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Following the success of the publication Me and Nu - Childhood at Coole published in 1970,* it is sometimes forgotten that Lady Augusta Gregory had three grandchildren, and not two as is often assumed. Written by Lady Gregory’s granddaughter Anne, Me and Nu is a charming account of life at Coole, as the children watched with amusement (and disillusionment at their human foibles), many of the great figures of the Irish literary movement of the 20th century as they came and went.

JANE EYRE, Charlotte Bronte’s much loved novel, will be brought to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre in a new, vivid adaptation by Michael McCafferty.

Top Galway author Ken Bruen’s crime novel Blitz is to be made into a movie.

Devious Theatre Company has announced their newest venture which veers away from the stage and on to the airways.

THE ACCLAIMED Derry poet Colette Bryce and the playwright and novelist Miriam Gallagher will be reading at two different literary events in Galway next week.

A production of ‘Misery’ by the fionn mac Cumhaill players will be staged in Cleere’s Theatre on November 22 and 23.

GALWAY THEATRE goers are in for a very special treat next weekend when Dublin’s Gate Theatre brings its world-renowned production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot to the Black Box, for one night only, this Saturday.

The acclaimed Washington DC-based Keegan Theatre makes a welcome return visit to Backstage with this American masterpiece One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest on Tuesday September 23 to Thursday September 25.

A Wicked Witch has cast a spell on Brigit’s Garden in Roscahill and has turned it into a Haunted House for Halloween, full of ghosts, ghouls, and strange beasties.