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The agricultural crisis of 1879, and growing civic unrest, prompted the Society of Friends in England to send James Hack Tuke to the west to inquire into conditions and to distribute relief. Tuke, the son of a well-to-do tea and coffee merchant family in York, England, published his observations in Irish Distress and its Remedies: A visit to Donegal and Connaught in the spring of 1880. In clear-cut language he highlighted the widespread distress and destitution at a time when the British government questioned the extent of the crisis.

Galway Diary received the following statement from Adrian Martyn (great-great-great grandnephew of Peter Doherty, senior), who was shot dead at Carrigan, near Craughwell village on the night of November 2 1881. I am pleased to carry Adrian’s clarification:

VINYL RIVALS, comedian Phill Jupitus and music promoter Gugai will pit their DJ skills against one another for The Magnificent 7s night.

THE DAUGHTER of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, Shappi Khorsandi’s upbringing was in no way conventional, but what a story, and what comedy, she makes from it all.

JAMES DE Vita was a young fisherman searching for a new career and then he discovered the greatest playwright of all time - William Shakespeare.

The Little Theatre is delighted to announce that it’s current show The Witness for the Prosecution is extending its run for two more nights up until Friday October 10.

Dick Gaughan is one of those musicians who simply must be heard perform live. And now Athlone audiences will get a chance to see him tonight, Thursday October 9.

THE LIFE and music of folk titans Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger will be explored at an event taking place in Clarinbridge this weekend.

One of Agatha Christie’s best ever thrillers opened last night at Athlone Little Theatre and will continue to run until October 8.

BRITISH NATIONAL treasure, actor, writer, comedian, raconteur, and polymath Stephen Fry will be ‘live on screen’ at The Eye Cinema.