Arts & Culture

POPULAR performer Duke Special returns to Glór with his new show The Silent World of Hector Mann and Songs from Mother Courage at the start of June.

A FULL programme of over 60 traditional music, language and cultural events are lined up for the Fleadh Nua, which begins in Ennis this Sunday.

THE 2010 Riches of Clare summer lunchtime concert series begins on Monday, with four free lunchtime concerts during the Fleadh Nua.

A NUMBER of members of the Sikh community from County Clare are featured in a photographic and life history project, which is currently on view at the Chester Beatty Library in the grounds of Dublin Castle.

LOCAL disability groups and members of the community worked together to learn and experience art under the guidance of artist Carmel O’Doherty as part of the Embrace exhibition in Scariff recently.

THE Burren is the setting for a new novel just published by author, Laura Elliot. Stolen Child – as its title suggests, concerns the life of a child who is stolen from a luxury maternity clinic when she is a two-day-old baby. It follows the lives of the two women in her life – the woman who commits this crime and the mother who never stops believing she will be reunited with her daughter.

THE Iniscealtra Festival of Arts organising committee has confirmed a number of events, taking place at the 15th year of the event, which will be held in Mountshannon from May 29 to June 7.

John Keogh reviews Russel Crowe’s Robin Hood