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Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Taylor Strickland & Niall O’Gallagher

Sat 26 Sept

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The Byres Road Book Festival will be held at Hillhead Library in Glasgow on 25 September 2026, featuring author Niall O’Gallagher. The event is a literary festival with various performers. Tickets are free but require booking.

Niall O’Gallagher is the author of three collections of poetry and of Fuaimean Gràidh / The Sounds of Love: Selected Poems (London: Francis Boutle, 2023). His verse novella, Litrichean Plàighe (‘Plague Letters’) will be published by CLÀR in 2026. Niall is currently translating poems by Josep Carner (1884-1970) from Catalan into English, and by Florbela Espanca (1894-1930) from Portuguese into Gaelic. He lives on the west coast of Scotland with his wife and their two children. Taylor Strickland is a writer and translator from the US. His latest books are Dares Paradise (Princeton University Press, 2026) and Dwell Time (Tapsalteerie, 2025). He won the 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and his work has been Poetry Book Society Recommended. He has published in Poetry London, the TLS, and New Statesman, and his poem v was adapted to film and selected for Raleigh.

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Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Taylor Strickland & Niall O’Gallagher takes place on Saturday, 26 September 2026.

Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Taylor Strickland & Niall O’Gallagher is held at Hillhead Library in Glasgow.

Entry to Byres Road Book Festival at Hillhead Library – Taylor Strickland & Niall O’Gallagher is free.

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