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The acclaimed new contemporary folk musical ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ will tour to the Town Hall Theatre on June 7 and 8 as part of Roscommon-based Enchanted Croí Theatre’s Irish tour. The work of a women-led creative team, the piece amplifies the seldom-told stories of impoverished women and the choices they made as they fought to survive 19th-century cottier life.

Atlantic Technological University will host a free public seminar on the skills needs of the traditional building sector in Ireland at its Galway city campus next month. The seminar, on Friday, June 3, will be followed on June 4 with a demonstration of traditional skills at the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna.

IN HER day she was called “the greatest living Irishwoman” by no less than George Bernard Shaw, and six of the more than 40 plays written by that woman are to be performed by Druid Theatre Company throughout her native County Galway.

IT HAPPENED with Tom Murphy, it happened with JM Synge, it happened with Shakespeare. Now it is the turn of one of the major lights of the Irish Literary Revival - Lady Gregory - to get a Druid cycle.

Galway museums are to benefit from a funding boost of €17,000, in a move welcomed by Minister Ciaran Cannon.

An East Galway TD has welcomed the fact that almost 18,000 people visited the Irish Workhouse Centre in 2018.

Six Galway organisations have been named as winners in the first National Lottery Good Causes Awards.

Galway 2020’s Project Baa Baa will present the first of its events as a part of Sheep 2018 Farm to Fork in Athenry this weekend.

THE IRISH Famine, the greatest humanitarian disaster in Europe in the 19th century, leaving one million people dead, with another million fleeing the country, is examined in a new exhibition.

Minister for the Diaspora and International Development Ciaran Cannon has welcomed the news that Portumna`s Marina and Camper Van Recreational Park has been short-listed for an Excellence in Local Government Award by Chambers Ireland.