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Wednesday 16th Feburary 2005

After Dark Circle presents‘ Anne Street, Bailieborough In the 40’s and 50’s’
Our next After Dark Circle at the Wesleyan Chapel Arts & Cultural Centre talk will be a treat for local heritage enthusiasts.

The talk is titled ‘ Anne Street in the 40’s and 50’s’ and will be delivered by Mr. Willy O’Reilly. This will be an intriguing evening, painting the picture of Anne’s street in times gone by. Hear all about the businesses and industry that existed back then, the character of the street and the characters that lived there too. Bring your old photographs and take a trip down memory lane. This talk will take place on this Friday evening the 18th February @ 8p.m. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. If you have any stories or photos you would like to share on the night, we look forward to hearing from you. Contact Niamh Smyth Curator @ 042 – 966 66 66.

Deepest Sympathy:
Deepest Sympathy is extended to Mr. Raymond Lloyd and Family, Main Street, on the recent death of his brother Benjamin, Farnaught, Co. Leitrim. Benjamin was laid to rest in Farnaught on Saturday last following Funeral Service in the local Parish Church.

Bailieborough Community Choir:
Rehearsals for the Bailieborough Community Choir will commence in Trinity Hall on Monday evening next, February 21st at 8.30pm. The support of all members would be appreciated and new singers are always welcome.

Bailieborough Community Resource House:
The next meeting of the Bailieborough Community Resource House Management Committee will take place in the Resource House on Tuesday evening next, February 22nd at 8.00pm, sharp. All members are requested to attend this meeting.

Bailieborough Library:
Library Mother and Toddler Group takes place every Wednesday from 10.30am to 12.00pm. A great way to make new acquaintances while the children can have fun with a wide range of toys. There is no charge and all are welcome

. Did you know that it is free to join your local Library? There is a wide range of services available including FREE Internet access, a huge selection of both children's and adult books and books on tape, magazines, newspapers, local history information and study facilities. The staff would be only too happy to show you around and help you with your queries. Encourage you child to read by visiting the Library today. Phone 042 9665779 for further information.

Citizens Information Centre:
The County Cavan Citizens Information Service holds outreach services in Bailieborough, every Thursday morning in the Adult Learning Centre, Anne Street, from 9.30am to 11.00am. Information officers provide a wide range of information and advice on all rights and entitlements.

The Citizen Information Services are a free and confidential service. Everyone welcome. For further details on Freephone: 1800 49 49 49.

Bailieborough Cancer Fund Committee:
The Bailieborough Cancer Fund Committee would like to sincerely thank everyone for supporting their recent Fund raising events. The presentation of the cheque will take place in Murtagh’s Lounge on Friday evening, February 25th. There are still some legs to be waxed on the night and there will be some lovely Spot Prizes to be won. First prize will be a two-night break in a top Irish hotel, sponsored by Edel and Eugene Fox. Please come along and support this event, as all funds raised will be kept locally, to help those living with cancer.

It is planned that the funds that are raised will provide a taxi service for people suffering from cancer and who might not have the means to travel for treatment, etc…Forms for the same have been left at the two doctors surgeries in the town and must be filled in and then signed by the doctor. Initially this service will only be available for people suffering from cancer and living within a certain specified distance from the town and including the town itself. The service will commence on Monday, February 28th. It is hoped that other events will take place over the coming year to help boost the fund and to help those who may need help the most.

Donations can be lodged to account no. 02960062, Allied Irish Bank, Bailieborough.

Linguistic Arts, Alternative Living, Art & Drama
The Wesleyan Chapel Arts & Cultural Centre, Bailieborough is delighted to announce that we are currently taking enrolments for our exciting new courses and events to take place in 2005. For adults we have: Sunday afternoon Tango Social Dance, Folk or Circle Dancing, Yoga, Personal Development, Spanish, French, Creative Photography, Choral Lessons and Art for the Young at Heart 60yrs+. For Kidz we have Speech and Drama, French, Ballet, Hip-Hop, Guitar, Violin and Art Alive. For the teenagers we have grinds in Leaving and Junior Cert Business Studies, Music and History of Art. New members are always welcome to parent and toddler group every Tuesday morning 11am – 12.30pm. For information on any of the above, please call Niamh Smyth Curator to secure you place @ 042 966 66 66.

