The actress Joyce Redman, who has died in Kent, aged 96, grew up on Bartra Island in Killala Bay, County Mayo. Joyce Redman was born into an Anglo-Irish family and spent her childhood on the beautiful island in the Moy estuary.

During May Áras Inis Gluaire in Belmullet will celebrate Bealtaine.  Bealtaine is about celebrating creativity as we age. Some of the events include an exhibition launch on Friday 4 May which will run for the month.

Grace Kelly, the Westport actress, plays the lead role in “Hysteria” part in RTÉ’s latest Storyland competition.  The show is one of eight different series which have been selected from hundreds of applicants to take part in  RTÉ’s popular online film competition.

The news that Slovenia’s 2012 Foreign Language submission for the 2012 Oscars was partially shot on Mayo's beautiful White Strand beach at Doovilra near Louisburgh is another boost to the county's tourism sector and highlights how attractive Mayo is to international film-makers.

A documentary, ‘Tatiko: The Journey of an African Pot’, featuring the extraordinary traditional women potters of Tatiko, Nigeria, made by Louisburgh potter, Anthony O'Brien, and filmmaker, Jarlath Rice, will have its Irish Film Premiere on Thursday, 29th September, at 8pm in the Wyatt Hotel, Westport, as part of the Westport Arts Festival.

A 200-year-old courtyard at Westport House built by the 2nd Marquess of Sligo will be transformed into a state-of-the-art drive-in movie theatre for a series of screenings of classic movies as part of the Westport Arts Festival. Cyclists, drivers, skateboarders and pedestrians will enjoy thrillers, romances, comedies and family fun, and the surroundings of the 18th century pony and mule shelters, pheasantries, laundries, sawmills and kilns can only add to the atmosphere.

Thousands of people from all over Ireland flocked to Cong last weekend to see the Hollywood icon, Maureen O'Hara, open the very first Quiet Man Festival. From the opening ceremony, the famous Hollywood actress was nothing but patient with everyone - signing autographs, smiling continuously and talking to everyone she met about the times gone by.

Cineclub na nÓg returns on Saturday, 17 September in Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, from 1 to

3.30pm.

Hollywood legend, Maureen O'Hara, will open the inaugural Quiet Man Festival in Cong on Friday, August 26. The weekend festival will celebrate the making of the film The Quiet Man, which starred Maureen O'Hara and screen idol, John Wayne.

An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD launched a new film, "JJ and the Admiral", about Ireland’s greatest naval hero -  Foxford-born  Admiral William Brown at a premiere of the hour-long documentary in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Monday.