The Galway City Poetry Trail

The Galway Poetry Trail is a series of commemorative plaques featuring the writing of well known Irish and International poets, which are installed around the City of Galway. Pieces of creative writing about Galway are celebrated by being cast in bronze or engraved in stone and situated in an environment that reflects their content. For example, Gerald Dawe’s poem “The Tribune” is on the facade of the Connacht Tribune offices etc. Each plaque offers the viewer a moment of quiet contemplation with words to lift the soul in a busy urban environment. They should be seen as part of the fabric of the city itself. Often with a Galway twist, the Galway Poetry Trail and includes plaques with pieces by Mairtín Ó'Direáin, Seamus Heaney, Pádraic Ó'Conaire, Walter Macken, Louis MacNeice, Kevin Faller, Moya Cannon, Patricia Burke Brogan, W.B.Yeats, Gerald Dawe, Rita Ann Higgins, Gerard Hanberry, George Moore, Máire Holmes, and several others. This project is organised jointly by Kennys Bookshop, Galway City Council and Cúirt International Festival of Literature and has been added to annually since the first plaque was installed in 2005.