Arts & Culture

IT’S more than 30 years since the Corofin Drama Society last performed Frank Carney’s The Righteous Are Bold, but the impact of this play tackling topics such as religion, immigration and racism is as strong today as ever.

THE Guna Nua Theatre Company will be bringing Shakespeare to schools in the county next month.

THE winner of the 2011 Irish Book Club of the Year award, organised by the Ennis Book Club Festival, has been unveiled. Ballingarry Book Club beat off competition from other book clubs throughout Ireland to be named overall winner of the second annual competition, which was won in 2010 by National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) Audio Book Club from County Dublin.

The fledgling violin tuition project at Ennis National School was given a major boost this week when the online blog that accompanies the programme was nominated for two awards in the Irish Blog Awards.

Clare Youth Theatre will present Ex Libris, an exploration of books through theatre, as part of the Ennis Book Club Festival.

The Green-Graph 2011 photography competition is looking for pictures that show a snapshot of an Irish world.

TRUE GRITDIRECTED BY: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen STARRING: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon CERT: 15AFeels like True Grit has been around forever. I don’t mean the Charles Portis novel from 1968, or the John Wayne film from a year later. I mean this True Grit, by the Coen brothers – a film that’s closer in detail and tone to the book than it is to The Duke’s great old Western.

Channel HoppingStill reeling from the revelation that Jedward will represent us at Eurovision? Well tune in to BBC and get your laugh on for all the right reasons. Red Noses are being donned across the water as Comic Relief kicks up a gear.