Pioneer Total Abstinence Association:
The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association All Ireland ‘Readiori ‘ Final will take place in Kingscourt Community Centre on Saturday, February 26th at 1.00pm. Tickets for the event are available from Patricia Flood, Clonkeefy, Ballyjamesduff at a cost of €10. Please make cheques/postal orders payable to Ulster Leisure Committee PTAA.

Irish Horse Co-Operative Society Ltd: With reference to a recent advertisement in the Anglo Celt, the committee of the Irish Horse Co-Op wish to state that no member was ever authorised to seek invoices for voluntary work done over the last number of years at the Co-Op Centre. At our recent meeting, the Committee expressed sincere appreciation to all who voluntarily contributed to the Irish Horse Co-Op.

Caring in the Home Support Group:
A meeting of the ‘Caring in the Home’ Support Group will take place in the Hotel bailie on Tuesday evening, February 22nd at 8.00pm.

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY EVAN JAMESON to Make his Debut Performance’ In The Wesleyan Chapel, BailieboroughDRAMA – POWERFUL – MOVING – REAL LIFE
On Saturday 26th Feb @ 8.30pm ‘The Marriage of Bette & Boo’ by Christopher Durang, will be performed by Parnassus Arts Group from Dublin starring local Bailieborough Actor EVAN JAMESON making his debut in the part of Matt, in The Wesleyan Chapel Arts & Cultural Centre, Bailieborough.

The Marriage of Bette Boo is the third production of a Durang play from Parnassus. Christopher Durang is an American playwright and actor whose plays have been seen on and off – Broadway, around the USA and indeed here in Ireland. He usually writes comedy – either satire or dark comedy or parody or just absurdist. He has a B.A. in English from Harvard College, and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama. This play was first presented by the New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City in 1985. Durang himself played the role of Matt in the production. The play is based on his parent’s marriage.

As a student at Yale he had several plays presented at the School, and he especially worked at the Yale cabaret. With fellow playwriting student Albert Innaurato he co-authored and performed on two very crackpot cabaret pieces, I Don’t Generally Like Poetry But have You Read “Trees”? and The Life Story of Mitzi Gaynor. Durang later collaborated with fellow student Wendy Wasserstein on another cabaret piece, When Dinah Shore Ruled The Earth..

His first professional production was of ‘The Idiots Karamazov’ (co-authored with Innaurato) at the Yale Repertory Theatre in a production starring then student Meryl Streep as the 80 year old nutty “translatrix” Constance Garnett. After that, his play ‘The Nature And Purpose Of The Universe’ was presented off-off Broadway at the Direct Theatre in 1975. His play Titanic, starring his Yale classmate Sigourney Weaver, was done in 1976 at the Direct Theatre, and transferred to off-Broadway along with a satiric cabaret, Das Lusitania Songspiel, co-authored by Durang and Ms. Weaver, and featuring both of them. In 1978 a history Of The American Film was presented on Broadway, earnings Durang a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical. In 1979, Durang and Sigourney Weaver rewrote their Das Lusitania Songspiel and it was done again in the 1979-80 season as a late night show at the Westside Arts Theatre and because a cult success.

In 1980 Durang’s one act play Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You was presented at the Ensemble Studio Theatre off-off-Broadway and received rave reviews, an Obie awards for Durang. The play was moved to off-Broadway, where it ran for over two and a half years.

Starring local Actor EVAN JAMESON from Bailieborough making his debut in the part of Matt, this is a performance not to be missed. Tickets can be booked in advance by calling Niamh Smyth, Curator 042 966 66 66. Wine reception after the performance. This performance is for ONE NIGHT ONLY so it is advisable to book your tickets early.

Very Successful Fundraising Table Quiz
: The Fundraising Table Quiz in aid of the Tsunami Appeal, which took place in the Square Bar on Friday evening, January 28th, last proved to be a great success. All had a great night and a sizable sum was raised for the Tsunami appeal.

Proceeds from the night amounted to €4,200 and €2,200 has been donated to the Irish Red Cross Society and €2,000 has been donated to ‘Bothar’. The owner of the Square bar, Mr. Phillip Clarke would like to express his thanks to all who made the night such a great success and to all who helped out on the night.

‘In A Mucker Fog’
A Celebration of the Prose and Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh for Upper Second Level Students

Poetry Ireland in association with The Wesleyan Chapel Arts and Cultural Centre are delighted to present a celebration of the work of Patrick Kavanagh for teachers and students. Actor/director Donagh Deeney (Fair City’s bad boy, Aidan) along with Frank Smith, Johnny Mulvill and Pat McGrath will give a one-and-a-quarter hour performance from the works of Patrick Kavanagh, particularly relevant for those approaching Kavanagh on the Leaving Certificate Programme, but of interest to anyone with a knowledge, interest in or love of Kavanagh’s work.

These professional and well-established actors and performers also performed ‘Joyce for Schools’ as part of the Rejoyce Dublin 2004 Celebrations to great acclaim. As part of Poetry Ireland’s Education Programme and as our contribution to the countrywide celebration of Patrick Kavanagh’s life and work, we hope that this performance will open up for teachers and students alike, new and perhaps exciting perspectives on his work.

Works covered in the performance will include:

1. To a Child
2. My Room
3. Shancoduff
4. Memory of My Father
5. Christmas 1939
6. Stony Grey Soil
7. In Memory of My Mother
8. On Raglan Road
9. To be Dead
10. If you ever go to Dublin Town
11. The Rowley Mile 12. To Hell with Commonsense
13. Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal
14. Tarry Flynn 15. The Green Fool
16. Dublin Magazine

Performances will take place for three days only from the 14th – 16th March and we will have two performances each day, 11a.m. and 1pm. We have a limited number of places available for this exciting project and it is an opportunity NOT TO BE MISSED so book your school in now by calling Niamh Smyth Curator @ 042 –9 66 66 66.

Oliver! The Musical:
“Can I have some more?” Everyone is familiar with the pleading words of the young orphan boy born to the world of classic literature by Charles Dickens. The musical Oliver! with music, and lyrics by Lionel Bart, sets the story of Oliver Twist’s struggle from London’s workhouses to find a place and a family to call his own.

It is perhaps only fitting that Lionel Bart, the man who first opened the door for today's millions to the entertainment treasures of Charles Dickens' genius, by using it as inspiration for a musical, came to fame from humble Cockney beginnings. Bart had sensed a built-in theatricalism in Dickens, who wrote 'Oliver Twist' over a century and a half ago in 1838.

Oliver!, the musical, is due to be performed in the Wesleyan Chapel Arts, Culture and Tourism Centre on Friday 11th March 2004 and is the first ever youth Musical to be staged in the Centre. It puts an interesting twist on Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist. The interesting twist is how music adds a powerful dimension to Dickens’ rags to riches story.

The musical follows the adventures of the plucky titular orphan. You will observe young Oliver's emotional roller coaster ride - from his 19th century origins in a workhouse orphanage, with its forced child labour, to his stint in London, at Fagin's, (Fagin, an adult rogue who trained little boys to become professional pickpockets) to his happily-ever-after with a long-lost wealthy relative.

Oliver!, with music, will tighten the strings of your emotions in a way the novel never could. This musical version glosses over some of Dickens' more graphic passages but retains a strong subtext to what was essentially light entertainment. Songs like “Food Glorious Food”, “Where Is Love” and “As Long As He Needs Me” will allow the audience to really feel for the characters because their songs speak their souls. These musical numbers intensify even the comic aspects of the story.

