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Decadent Theatre Company is leading the way toward the resumption of live theatre and ambitious touring with a 20-venue national tour of Eugene O’Brien’s award-winning drama, Eden.

An “in person” panel discussion will take place in the Galmont Hotel, Galway, on Thursday October 28 at 7pm, to discuss constitutional change and the ever-increasing likelihood of a border poll and Irish unity.

Scenes from the recent Mica protest in Dublin were stirring, with up to 30,000 of our citizens pouring from buses and cars onto the streets of Dublin. Much of the crowd travelled the long and winding roads from Donegal, with green and yellow jerseys standing out from the throng. But there were also families from Mayo, Clare and Limerick; the places where the sub-standard blocks used to build homes have wreaked the most devastating of consequences.

"I'm very into Irish songs, especially ones like this that tell a story. And the reason it does that is all due to Brendan's talented songwriting. It's like a mini-history lesson more than anything."

SURVIVING YOU, the third poetry collection, or rather “a story told through poetry”, by Galway based writer Danielle Holian, has just been published.

Hugo Kelly from Westport, is among 10 writers from almost 2,800 entries to be shortlisted for the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus.

HIS MUSIC has been praised by Paul Weller and Pete Townshend; his songs have been covered by Josh Groban and Eddi Reader; while writer Pete Paphides has called him, “the Irish John Prine”.

For its eleventh outing, Ballinasloe-based artist collective Group 8 will hold the opening of its annual exhibition, UNBOUND, on Culture Night, Friday, September 17, at 7pm, in Artisan Alley at the Town Hall Theatre, Ballinasloe.

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Roscommon Arts Centre is thrilled to present an evening with critically acclaimed author and screenwriter Patrick deWitt as part of a short Irish tour on Thursday, September 9, at 8pm.