Editing Galway (section)

====Literature====
Among the poets currently writing in Galway are [[Fred Johnston (writer)|Fred Johnston]], [[Patrick Deeley]], [[Rita Ann Higgins]], [[Mary O'Malley (poet)|Mary O'Malley]], [[Moya Cannon]], [[Eva Bourke]], [[Kevin Higgins (poet)|Kevin Higgins]], Ndrek Gjini, and [[Elaine Feeney]]. [[Walter Macken]], [[Eilís Dillon]], [[Máirtín Ó Direáin]], [[Máirtín Ó Cadhain]], [[Liam O'Flaherty]], [[Pádraic Ó Conaire]] and [[Ken Bruen]] are well-known writers in both English and [[Modern literature in Irish|Irish]] with a connection to Galway. The writer and publisher [[Frank Harris]] was born in Galway.

The [[James Hardiman]] Library at the [[University of Galway]] houses around 350 archived and/or digitised collections including the [[Thomas Kilroy]] Collection, the Brendan Duddy Papers on the Northern Ireland conflict, the [[John McGahern]] archive and the manuscript Minutes of Galway City Council from the 15th to mid-19th centuries.

Among the literary magazines published in Galway are ''The Galway Review'', ''Crannóg Magazine'', which describes itself as 'Ireland's premier independent fiction and poetry magazine since 2002' and ''ROPES'', an annual literary journal published by students of the MA in Literature and Publishing at the [[University of Galway]]. Galway also has [[Charlie Byrne's Bookshop]].

Gretta Conroy, in James Joyce's short story "The Dead", remembers her lover Michael Furey throwing stones against the window of her grandmother's house on Nun's Island, in the city. Joyce's poem ''She Weeps Over Rahoon'' describes the grief of Joyce's wife [[Nora Barnacle]] over the death of her onetime boyfriend Michael Bodkin. Both Bodkin and Nora were from Galway and Bodkin is buried in Rahoon Cemetery in the western suburbs of the city.<ref name=Bodkin>{{cite book|last1=Cahill|first1=Susan|title=For the Love of Ireland|date=2011|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|isbn=9780307778352|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbKLH2lQYoEC|access-date=29 August 2015}}</ref>

[[Walter Macken]]'s novel ''Rain on the Wind'' is set in the city,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Kernan |title=A journey through Walter Macken's Connemara |url=https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/124971/a-journey-through-walter-mackens-connemara |access-date=29 November 2024 |work=Galway Advertiser |date=12 October 2021}}</ref> as are the "Jack Taylor" crime novels of [[Ken Bruen]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shortall |first1=Eithne |title=Why Ken Bruen felt it was time to end his Jack Taylor series |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/why-ken-bruen-felt-it-was-time-to-end-his-jack-taylor-series-c8b2ch9xv |access-date=29 November 2024 |work=[[The Times]] |date=18 October 2020}}</ref>