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The National Museum of Ireland - Country Life invites students to use their creative writing skills to compose a poem or a short story inspired by the Cross of Cong.

Last Easter Sunday, I was privileged to attend a dawn Mass, near Cong, on the Lough Corrib shore. About 300 people stood close to a blazing fire, as daybreak slowly lifted the darkness revealing the wide expanse of water, its wooded islands, and in the distance, the mountains of the Maam valley. It was perfectly silent and peaceful. Fr Ray Flaherty welcomed us with these opening words: ‘It was here many saints like Meldon, Fursey, Brendan and Feichin made their homes of peace and prayer. There are many sanctuaries scattered today in ruins along the shores of this lake, silent ruins where the soft tones of bells and the church’s solemn chant floated over the waves...’

The annual mass in honour of Saint Fiacre will be celebrated at his church ruins and graveyard at Ullard, Graiguenamanagh today (Friday) evening July 23, at 8 pm.

(Week II)

As part of the work undertaken to prepare the Cross of Cong to travel to the Museum of Country Life at Turlough Park, it was examined by experts in the National Museum’s conservation department. As a result of their on-going work, significant new discoveries about the Cross have been made.

The Museum of Country Life, Turlough Park, will be open this Easter Sunday following the lifting of a ban on overtime by members of the Civil, Public, and Services Union.

GOMBEENS THEATRE Troupe and Blueteapot Theatre Company present their new collaborative show Fool Me? in Silkes on Munster Avenue, next week.

The Headford Musical Society is holding a cake sale on Sunday September 20 from 12pm to 2pm to raise funds for the December 2009 season.

THE SCATTERING is Sean Keane’s musical journey along the Rhine with St Columbanus, across Australia, and onto the barricades of labour protest in the United States - told through the songs of Irish emigrants.