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Critically acclaimed documentary next on the screen for Westport Film Club

A musical treat of the highest order is on the cards when dazzling singer Iarla Ó Lionáird combines his glorious vocal talents with pioneering fiddle player Cleek Schrey and All-Ireland champion uilleann piper Ivan Goff at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday March 25 at 8pm.

THURSDAY’S CLINIC is a new exhibition by Breda Lynch, currently running in the 126 gallery on Queen Street.

More than 500 students, faculty, and staff of Semester at Sea® (SAS), the nation’s premier shipboard programme for study abroad, will arrive in Galway at 8:00 am on 31 August for a one day exploration of Galway before also docking in Dublin. Ireland is the first country on the academic voyage itinerary. Sarah Cosgrove, a student from the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway joined the shipboard community in Halifax where embarkation took place on 23 August. All participants are traveling aboard the MV Explorer, a state-of-the-art passenger ship that Semester at Sea has outfitted as a traveling university.

AMERICAN BLUEGRASS, folk, and blues band Tumbling Bones play Foyles Hotel, Clifden, tonight and Kelly’s in Galway city on Wednesday August 1.

The Saw Doctors are about to undertake their biggest tour of the USA and Canada to date, taking in 29 shows across 27 cities throughout February, March, and April.

Following the extensive publicity and extraordinary use of more than 700 military, police, emergency men and bailiffs, to evict five families from the marquis of Clanricarde’s estate, the people of Woodford and all of east Galway were in a state of shock, anger and fear. It was now clear that Clanricarde would use every method within his considerable powers to evict any of his tenants who refused to pay their rent. Despite pleas for a rent reduction because of successive bad weather, he refused to even consider it. He scoffed at John Dillon’s Plan of Campaign, supported by the Land League, which urged tenants to stick together, and to refuse to pay unreasonable rent.

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There was good news on the jobs front for Galway this week with American company BioWare’s announcement of another 200 jobs at its new customer service centre in Galway.

TOM PAXTON, one of the enduring legends of American folk music, is coming to the Town Hall at the end of this month for what promises to be a real treat for concert-goers.