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George Chambers was born in England in 1873. He lived at Temple Fortune Lane in Middlesex. He travelled extensively and this included several trips to Ireland. In 1929, he toured parts of West Cork and Wicklow; in 1931, he visited Galway city and the Aran Islands and on subsequent trips he went to the Blasket Islands, to Achill and Clare Islands, and to various other islands off the coast of Donegal.

Following a 3 year campaign spearheaded by Herstory, St. Brigid’s Day is Ireland’s new national holiday and the first named in honour of a woman: Brigid, our matron Saint and Celtic Goddess and a celebration of all mná.

A new website featuring extracts from Bailiúchán Béaloidis Árann (the Árainn Folklore Project), a community folklore collection that is more than twenty years a-growing, will be launched next month in Inis Mór, the largest of the three Aran Islands. Partnering on the project are Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU, and the National Folklore Collection at UCD, the co-creators of the website dúchas.ie.

by Declan Varley

The Voices of Connemara is a book to be treasured. Published initially in 2001, and now available as a paperback, it was put together by photographer Raymonde Standún and the late Bill Long (writer and broadcaster).

"There is something healing about watching Ingoldsby, a man who is both outside of and ahead of his time, battling against the tide of 1960s (and onwards) Irish conformity." The Irish Times

Luan Gallery hosted an informative Artists’ Talk with artist, curator, writer and arts consultant, Neva Elliott, in conversation with exhibiting artists, Swiss-Italian photographer, Ugo Ricciardi and Irish artists, Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne, working collaboratively as the Midden Collective.

Brains were teased last Friday night at the Athlone Photography Club Table quiz that took place in the Bounty Bar, Athlone.

Luan Gallery is delighted to host an Artist Talk with artist, curator, writer and arts consultant, in conversation with exhibiting artists, Swiss-Italian photographer Ugo Ricciardi and Irish artists Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne, working collaboratively as the Midden Collective.

Award winning nature photographer Tina Claffey, from Offaly, celebrates the minutiae of our Midland habitats through her macro lens, her photographs capture what the naked eye cannot see and giving a unique perspective of the flora and fauna of raised bogs and wet woodlands.