Arts & Culture

CAHER-based woodturner William Edwards is carrying on a family tradition of woodwork by creating functional and unique craft items. William Edwards is one of a group of Clare craftspeople who exhibits at the new monthly Artisans’ Craft Fair in the Milk Market in Limerick on the last Thursday of every month.William, originally from Kent in the UK, has been living in Caher, near Feakle, for the past 23 years. “Before coming to Ireland, I had been a science teacher in Austria and Singapore in international schools. I was looking for an English-speaking country to settle in and to find a new career and I always considered that I’d like to live in Ireland. My mother’s family were Irish. I saw an advertisement in a magazine for a house in Caher and we instantly liked it. It was one of those chance things. We came to have a look at the house and we fell in love with the area,” he …

THE fourth annual Tulla Traditional Music Festival takes place this weekend and a lively few days of music, song and dance has been lined up.

WHILE the country fears recession, Clare man Paul Walsh has decided to open his second antique and art auction house in Clarecastle.

TWO new exhibitions are opening at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon this weekend.

THE doors of the Tulla Stables Studio will be open to the public this Sunday afternoon, with a display of ceramics, jewellery, paintings, printmaking, textiles and sculpture.

Film review

DVD REVIEW

THERE was only one TV show being talked about on Tuesday morning of this week and that was the first of two episodes of a new factual series Freefall – The Night the Banks Failed on RTÉ.