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If you are looking for some comedic relief to brighten up a dark winter evening, then look no further than The Far Off Hills, coming to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday and Tuesday, December 8 and 9.

The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is working hard on its autumn programme, packed with goodies to entertain and engage, an exciting deluge of theatre, music, world cinema, children’s events, exhibitions and more. Here’s a couple of early announcements to tantalise your cultural tastebuds.

The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is working hard on its autumn programme, packed with goodies to entertain and engage, an exciting deluge of theatre, music, world cinema, children’s events, exhibitions and more. Here’s a couple of early announcements to tantalise your cultural tastebuds.

There was a curious sequel to the story of poor Michael Kelly of Mirehall, Headford, whom I mentioned last week. Kelly, a substantial farmer and horse breeder, won the ‘gentleman’s race’ at Galway in 1884. However the stewards refused to give him the trophy claiming he was not a gentleman. Kelly sued, and won his case.

St Patrick's drama group staged a very successful five night run of Lennox Robinson's Drama at Inish, in Scoil Phádraig, Westport.

St Patrick’s drama group are busy rehearsing Lennox Robinson's gem of a comedy Drama at Inish, which was first staged by the Abbey Theatre in 1933.

I find it hard to imagine that not everyone liked Lady Augusta Gregory of Coole Park. What few readers there are of the Diary, I am told, sigh with exasperation when they see her name appear. They know that I will eulogise endlessly about how her home at Coole became a ‘workshop’ for writers, poets and artists during those exciting days at the beginning of the last century, leading to such remarkable talents as WB Yeats, John M Synge, Sean O’Casey and others to stand as giants on the European literary stage. She was the co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, its director and organiser during its shaky early days. She was a substantial playwright, journal keeper, folklorist, scholar, etc, etc, and, in my opinion, this amazing Galway woman never got the recognition she deserved.

There is often more drama in the board room of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, than what is presented on its stage. Following a famous conversation in Doorus House, Kinvara, one rainy afternoon in 1897, Lady Augusta Gregory of Coole Park, Edward Martyn of Ardrahan, and the young poet WB Yeats agreed to set up the Irish Literary Theatre. Theatre at the time was mainly influenced by the popular British music hall variety; and melodrama. It was agreed that day in Co Galway that the new Irish theatre would ‘embody and perpetuate Irish feeling, genius, and modes of thought’.

A theatre company renowned for nurturing the next generation of Kilkenny’s actors, dramatists and producers is preparing to launch a host of new faces to the stage.

DRAMA AT INISH a comedy by Lennox Robinson will be performed as Gaeilge by Bualagh Bos! Oranmore Music & Drama Group from March 10 to 12 in Route 66 (Keanes), Oranmore.