Crowds from throughout the county are complimenting some great theatre all this week at the Kerry Drama Festival at Castleisland’s Ivy Leaf Art Centre. The nine-night long event got off to a flying start on Friday evening as festival director, Jerome Stack with adjudicator, Brendan Murray and guest Kevin O’Shea took to the stage. Three… Read more…
The Abbeyfeale Harriers 2017 Hunting Festival has concluded for another year. Hunt clubs from Limerick, Cork, Kerry, Armagh, Tyrone and Wexford participated in the week’s hunting. By Marian Harnett Hunt supporters from all over Ireland and beyond enjoyed the weeks sport and socialising at this annual get together. A donation has been made to the… Read more…
Jerome Stack has been the director of the Kerry Drama Festival for the past 30 years. He’s been in the position since the revival of the festival in 1988 after it had lapsed in 1971. There’s no one in a better position than Jerome to realise how privileged local audiences have been with so many… Read more…
The real story of drama in Scart over the past couple of weeks was the pressure to put on extra nights as the local group’s adaptation of Sharon’s Grave drew housefuls from all quarters. Not for the first time did the work of the late John B.Keane and an able drama group pack a hall… Read more…
Following on from last year’s very successful run of Off the Hook, Ballymacelligott Drama Group is back at the Ivy Leaf this year with its production of The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley written by Irish playwright, Jimmy Keary. Set in the 1990’s this is a romantic comedy which is guaranteed to bring a smile… Read more…
This year’s stage production from the Scartaglin based Sliabh Luachra Drama Group is Sharon’s Grave by John B. Keane. The play will open at the village heritage centre this weekend and run over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 3rd. 4th. and 5th. and on the following weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10th. 11th. and… Read more…
Actor and playwright Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, who is currently the drama facilitator with Killarney Municipal District, will be giving a series of free drama workshops in February for anyone interested in acting. The workshops are being held in the Killarney Cultural Centre on the weekends of February 11th and 12th, and 18th and 19th. Plays… Read more…
The death has occurred of Gabie Keane (nee Herlihy), O’Connell Demesne, Limerick Road., Castleisland, Co Kerry and late of Herlihy’s Bar, Farranfore. January 20th 2017 (peacefully) in the loving care of the staff of the Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee, surrounded by her family. Beloved wife of the late Bill Keane and cherished mother of Nuala,… Read more…
St. Patrick’s Boys’ Secondary School and Presentation Girls’ Secondary School here in Castleisland have joined forces to present Talent Show 2017. This is a showcase of talent, an evening of music, song, dance and comedy from the students of both schools. Many of the students involved have been performing in public in recent times. No… Read more…
Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, a Dublin based playwright and actor from Kerry, has been travelling to Kerry every week since September to facilitate drama classes with second level schools in the East Kerry area. He has worked with students in Castleisland Community College, St Patrick’s and Presentation Secondary Schools in Castleisland as well as in Rathmore… Read more…
Crowds from throughout the county are complimenting some great theatre all this week at the Kerry Drama Festival at Castleisland’s Ivy Leaf Art Centre. The nine-night long event got off to a flying start on Friday evening as festival director, Jerome Stack with adjudicator, Brendan Murray and guest Kevin O’Shea took to the stage. Three… Read more…
The Abbeyfeale Harriers 2017 Hunting Festival has concluded for another year. Hunt clubs from Limerick, Cork, Kerry, Armagh, Tyrone and Wexford participated in the week’s hunting. By Marian Harnett Hunt supporters from all over Ireland and beyond enjoyed the weeks sport and socialising at this annual get together. A donation has been made to the… Read more…
Jerome Stack has been the director of the Kerry Drama Festival for the past 30 years. He’s been in the position since the revival of the festival in 1988 after it had lapsed in 1971. There’s no one in a better position than Jerome to realise how privileged local audiences have been with so many… Read more…
The real story of drama in Scart over the past couple of weeks was the pressure to put on extra nights as the local group’s adaptation of Sharon’s Grave drew housefuls from all quarters. Not for the first time did the work of the late John B.Keane and an able drama group pack a hall… Read more…
Following on from last year’s very successful run of Off the Hook, Ballymacelligott Drama Group is back at the Ivy Leaf this year with its production of The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley written by Irish playwright, Jimmy Keary. Set in the 1990’s this is a romantic comedy which is guaranteed to bring a smile… Read more…
This year’s stage production from the Scartaglin based Sliabh Luachra Drama Group is Sharon’s Grave by John B. Keane. The play will open at the village heritage centre this weekend and run over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 3rd. 4th. and 5th. and on the following weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10th. 11th. and… Read more…
Actor and playwright Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, who is currently the drama facilitator with Killarney Municipal District, will be giving a series of free drama workshops in February for anyone interested in acting. The workshops are being held in the Killarney Cultural Centre on the weekends of February 11th and 12th, and 18th and 19th. Plays… Read more…
The death has occurred of Gabie Keane (nee Herlihy), O’Connell Demesne, Limerick Road., Castleisland, Co Kerry and late of Herlihy’s Bar, Farranfore. January 20th 2017 (peacefully) in the loving care of the staff of the Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee, surrounded by her family. Beloved wife of the late Bill Keane and cherished mother of Nuala,… Read more…
St. Patrick’s Boys’ Secondary School and Presentation Girls’ Secondary School here in Castleisland have joined forces to present Talent Show 2017. This is a showcase of talent, an evening of music, song, dance and comedy from the students of both schools. Many of the students involved have been performing in public in recent times. No… Read more…
Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, a Dublin based playwright and actor from Kerry, has been travelling to Kerry every week since September to facilitate drama classes with second level schools in the East Kerry area. He has worked with students in Castleisland Community College, St Patrick’s and Presentation Secondary Schools in Castleisland as well as in Rathmore… Read more…
