Christmas Miscellany

Westport Civic Trust celebrates Christmas 2025 with a miscellany of music and literature in the The Clock Tavern, Westport, on 16th December @ 8pm.  All welcome, and all donations for the evening will go to a local charity (SVP).

Tony Reidy is a singer songwriter well known in Westport and beyond with at least six albums.  Last year at a concert in the Townhall, 25 musicians sang his songs and played his music in his honour.   As Liamy McNally says, ‘Tony writes of love, heartbreak, family, destitution and the hand one is dealt in life.’

Áine Ryan is an award-winning journalist based in Westport, familiar to many readers of The Mayo News and Irish Times.  She has written regularly about the offshore islands, particularly Clare Island.  She presents two readings, one about her first dramatic voyage to the island over the festive period in 1980 and the other about Christmases of yore on the Clew Bay outpost.

Mary Madec is a prize-winning poet originally from Kilmeena in County Mayo.  She has published three highly-acclaimed books of poetry, and currently teaches poetry and cultural studies for Villanova University in Ireland.  She lives in Westport.