CLONMANY FESTIVAL
Tel: (074) 9376477 Mob: 086 3427373 - Hugo Boyce
Website: www.clonmany.com
E-mail:
clonmanyfestival@gmail.com
The 40th (Big Bash) Clonmany Family Festival is one of the oldest and
mostpopular festivals in Donegal. Open air concerts with
Ireland's top bands. 2day Golf, 1 day Agriculture and Sheepdog
Trial's. Songwriting and PubTalent Competition, Fun Fair, Hill
Walks, Market Sales and Car Boot Sales.Céili and Traditional
Music. Discos, Vintage Car and Machinery Rally, RaftRaces. Late
opening of Pubs and Hotels. We hope to pull out all the stopsand
make this an occasion to remember. Sunday 5th - Sunday 12th
August 2007.
10th Mc Glinchey Summer School
Clonmany, Co. Donegal Friday 29th
June - Sunday 1st July 2007 Theme: Inishowen; 1607 and all that.
Patricia Doherty Tel: (074) 9376110
Website:
www.mcglinchey.ie
Email:ohearcain@eircom.net
The recollections of Charles Mc Glinchey (1861-1955), weaver and
tailor,that are gathered together in The Last of the Name, were
the inspirationfor the themes of all the Summer Schools to date.
This year, as all Donegalcommemorates the fourth Centenary of
the Flight of the Earls, the McGlinchey Summer School takes this
opportunity to explore Inishowen at thattime of our history. La
Trinidad Valencera of Armada fame, the O'DohertyCastles and the
Established Churches throughout the peninsula are
physicalevidence of this period. The programme will feature
among others Rosa O'Doherty 1591-1660 who sailed down the Swilly
with the Earls in 1607, herbrother Cahir Rua who staged a
rebellion in 1608. Clonmany's famousphilosopher John Toland
(1670-1722) will be the subject of the openinglecture by Derry
academic and novelist, Seamus Deane. The weekend fare will also
include field trips, exhibitions, drama, musicalsessions and a
Big Night
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