A variety of speakers and musicians, including local storytellers and Booker Prize nominated authors, will feature in a special evening of Christmas entertainment at the National Opera House on Wednesday, December 6. For the first time in its history, Sunday Miscellany Celebrates Christmas with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra is being performed outside of the capital for a concert which will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 during its seasonal schedule.
There is simply no better place to be in Ireland in October than Wexford, when the town becomes a hive of cultural activity to celebrate the annual Wexford Festival Opera. Now in its 72nd year, Wexford Festival Opera continues to amaze and delight in equal measure, when operatic performers from all over the world convene at the National Opera House for two weeks of world-class opera.
It was while he was still in the very heart of the grieving process that Liam Bowe decided to re-engage with a former hobby, a pastime that had never really left him. Following the sudden passing of his wife Teresa in August 2015, Liam was left at a loss, left struggling for ways to deal with his grief, ways to sum up what she had meant to him.