Join us in Cashel librarytomorrow Monday, May 29th of at 10:30am for “Mindful Mandala Making” with Ms Maria Coleman. This workshop is suitable for adults only, with the event free. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome to attend. Booking is necessary for this event so do please Tel:(062) 63825.
A mandala is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Shinto it is used as a map representing deities, or especially in the case of Shinto, paradises, kami or actual shrines. A mandala generally represents the spiritual journey, starting from outside to the inner core, through layers.
The pioneering rock’n’roll legend; singer, dancer, actress and author, Ms Tina Turner, (November 26th 1939 – May 24th 2023, born Anna Mae Bullock), has today sadly died, aged 83, following a long illness.
In the 1980s, Ms Turner launched one of the greatest comebacks in music history, with her multi-platinum album “Private Dancer”, latter which contained the hit song “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, and which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
Her acting career included the films “Tommy” (1975) and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” (1985) and in 1993, “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, a biographical film adapted from her autobiography “I, Tina: My Life Story,” was also released.
Having sold over 100 million records worldwide, Ms Turner became one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. During her lifetime, Ms Turner received 12 Grammy Awards, (eight competitive awards, three Grammy Hall of Fame awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award).
She became the first black artist and first woman to be on the cover of Rolling Stone, which ranked her among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
On Friday morning next, May 26th, at 11:00am sharp in Cashel Library, Ms Stephanie Woods will discuss the women artists of ‘An Túr Gloine(Irish for “The Glass Tower”) latter a Stained Glass Studio, focusing on the works of Sarah Purser, Evie Hone and Catherine O’Brien and the windows they created in Tipperary.
An Túr Gloine was first conceived of in late 1901 and finally established in January 1903 at No. 24 Pembroke Street, Dublin, Ireland.
The aforementioned Sarah Purser hoped to provide an alternative to the commercial stained glass imported from England and Germany, for Irish churches and other architectural projects. Thus, the original impetus for this project, was spurred on by the building of a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Loughrea, Co. Galway; drawing on the artistic tradition of Celtic manuscript illumination.
Note Please: Booking is essential to Tel: 062 63825. Refreshments will be served at this FREE trulyinformative event, where at all possible should not to be missed.
Thurles, Co. Tipperary’s and Ireland’s Oscar nominee, Ms Kerry Condon is to star opposite Mr Brad Pitt in a new Formula 1 movie.
The entertainment trade digital and print magazine, “The Hollywood Reporter“ has stated that the Apple Studios film will be directed by Mr Joseph Kosinski of “Top Gun: Maverick” fame and will be produced by Top Gun’s Mr Jerry Bruckheimer.
The very lovelyThurles, Co. Tipperary born Ms Kerry Condon.
Mr Brad Pitt will play a former racing driver who gets back behind the wheel, while we understand that “The Banshees of Inisherin’s” Ms Condon will play the team’s technical director.
Mr Pitt is expected to drive at this year’s British Grand Prix in an effort to film scenes for this upcoming movie, with the 59-year-old Hollywood star racing an adapted Formula 2 car at Silverstone, during the weekend of the Grand Prix, which takes place on July 9th 2023.
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Tonight at the Dublin IFTA awards, the afore mentioned ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ was chosen as ‘Best Film’, with Ms Condon winning ‘Best Supporting Actress’, while her co-star Mr Brendan Gleeson won ‘Best Supporting Actor’.
Mr McCarron is an established artist, who trained at the Crawford Collage of Art & Design and is a former Curator of the Cashel Folk Village, Dominic Street, St. Dominick’s Abbey, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
He will, this month, showcase stunning local scenes painted in oil; together with mythical scenes printed on silk.
Mr Damien McCarron.
Mr McCarron was awarded the ‘Tommas Dammn Award’ in 2003, and has exhibited in the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Annual Exhibition on two former occasions; in the Fenton Gallery, Cork, and in The Source Arts Centre, here in Thurles, as well as other local galleries in Tipperary and elsewhere.
Please do visit Cashel Library to see his stunning work.
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