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JOHN PRINE, the late, great, American singer-songwriter, best known for such songs as ‘Same Stone’, ‘Illegal Smile’, and ‘Angel From Montgomery’, will be celebrated next month in his adopted home of Galway.

DRUID THEATRE Company is no stranger to the stage at home and abroad, but radio plays are a different matter. That changes this month when Druid performs Sorry, Wrong Number.

A PLAY about love, about art, about relationships, ambition, desire, the declines of the Anglo-Irish gentry, and the emergence of a new society - Anton Chekhov’s tragi-comedy The Seagull, in the acclaimed adaptation by Thomas Kilroy, is all of these things.

There is a Greek saying that a society becomes great when people plant trees, the shade of which they will never sit under. There have been many such people in Galway, and my hope is that there will be many more. Indeed, our society needs a constant flow of people whose unselfish actions make better the place they live and work.

DRUID THEATRE Company will return to Coole Park this summer for a series of live outdoor performances of Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by Garry Hynes.

COMEDIAN TOMMY Tiernan will be the first of 10 performers reading works by some of Ireland’s greatest poets in Druid’s Coole Park Poetry Series.

DRUID THEATRE Company and Aerogen won Best Small Sponsorship Award at the recent Business to Arts awards, for their partnership on the DruidGregory Education and Community programme.

Galway arts organisations to get close to three million in funding

Galway arts organisations are set to benefit from a combined total of €2,923,760 in funding from the Arts Council.

Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Druid, and the Galway International Arts Festival have been shortlisted for the prestigious Business to Arts Awards.