Arts & Culture

MEMORIES of playing with childhood soldiers in O’Dea’s Bar in Ennis has been the inspiration for Mick O’Dea’s latest exhibition, aptly called Black and Tan.

THE North Clare village of Kilfenora is to come to life next month with the Kilfenora Music Festival, which will take place from April 15-19.

PULITZER prize-winning US poet Jorie Graham has been confirmed among the line-up of participants for Éigse Michael Hartnett, which is organised by the Limerick County Arts Office and takes place from April 22 to 24.

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HE was a well known Irish traditional musician, a person who had many friends and they were not found wanting when it came to paying their final farewell to Kevin Murray. His sudden death at a relatively young age at his home in St Flannan’s Terrace, Ennis on March 13 came as a great shock to all of them.

LOCAL artist Barry Wrafter is seeking funding to produce a special monument to the victims of industrial schools and clerical abuse in Clare and Ireland in general.The sculptor, along with local councillors Paul O’Shea, Johnny Flynn and Michael Guilfoyle, has set up a fundraising committee and the county council is to match funds gathered as part of this effort.Barry has come up with the drawings and a model of this proposed monument and he is now putting it to the public. He explained that it is his intention to have the piece in full colour to represent a bright future to show that the world is not all bad. He said his piece aims “to show this is the past but to remember the past”.Outlining the reasons behind his intended art piece, Barry stated, “This should be a monument for future generations. This monument is to show solidarity with the victims. I decided this was one theme I would like …