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A special event will be hosted in Athlone Library on May 8 at 3pm as part of the All-Ireland Drama Festival Fringe to mark the 80th year of poet John Ennis.

A special event will be hosted in Athlone Library on May 8 at 3pm as part of the All-Ireland Drama Festival Fringe to mark the 80th year of poet John Ennis.

Oisin Leech releases his Steve Gunn-produced debut album Cold Sea tomorrow, Friday, March 8, ahead of its debut in Galway next month.

At a packed-out Station House Theatre in Clifden last week, the Connemara community paid tribute to Dr Brendan Flynn who has driven the Clifden Arts Festival into its 47th year.

Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee! The magic of the Autumn Gathering is to bring people together from all corners of the world - to listen and learn, laugh and share, with academics and artists, locals, historians and literary figures; to meet descendants of Lady Gregory and Yeats, renew friendships and make new friends – all enjoying and celebrating the prominent role of Lady Gregory in shaping the theatrical, poetic and cultural life which thrives today.

Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee! The magic of the Autumn Gathering (to be held this year from September 30 – 1 October 1) is to bring people together from all corners of the world - to listen and learn, laugh and share, with academics and artists, locals, historians and literary figures; to meet descendants of Lady Gregory and Yeats, renew friendships and make new friends – all enjoying and celebrating the prominent role of Lady Gregory in shaping the theatrical, poetic and cultural life which thrives today.

Architecture at the Edge Festival returns with a critical and climate-friendly festival programme that will embrace a wide range of city walks, seminars, exhibitions, talks, film screenings, workshops, and more.

Returning for a 46th instalment, Clifden Arts Festival is set to embrace those special unplanned moments that Seamus Heaney called “the music of what happens”.

In 2016 The Stinging Fly magazine described Kevin Higgins as ‘likely Ireland’s most read Irish poet’. Kevin who passed away this week was a passionate and popular poet, a satirist, a fine wordsmith, a romantic with real powers of evocation and a gentle presence too.

To mark the 90th anniversary of Lady Gregory’s death, the organisers of the Autumn Gathering are back - in person - for the 28th Autumn Gathering in Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee.