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Banish the winter blues with some classical music or opera. Cathy Desmond selects the best events of the months ahead.

Town Hall Theatre, Galway

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‘The Birth of Modern Music’ is the programme for the Music for Galway Midwinter Festival, which runs from Jan 17 to 19.

The comedian Glenn Wool, who is one of the headliners at next week’s Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival, grew up in Vancouver, Canada.

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A DRAMATISED reading of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas will be presented shortly at the new Town Hall Theatre in Dungarvan.