank, Julian Gough, James Martyn Joyce, Hugo Kelly, Mike McCormack, Alan McMonagle, Geraldine Mills, Conor Montague, Jim Mullarkey, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Moya Roddy, Olaf Tyaransen and John Walsh.

Who am I, and more important, where am I and why? 'This Never Was My Town' is a series of prose and poetry readings that tries to evaluate the question of how much your identity is linked with the place you live in. Is a city adding to your personality, or does location have no influence whatsoever in our globalised and interlinked world any more? A group of expat writers from Dublin and other cities in Europe (patched in via screen) will read from their works and reflect on placelore, identity and if it's really possible to make a place 'yours'.

Presented by German Dubliner Marcel Krueger together with the Irish Writers' Centre and Storymap Dublin, each reading will feature a curated story from storymap.ie with added commentary by story/filmmakers Tom and Andy, and readings from both authors at the Irish Writers' Centre on Parnell Square and authors and poets patched in via Skype from all over Europe.

With Kit Fryatt (Aberdeen), Marcel Krueger (Dublin/Berlin), Christodoulos Makris (Dublin/Nicosia), Anna Byrne (Cork/Berlin), Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Galway/Dublin), Stu Anderson (Edinburgh) and Au Ngog Dunc (Dublin), more tba.

Who am I, and more important, where am I and why? 'This Never Was My Town' is a series of prose and poetry readings that tries to evaluate the question of how much your identity is linked with the place you live in. Is a city adding to your personality, or does location have no influence whatsoever in our globalised and interlinked world any more? A group of expat writers from Dublin and other cities in Europe (patched in via screen) will read from their works and reflect on placelore, identity and if it's really possible to make a place 'yours'.

Presented by German Dubliner Marcel Krueger together with the Irish Writers' Centre and Storymap Dublin, each reading will feature a curated story from storymap.ie with added commentary by story/filmmakers Tom and Andy, and readings from both authors at the Irish Writers' Centre on Parnell Square and authors and poets patched in via Skype from all over Europe.

With Kit Fryatt (Aberdeen), Marcel Krueger (Dublin/Berlin), Christodoulos Makris (Dublin/Nicosia), Anna Byrne (Cork/Berlin), Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Galway/Dublin), Stu Anderson (Edinburgh) and Au Ngog Dunc (Dublin), more tba.

Who am I, and more important, where am I and why? 'This Never Was My Town' is a series of prose and poetry readings that tries to evaluate the question of how much your identity is linked with the place you live in. Is a city adding to your personality, or does location have no influence whatsoever in our globalised and interlinked world any more? A group of expat writers from Dublin and other cities in Europe (patched in via screen) will read from their works and reflect on placelore, identity and if it's really possible to make a place 'yours'.

Presented by German Dubliner Marcel Krueger together with the Irish Writers' Centre and Storymap Dublin, each reading will feature a curated story from storymap.ie with added commentary by story/filmmakers Tom and Andy, and readings from both authors at the Irish Writers' Centre on Parnell Square and authors and poets patched in via Skype from all over Europe.

With Kit Fryatt (Aberdeen), Marcel Krueger (Dublin/Berlin), Christodoulos Makris (Dublin/Nicosia), Anna Byrne (Cork/Berlin), Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Galway/Dublin), Stu Anderson (Edinburgh) and Au Ngog Dunc (Dublin), more tba.

Who am I, and more important, where am I and why? 'This Never Was My Town' is a series of prose and poetry readings that tries to evaluate the question of how much your identity is linked with the place you live in. Is a city adding to your personality, or does location have no influence whatsoever in our globalised and interlinked world any more? A group of expat writers from Dublin and other cities in Europe (patched in via screen) will read from their works and reflect on placelore, identity and if it's really possible to make a place 'yours'.

Presented by German Dubliner Marcel Krueger together with the Irish Writers' Centre and Storymap Dublin, each reading will feature a curated story from storymap.ie with added commentary by story/filmmakers Tom and Andy, and readings from both authors at the Irish Writers' Centre on Parnell Square and authors and poets patched in via Skype from all over Europe.

With Kit Fryatt (Aberdeen), Marcel Krueger (Dublin/Berlin), Christodoulos Makris (Dublin/Nicosia), Anna Byrne (Cork/Berlin), Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Galway/Dublin), Stu Anderson (Edinburgh) and Au Ngog Dunc (Dublin), more tba.