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Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Middle Street is welcoming all its customers for the festive season, with six rooms of more than 150,000 books of all shapes, sizes, and varieties that will surely satisfy your every Christmas book-shopping need.

Most of us present our best faces to the world. Even on bad days, we smile through our tears, swallow our anger, and hastily push away any doubts and fears that threaten to dismantle our carefully constructed personas.

“Cultural Marxism”, better called neo-Marxism, refers to a left wing reinterpretation of Marxism (especially the Frankfurt School) as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness. The theory involves an ongoing and intentional academic and intellectual effort to subvert Western society via an assault on western culture that aims at undermining the Christian values of traditionalist conservatism and seeks to replace them with culturally liberal values.

Busking is the practice of performing in public places, such as on the street, for tips or gratuities or voluntary donations. It comes from the Spanish word Buscar—to seek (fame and fortune) or the Latin word Buscare – to procure, to gain. Busking could take many forms, clowning, dancing, singing, fortune telling, mime, living statue, one-man band, puppeteering, juggling, reciting poetry, even Christmas carolling. One’s ‘pitch’, where one performed, was very important. It had to be a place where there was a lot of traffic, lots of people, high visibility and little background noise.

A special event was hosted in Athlone Library as part of the All-Ireland Drama Festival Fringe to mark the 80th year of poet John Ennis.

The latest radiant concert from Galway’s own orchestra, Luminosa, began with late evening sun still streaming through the windows into St Nicholas’s Church. It seemed a fitting metaphor to illuminate the latest in their concert series, bláthú, flourishing with the coming of spring.

A special event will be hosted in Athlone Library on May 8 at 3pm as part of the All-Ireland Drama Festival Fringe to mark the 80th year of poet John Ennis.

A special event will be hosted in Athlone Library on May 8 at 3pm as part of the All-Ireland Drama Festival Fringe to mark the 80th year of poet John Ennis.

Cocaine Bear came out last week in Irish cinemas. It’s one of those movies that I would consider entirely review/critic proof. I really think if you hear the title of the film you have a pretty good idea if it’s a movie you will enjoy or not. A bit like Snakes On A Plane in 2006. It blew up the internet a few months ago with an absolutely sensational trailer with the song White Lines by Melle Mel and I’ve been looking forward to it since then.

Declan Clarke’s solo exhibition The Last Broadcast opens on 29th April at Galway Arts Centre. A special screening of the exhibition’s central work What Are the Wild Waves Saying? takes place in Galway Arts Centre’s Nuns Island Theatre at 5pm, followed by Q+A with the artist in conversation with author Emilie Pine- author of the bestseller Notes to Self and Professor of Modern Drama at UCD.