The organisers of last weekend’s three-day Kerry tourism promotional visit to Berlin have hailed it an outstanding success. The 35-strong group, led by Minister Brendan Griffin TD and Mayor of Kerry, Cllr John Sheahan, held a series of engagements with tourism trade, media and consumer groups. They also held a high level political meeting with… Read more…
Jerome Stack has been the director of the Kerry Drama Festival for the past 30 years. He’s been in the position since the revival of the festival in 1988 after it had lapsed in 1971. There’s no one in a better position than Jerome to realise how privileged local audiences have been with so many… Read more…
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… Read more…
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… Read more…
Are you picky when it comes to your fruit and veg? Do you know exactly what you want? Laur does. Afraid of pursuing it in case you fail? Laur is. Kinda. Life is full of questions. They’re not always easy to answer. So, while you’re pondering the tough ones, you might as well accompany it… Read more…
There was a couple of wonderful shows at the Ivy leaf as part of the recent ‘Féile Drámaíochta’ for national schools. Scoil Mhuire of Cordal presented Mrs Brown and this provided a brilliant manifestation of the popular TV show. Scoil Naomh Iosaif of Castlemaine put on ‘Jimín’, which brought us back to our school days… Read more…
Zyber Theatre presents CrissCross, a new play by John Fraher at the Ivy Leaf Art Centre here in Castleisland on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 5th, 6th and 7th at 8pm nightly. “The play is set in a public house somewhere in the author’s head.! God help us all! The time is The Past, or… Read more…
Anytime I ever met the late Dr. John B Keane on the streets of Listowel – or anywhere else – he always had a few words of encouragement for my pursuit of this way-of-life. Always too, he’d call me ‘The Moonlighter’ – maybe it was because he couldn’t remember my name. Much like the way… Read more…
There is no shortage of talented people in this and the communities around us. An email from the Macroom based event organiser, Pat Melia might just provide the audience and the spur for the gifted among us to show-case that talent. For each of the past four years Mr. Melia has been organising a talent… Read more…
Because of the Kerry Drama Festival week that’s in it I decided to rummage through the files and devote our ‘Friday Favourites’ slot to the event itself and to the people behind it. While there, I picked out a rather random selection of photographs now qualifying for vintage status. The 27th annual Kerry Drama Festival… Read more…
The organisers of last weekend’s three-day Kerry tourism promotional visit to Berlin have hailed it an outstanding success. The 35-strong group, led by Minister Brendan Griffin TD and Mayor of Kerry, Cllr John Sheahan, held a series of engagements with tourism trade, media and consumer groups. They also held a high level political meeting with… Read more…
Jerome Stack has been the director of the Kerry Drama Festival for the past 30 years. He’s been in the position since the revival of the festival in 1988 after it had lapsed in 1971. There’s no one in a better position than Jerome to realise how privileged local audiences have been with so many… Read more…
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… Read more…
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… Read more…
Are you picky when it comes to your fruit and veg? Do you know exactly what you want? Laur does. Afraid of pursuing it in case you fail? Laur is. Kinda. Life is full of questions. They’re not always easy to answer. So, while you’re pondering the tough ones, you might as well accompany it… Read more…
There was a couple of wonderful shows at the Ivy leaf as part of the recent ‘Féile Drámaíochta’ for national schools. Scoil Mhuire of Cordal presented Mrs Brown and this provided a brilliant manifestation of the popular TV show. Scoil Naomh Iosaif of Castlemaine put on ‘Jimín’, which brought us back to our school days… Read more…
Zyber Theatre presents CrissCross, a new play by John Fraher at the Ivy Leaf Art Centre here in Castleisland on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 5th, 6th and 7th at 8pm nightly. “The play is set in a public house somewhere in the author’s head.! God help us all! The time is The Past, or… Read more…
Anytime I ever met the late Dr. John B Keane on the streets of Listowel – or anywhere else – he always had a few words of encouragement for my pursuit of this way-of-life. Always too, he’d call me ‘The Moonlighter’ – maybe it was because he couldn’t remember my name. Much like the way… Read more…
There is no shortage of talented people in this and the communities around us. An email from the Macroom based event organiser, Pat Melia might just provide the audience and the spur for the gifted among us to show-case that talent. For each of the past four years Mr. Melia has been organising a talent… Read more…
Because of the Kerry Drama Festival week that’s in it I decided to rummage through the files and devote our ‘Friday Favourites’ slot to the event itself and to the people behind it. While there, I picked out a rather random selection of photographs now qualifying for vintage status. The 27th annual Kerry Drama Festival… Read more…
