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…
Breaking Trad Concert Irish Trad band Breaking Trad will play at the new music venue Mike the Pies in William Street, Listowel on Thursday, February 2nd. Doors 8pm. Admission. €15. Tickets contact 087 92 55 230. Breaking Trad feature Abbeyfeale accordionist Donal Murphy, Niall Murphy on fiddle and Mike Galvin on guitar and vocals. The…
Best Loved Poems: Favourite Poems from the South of Ireland is a wonderfully illustrated anthology, filled with moving, accessible poems which will delight the general reader as well as the poetry specialist. Its Kerry launch will be held in Woulfe’s Bookshop in Listowel from 2pm tomorrow, Saturday, November 19th. The event will be conducted by…
Castleisland Rugby Club has secured the services and talents of composer/musician/story-teller and former ‘Dubliner’ John Sheahan for this year’s Con Houlihan Memorial Festival. Though last year’s event was held over the final week of September, this year’s will now be much later on account of the Run the Runway event taking up the organisational resources…
Listowel native Fr. Kieran O’Shea, Parish Priest of Knocknagoshel from 1990 until his death in 2006, has left lasting reminders of his ministry in Kerry. This month marks the tenth anniversary of his death on August 4th 2006. In the course of her work on the Michael O’Donohoe Memorial Heritage Project, Janet Murphy found the…
The 2016 Kerry Drama Festival will get under way on this Friday night from 7-30pm. It will be held under the auspices of the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland at the Ivyleaf Art Centre, Castleisland from Friday, March 4th to Saturday March 12th. Shows nightly at 8pm. The festival has been held in the Ivyleaf…
It’s 57 years ago that John B Keane’s masterpiece Sive was staged for the first time in his native Listowel. John B Keane had a tremendous understanding of human nature and rural life and portrayed this uncanny genius of observation in Sive. Report by Marian Harnett. Photography by Paul Ward The ever popular play will…
Journalist and author Breda Joy has released her latest book, The Wit & Wisdom of Kerry. Published by Mercier Press it is a humorous and touching collection all about the Kingdom of Kerry, the unique take of Kerrymen on life and the way visitors and ‘blow-ins’ have viewed the incomparable Kerry character and landscape through the…
Listowel Writers’ Week has just announced its shortlisted poetry collections for a final prize €5,000. Five Irish Poets have today been announced as finalists for this year’s inaugural Pigott Poetry Prize for 2014. The €5,000 award will be presented to the overall winner at the opening ceremony of the festival on the Wednesday, May 28th.…
