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Having swept their way to the ADCI RTE All-Ireland Drama Finals in Athlone, Ger Canning and her charges are tasked with opening the festival on this Thursday night with thier mammoth production of 'The Welkin' and we we wish them every success in their endeavours to retain that all-elusive title they won last year with 'Rabbit Hole'.

THE Enniskillen Drama Festival starts this weekend at the Ardhowen Theatre in Enniskillen, running from Friday, March 3 to Saturday, March 11 with…

This week at the Ardhowen Theatre, Conal Gallen returns with his hilarious stand-up comedy show, Funny Bits on Friday, February 24 and Saturday,…

The Enniskillen Drama Festival returns next month, where for eight nights – starting on March 3 – local audiences will be treated to a range of…

The story behind Michael Collins wolf slippers Updated / Tuesday, 2 Mar 2021 08:12 What the Big Fellow kept under his bed in Dublin. Photo: Brenda Malone, Curator of Military History at the National Museum Analysis: theyre a well-worn pair of size 9, bright blue wool slippers with a wolfs head stitched on the toe caps Most museums only have space to display a tiny fraction of their collection at any given time. The rest languish in storage, thousands of objects hidden in boxes and cupboards, a...

How Brexit shows the vital importance of Irelands seas and ports Updated / Monday, 1 Feb 2021 13:54 According to Nicholas Allen, author of the recently published (Oxford University Press, 2020), Ireland is an island that forgot itself. UCC’s Claire Connolly has identified how Ireland’s relationship with its seas, coasts and ports has long been uncomfortable and defined by feelings of unease, dizziness and sea-sickness. Its one shaped by the violence of empire and a political culture which...