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In the 1930s, Ireland instructed all of its consul officials in Europe not to issue visas to Jewish refugees, but the country was also in a state of economic stagnation at the time and Seán Lemass realised that new industries would help the country. An Irish Jewish businessman, Marcus Witztum, offered to help him and went to Paris, met Henri Orbach there who owned a small hat factory and suggested he open a business in Ireland, a safer place for people of the Jewish persuasion than continental Europe. Orbach agreed.

The Murder Capital are the second headliners announced for 2023’s Fall Right Into Place, where they will play alongside other exciting acts like the Pillow Queens. They will play Sunday September 17 at Claregalway Castle, just outside Galway city.

Donal Mac Amhlaigh was born on Cappagh Road in Barna on December 10, 1926. His father James was a native of Kinvara who fought with the East Clare Brigade of the IRA in the War of Independence and who later joined the Irish Army. His mother was an Irish speaker, Mary Condon from Cappagh. They had three sons and a daughter in family. Pádraic Ó Conaire was a regular visitor to their house.

After Catholic Emancipation where for the first time Catholics won the right to be elected and to sit in the House Of Commons, the English government, led by an enlightened Robert Peel, believed it would be worth extending emancipation to third level education.

On a late August afternoon my friend John Hill drove me across the city of Zurich, climbing the suburban heights until we stopped at the gates of Fluntern Cemetery. We walked up the last incline to where, among the trees and billard-table lawns, we saw the Joyces’ grave. There was no mistaking it. Just above the grave is the Giacometti-like sculpture of the writer himself, the work of American artist Milton Hebald. There James Joyce sits, in characteristic pose, deep in conversation, head tilted, one leg resting on the other knee, cigarette poised, his slim cane delicately balanced. Someone once remarked that he held his cane like a musical instrument.

“Jealous of the Birds has a knack for slicing up genres and making music that sounds homemade and tiny, but also explosive and bombastic” – NPR

Coming to Leisureland on Monday May 29 at 8pm, Mozart's Così fan tutte is one of the composer’s best-loved operas. Audiences are thrilled by the fabulous score, hilarous plot-twists and of course, healthy doses of love, lies and deceit.

Following his recent sell-out Dublin date, renowned singer, songwriter and best-selling author Josh Ritter announces his ‘Hello Starling’ anniversary tour in Ireland this autumn, as part of which he will play in Leisureland on October 19. Tickets for the new dates go on-sale this Friday, May 26 at 10am.

THERE ARE certain factors, without which, Galway International Arts Festival would be incomplete - the Big Top in the Fisheries Field, the extraordinary street spectacles, and the buzz around Róisín Dubh.

Coming to Leisureland on Monday May 29 at 8pm, Mozart's Così fan tutte is one of the composer’s best-loved operas. Audiences are thrilled by the fabulous score, hilarous plot-twists and of course, healthy doses of love, lies and deceit.