THE Guinness Gallery in Foxrock is offering for sale a glass sculpture by Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace, at the price of £2750 (it would sell for about £4,000 in the US) to fund a Travel Bursary for students of Glass at NCAD - call to the gallery in Foxrock Village. . . The International Association of Art Critics has announced that the theme for its 1997 Congress between September 15th-21st in Belfast will be "Art and Centres of Conflict - Outer and Inner Realities". . . The Tallaght Writers' Festival takes place from Friday to Thursday next: there are workshops on poetry, led by Mary O'Donnell and on prose, led by Michael Coady; script-writing is explored by Jimmy Fay of Bed- rock Theatre Company and film editor and director, Martin Duffy; readers include Michael Hartnett and Aine Ni Ghlinn - phone 01-4621067 for information. . . Also in Tallaght, Alternative Entertainments are hosting the first Des Carty School of Traditional Music, from July 25th to 31st: teachers include Tommy Peoples and Paul Mc Grattan - phone 01-6704018 for details. . .