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Cúirt is one of Europe’s oldest literary festivals, and this year’s week-long celebration in Galway, running from April 21 to April 26, will interrogate Irish and international writing, in English and Irish, for lovers of the written word of all ages.

The funeral will take place today (Thursday) of Fred Johnson, a man who over several decades made an in delible mark on the literary scene in Galway and the west.

DESPITE THE Oscars being so close, there have been very few good films released recently, so I decided to browse Netflix and see what might be worth your time watching there.

Achill Island, one of the most spectacular and the largest of our islands off the Irish west coast, was the romantic love-nest for a passionate affair between the British novelist Graham Greene and Catherine Walston the vivacious American wife of millionaire British MP Harry (later Lord) Walston in the late 1940s.

The distinctive sounds of Sharon Shannon, Frances Black and Mary Coughlan, have united once again for an Irish tour in 2020, with a live date in the Radisson Blu Hotel Athlone on Friday, February 14.

The distinctive sounds of Sharon Shannon, Frances Black and Mary Coughlan, have united once again for an Irish tour in 2020, with a live date in the Radisson Blu Hotel Athlone on Friday, February 14.

The distinctive sounds of Sharon Shannon, Frances Black and Mary Coughlan, have united once again for an Irish tour in 2020, with a live date in the Radisson Blu Hotel Athlone on Friday, February 14.

The distinctive sounds of Sharon Shannon, Frances Black and Mary Coughlan, have united once again for an Irish tour in 2020, with a live date in the Radisson Blu Hotel Athlone on Friday, February 14.

On the subway young Frances finds an expensive looking designer handbag. Rather than just handing it in to the police she decides to track down the owner herself. She manages to return the bag to Greta.