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Throughout the month of May, Ballina Arts Centre will host Overlap, an exhibition of work by Majella Clancy. Overlap features work from Clancy’s ongoing investigation into painted space/place. Working from an archive of photographic imagery taken from various sources, she is interested in creating real and imagined spaces through the translation and mistranslation’ of the collected imagery.

FUAIM CHONAMARA, the stage show from the Cunningham family of Connemara, featuring every style and type of Irish dance imaginable, is coming to Co Galway next week.

THE GREAT Andy Irvine returns to Galway to play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Wednesday July 23 at 9pm and he will be bringing his Australian friends with him.

Since 1991 Duiske Abbey in Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny has hosted a series of concerts in the 13th century abbey, featuring a wide range of classical and Irish traditional musicians and singers.

THE PASSING of Leo Healy was widely and deeply mourned by trad musicians in Ireland and by Galway trad musicians in particular. Now many of them are coming together for a special tribute concert.

A CONCERT to get children excited about Irish trad will take place on this Sunday when leading trad fiddlers Liz Kane and Tóla Custy play St Patrick’s Band Hall.

As part of Roscommon Arts Centre’s Reel Thing programme of traditional Irish music and entertainment, the centre is offering a new opportunity for children and young people to learn to play the tin whistle or fiddle, under the guidance of well-known traditional musicians and teachers Fiona Doherty and John Wynne.

THE SINGER Matt Keane will headline a concert of traditional Irish music in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Saturday at 9pm.

The festival is named in memory of Irish musician Johnny Keenan, who died in 2000.

The Royal Castlebar Theatre and Event Centre are delighted to present a performance by music legends The Chieftains on Friday October 24.