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'Getting to Know...' musician Ríona Ó Dúinnín
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Poets and playwrights go Over The Edge
POETS AND playwrights, and the launch of issue 15 of Skylight 47, will make up the first Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2022.
‘One of the most extraordinary persons’ Maria Edgeworth ever met
As the legendary Colonel Richard Martin neared the end of his life in Boulogne, where he had fled to escape his numerous creditors, a large four-horse carriage, on which two postilions, in jackets of dark-blue frieze, guided the coach on horse-back, arrived at the front door of Ballynahinch. It was dark, and its occupants were in a state of near exhaustion.
New anthology of children’s stories by working class writers
LAND OF The Ever Young is a new anthology of writing for children by working class authors - the final volume in a trilogy of working people’s writing from contemporary Ireland.
Nicaragua’s Gioconda Belli to read at Over The Edge
GIOCONDA BELLI, the Nicaraguan poet, novelist, Feminist, and defender of human rights, will read at Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom on Thursday November 18 at 6.30pm.
Public performances return to the Dean Crowe Theatre and Arts Centre
The Dean Crowe Theatre and Arts Centre will host a variety of public events on stage this November as Covid-19 public health measures ease.
Slimming World - not just for women
Pat Murphy (35) is living proof that Slimming World is not just for Women.
Liam O’Flaherty and the War of Independence
LIAM O'FLAHERTY was travelling in the Americas during the War of Independence, while his brother Tom was involved in Communist politics in the United States.
Ballina to trial weekend pedestrianisation of Pearse Street
Pearse Street in Ballina is to become a pedestrianised street on Saturday evenings and Sundays for a trial period.
A Galway story that intrigued James Joyce
New plans projected over a 20 year period will see the inner lands of Galway harbour developed into an attractive commercial and residential area, while reclaimed land from the sea will push out harbour facilities into deep water to accommodate shipping connections to European ports and elsewhere. It is a long over due and worthwhile plan, but it pales almost into insignificance compared to the vaulting ambitions the Galway merchants schemed in the mid 19th century.