Late writer Wesley Burrowes best remembered for ‘Glenroe’

Northern Protestant wrote with great success about ‘primitive’ rural Catholic Ireland

Lian Bell: #WakingTheFeminists still waiting for the Abbey

‘If Fiach Mac Conghail wants to change things, here’s his chance. Accept the mistake. Don’t just say sorry. Do sorry’

€735,000 grant awarded to complete Galway’s arthouse cinema project

Picture Palace ran into series of obstacles after first sod turned in 2009

Druid artistic director Garry Hynes and producer Martha O’Neill become civil partners

Private ceremony took place in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre

Galway secures Unesco city of film title

First Irish city to secure film designation as part of creative cities network

Connemara corners and Norway’s fjords to host ‘pop-up’ film project

Ireland and European partners extend independent film shows to marginal regions

Beacon of political broadcasters in first decades of RTÉ

John O’Donoghue: October 6th, 1931 – September 11th, 2014

Macnas pop-up carnival helps raise €40,000 for parade

Street theatre company seeking funds for ‘goofy and Gothic’ Halloween celebration

Joint call for inquiry into Corrib policing

Politicians, journalists and social justice campaigners among petition signatories

Scaoil amach é at Inisheer’s weird and wonderful arts event

The beauty of the biennial Drop Everything is its location on an Aran Island that hums with possibility

Warm celebration at IMMA of life of artist Patrick Scott

‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’

Adams to visit anti-war activist D’Arcy in Limerick Prison

SF president to see Aosdána member suffering cancer who refuses to sign bail bond

Behind bars with the Shannon One

Margaretta D’Arcy has been a peace activist for most of her life, and neither cancer nor prison appears to deter her. We visit her in Limerick Prison, where she is controversially serving a sentence for an anti-war protest at Shannon Airport

The preferred epitaph of Peter O’Toole, the playboy of the western world

Among the stories emerging about O’Toole in Galway is the one of how a soiled jacket made for the perfect epitaph

First Encounters: ‘We both embroil people in projects’

Sister Stanislaus Kennedy and Lelia Doolan

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