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Mná Month Continues In Cashel Library.

Mná Month continues in Cashel Library, but do remember booking is essential for all those attending, so do please telephone Cashel Library at 062 63825, to avoid disappointment.

Current Photographic Display:

(Note: Display continues only until March 17th 2024).
Cashel library celebrates the incredible talent of local photographer Ger Long. From the captivating scenes of nature to the heart-warming moments of childhood, every photograph in this exhibition titled “Liminal”, (between past and present), tells a unique and inspiring story.

Wednesday 13th March @ 7pm: Visit by Author Eimear Ryan.

A chance to meet and greet acclaimed author Eimear Ryan, who will discuss her book “The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport”; she burrows deep into the confluence of gender and sport.

Friday 15th March @11am: St Patrick & the Patriarchy; lecture by Branch Librarian Ms Maura Barrett.

St Patrick is synonymous with Christianity’s arrival in Ireland, heralding a new religious ideology, patriarchal and monotheistic, replacing the older order of the divine feminine.

NOTE: All events are provided FREE of charge at Cashel Library.
Again, Booking Essential please to Tel. No.: 062 63825.
[ You can locate the Cashel Library building, situated on Friar Street, Lady’s Well, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, HERE. (G487+RX) ].

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Feels Like Home.

Feels Like Home.

Vocals: 13 Grammy Awards American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter Bonnie Lynn Raitt.
Lyrics: American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, conductor and pianist, Randall Stuart Newman.

The song ‘Feels Like Home’ has featured in the American teen drama television series ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and films ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’, ‘My Sister’s Keeper’, and ‘Michael’.

If marriage is on your horizon this year, same song is definitely one for serious consideration, at some stage, during your ‘special day’ celebrations.

Feels Like Home.

Something in your eyes, makes me want to lose myself,
Makes me want to lose myself, in your arms.
There’s something in your voice, makes my heart beat fast,
Hope this feeling lasts, the rest of my life.
If you knew how lonely my life has been,
And how low I’ve felt so long.
If you knew how I wanted someone to come along,
And change my life the way you’ve done.

Feels like home to me, feels like home to me,
Feels like I’m on my way back where I come from.
Feels like home to me, feels like home to me,
Feels like I’m on my way back where I belong.

A window breaks down a long dark street,
And a siren wails over my head.
But I’m all right, ’cause I have you here with me,
And I can almost see through the dark there’s light.
If you knew how much this moment means to me,
And how long I’ve waited for your touch.
If you knew how happy you are making me,
I’ve never thought I’d love anyone so much.

Feels like home to me, feels like home to me,
Feels like I’m on my way back where I come from.
Feels like home to me, feels like home to me,
Feels like I’m on my way back where I belong.
Feels like I’m on my way back where I belong.

END

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This Old Guitar.

This Old Guitar.

Lyrics and Vocals: American singer and songwriter Mr Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. [known professionally as John Denver (1943 – 1997)].

This Old Guitar.

This old guitar taught me to sing a love song,
It showed me how to laugh and how to cry.
It introduced me to some friends of mine,
And brightened up some days,
And helped me make it thru some lonely nights. Oh
What a friend to have on a cold and lonely night.
This old guitar gave me my lovely lady,
It opened up her eyes and ears to me.
It brought us close together,
And I guess it broke her heart
But it opened up the space for us to be,
What a lovely place and a lovely space to be.
This old guitar gave me my life my living,
All the things you know I love to do.
To serenade the stars that shine,
From a sunny mountainside,
And most of all to sing my songs for you.
I love to sing my songs for you.
Yes I do, you know
,
I love to sing my songs for you
.

END

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Coronation Street’s ‘Fred Elliott’- Actor John Savident – Dead Aged 86 Years.

Mr John Savident, (R.I.P.)
Pic: Courtesy PA.

Mr John Savident, better known for his playing of the character ‘Fred Elliott’ in the soap ‘Coronation Street’, has sadly passed away, aged 86 years.

Born in Guernsey in 1938, of a local fisherman father and a Swiss mother; Mr Savident and his family left the Channel Islands, then under German occupation, before moving to Ashton-under-Lyne, latter a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, when he was just three years old.

His first adult job for some 6 years, was as a member of the police force in Manchester, where he was stabbed attempting to break up a gang fight.

Mr Savident had quit the police force and was pursuing his acting ambitions in amateur productions, when a producer overheard him talking in a pub and offered him a part as the character ‘Robin Hood’ in an upcoming London panto, thus officially launching him on an acting career.
Mr Savident first appeared on ‘Coronation Street’ in 1994 and his booming voiced character; playing the part of butcher ‘Fred Elliot’, quickly became a favourite amongst fans of the ITV soap.

His numerous storylines involved his failed love life, which included three marriages, not to mention several failed proposals. His two other previous wives were Maureen Holdsworth (Sherrie Hewson) and barmaid Eve Sykes (Melanie Kilburn).

A secret son, in the character of, ‘Ashley Peacock’; latter played by actor Mr Steven Arnold, arrived into the show, with the two characters developing a close friendship, while working together in their butchers shop.

The character of ‘Fred Elliot’ was killed off 12 years later, in 2006, having suffering a stroke on the day he was supposed to marry ‘Bev Unwin, latter played by actress Ms Susie Blake.

One of ‘Fred Elliott’s’ most distinctive character traits was that he regularly stated things twice, usually inserting the words “I say” between them e.g. “Best of British is that, I say best of British”.
Even in his death scene, ‘Fred Elliott’ said to ‘Bev Unwin’, quote, “Be happy, I say, be happy”.

