Art lovers may like to visit St Naile's Church in Kinawley, Co Fermanagh. According to local priest Father Gerry Comiskey, the church has been there since the 1870s, sited near where the people of the locality have worshipped since the sixth century.
Daytimes
The sanctuary is particularly beautiful, he says, featuring a tapestry designed by Desmond Kyne, representing the Celtic Cross. Above it are stained-glass windows, designed by Willie Earley. Among, the saints featured are St Brigid, St Columcille and St Naile.
Nighttimes
A concert by soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Deborah Kelleher on piano continues tonight at Dublin Castle's Coach House. This is part of the Music Network 2002 autumn season. As a duo, they have been performing over the past number of years throughout Ireland and the UK. Starting at 8 p.m., the pair will perform popular works by Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Manuel Rosenthal, Henri Duparc and Richard Strauss.
Childtimes
The American Beauty exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, is running until next Sunday. The collection comprises 80 paintings and 10 pieces of sculpture, which are on loan from the Detroit Institute of Arts, where a major reconstruction programme is underway. There are hunting scenes, sunsets, seascapes, card players, a banjo player and much else besides in this collection of paintings from early colonial times to the beginning of the 20th century. Entry costs €3 for children under 12, who are accompanied by an adult. For more information contact www.nationalgallery.ie to buy online go to www.ticketmaster.ie. The gallery opens every day at 9.30 a.m., except on Sunday, when it opens at noon.
My Native county: Tyrone
Barry Devlin, writer and former lead singer with Horselips
Three of my favourite places:
1 Golloman's Point on Lough Neagh, it's where the sally woods just trickle down into the blue waters of the lake. On a summer's day, there are lots of blue flowers and birds and cattle. It's really romantic. We used to go down there and bathe. It's a terrific place. And you can hear the thrum of fishing boat engines in the distance. Lough Neagh has the biggest commercial eel fishery in Europe.
2 Gortin Glen up near Omagh, where there are land-locked valleys, it's very beautiful with hidden streams and little roads. It's a great place to drive and an even nicer place to walk. It's beautiful in the rain.
3 The third is Old Cross Graveyard. It has one of the finest Celtic Crosses in Ireland, carved with scenes from the life of Jesus. It overlooks a ruined abbey and it's on a headland overlooking Lough Neagh and you can see across to the Mountains of Mourne and Cave Hill and to where St Patrick herded his sheep. It's where my parents are buried. It's the family graveyard. That sounds grim but it's a place to put your chin in your hand and look across the lake and think about things. And it's my home place. - Catherine Foley
Just-in-times: lateoffers
If you like auctions and the feeling that you can get something for a good price, then here is some fun for you. During the next few months, Thistle Hotels is auctioning rooms in some of its 56 hotels. Located in the UK, the company has hotels in major cities, country settings, the Highlands and the south coast.
Log on to the www.thistleauction.com site and register, then you can bid. Weekends in top locations are going for not a lot of money. Brave it - watch your bid being met, take a chance and bid again. You could be lucky and get a top-class weekend on the cheap.
Joan Scales (jscales@irish-times.ie)
All About August is edited by Angela long and Sheila Wayman, august@irish-times.ie
