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An tOireachtas announced this week that the Oireachtas Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to one of the leading figures in the Irish language broadcasting sector in the last twenty five years, Pádhraic Ó Ciardha.

Isabella Augusta Persse (later Lady Gregory), grew up in Roxborough House, Co Galway, a large rambling estate house, with magnificent gardens, commanding some 18,000 acres over which her father Dudley Persse presided with almost feudal authority. His 13 children knew their wheel-chaired bound father as The Master.*

AN EVENING of storytelling and trad music will take place in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop when Diarmuid Johnson reads excerpts from his new book, Tuatha De Danann, accompanied by Donegal fiddle player Bríd Harper.

A NEW work by the Irish sound artist and composer, Francis Heery, commissioned by the Galway County Council, will be performed in Yeats' Castle, Thoor Ballylee, Gort, on Friday September 21 for Culture Night.

THE PHYSICAL presence and classy design of Julian Gough’s new novel, Connect, really does debunk the classic cliché of 'You can’t judge a book by its cover'.

The Prosperous Dramatic Society from Kildare were crowned RTÉ All Ireland Drama champions at the gala awards ceremony in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday, May 12.

THE AWARD-winning Anglo-Indian poet, Daljit Nagra, whose ebullient, sharp-witted poems have made him one of Britain’s most popular and acclaimed poets, reads from his work at the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday, as part of Cúirt.

Free events at Cúirt

People who are "passionate about the arts" and interested in working at a major cultural event, are being encouraged to volunteer at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Bhí an scannán faisnéise In the Shadow of the Glen – Anseo i Lár an Ghleanna, ar cheann den dá scannán de chuid TG4 a léiríodh ag Féile Scannánaíochta na hÉireann i mBostún le déanaí. Arna stiúradh agus arna léiriú ag Seán Ó Cualáin, insítear an riocht ina bhfuil baile Loch Con Aortha i gConamara agus bliain de shaol phobal na háite sin in iarthar na hÉireann á chur i láthair. Arna thuiscint dóibh go bhfuil an tseansibhialtacht Ghaelach lena mbainidís imithe i léig, féachann na daoine le saíocht an phobail a chaomhnú nuair a thuigtear dóibh go mb’fhéidir go n-éireodh leo oidhreacht an bhaile a shábháil, fiú mura n-éiríonn leo an baile féin a thabhairt slán. Tá Anseo i Lár an Ghleanna le feiceáil anois ar Sheinnteoir TG4.