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Following the success of the inaugural event last Christmas, Carols in the Square returns this year at 6pm on Friday the 23rd in Wexford’s St Peter’s Square. Last years event featured an impromptu performance from Wexford musicians such as Daithi and Rory Kavanagh, Katherine Atkinson, Martina Byrne, Melanie O’ Reilly, Des and Lucy Kiely, Anthony ‘the Virginian’ Bates, Robbie Agar, Ed Barker, Deirdre McGarry, Ibar Quirke, Willie Considine and many more, to a crowd of over two hundred. It was a magical night and, most importantly, money was raised for Wexford People Helping People’s Christmas Appeal. This year we will...

Upcoming events at Red Books   Friday 18th November:   OUTSPOKEN   (Monthly spoken-word open-mic hosted by Alanna Hammel and Deirdre McGarry.  This month's special guest poet is Margaret Galvin) Thursday 24th November:   WRITE CLUB   (Our Writers Group returns after a break over the Opera Festival.  New writers welcome.  Three euro fee to cover refreshments.) Friday 2nd December:   BOOK LAUNCH   (Pheme Glass will launch the third installment of the Blossom or the Bole series.) Thursday 8th December:   WRITE CLUB    (Meeting of our Writers Group.  New writers welcome.  Three euro fee to cover refreshments.) Friday 9th December:   WEXMAS   (A celebration of local writing...

A string of fringe events will take place at Wexford independent bookstore Red Books during the Wexford Opera Festival. Owner Wally O’ Neill said that the events would be ‘live literature’, an attempt to bring books alive and put their merit at the centre of artistic expression. “We are lucky to have twelve live events coming up in the bookstore over the festival,” Wally said. “These events are provided by the artistic community that has evolved around Red Books, including writers, poets, historians, film-makers and musicians. We’re going to increase our opening hours again to facilitate these events so we’ll...

Two hundred people attended the opening of a extension to a Red Books in Wexford's St Peter’s Square last Tuesday evening. Veteran bookseller Anton O’ Broin cut the ribbon on the new building, stating that readers and bookshops were alive and well in Wexford. “Our extension doubles the size of Red Books and increases our stock to a quarter of a million books,” Wally O’ Neill, the owner of Red Books, said. “It also affords us much needed space for book launches, writer groups and the many other events that happen around bookstores like ours.” Red Books began life in...

"For years I lived in places that didn't fit, suburbs, or remote rural outposts, but I found a berth, however transient or permanent, here in Wexford's republic of bohemia." - Peter Murphy                                Peter Murphy   Editor Alanna Hammel   Dean Bolger   Maybelle Wallis & Anne Ireton   Rory & Daithi Kavanagh   Nathan Goff