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THE FORGE at Gort Literary Festival begins on Friday March 29 with a reception in the Gallery Café, Gort, at 5.30pm to which all are welcome.

Josh Ritter, the American singer-songwriter, will be one of the Galway Arts Festival headline acts this year, as he is set to play the festival Big Top on Saturday July 20.

Ireland’s ‘Queen of Rockabilly’ Imelda May will play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top on Friday July 26, joining an excellent Big Top line up that includes Grizzly Bear, Josh Ritter, and Glen Hansard.

GRIZZLY BEAR, one of the most outstanding indie-rock bands at work today, play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field on Friday July 19.

“REGINALD D Hunter joins the top rank of stand-up comedians working today...flying in the face of received opinion in a way that is simply exhilarating, this is a comedy of a rare scope.”

Westport Film Club will host a screening of the 1940 James Stewart comedy The Shop Around the Corner at its next screening on Wednesday, December 5 at 8.45pm in Westport Cineplex.

AWARD-WINNING comic performance poet Tim Key brings his unique brand of hilarious deadpan versifying to Galway for the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival with his current show, Masterslut in An Taibhdhearc.

EVER NOTICED how men who are comedians will just be called comedians, but women who are comics will almost always be referred to as ‘female comedians’, as if their gender requires them to be labelled as a separate and distinct category?

IT IS not often that where the word “unstable” is used to describe someone this is actually a compliment, but in the case of Terry Alderton, it is.

DruidMurphy, Druid’s magnificent and triumphant staging of three of Tom Murphy’s finest plays, has gone down a storm in London and had theatre critics singing its praises.