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MONROE’S LIVE will host a night of roots rock and Americana this Sunday when singer-songwriters Tony McLoughlin and Ben Reel take to the stage.

Athlone’s Literary Festival has announced its 2011 line-up. It features diverse events such as a creative writing workshop with Big Smoke Writing Factory, discussions with poet Gabriel Rosenstock and writer Nuala Ni Conchuir, and an interview with Ruth Dudley Edwards.

Dipping into the French/ffrench family archives recently, I came across the will of Henry French of Drumharsna, a ruined castle about halfway between Kiltartan and Ballindereeen, on the way to Gort. His father, also Patrick, inherited the Drumharsna estate from his father, whose main estate was nearby Cloghballymore (now a nursing home).

EARLY EVENING on Irish TV in the early 1980s - I remember it well. A shot of a bus rolling down a road in Connemara soundtracked by Horslips’ ‘Sword Of Light’ - SBB Ina Shuí was on.

CAN YOU recall your schooldays and laugh about the experience? Well that’s exactly what comedian Lisa Joyce is doing as she takes her new comedy show, Back to School, to the west of Ireland. Lisa commenced her comedy career while studying in NUI Galway and now performs stand up all around the United Kingdom and Ireland.

A man has appeared before Mullingar District Court charged with stealing more than €2,500 worth of alcohol from outside Daly’s Bar, Oliver Plunkett Street, Mullingar.

TRIESTE IN northern Italy in best known to the Irish as the city where James Joyce spent time, writing part of what would become Ulysses.

The idea for the Cúltec Hurley came to entrepreneurs, John Grehan and Tom Wright, while playing golf in their local Birr Club.

The organisers of the fashion show held in the Welcome Inn for Rehab, would like to thank all those who attended and took part in the event.

ELEANOR SHANLEY, Declan O’Rourke, and Damien Dempsey are just a few of those who will be playing concerts on Inishbofin island over the next few weeks.