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HANNAH ARENDT, author of the famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem, will be the subject of the next screening of the Galway Film Society.

The Castlebar Psychic and Holistic Fair returns this Sunday November 10 to Breaffy House Hotel, Castlebar. This event hosts more than 40 exhibitors and practitioners from around Ireland. It also features free lectures, classes, and workshop that are open to all.

A new course - writing your spiritual autobiography - is starting on Friday October 4 at The Dancing Soul, Monksland.

The Point is to Change It! An Introduction to Marxist Philosophy, the new book by John Molyneux, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop this evening at 6pm.

A highly experienced therapist and meditation teacher is touring Ireland in June. Marguerite Byrne left Ireland 42 years ago and has worked in the UK with children with special learning difficulties as well as with gifted children. She has a deep interest in spirituality and shares her insights with lightness and humour.

“There are cases, in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign.” Indeed, this observation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge may be opened out to include not merely single words, but also aphorisms, metaphors, and short significant sayings. And one of the most striking of these is one he himself used in The Friend: "The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on."

It is not just Richard Dawkins, though he is a typical, contemporary, example. And it does seem as if science, dazzled, in many cases justifiably, by its own success in extending the boundaries of what we know about the physical world is uniquely liable to this particularly modern form of arrogance.

“TRUTH! WHAT is that?” Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus, and it is a question with which religion and philosophy continues to grapple.

Friedrich Engels is best known as the author of The Conditions Of The Working Class in England and as the co-author, along with Karl Marx, of The Communist Manifesto, but one of his least well known writings is about Galway, describing the county and its people in the aftermath of The Famine.

A Dr Murad skin promotion day will take place in Karma, Claremorris, on Wednesday April 14. A Dr Murad facial, which includes a 20 minutes free skin analysis, will be €30 instead of €75 at the event, and the €30 will be redeemable against products bought on the day (appointments only).