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A YOUNG soldier on the Western Front, Tommo Peaceful, as he awaits his execution by firing squad, looks back on the whole of his life. This is Private Peaceful, a deeply moving story by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo.

IT SAYS much for The Charlatans that, while other Manchester bands of their vintage who may have been bigger went and imploded long ago, Tim Burgess and friends have quietly been able to keep going.

AUSTRALIAN SWIMMER Elizabeth Moncello was the unofficial inventor of the butterfly stroke. She had a watertight reason for learning to swim and watching schools of fish, penguins, and other amphibian friends taught her how.

Acclaimed stage and television actor Geraldine Plunkett (The Clinic, Glenroe) performs a staged reading of Creaking, a play by Noelle Browne, at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday, May 22 at 8pm.

"I'LL BE reveng’d on the whole pack of you," declares Malvolio - a dour man whose mistaken interpretation of a love letter spells his ruin - at the end of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and actor Tim Crouch is here to defend what's left of Malvolio's reputation.

Calling all aspiring actors! Ros na Rún, TG4’s flagship Irish language soap opera is casting for a male actor in his 20s for their next season which will begin filming in August. Budding actors interested in sinking their teeth into challenging, exciting, and dramatic storylines are encouraged to apply for an audition by emailing a CV and recent headshot to [email protected]. Fluent Irish is essential for this role. The deadline for applications is Wednesday May 10.

Robert Grace

HER SURNAMES are Irish, her parentage is Afro-Carribean, she grew up with Seventh Day Adventists, and she is an LGBT writer; Yrsa Daley-Ward is a one-woman rainbow coalition. This month, Cúirt audiences can savour her exhilaratingly raw and sensual writing when she reads at the Town Hall Theatre.

Legendary Irish band The Frank and Walters are coming to the Garbo’s Venue this Easter. The Frank and Walters are synonymous with great albums, radio hits, and a live show that has taken them all over the world during the course of a celebrated and critically acclaimed career. Their new album, Songs for the Walking Wounded, delivered more classic Franks’ melodies, alongside some poignant tracks on what is perhaps the band’s most personal album to date.

MARILYN MONROE and Molly Bloom will be celebrated in two new, one-woman, shows, at the Galway Theatre Festival. Galway actor Tara Breathnach’s Molly is a staging of Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy from Ulysses, while Marilyn Monroe Airlines: Always Late and Unreliable! features writer/performer Leonor Bethencourt in the comic persona of Marilyn-worshipping air hostess Zocorro.