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Having just released their new video to accompany the single ‘The Border and the Mistress’ Dundalk-based band Orwells ‘84 are set to make an exciting return to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, August 18 at 8pm.

Eight former Marist College students received 2022 UCD Entrance Scholarships at an awards ceremony held recently.

A REBELLION has taken place at Manor Farm. The animals have overthrown their human masters and assumed control.

KEVIN PARKER is a literary agent in London, but his is not a glamorous life. Professionally and personally, everything is falling apart around him.

There is a notion that there is some connection between being interested in the arts, and looking down one’s nose at the sort of people who think Camus is a place in Connemara, rather than a French existentialist novelist.

Imagine Jack Kerouac and George Orwell incubated a test tube baby in muddy water and on its first birthday was adopted by Joe Strummer, who raised it on a steady diet of rock and roll and Dylan.

“There is a certain element that one is a philistine if one questions it,” so said a Galway TD, and former member of the Galway City Council, at a recent meeting of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee.

Hands up those of us who did Latin in school?.....three? five? ..OK 12 of us. I know Latin is still sold to some young students as the key to understanding European culture and heritage. Old school masters argue that Latin is better for you than Sudoku, better, even, that The Irish Times Crosaire crossword. Yet when I came across my old Kennedy’s Revised Latin Primer, I was filled with an old familiar dread. There it all was, the boring conjunctions of verbs, and the declensions of nouns; all the miserable rules of grammar and syntax, possibly the driest book ever created, and not a joke between its covers.

Be captivated as the talented young members of Roscommon County Youth Theatre play out George Orwell’s Animal Farm, from Thursday to Saturday, April 27 to 29 at Roscommon Arts Centre.

HUBERT BUTLER, the Irish essayist, once denounced by a papal nuncio as a dangerous communist, is the subject of a film which will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this evening at 8pm.