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The Arts Council has sent itscongratulations to seven Mayo artists who have each been awarded a €3,000 grant to help them make new and original work during the Covid-19 crisis.

A soothing vocal tone familiar to many, singer songwriter Katie Gallagher (KTG), continues to progress and evolve as a music artist, her prowess on an upward curve prior to the release of her second self-penned album 'The Long Road Home'.

I have often wondered how the unusual name of Zetland found its way to the head of Cashel Bay in the heart of Connemara. It is, of course, the name of a well known hotel today. The hotel was founded in the closing years of the 19th century, by the son of a mountain farmer, JJ O'Loughlin, who had a canny instinct for business. The hotel was originally called The Zetland Arms, and before that The Viceroy's Rest. All these names allude to the hotel's distinguished patron Lawrence Dundas, Viceroy or Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1889 to 1902, in which year he became the Marquis of Zetland.

Tara Jaye Burke, animator

A RUMINATION on nature, quietness, solitude, mental health, and a joy in the organic process of creation, are the things which define Us and Then, the new album from Galway singer-songwriter Yawning Chasm.

The first time Lady Gregory met John Quinn was on Sunday August 31 1902 at a Feis Ceol she had partly organised in the memory of Ó Raifteirí the poet. The occasion also marked Lady Gregory’s first steps into the Celtic revival movement which would absorb her energies throughout her long life, and define her reputation for ever.

Roscommon Arts Centre is working on brightening up Circular Road with a new exhibition of self-portraits by children planned for the doors and windows of the centre this June.

SOUNDS FROM The Countryside, a sound postcard by the Galway artist Anne Marie Deacy, will be released tomorrow - Friday May 22 - in a limited edition which can be played at 45rpm.

WHEN ULTAN Conlon emerged from the recording studio in Burbank, California, on the final day of sessions for what would become his fourth album, he could have had no idea of the world into which it would be released.

'I try to accept the darkness and remind myself a new day is around the corner'