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Boasting a cast of over 40 performers, the Town Hall’s community staging of Tarry Flynn

THE TOWN Hall is a constant hive of activity this week as preparations gather pace for the epic staging of Patrick Kavanagh’s Tarry Flynn which opens on Tuesday.

Kilkenny’s first All-Ireland medal is to be auctioned at the end of that month by a Kilkenny auctioneer.

REHEARSALS ARE currently well advanced for a new production of Conal Morrison’s award-winning adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s classic novel, Tarry Flynn, which will be staged at the Town Hall Theatre from Tuesday August 3 to Sunday 8.

THE TOWN Hall Theatre will present the stage adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s novel Tarry Flynn and auditions for the cast take place next week.

It was deja-vu all over again. Similar to the county senior final, Ballyhale Shamrocks were effortlessly cruising to victory as they led the Laois senior champions 1-13 to 1-3 at the interval.

If a crossroad is a watershed indicating a choice to be made, then Claremorris is the crossroad of the west of Ireland.

He was the classic grumpy old man. He was loud, he was vulgar and his social habits left a lot to be desired.

When the poet Patrick Kavanagh first came to Dublin in 1939 it was with great expectations. What better city could there be for a poet than one so rich in famous writers. AE (George Russell), always kind and encouraging towards new poetic talent, took him under his wing, and, as Kavanagh appeared to him to be the peasant-poet of Irish tradition, he was initially accepted by the establishment. That idyll did not last, and, for one reason or another, he spent most of his life as a loner.

THE GIVEN Note: Traditional Music and Irish Poetry (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) by Seán Crosson is a substantial book begun as part of Crosson’s research for his doctoral dissertation at the Centre for Irish Studies in NUI, Galway.