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The Real Scrooge

One of the hallmarks of the work of 19th-century author Charles Dickens is his oddball characters and their fanciful names: Uriah Heep, Martin Chuzzlewit, Lady Honorie Dedlock, Pip Pirrip, Abel Magwich, Miss LaCreevy, and Bardle the Beedle, to name a few. Perhaps Dickens’ best-known character is Ebenezer Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol -who, it turns out, was inspired by a real person and whose name has become a byword for miserly and mean.

Christmas screening of Scrooge

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SCROOGE, THE classic British film adaptation of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, will be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Santa brings festive fun to Westport at Spraoi Na Nollag

Westport will be engulfed with the Christmas spirit tomorrow Saturday, December 19 as The Town Hall Theatre becomes the focal point of Spraoi Na Nollag. The Town Hall team in association with Westport Chamber of Commerce will bring the new building to life with the joys of the festive season.

Clive Francis returns with A Christmas Carol

MAKING A welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre, after a sell out performance last year, is eminent British actor, Clive Francis, with his superb one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Generosity of spirit must remain the essence of Christmas

Americans around the world will today celebrate their traditional Thanksgiving - believed to have begun as an autumn harvest festival in the 17th century and a time for people to give thanks for what they have.

Scrooge to open at Watergate Theatre

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Scrooge - the Stingiest Man In Town, presented by Watergate Productions open’s at The Watergate Theatre on Monday 10th January 2011.

Christmas DVD Review - Disney’s A Christmas Carol

If you need a good Christmassy DVD to get you in the festive mood this year, check out Disney’s A Christmas Carol.

A Dickens of a Christmas treat at the parade tower

For one night only, the Young Irish Film Makers, in association with Office of Public Works, Kilkenny Castle, will present an intimate, dramatic reading of the seasonal classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

 

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