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The Irish History Company - A community development group specialising in historical re-enactment, period reconstruction and the manufacture of period clothing and artifacts for living history, museums, film and TV.

The Hawk's Well Theatre - The regional Performing Arts Centre for the North West of Ireland.

Stonelight - Celtic spiral art and craftwork products.

Gray, Jo - Limited edition images, mostly from northwest Ireland.

Sligo Arts Festival - A summer cultural event in the West of Ireland. Showcases theatre, music, visual arts, and street entertainment.

Beyond Ben Bulben - A group of men and women in the State of Victoria Australia with a shared interest in Irish and Anglo-Irish literature and poetry, especially that of William Butler Yeats.

The Peace Cairn - Information rocks people use as an expression of support for the bringing about of peace.

Queen Maeve - Classes in tin whistle, flute, traditional singing, button accordion, piano accordion, and fiddle.

Delicious Niteclub at the Clarence Hotel - Starting each night with a fine selection of deep house and garage, the residents gradually build the night into a frenzy of the best in hard house and trance, but always insuring that the odd classic is thrown in for good measure.

Equinox Night Club - One of the cool places to hang out.

J. McLaughlin's Bar - This traditional Irish pub in Sligo has live music every night including traditional Irish music, folk music sessions, and sing along nights.

Atlantic Tapestry & Cross-Stitch - Needlepoint tapestry and cross-stitch kits of Irish landscapes and some Celtic designs.

Sligo Concert Band - An amateur wind band consisting of brass, woodwind and percussion instruments.

Hugh Mullan - Professional photographer, family portraits, wedding and landscape photography.

Envy.ie - Information about the club, its membership and location.

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Ward) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Arts and Entertainment The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Arts and Entertainment Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Arts and Entertainment For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Arts and Entertainment We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Arts and Entertainment The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Arts and Entertainment I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Arts and Entertainment "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Arts and Entertainment An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. 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