Ms Maura Barrett, (Branch Librarian at Cashel Library) Reports On International Women’s Day.
Cashel Library, here in Co. Tipperary, will celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th next, beginning sharp at 7:00pm, with a free celebration of Ceol, Craic, Coffee and Cake.
This free event embracing the International Women’s Day campaign theme: #BreakTheBias showcases songs, story and music from the best talent in the region. Featuring the noted Journalist, Lecturer and champion for gender equality Tom Clonan, latter who has spent a lifetime fighting for Gender Equality, Disability Rights and the most vulnerable in Irish Society.
Tom Clonan
Ms Maura Barrett, (Branch Librarian in Cashel Library) and co-ordinator of this event, says it kick starts a number of #BreakTheBias themed events that the library will host in 2022 with schools, community groups and patrons. “I am very excited about this celebration” says Maura, “It is so wonderful to be able to celebrate women’s achievements and very fitting that libraries play their part in actively breaking the bias that women continue to experience. We were mid-way through Mná Month back in 2020 when the Covid Pandemic scuppered things. It is very fitting that we can now pick up the baton again in 2022, in a renewed way, beginning with a celebration.”
This promises to be a jolly event with poetry and singing, jesting and joviality and there will be coffee and tea and some cake too.
The event is delighted to feature Singer/Songwriter Eileen Condon; Poet Orla Hennessy; Writers Eileen Hennigan and Bernie Coniry; Actors Will Condon and Sheila Lannigan; Mythical Tales/Stroyteller and Druid Eimear O’Brien and many others, adding to what will be a most entertaining night.
Do Please Note: Places are limited for this free event, so do ‘Repondez, s’il vous plaît’ (RSVP) to Tel: 062 63825 quickly, to avoid disappointment.
* International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8th to commemorate the cultural, political, and socio-economic achievements of women. The day also marks a call for action for accelerating women’s equality.
The prestigious County Tipperary Open Drama Festival returns to St Michael’s Community Theatre, in Holycross, Thurles again, after a lapse of two years, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Tipperary Open Drama Festival this year will run from Friday, March 18th, to Saturday, March 26th, starting nightly at 8:30pm, [except for the final night when it begins at 8:00pm, when awards will be presented].
It is also a return to centre stage for Mr Donal Duggan, who is Holycross Festival Director once again, for this prestigious festival, which has for decades attracted Ireland’s top drama Groups, staging first class plays by some of the theatre world’s most popular authors.
Having adjudicated across the length and breadth of Ireland, and having supported and nurtured a host of travelling players, Ms Anna Walker has agreed to adjudicate at this year’s Co. Tipperary Open Drama Festival, to the delight of the organisers. Ms Walker, has performed on stage, screen and television, having first trod the boards as an amateur actress with The Olivian Players, in Dublin, where she won a host of best acting awards.
Plays & Players.
Friday, March 18th, (Open), “The Beacon”, by Nancy Harris, (Ballycogley Players).
Saturday, March 19th, (Open), “The Door on the Left”, by Killian McGuinness, (Carrigallen D. G.).
Sunday, March 20th (Open),“Conversations on a Homecoming”, by Tom Murphy, (Kilmeen D. G.).
Monday, March 21st (Confined), “Little Gem”, by Elaine Murphy, (Kilrush D. G.).
Tuesday, March 22nd, (Open)“The Beauty Queen of Leenane”, by Martin McDonagh, (Brideview D. G.).
Wednesday, March 23rd, (Confined)“Quite Moment”, by Mick Finn, (Kilworth D. S.).
Thursday, March 24th, (Confined), “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest”, by Dale Wassermann, (Mullingar D. G.).
Friday, March 25th (Open)“Brighton”, by Jim Nolan, (Skibbereen T. S.).
Saturday, March 26th, (Confined), “The Kings of Kilburn High Road”, by Jimmy Murphy (Camross D. G.)
Admission: €15 euro. Season Ticket: €70 euro. Concession: €12 euro. For further information – Tel: 086 2575159.
Thurles Rock music lovers, will be saddened by the news this morning that the singer of “Bat Out Of Hell”, latter one of the best-selling albums of all time, has sadly died at the age of 74.
Meat Loaf’s passing, born Marvin Lee Aday, was confirmed on the singers Facebook page, by family members.
The family has stated, “Our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf passed away tonight with his wife Deborah by his side. Daughters Pearl and Amanda and close friends have been with him throughout the last 24 hours. We know how much he meant to so many of you and we truly appreciate all of the love and support, as we move through this time of grief in losing such an inspiring artist and beautiful man,”
The renowned actor and singer sold some 100 million albums worldwide, while appearing in movies like “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, “Fight Club”, and“Wayne’s World”.
Three Wooden Crosses on the Highway Composed by Kim Edwin Williams & Doug Johnson
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher, Ridin’ on a midnight bus bound for Mexico. One’s headed for vacation, one for higher education, An’ two of them were searchin’ for lost souls. That driver never ever saw the stop sign. An’ eighteen wheelers can’t stop on a dime.
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway, Why there’s not four of them, Heaven only knows. I guess it’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you, It’s what you leave behind you when you go.
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres, The faith an’ love for growin’ things in his young son’s heart. An’ that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children: Did her best to give ’em all a better start. An’ that preacher whispered: “Can’t you see the Promised Land?” As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker’s hand.
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway, Why there’s not four of them, Heaven only knows. I guess it’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you, It’s what you leave behind you when you go.
That’s the story that our preacher told last Sunday. As he held that blood-stained bible up, For all of us to see. He said: “Bless the farmer, and the teacher, an’ the preacher; “Who gave this Bible to my mamma, “Who read it to me.”
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway, Why there’s not four of them, now I guess we know. It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you, It’s what you leave behind you when you go.
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway.
You get out of bed, bleary eyed and trundle along to your local Holycross Village Market. Your sole intention is to get a couple of your favourite apple sponge cakes; a bunch of organic carrots; a bee’s wax candle (well you never know when the ESB is going to be cut off these days); a loaf of freshly baked brown bread and your first creamy coffee of the day.
A female stall holder screams. You turn around and “God help us”, there they are; natives of Mars, North America, Transylvania and Tipperary.
Photographs don’t lie. Watch the video.
I first spotted a knife wielding bride of Dracula; then as if in a nightmare, a blood splattered Thurles Sarsfield hurler (looking, no doubt, for Kilkenny supporters; after they had dealt with Kiladangan); Vampires all operating in bright daylight; the blood thirsty Dracula himself; numerous walking Skeletons and Zombies; Witches old and young, all dressed in black; a crowd of Muppets (none of which had been elected to Dáil Éireann); a giant Bumble Bee; a Green Woman from Mars; a 68 million year old, sweet eating, Horned Triceratops Dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period (and they told us they were extinct!); a Changeling from the outer world, latter a member of that supernatural race Tuath Dé Danann (“the folk of the goddess Danu”).
Then as if things were not bad enough, Pennywise the dancing evil clown from “It” appeared out of nowhere, leaving me suffering from an attack of coulrophobia (that’s a fear of clowns).
Thankfully super heroes, Black Panther; Superman; Super Mario; a Super Megaforce Power Ranger, together with a Dragon Slaying Knight, in his shining armour, made their appearence, which as you can imagine, set not just my mind, but also the minds of the frightened stall-holders at their ease.
I need not tell you I was out of there like lightening having done my shop, and on arriving home, bolted the front and back door, before pulling all the curtains. Is it safe to go out yet I wonder?
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