{"id":19836,"date":"2022-05-26T03:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/the-word-online-2\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T03:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:03:27","slug":"the-word-online-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word \/ Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Word, a collaboration between Sligo Libraries and the IT Sligo BA (Hons) Writing and Literature Course, is a literary event held on the last Wednesday of every month in Sligo Central Library. Due to the restrictions brought about by Covid 19 The Word moved online. It will follow the popular format of readings from an\u00a0established writer and an up and coming special guest, followed by Q &amp; A, and an open mic section of 3 minute slots for 10-12 pieces of poetry\/flash fiction\/music\/song. The online version will be broadcast\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/9blz0lY1tx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook live<\/a> as well as through Zoom and will include music from Sligo based musicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For this special edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/sligolibrary.ie\/the-word-a-dermot-healy-special\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Word<\/a>, Mary O\u2019Malley, Brian Leyden and Keith Hopper will be celebrating the work of the late Dermot Healy. Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:30PM\u00a0FREE Online event. Music with Ray Coen. Q&amp;A. Open Mic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More information <a href=\"https:\/\/sligolibrary.ie\/fergal-keane-and-susan-mckay-to-launch-new-sligo-writing-and-research-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dermot Healy (1947-2014)\u00a0<\/strong>grew up in Cavan. He later settled in Ballyconnell, Co. Sligo, where he founded and edited Force 10: A Journal of the Northwest. His debut collection, Banished Misfortune and Other Stories, first appeared in 1982, and this was followed by four novels: Fighting with Shadows (1984), A Goat\u2019s Song (1994), Sudden Times (1999), and Long Time, No See (2011). A highly-acclaimed memoir, The Bend for Home, was published in 1996. He also wrote five collections of poetry and thirteen stage plays.\u00a0Collected Plays and Collected Short Stories were published posthumously in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19837,"template":"","class_list":["post-19836","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Word \/ Online - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Word, a collaboration between Sligo Libraries and the IT Sligo BA (Hons) Writing and Literature Course, is a literary event held on the last Wednesday of every month in Sligo Central Library.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Word \/ Online - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Word, a collaboration between Sligo Libraries and the IT Sligo BA (Hons) Writing and Literature Course, is a literary event held on the last Wednesday of every month in Sligo Central Library. Due to the restrictions brought about by Covid 19 The Word moved online. It will follow the popular format of readings from [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CreativeIrl\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@creativeirl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/\",\"name\":\"The Word \/ Online - Creative Ireland Programme\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dermot-healy.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-26T02:03:27+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dermot-healy.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dermot-healy.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":403},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Word \/ Online\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Creative Ireland Programme\",\"description\":\"The Creative Ireland Programme is guided by a vision that every person in Ireland will have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential. It is a five year all-of-Government initiative, from 2017 to 2022, to place creativity at the centre of public policy.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Word \/ Online - Creative Ireland Programme","description":"The Word, a collaboration between Sligo Libraries and the IT Sligo BA (Hons) Writing and Literature Course, is a literary event held on the last Wednesday of every month in Sligo Central Library.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Word \/ Online - Creative Ireland Programme","og_description":"The Word, a collaboration between Sligo Libraries and the IT Sligo BA (Hons) Writing and Literature Course, is a literary event held on the last Wednesday of every month in Sligo Central Library. Due to the restrictions brought about by Covid 19 The Word moved online. It will follow the popular format of readings from [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/","og_site_name":"Creative Ireland Programme","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CreativeIrl\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@creativeirl","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/","url":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/","name":"The Word \/ Online - Creative Ireland Programme","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dermot-healy.png","datePublished":"2022-05-26T02:03:27+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dermot-healy.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/app\/uploads\/2022\/05\/dermot-healy.png","width":300,"height":403},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/the-word-online-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Word \/ Online"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/","name":"Creative Ireland Programme","description":"The Creative Ireland Programme is guided by a vision that every person in Ireland will have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential. It is a five year all-of-Government initiative, from 2017 to 2022, to place creativity at the centre of public policy.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/19836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}