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Internationally renowned Welsh choir Côr Meibion Ardudwy is set to perform special Memorial Concerts in aid of Galway Hospice this October.

Community and business leaders from the Celtic nations; Ireland, Brittany, Scotland and Wales, are set to make the pilgrimage west this spring, following the announcement that the upcoming Interceltic Business Forum will be held in Galway on April 19, in the Portershed.

The Oranmore-Maree Twinning Association will host a special soirée A Taste of France in local French restaurant, Armorica, Tuesday, July 11 at 7pm. An open invitation is extended to all for a delightful evening.

The awardwinning ‘Guide to Lough Corrib’s Early Monastic Sites’ written by Rev Anthony Previté a decade ago has just been reprinted and is now available at the price of €15 from Charlie Byrne’s and other bookshops.

AN EVENING of storytelling and trad music will take place in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop when Diarmuid Johnson reads excerpts from his new book, Tuatha De Danann, accompanied by Donegal fiddle player Bríd Harper.

Achill International Harp Festival are embarking on an exciting new musical venture to open this year’s festival on Friday, October 27. After the success of last year’s commissioned show Sraith Oileán Acla/Achill Island Suite which explored the Achill-Scotland connections, the festival is currently developing another cross-cultural collaboration, this time with a Breton-Mayo theme.

AUSTRALIAN SWIMMER Elizabeth Moncello was the unofficial inventor of the butterfly stroke. She had a watertight reason for learning to swim and watching schools of fish, penguins, and other amphibian friends taught her how.