Joe Keane Creative Centre

03/02/2023

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground.
Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
You've been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.
Rumi - from "A Necessary Autumn Inside Each"
Artwork - Darwin by Gaby D'Alessandro

02/02/2023

Great initiative my the museums of ireland

We were delighted to host the filming 'Brigid, Our Spirit Stirring', at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar.

Launched today, this film was created and performed by older people from Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo, Monaghan and Sligo, with artist Marie Brett. It captures the creative outputs of an Age & Opportunity art project carried out in these six counties in 2022 in partnership with Age Friendly Ireland and funded by the Creative Ireland Programme.

Age & Opportunity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP1yCJRHnFk

01/02/2023

It would be easy to for Siobhán McSweeney to become lost in the new-age psychobabble surrounding the saint. But this is a heartfelt, illuminating portrait

01/02/2023

Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

01/02/2023

Blessings to all on this ancient Celtic festival of Imbolc.

May you awaken to the mystery of being here,
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path.

May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and may anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.

May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven,
around the heart of wonder.

If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times.

In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

John O'Donohue
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom..

31/01/2023

We invite applications for General Municipal Allocation (GMA) Funding for 2023 under the following headings:
1) Residents Associations
2) Clubs/Organisations
3) Festival & Events
4) Burial Grounds
Deadline: Friday, February 24th
Further info and forms: https://www.mayo.ie/news/GMA-Funding-2023

Mayo.ie Mayo County Council Ballyhaunis Community Council Mayo Bulls IIHC Mayo Parkinsons Mulranny Tourism Louisburgh Community Futures Carnacon Comunity Ballintubber Abbey Bangor Erris Tidy Towns Kiltimagh Tourism Festivals Louisburgh & Killeen Heritage Balla Community Centre Belcarra Ireland Charlestown LGFA CRC 89.1 Radio Mayo Autism Camp Westport Festival of Chamber Music Kilmeena GAA Achill Oral Histories St Brigids LGFA ParkeandCrimlin Development Ballycroy Social Services Ballinrobe Tidy Towns Ballyhaunis Community Council Ballyhaunis Tidy Towns Mvf Martial Arts

16/01/2023

12/01/2023

Let them shine…. No matter where they are in the journey or have far they have come. All children, no matter what, deserve to shine ###

10/01/2023

Exhibit coincides with the arrival of a new director at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dr Caroline Campbell

07/01/2023

Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you. The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, you return having lost some of yourself.

Until you learn to inhabit your aloneness, the lonely distraction and noise of society will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary. When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging.

This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality. In a sense this is the endless task of finding your true home within your life. It is not narcissistic, for as soon as you rest in the house of your own heart, doors and windows begin to open outwards to the world. No longer on the run from your aloneness, your connections with others become real and creative. You no longer need to covertly scrape affirmation from others or from projects outside yourself. This is slow work; it takes years to bring your mind home.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Eternal Echoes
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

07/01/2023

Let them dawdle!