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The North Kerry village of Finuge gave a resounding welcome to musicians, songwriters and storytellers who travelled on the August Bank Holiday weekend to celebrate and compete in the 2022 Seán McCarthy Memorial Weekend, following a three year absence.

A number of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann competitions will be streamed live during the course of 'The Homecoming' event in Mullingar this week, the highlight being the broadcast of the senior céilí bands competition on Sunday, August 7, from 6.15pm.

The Galway Roscommon Education and Training Borad (GRETB) is pleased to announce a county-wide drum programme linking children, young people and adults within community and educational settings. It is set to commence from September 2022.

The team at Galway International Arts Festival are delighted that live music will once again return to Fisheries field this July when artists take to the stage of the Heineken® Big Top.

This summer, Roscommon Arts Centre launches a new concert series called THE REEL THING, ROSCOMMON FAMILIES.

Award-winning writer, Elizabeth Reapy, has been named as judge of this year’s Wild Atlantic Words literary festival short story competition.

Knowledge of how to read the sea is a rare gift. Patrick Oliver, one the last of the Claddagh fishermen, who once had a fleet of 200 boats in the bay, carries on the family tradition successfully catching lobster and crab. Patrick knows the local coastal waters like few others. When on Thursday morning August 13 2020, he heard that the two young women, Sara Feeney (23) and Ellen Glynn (17), who had set out from Furbo beach on their inflatable paddle boards the evening before, were still missing, he phoned his brother Dave who had been out all night on the Galway lifeboat searching.

After three decades on the road and two years online (due to Covid), the Famine Walk returns to Mayo on Saturday, May 21 2022.

FOLKLIFE, curated by Culture Works, culminates in an outdoor multi-disciplinary programme of inclusive and engaging arts events and interventions.

Athlone Castle will celebrate the Easter holiday with an exciting and fun filled onsite family event taking place on Easter Saturday, April 16.