Gala night of poetry and music/ Mór-oíche ceoil is filíochta

With hot reggae and ska, Bréag give the listener, and inevitably the dancer, a unique musical experience.

Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin won the 2011 All Ireland Poetry Slam, and works as one half of a performance poetry act named de Leprosarium/An Lobharlann with musician Conor Maloney.

Gearóid Mac Lochlainn has just published his latest collection Criss-Cross Mo Chara in which beat-up antiheroes are shapeshifters that hover between cultures and wander through broken 'macaronic' landscapes. Tonight he will be joined by blues guitarist Mark Braidner.

Antaine Ó Donnaile is the author Urú Gealaí Goirme; his beautifully poised poems explore family life, place, and politics.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is an exciting voice, and her début collection Résheoid is marked by a potent fusion of the lyrical and the narrative.