Arts & Culture

  THE Clare Volunteer Centre will celebrate local communities across the county by demonstrating how a single poem can knit them together. The centre is looking for volunteers, community groups and voluntary groups to get involved in producing the county’s first-ever knitted poem. Sharon Meaney, manager with the Clare Volunteer Centre, explains the reason behind the call for volunteers.“Earlier this year, we ran a poetry competition, inviting people to celebrate our local communities by writing a poem on the theme ‘Together We Can Make a Difference’. “We had over 250 entries and the judges had a huge task in picking the eventual winner. We wanted to do something a bit different to celebrate our vibrant communities in Clare, so we decided to knit the poem, launching it on December 5, the International Day of Volunteering, under the title ‘Knitting Our Community Together’,” she said. The poem was composed by Ciaran Collins but the title of the poem has been kept …

John Curran, author of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, was in Ennis recently to speak at the annual Coroner’s Society of Ireland’s conference. Here, he shares his passion for crime fiction and reveals some of his favourite titles in the whodunit genre to Carol Byrne  

THE Mid-West Branch of the Irish Patchwork Society is hosting the 31st anniversary exhibition for the society in Limerick this year.  

ADMIRED by Che Guevara, feared by the British Army, loved by the people he led, Tom Barry, legendary commander of the famous West Cork Flying Column survived the War of Independence to tell his incredible story.

HAILING from Clarecastle, Dolce have just launched their first CD, Sing to a Brighter Future, produced to assist the Clinical Cancer Research Trust in their mission to combat cancer.

VINCENY Keehan and Paddy Egan come together to play music in Shanaglish when they return to these shores from overseas.

CHRISTY Moore will play The Royal Spa Hotel, Lisdoonvarna for two nights on October 19 and 20.