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The Achill Heinrich Böll Association will present a reading by leading short story writer Claire Keegan at 8pm on Thursday September 27 at the Cyril Gray Memorial Hall, Dugort, Achill.

It is almost two decades since the first Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering at Coole and the event goes from strength to strength with an impressive line-up of speakers and events announced at the launch at Coole last weekend.

Mayo graduate Lydia Concannon is to get the opportunity of a lifetime after being selected to take up the first annual Yeats Design Residency at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, part of a new innovative partnership between the national theatre and IT Sligo.

GALWAY’S JULIAN Gough has seen his most recent novel Jude In London shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.

MÁIRE MHAC an tSaoi, one of the most significant Irish poets of the 20th century, and the most important living poet working as Gaeilge, will be celebrated in NUI Galway.

COOLE LADY, a play which reveals the character and feelings of Lady Augusta Gregory, comes to County Galway next week for performances in Loughrea and Gort, on May 18 and 19.

GALWAY AUTHOR and poet Gerry Hanberry will next week deliver a lecture on how themes of love and laughter reoccur in the works of Irish writers and musicians.

THE SAW Doctors’ Leo Moran, journalist Olaf Tyaransen, writer Conor Montague, and singer-songwriter Seamus Ruttledge, will gather in the Róisín Dubh for a Cúirt event.

Television actress and stand-up comedian Sonya Kelly (a regular on RTÉ’s “Savage Eye”) delivers a hilarious and poignant one-woman show, Wheelchair On My Face at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday April 18 at 8pm.

The Mayo Association Dublin is hosting a memorial lecture to one of Mayo’s great heroes, Michael Davitt, on Friday April 20 at 7.30pm at the Garda Club, Harrington Street, Dublin 2.