Galway City

All sound is amplified in Galway City Library. As if the quiet italicises every small noise: The growl of my stomach, someone’s soft footfalls, the rustle of pages and scratch of pens. Outside the world turns. Its freeways are jammed, its…

When the tide comes in the river runs deep and fast. Rushing beneath Galway’s Wolfe Tone Bridge and out past Spanish Arch to become the Atlantic. The ribbons are tied to the railings that face upriver, against the flow. Dashes of colour…