BOOKS The owners of Tertulia bookshop in Westport share their personal picks for must-read books this Christmas
Make a book list and check it twice
Staying In
Charlestown creative writers feature in charity book
Five members of Charlestown Creative Writers have been published in a new book of inspiration, humour and hope
Stoic mindfulness for these times
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews ‘The Heart Uncut’, by Mayo poet Marian Kilcoyne, and ‘Riot Days’, by Maria Alyokhina
RoolaBoola weaves wonders
CULTURE RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Season is in full flight at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar
Harp Festival takes world by storm
CULTURE Three-day Achill International Harp Festival 2020 surpasses organisers’ expectations
New books give voice to women past
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews ‘A Ghost in the Throat’, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and ‘Savage her Reply’, by Deirdre O’Sullivan
Mayo festival to have global reach
CULTURE The Achill Harp Festival has a world audience on standby for the October Bank Holiday Weekend
RoolaBoola rolls ’round again
CULTURE The Linenhall Arts Centre’s annual children’s arts festival introduces ground-breaking immersive online theatre
Love, lives and storylines
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews ‘The Weight of Love’, by Hilary Fannin, and ‘Why the moon travels’, by Oein DeBhairduin
The Incredible Naked Flying Man of Achill
‘The Legend of Icarus O’Toole, The Incredible Naked Flying Man of Achill’, by John A Blakey, released as book, audio book and CD
Reading for uncertain times
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on ‘What happened to us?’, a fiction by Faith Hogan, and ‘Uncertainty Rules’, by Richard Plenty and Terri Morrissey