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Theatre companies are gathering in force for the beginning of RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Festival, taking place all next week at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar and culminating in a weekend of fun and excitement for young people and their families over the October Bank Holiday. The annual festival kicks off in truly spellbinding style next Monday October 19 with The Musician, a darkly thrilling piece of musical theatre by Northern Ireland’s Cahoots, purveyors of world-class children’s theatre. The Musician is a new opera for children that tells the story of the child who became the best known flautist of them all… the Pied Piper.

Kerry’s Tadhg Kennelly had been having a most magnificent year in a Gaelic footballing context, until last Sunday morning. Home from Oz, back with the Kerry panel, he collects a national football league medal, an All-Ireland medal and only last weekend an All-Star. Happy days. Just sit back and enjoy the harvest over the next few months, either in Kerry or back in Australia.

Airneán sa gCathair is a new series of cultural evenings as Gaeilge which will take place on the second Tuesday of every month in Club Áras na nGael on Dominick Street.

MAYO BASED Other Voices Theatre Company comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week with a triple- bill of one acts it is presenting under the title of We Are For The Dark.

THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre has received a gift of some 400 books by eminent European authors, complete with display furniture, but it has nowhere to house the collection.

THE ACCLAIMED Irish novelist Claire Kilroy will read at the next Over The Edge in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday November 19 at 6.30pm.

FOR MORE than a decade Maria Tecce has wowed audiences around the world. An accomplished jazz vocalist and actress she has been described as “a sensual angel” and “like Audrey Hepburn channelling Eartha Kitt”.

The Coole Park Winter Programme of events continues tomorrow from 8pm to 9pm when Athenry Drama Group perform two Lady Gregory one-act plays: The Workhouse Ward and Dave. Athenry Drama group is more than 100 years in existence, having performed on the local and national circuit it has had many successes with several renowned plays.

In Dickens’ time, poverty was easy to identify. People in that category would, according to the writer, sidle up to you in the street and say ‘spare a tannah for a cuppa tea, guv. Bless ya.” These days it is not so easy to identify want in people.

Goodnight Ballivor, a new documentary based on the book Goodnight Ballivor, I’ll Sleep In Trim, by John Quinn will be broadcast on TG4 on Sunday at 9.30pm.