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Roscommon Arts Centre’s traditional music sessions at Strokestown Park House comes to a rousing finale next Thursday, August 28 when local musicians John Wynne, John McEvoy, Rachel Garvey, and Ruairi McGorman come together for what promises to be a lively night in the kitchen!

Following his narrow escape from Republican forces, who were intent on killing him by the banks of the Liffey that cold night in January 1923, Oliver St John Gogarty wisely took himself off to London. He immediately became the toast of polite society there who delighted in his stories and witty conversation.

This area of the Claddagh was known as ‘the Big Grass’ or ‘the Green Grass’. It was the one open space of ground in the village and faced what is known as the Swamp today. It was very marshy, though some of it was used as a playground by local children, and it was also where the Claddagh Races took place.

The milieu of the London Irish and changing face of the emigrant experience form the backdrop to Forgotten Me, a new play by Cathal Leonard which runs at the Town Hall studio next week.

The newest weight loss and fitness programme to take America by storm, the BodybyVi Project 10 and 90 day challenge, has arrived in Mayo.

A precocious and cleverly witty Trinity student in a yellow waistcoat, Oliver St John Gogarty, was to become a close friend of Sinn Féin's founder Arthur Griffith. At its first historic meeting, November 28 1905, Gogarty proclaimed against the 'tyranny of the British government', in the grand manner of a Cicero addressing the Roman senate. But so moving and compelling were his words that when Griffith reported the meeting in his newspaper The United Irishman, Gogarty's speech was the only one he quoted. And he did so at length.

SINGER-SONGWRITER Paddy Casey will headline The Tiny Dancer Party in the Castle, a charity one-day festival taking place in Claregalway.

September 30 is a date for the diary for music fans, when The Alan Kelly Gang, together with Eddi Reader (Fairground Attraction) and John Douglas perform at Roscommon Arts Centre, for one night only.

GALWAY HAS long been a magnet for folk of an artistic bent; they arrive for a weekend or short stint in college and then find themselves setting down roots in the city.

THE CLASSIC Broadway musical Peter Pan is set to light up the Town Hall Theatre ’s August programme and captivate Galway audiences in a new staging from Twin Productions.