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From December 9th-10th, the annual Roscommon Town Christmas Festival will delight visitors

Lockdown may seem like a dim and distant memory, but the legacy of its imprint on the arts is enduring.

Arts Week with Judy Murphy When Ann-Marie O’Sullivan moved to Ireland from Greece in 2018, she didn’t expect that a few years later, she would be directing and appearing in a folk musical about Ireland’s Great Famine. But through a series of serendipitous circumstances, that’s what happened. The musical, In the Midst of Plenty, written […]

Significant state investment is required to address ‘shocking’ inequalities that leave cancer patients in the West at greater risk of succumbing to the disease. A meeting of Regional Health Forum West heard that survival rates for breast, lung and colorectal cancers than the national average, and with the most deprived quintile of the population, the […]

The acclaimed new contemporary folk musical ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ will tour to the Town Hall Theatre on June 7 and 8 as part of Roscommon-based Enchanted Croí Theatre’s Irish tour. The work of a women-led creative team, the piece amplifies the seldom-told stories of impoverished women and the choices they made as they fought to survive 19th-century cottier life.

The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and Irish Heritage Trust have launched the Great Famine Voices 2023 season with a new film, The Famine Irish in New Brunswick.

The Great Famine is an unusual subject for a musical, but the success of Roscommon production ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ shows how quality drama trans...

Roscommon-based Enchanted Croí Theatre has recently announced that its production of the new contemporary folk musical ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ will embark on a 13-venue nationwide tour through spring and summer 2023. The show is the work of California-based law professor and writer/composer-lyricist Amy Day, who was inspired to write the show in 2019 after visiting the National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park while on a day off from teaching a course in international childr...

The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, is delighted to welcome all both young and old to experience Samhain at Strokestown Park.  This spooky season...