Class Win for Roscrea’s Nicole Drought in Birr!
Having already wrapped the A1 class in the 2019 Endurance Trial Championship, with six wins from six starts, Roscrea’s Nicole Drought and co driver Aaron McElroy decided to move up to the A2 class for the final round of the championship at the weekend. The Birr & District Motor Club had set out 20 challenging […]
Biggest Event Yet For Birr Festival Of Music
There will be arias in the air and strings in the streets once more when Birr Festival of Music returns for its third outing this May Bank Holiday weekend, Friday 3- Monday 6 May. 2019 will be the biggest programme to date for the Midland’s only dedicated classical music festival with this year’s programme packed […]
Birr Festival of Music & Voice returns for another outing this May
There will be arias in the air and strings in the streets once more when Birr Festival of Music & Voice returns for its second outing this May Bank Holiday weekend,Friday 4- Monday 7 May 2018. After a thrilling debut last year, another brimming weekend of classical music beckons for the beautiful Georgian town in […]
Attention Playwrights! SCRIPTS: Ireland’s Playwriting Festival seeks new works
Calling the writers, poets, dreamers, and schemers. Scripts is seeking new plays to inspire, inject, invent, invoke, and incite. The theme this year is DREAMS. From the large dreams for the future to the micro dreams of the day to day; dreams keep us looking to the future, delving into the unconscious, and questioning what’s […]
Mary Coughlan Returns To Birr Theatre And Arts Centre Next Month
Mary Coughlan and her band are bringing her brand new show Live & Kicking to Birr Theatre & Arts Centre on Sunday 8 October, 8pm . Don’t miss this celebration of Mary’s 30 plus years in the music business when she takes to the Birr stage for the first time in three years next month. […]
Conal Gallen Returns To Birr Next Month
Don’t miss one of Ireland’s best loved comedians, Conal Gallen, when he returns to Birr Theatre & Arts Centre on Saturday 30 September, 8pm with his brand new play. “How’s Your Father?” is a non-stop, laugh a minute riot of craic, confusion and constant laughter from the father and son team, Conal and Rory […]
The Whistling Girl Stops Off At Birr Theatre and Arts Centre
The acclaimed Irish duo of singer and actress Honor Heffernan and composer/ keyboard player Trevor Knight proudly present their new Cabaret/Speakeasy-style show, The Whistling Girl at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre on Saturday 16 September, 8pm. Trevor Knight has transformed the poems of Dorothy Parker into songs, using her witty, droll and sometimes heart rending […]
Boil Water Notices Issued For Precautionary Reasons
Following the advice of the Health Service Executive, Irish Water and Offaly County Council, have issued Boil Water Notices for precautionary reasons on the Banagher Public Water Supply, the Birr Public Water Supply and the Dunkerrin Public Water Supply. This is due to detection of E.coli and Total Coliforms following routine water quality sampling. In the interest […]
New Concert Celebrating Jeanette MacDonald And Nelson Eddy
Sheldon Nulty Music presents “Will You Remember?” starring soprano Sandra Oman and baritone Simon Morgan in an unforgettable tribute in concert to Silver Screen Icons of the 1930s and 1940s, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. All of their famous songs, arias and duets – Will You Remember?; Rose Marie; Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life; Lover […]