When arch pickpocket and gang leader, Fagin breaks into song and dance, it reveals the lighter, playful side of the criminal. And when Mr. Bumble chases the Widow Corney to the beat of the song I Shall Scream, it shows another foolish aspect to his bumbling character.

Musical highlights include: "Consider Yourself," and "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two." In Oliver! , The material never attracts attention to itself, never distracts us from the story or characters and credit for this is due to Lynn Jacks on and Thomas Hanley for their skilful choreography and musical direction of this challenging show as well as the faultless dedication of an exceptional cast of talented young actors and singers.

Dates for the Musical, TWO NIGHTS ONLY are Friday the 11th and Saturday 12th March. Limited seats please book early.

To book your tickets for Oliver! or for information on further events and upcoming classes at the Wesleyan Chapel call Niamh Smyth, Curator on (042) 96 66 666 or visit www.wesleyanchapel.com

Are You Unemployed ?
Need help in finding an employer or an employment that suits you! We can assist you in doing this and give you support through job coaching while you settle into your new job. Generous training /transport/meal allowances available to eligible applicants. For further information or assistance phone John/Julie at NTDI Cootehill Road Cavan 049/4377033 or 049/4362853

Bailieborough Celtic A.F.C.:
With the bad weather forcing all the club’s games to be cancelled over the weekend, it is hoped that the teams will be able to play on this weekend. On Saturday afternoon, the second team are due to play ‘Rossin’ away at 3.00pm, while on the underage front, the U-14’s have a lone trip to play Enfield on Saturday at 12 noon and the U-12’s also travel away to play near rivals Kells at 10.30am. On Sunday morning the First team travel away to play Navan Town at 11.15 am.

Bailieborough Athletic Club:
Bailieboro AC is reminding members to renew their membership early and inviting new members to join the sport. The County Sportshall/Children’s Games 2nd round is taking place in Killinkere Leisure Centre at 10:30 am on Saturday Feb 19th. This is an excellent event for U9 to U12 age groups.

Only three representatives travelled to Antrim Forum for the Ulster Winter Track and Field finals on Sunday last. In the polar conditions they were outstanding in their respective events and were within feet of medal places, Shane Donnellan in the 800m, Helena O'Dowd in the 200m and Niall Comey in the 800m. Better representation is expected in the Sportshall on Saturday and Track events that are starting soon.

Good Luck:
The best of wishes and good luck is extended to Mr. Padraic McIntyre and the ‘Livin Dred’ Theatre Company, who will stage Billy Roche’s play ‘Belfry’, in the Ramor Theatre, Virginia, from this Friday, February 18th to March 5th. Padraic –from Lisnalee, Bailieborough—along with Aaron Monaghan from Cavan town, set up the County’s only professional Theatre Company last year. They staged ‘The beauty Queen of Leenane’ as their first production in the Ramor last year and it proved to be a terrific success with the play playing to packed houses every night and receiving much critical acclaim.

Rehearsals for the production of the ‘Belfry’ have been going well over the past few weeks and with a Star-Studded cast that includes, Deirdre Monaghan (Fair City), Brendan Conroy (The Irish R.M.), Frank Laverty, Malcolm Adams (Fair City) and Adam Morris, this production promises to be a sure fire hit. For further information and bookings, please contact the Ramor Theatre on 049 8547074.

Bailieborough Swimming Pool and Leisure Centre:
Ladies are required for Water Polo teams. If you are interested in taking part in this fun sport, please call Joanne at the Leisure Centre—042 96 66644, as soon as possible.

Bailieborough Mental Health Association 5th Annual Essay Project:
The presentation of prizes to primary school pupils who took part in the 5th Annual Essay Project organised by Bailieborough Mental Health Association will take place at 7.30pm sharp in the Bailie Hotel on Wednesday 23rd February. Pupils, their family and teachers are asked to be there at 7.15pm to ensure a prompt start. All in the community are very welcome also. Mr. Brian Howard, the CEO of Mental Health Ireland will attend and speak on this very special night. Light refreshments will be served.