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Acclaimed author and filmmaker Kevin Toolis will be on a speaking tour around Mayo next week.

Some of the news in breif from around this county this week.

Connemara Sea Week which runs from October 22 to 30, is a multi-disciplinary festival, celebrating the wonderful marine heritage of Connemara. The festival will celebrate its 33rd birthday later this month, and has grown to be a wonderful and unique event with something to interest all age groups. Highlights include art exhibitions, concerts, talks, walks, children’s activities, and sports events, combined with lots of great music and buckets of fun for all the family. A special highlight for the last few years has been the wonderful ‘After the Light’ parade, a spectacular night full of myth, magic, madness and mayhem.

WILD FIRE Nights, a hard-hitting contemporary drama written and directed by Galway actor Emma Eliza Regan, receives its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh when it is screened as part of the Way Out West strand.

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ADULTING, THE County Galway made short film, written and co-directed by Connemara's Linda Bhreathnach, has won the Best Short Film Award from Irish Film London. The award was presented at a ceremony in the Irish Embassy in London on Monday.

Six Galway artists are set to be showcased in front of over 15,000 people at Ireland’s premier art show Art Source, which will be held at the RDS in Dublin from November 11-13.

AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE skinny man and purple puppet, Sammy J & Randy, are heading to Galway armed with nothing but a keyboard and a suitcase full of songs, plus undies, toothpaste, and international adaptor plugs, but mostly, songs.

EAMONN CEANNT, the County Galwayman who was one of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, and who was crucial in reviving interest in, and paving the way for, the uilleann pipes central role in modern Irish music, is to be celebrated through a series of events in the city.

ELVIS COSTELLO, and his band The Imposters, have just been announced to play the Absolut Festival Big Top on Friday July 15 as part of this summer's Galway International Arts Festival.