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The Dean Crowe Sessions continue this month, singer-songwriter, Siobhán O’Brien, gracing the theatre bar on Friday, February 17, for a live show which will commence at 7.45pm.

Claire-Ann Ní Threasaigh is an experienced and qualified piano teacher who has been teaching piano to students of all ages for more than 20 years. She started studying classical piano at the age of seven in DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, where she completed all ABRSM grades. She then completed her Bachelors Degree in music and English at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, graduating in 2001. Since then she has been teaching piano and theory in many schools throughout Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Limerick, London, and Mayo.

Blunt was an aristocratic English writer, a person of remarkable ability who, as “the best looking man in England was credited with having refreshed the blood of several ancient families”. He was always against colonialism and sympathetic to small nations, so it was no surprise that he became an ardent supporter of Home Rule for Ireland. In 1887, he was in Ireland to study the grievances of the people when he heard that evictions had recommenced on the 56,000-acre estate of Lord Clanricarde in Woodford.

Galway made band, The Stunning, are back for a 'Christmas shindig' in Leisureland on Saturday December 17. Kicking off the night with Céilí-style tunes from their support group, legendary traditional musicians, Shaskeen, the band are looking forward to a big night of fun with their fans. We had a chat to founding member, Steve Wall (also an actor and member of band The Walls) ahead of Saturday night.

Lorraine Fletcher is an artist based in Galway, where she works in a studio nestled amongst the majestic surroundings of the Burren Nature Sanctuary.

A special double headliner gig takes place at Monroe’s Live on Saturday, December 10, as musical driving forces Steve Wickham and Jane Willow take to the stage on Dominick Street. The award-winning rock fiddler Steve Wickham is part of the Waterboys’ musical legacy that has spanned over 30 years.

While the award-winning musician is renowned for his Kerry wit and repartee, his most recent songs display a tenderness and emotional vulnerability, that comes with the power of experience. Working with the calibre of singer Mary Black and guitarist Jim Murray, Seamus Begley is also carving his own path as he celebrates decades on the music scene. To this end, his name alone is synonymous with traditional music in Ireland and abroad.

Composer and musician, Bill Whelan, the man behind some of the most well known Irish productions and bands, including Plantxy and Riverdance, is set to release his memoirs.

Hailing from Fayetteville, Arkansas, musician Nick Shoulders brings the vocal range and inspiration of the American South to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, November 12. The singer-songwriter is renowned for the reawakening of traditional country music, with a yodel, whistle, and strum of his guitar. This is traditional, old-style country at its finest.

The Road to Riverdance spans from Whelan's childhood through to the 1994 Eurovision, an event which completely changed the course of Irish dancing on an international stage.