The 34th Kerry Drama Festival will be held at Ivy leaf Arts Centre, Castleisland over four nights on March 4th. 5th. 6th. and again on Friday March 11th. Admission: Nightly Ticket €10. Curtain nightly at 8pm. Due to the inability of drama groups around the country to get together and rehearse for festival such as…
Founders of the almost up and running Castleisland First Responders Unit are extremely grateful to the members of the public who supported their first fundraiser on Saturday morning. “We would like to extend a heart felt thanks to all who came to support us on Saturday,” said Neil Browne one of the people behind the…
Unfortunately, due to the current bad weather, Kerry Drama Festival will not open tonight, Saturday, March 3rd. and Skibbereen Theatre Society’s performance of ‘Abigail’s Party’ has been cancelled. As of now the remainder of the festival is scheduled to get underway tomorrow night, Sunday, March 4th at 8pm. Kerry Drama Festival Revised Schedule “We hope…
She was, by a country mile, one of the best loved, well known and highly respected figures for a generation of Irish television viewers. Biddy White-Lennon, actress, food writer and critic R.I.P. People who didn’t have sets of their own went rambling on the Sunday night just before ‘The Riordan’s’ starting time. End of the…
It’s an enduringly sad and sorrowful story of the betrayal of a good man. It’s one that darkened the whole of Holy Week ever since the first, or certainly most celebrated, crucifixion over 2,000 years ago. Its dramatic story line and turns and twists in the telling is what grips us and draws us back…
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…
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…
The Island Players will take to the stage for five nights with their 52nd production this week from Wednesday, night November 23rd to Sunday 27th at 8pm nightly. Canaries is the offering and a hilarious comedy by Bernard Farrell. It’s a play which the Island Players of yore staged at the same venue back in…
I have been asked, enough times to make me curious, about photographs of people in various situations around the town from the early 1980s. I explained to people that I didn’t start taking photographs like that until well into 1982. Then it was explained to me that people were hearing that there were photographs of…
A note from Jean Horgan arrived early this morning sending best wishes to her UK based cousin, Mary F. McGaley who celebrates her birthday this very day: “ From Here To There To You .Happy Birthday to my first cousin, bridesmaid and best friend. July 29th was always your day Mary. Remembering all those special…
