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THE NEW novel by Pádraig Standún, I gCóngar i gCéin, will be launched at an event in Connemara tomorrow evening.

Seoladh The Blue-Eyed Boy, In Memory of an Leaid Rua an tseachtain seo caite sa Scoil Chuimsitheach an Cheathrú Rua. Seo leabhar a bhí curtha le chéile mar thionscadal idirbhliana sa rang Béarla i gcuimhne ar scoláire, Micheál Rua Seoighe, a maraíodh go tubaisteach i mí na Samhna 2009. Ba é Seán Mac Donncha, leasphríomhoide na scoile, a sheol an leabhar agus ba í Fiona de Paor, an múinteoir Bhéarla, a bhí i gceannas ar an rang idirbhliana.

The Luisne Art Project has started the year with the opening of Insight, its biggest exhibition yet. The exhibition takes place in Galway University Hospital from today Friday, January 28. Opening speaker on the day will be the well known film maker and writer Bob Quinn.

The Luisne Art Project, which is based in Ballinrobe, is starting the year with its biggest exhibition yet, which is to open in Galway University Hospital on January 28. Opening speaker is the well known film maker and writer Bob Quinn.

Last October 7, the renowned playwright and short story writer John Arden celebrated his 80th birthday. The occasion was commemorated in the Town Hall in the appropriate way. Actors read extracts from his plays, musicians played, and John, with his valiant partner Margaretta D’Arcy, performed. It was a memorable evening. Film director Bob Quinn could not contain himself. He brought the house down by singing the following ditty, which would make a good party piece this Christmas.

The life and work of the late, great Mick Lally will be celebrated on TG4’s primetime arts series Imeall tonight at 10pm and will be repeated on Tuesday at 8pm.

GERMAN ARTIST Gertrude Degenhardt and Kenny’s have enjoyed a long and fruitful professional relationship and both celebrate their 70th birthday this year.

More than 3,000 photographs, depicting the lives of ordinary people in Connemara, taken by the great Irish film maker Bob Quinn, are to be stored in NUI, Galway.

Leading Galway and national artists such as Kenneth Webb, Aideen Barry, and John Behan are taking part in this year’s Claregalway Educate Together NS art auction.

THE FILM-MAKER Bob Quinn will screen his documentary Fly Tippers, depicting the life of a group of Connemara people living in London in the 1980s, in Áras na nGael.