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From Curtains to Costume

Filed in News by on October 13, 2025 0 Comments
From Curtains to Costume

As part of the Launch Day event for Vintage Glamour Day, a fund-raising collaboration between North-West Hospice and Sligo Races, our resident costumier, Máire Hynes, was challenged to create a vintage costume from old curtains! Máire selected a pair of curtains donated to the North-West Hospice shop and reimagined, recycled and reused them to create […]

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Vintage Glamour Day

Filed in News by on October 13, 2025 0 Comments
Vintage Glamour Day

We were delighted to support North-West Hospice in their fund-raising venture, Vintage Glamour Day, in association with Sligo Races. We attended a Launch Day in vintage costume at Sligo Racecourse to promote the special fund-raising day. A promo video and some photographs were taken on the day to raise awareness of the upcoming race meet. […]

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Credit Union Funding

Filed in News by on September 11, 2025 0 Comments
Credit Union Funding

We are delighted to announce and acknowledge Sligo Credit Union for their generous support of Sligo Drama Circle through their Community Fund. Their contribution will go toward our commemorative historical book celebrating our 70th anniversary, which will be published next year. Sligo Credit Union’s Community Fund was set up to support projects in the Sligo/Leitrim […]

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Sligo Drama Circle and the “Sive” Connection

Filed in News, Productions by on March 9, 2025 0 Comments
Sligo Drama Circle and the “Sive” Connection

With rehearsals in full swing for the current production of the John B. Keane classic play, “SIVE” in April in the Hawk’s Well Theatre, it’s an opportune time to look back and reflect on the connection between Sligo Drama Circle and John B.’s debut play. The connection stretches all the way back to the first […]

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Kieran Hickey

Filed in News by on March 3, 2025 0 Comments
Kieran Hickey

We at Sligo Drama Circle are saddened to hear of the recent passing of our former member Kieran Hickey. Kieran was an active member of Sligo Drama Circle in the 1970s and early 1980s when he lived in Sligo. He will probably best be remembered for his leading role of Teve in the 1979 SDC […]

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Remembering Lionel

Filed in Appreciations, News by on January 17, 2025 0 Comments
Remembering Lionel

We in Sligo Drama Circle were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Lionel Gallagher this week. Lionel was a long-standing member of Sligo Drama Circle and was active in many roles within the group for more than 50 years. But it was on the stage where he belonged and where he excelled. Lionel […]

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SDC on Radio with Men’s Shed

Filed in News by on December 6, 2024 0 Comments
SDC on Radio with Men’s Shed

Members of Sligo Drama Circle featured on a programme on Ocean FM’s outside broadcast this morning, Friday December 8th, to celebrate the work of Sligo Men’s Shed. We have previously written on this website about Sligo Men’s Shed, but today was about creating an awareness of the Men’s Shed and the work that they do […]

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Sive Auditions

Filed in News by on November 26, 2024 0 Comments
Sive Auditions

Sligo Drama Circle will be performing the well-known John B. Keane play “Sive” in the Spring of 2025. It will be staged in the Hawks Well Theatre from April 2nd to 5th. Set in 1950s Ireland, the play revolves around the arranged marriage of the young Sive to an elderly man in a deal worth […]

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Joe Meehan Tribute Exhibition

Filed in News by on October 31, 2024 0 Comments
Joe Meehan Tribute Exhibition

As part of our production of “The Importance of Being Earnest” in the Hawk’s Well Theatre this November, we will be hosting an exhibition in association with the Hawk’s Well Theatre celebrating the contribution of the late Joe Meehan to both Sligo Drama Circle and the Hawk’s Well Theatre. Like many others of his generation, […]

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Sligo Men’s Shed Work With SDC

Filed in News by on September 20, 2024 0 Comments
Sligo Men’s Shed Work With SDC

Thirteen years ago a group of Sligomen met to discuss starting a Men’s Shed in the town. Those first meetings were held in the Family Life Centre on the Mall, but it soon became clear that if the idea was to develop, a permanent premises would be needed. Enter Fr. Tom Hever, who told the […]

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