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Take to the literary trail in Longford

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A new and exciting audio tour has been launched to guide visitors along Longford’s 73km Literary Trail.

Take to the literary trail in Longford

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A new and exciting audio tour has been launched to guide visitors along Longford’s 73km Literary Trail. The audio tour, which celebrates Longford’s rich literary history at nine points along the trail, is now freely accessible to visitors online at Longford.ie.

Padraig Jack on Co Galway tour

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Padraig Jack has announced a number of tour gigs across Galway next month after releasing his new single ‘Atone’ last week.

Celebration of poet Rita Ann Higgins at Town Hall

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A selection of works by Galway city poet Rita Ann Higgins will be presented at a celebratory reading in the Town Hall Theatre on March 20.

Living by the water — new TG4 series meets those who make water a feature of their lives

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As an island nation, we have been building houses by the water for thousands of years, between dramatic cliffs off our coasts, to tranquil lakes in the middle of the country and to the banks of the rivers all around us. ‘Tithe Cois Uisce’ is an 8-part series that follows on from the popular “Tithe Cois Farraige’ series. Each week Síle Nic Chonaonaigh will visit a different location to meet those who have built houses by the water. With a different theme in each episode, between big and small, old and new, ordinary and extraordinary.

Playing it by year — who knows what 2024 holds?

They say that an optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. So it will be for many of us this Sunday night when we bid a glad farewell to another year and welcome in the latest instalment — another chapter in the book of life.

Remembering Eileen Quinn

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One hundred years ago this week, on 10 December 1923, Irish poet W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) was presented with the Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. The previous year, he had published a lengthy political poem entitled 'Thoughts Upon the Present State of the World' (later renamed ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’), which included the lines:

Storied singer Spillane for Róisín Dubh

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John Spillane is a musician, songwriter, performer, recording artist, storyteller, poet and dreamer.

46 not out, Clifden Arts Festival continues the magic

Returning for a 46th instalment, Clifden Arts Festival is set to embrace those special unplanned moments that Seamus Heaney called “the music of what happens”.

Exciting programme announced for tenth annual Westport Festival of Chamber Music

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One of Ireland’s premier chamber music festivals, Westport Festival of Chamber Music has announced an exciting and dynamic programme to celebrate its 10th anniversary this year.

 

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