OFFline Film Festival has officially Opened for submissions!
Anyone wishing to submit their short film for consideration go to: OFFline Short Film Competition. Enter to be in with a chance of winning the First Prize of €1,500 worth of film equipment rental and Second prize of €500 worth of film equipment rental. For those of you interested in entering into the 3 day filmmaking [...]
Birr Theatre & Arts Centre Upcoming Events In May 2013
Exhibiting during May at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, Birr, Co. Offaly – (057) 9122911 / www.birrtheatre.com. Student Art Exhibition – St. Brendan’s Community School Birr Theatre & Arts Centre is delighted to welcome back the young talent at Birr Community School for their annual exhibition. This is a huge opportunity for artists of the future to experience the exhibition process. [...]
International Musicians Billed For BIRR Theatre & Arts Centre in 2013
Providing a year round diverse programme of events in Birr and surrounding area (South and West Offaly, North Tipperary, East Galway), Birr Theatre & Arts Centre are delighted to announce international names for the new year. Returning to Ireland after his hugely successful visits last year and his appearance in the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, the [...]
The High Kings Get Ready to Entertain at The County Arms Hotel
Ireland’s folk band of the year are set to perform at the County Arms Hotel Birr, Co. Offaly on Thursday November 22nd. Known for their contemporary approach to Irish folk music, The High Kings represent great tradition combined with extraordinary talent. The High Kings were formed by the creators of Celtic Women, comprising Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey [...]
Millions of Chinese to read about Birr Castle
A group of top journalists from China – including Chen Ting, one of the most popular travel bloggers in China, and a representative of SINA Corporation, the largest online media company in China – visited Co Tipperary last week, as guests of Tourism Ireland and Bord Bia. The journalists were here to experience at first-hand [...]
The Garden Sessions 2012 in aid of Offaly Hospice
We are so happy & excited to annouce some of our line up for this years The Garden Sessions 2012 Acts such as Hello Moon, Neil Hannon, A Band Called Wanda, The Mandolas, The Gandhis, The Walls, Daithi, I’m Your Vinyl, Marc O’Rielly, Winterking,Katie Kim, Ronan O’Snodaigh, Daniel Martin Moore … In aid [...]
Get Your Shorts Out for the Chance to Win €1000 with Offline Film Festiva
Get Your Shorts Out for the Chance to Win €1000 with Offline Film Festival OFFline Film Festival has just announced a new strand to their dynamic festival. Alongside the (in)famous short filmmaking challenge, the festival will now be hosting a competition for short films made in the last two years. The shortlisted films will be [...]
The Garden Sessions Monday 6th/ 7th/ 8th August 2012, BIRR, Co.Offaly
Here comes the summer… Here comes the summer ……and also The Garden Sessions 2012, which will take place from Monday the 6th thru to Wednesday the 8th of August. This amazing affair takes place over 3 days in the beautiful setting of the rose walled garden of The Chestnut, Birr, Co. Offaly. In aid of [...]
Small Business leads the way as the first 32 county #SMEcommunity tweet-up takes place in Birr
If Ireland is looking for a demonstration of phenomenal growth and positivity it doesn’t have to look much further than the Twitter group known as #SMEcommunity. What started a mere 8 months ago with a single tweet between two Irish business people, has now grown into an offline gathering incorporating all 32 counties which will [...]
€55k Raised for Killian Spain, Rath, Birr, Co. Offaly
Friends of Killian a committee formed in June 2010 to help raise much needed funds for Killian Spain who is a 5 year old boy from the parish of Eglish/Drumcullen, who was born with a rare medical condition (Posterior Urethral Valves) which affected his bladder and kidneys function. He underwent surgery when he was 5 [...]