Mr Savident outstanding dramatic skills were quickly recognised, resulting in his being included in many other TV, Film and Stage roles; e.g. ‘Robin Hood’, the political comedy ‘Yes, Minister’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘Gandhi’, ‘Battle Of Britain’, ‘Middlemarch’, ‘The Remains Of The Day’, and ‘Hobson’s Choice’.

Mr Savident is survived by his wife; latter theatre director Ms Rona Hopkinson and his two children.

In ár gcroíthe go deo.

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Holycross Open Drama Festival Launched.

The 41st prestigious Co. Tipperary Open Drama Festival will take place in the St. Michael’s Community Centre Theatre, in Holycross, Thurles from Friday, March 15th until Saturday March 23rd, commencing at 8:30pm nightly, except for the final night, when prizes will be awarded and starting time will commence at 8:00pm.

Mr Michael Poynor [Association of Drama Adjudicators (ADA)]

The adjudicator for this year’s event will be Mr Michael Poynor [Association of Drama Adjudicators (ADA)] with the inimitable Mr Donal Duggan as Festival Director and Master of Ceremonies, (as he has been for four decades, latter a feat surely deserving of a special award at this year’s festival).

Nine of Ireland’s top drama groups will be on stage for the festival’s duration and they will be bidding for the “Tipperary Star Cup” in the Confined section and the “Tipp FM Trophy” in the open category.
Three Co. Tipperary groups will bid for The “Tipperary Star Cup”, namely Holycross Ballycahill DG; Moyne DG, and Rearcross DG.

Holycross Upcoming Festival Programme

Friday, March 15th, (Open) “Dancing at Lughnasa” by Brian Friel. (Holycross/Ballycahill DG).

Saturday March 16th, (Confined) “Stolen Child” by Bairbre Caoimh and Yvonne Quinn. (Moyne Drama Group).

Sunday March 17th, (Confined) ”On Raftery’s Hill” by Marina Carr. (Wayside Players).

Monday March 18th, (Open) ”The Ferryman” by Jez Butterworth. (Ballyduff DG).

Tuesday March 19th, (Open) ”Antigone” by Sophocles and adapted by Don Taylor. (Bride-view DG).

Wednesday March 20th, (Confined) ”Same Old Moon“ by Geraldine Aron. (Slieve Aughty DG).

Thursday March 21st, (Confined) ”Drama at Inish“ by Lennox Robinson. (Rearcross DG).

Friday March 22nd, (Open) “The Lonesome West” by Martin McDonagh. (Kilmeen DG)

Saturday March 23rd, (Confined) “Now and Then” by Sean Graham and adapted by John Corless (Harvest Moon DG).

(The Festival is held under the auspices of the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland ADCI).

Season tickets are €70 and concessions are €12.
For further information you may contact Mobile
Tel. No. 0862575159

Meet The Adjudicator.

This year’s adjudicator, Mr Michael Poynor, (pictured above) hails from Derry, and holds an impressive curriculum vitae.
Born in the Falkland Islands and educated in Argentina and England, he trained for theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (L.A.M.D.A.), London.

He has been Artistic Director for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Harrogate Theatre, Yorkshire; Stage ’80 Theatre company, Belfast; Ulster Youth Theatre; The National Youth Theatre Of Wales; and currently Artistic Director at the Ulster Theatre Company. He was Chief Executive of the Millenium Forum, Derry, and Head of Culture and Arts at Queens University, in Belfast.

Mr Poynor is an award winning Director and Lighting Designer having directed over 150 productions, Designed Sets for 120 and Lighting for over 250, as well as Fight Directing for some 100 productions.

He has written a string of burlesque pantomimes including ‘Scrooge’s Christmas‘; ‘Alice!’ (latter a musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s most famous books); a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best known operetta: ‘Rockin’ Mikado‘ which was nominated ‘Best Visiting Production’ in the 1998 Manchester Theatre Awards; ‘Comedy of Errors: The Musical’ (2013) and ‘Jonathan Harker and Dracula’ (2014).

Amongst the many productions he has directed are: The UK provincial premiere of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’; ‘‘Grease’‘; ‘Hello Dolly’, and ‘Once a Catholic’ (at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast); ‘Interview’, and ‘The Bald Prima Donna’ (at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon); ‘Indians’, ‘Schweyk in the Second World War’; ‘What the Butler Saw’, and ‘Noises Off’ (at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast); ‘The Glass Menagerie’; ‘Relatively Speaking’, and ‘The Happiest of the Three’, (at the Overground Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames), ‘Alphabetical Order’; ‘Equus’, ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’, and ‘Candida’, (at Harrogate Theatre); ‘The Snoopy Show’; ‘Hello and Goodbye’; ‘Ashes’; ‘Kelly’s Book’, and ‘Crack-Up’ (for Stage ’80), ‘How the Other Half Loves’; ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’, and ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, (for Theatre Ulster); ‘Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!’; ‘The Mating Season’; ‘The Boyfriend’, and ‘Leave Him to Heaven’, (for the Arts Theatre, Belfast), ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’ and ‘The War of the Worlds’ (for the Ulster Youth Theatre), ‘La Belle Helene’, (for Castle Ward Opera Co.) and ‘West Side Story’, (with the Ulster Orchestra at the Klondike in Belfast for Opera Northern Ireland).

For the Ulster Theatre Company, he directed ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ (1998), (latter a sell-out production for Belfast Festival at Queen’s at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast); ‘West Side Story’; ‘A Chorus Line’; ‘Oklahoma’, and the RSC’s version of ‘The Wizard of Oz’, (all of which toured the UK and Ireland).
In 2019 he directed and designed the world premiere of Hennessy Award winner, Sam Burnside’s ‘The Long Now’, (for the Seamus Heaney Home Place Theatre).

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