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Feile na Tuaithe - Programme of Events
By Bernie Byron
26, May 2007 - 06:43

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Feile na Tuaithe 2007 Turlough Park

 

SATURDAY 26 & SUNDAY 27 MAY ?07

 

Here comes the Summer and families countrywide are looking for day trips and places to go. Feile na Tuaithe - Turlough Park at the National Museum of Ireland-Country Life in Castlebar, Co. Mayo has got to be the best fun and best value festival around.

Free entry, games, children's activities, storytelling, music, face painting, demonstrations and workshops. Also, visit the tented craft and organic/food market with an extensive range of carefully selected stands.

Feile  na Tuaithe - Turlough Park is a natural extension of the Museum's purpose of bringing families together to enjoy quality time and learn about the traditions of bygone days.

 

 

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

 

 

Craft & Food Stands: Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 May

Food/Organic

Jams and Preserves

 

Patti Moss

 

Chocolate

 

Marlene's Chocolate

 

Various

 

Chilli Farm

 

Baking

 

Castlebar Farmers Market

 

Honey & Beeswax

 

Meadowsweet Apiaries

 

Plants

 

Frogswell

 

Traditional Herbal Remedies

 

Irish Organic Herbs

 

Juices/Grains

 

Juice Factory

 

Baking

 

Markets

 

Baking

 

IT'SO

 

Baking & Preserves

 

Cafe Rua

 

Black Puddings & Sausages

 

Kellys Butchers

 

Wormery

 

Wriggler's Worm Farm

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Craft

 

Knitwear

 

Ann's Handknits

 

Handmade Cards

 

Wild Ideas

 

Handmade Soap

 

Sheeffry Soaps

 

Stained Glass

 

Richard McGhee

 

Photo Engraving on Wood

 

Kirwan Craft

 

Jewellery

 

Burren Jewellery

 

Hand Painted Glass

 

Ornamental Glass Creations

 

Jewellery

 

Meadow Miniatures

 

Scarves/Rugs

 

Ballytoughey Loom

 

Slate Products

 

Slateworks

 

Sugan Chairs

 

Inisross Woodcrafts

 

Jewellery

 

Vincent Meehan

 

Violins

 

Kevin Sykes

 

Ceramics

 

Fionnuala O'Connell

 

Felt Making

 

Suzie Sullivan

 

Chairs

 

Ray Walsh

 

Woodcarving

 

Ray Forde

 

Swarovski Crystal Jewellery

 

Rita McDonagh

 

Hand-made Jewellery

 

Liliya Geurtsen

 

Candles

 

Paula Coghlan

 

Landscape Paintings

 

Paul Holmes

 

Bodhrans

 

Roundstone Musical Ltd.

 

Woodwork

Alpaca Wool & various

 

Pine Rack

Una BhᮠCo-Op

   

  Other Activities

SATURDAY 26 MAY 2007

Please note: as many activities are weather dependent, some changes may occur

 

Family Activities

12.00 Face Painting

12.30 Music Workshop with Mary Curran

1.00 Storytelling with Eddie Lenihan

Face Painting

Flyfishing with Graham Williams

    1. Traditional Games with the Education and Outreach

      Department, National Museum of Ireland

Department, National Museum of Ireland

2.00 Fun and games with the Fanzini Bros Face Painting

Pose for a carricature with Aidan Cooney

Flyfishing

    1. Storytelling

 

3.00 Music Workshop

Face Painting

Falconry display with Lothar Muschketat

3.30 Fanzini Bros

Carricatures with Aidan Cooney

4.00 Traditional Games

Falconry

Music

12.00 ? 2.00 The Rolling Waves

2.00-3.00 Castlebar Town Band

3.00-5.00 Le Ch马e

 

 

Demonstrations

At regular intervals throughout the day from 12.00 ? 5.00pm

Bread Making by Eileen Healy

Blacksmithing by Ray Munnelly

Candle Making by ?ne Bell

Wood Turning by Ambrose O?Halloran

Sheep Dog Trials with Michael Hopkins Beehives with Matt Moran

Harvest Knots by the Education and Outreach Department staff

Basket Making by Joe Hogan

Spinning and weaving by Patricia Kirwan Doyle

Pottery by Henri Hedou, Terrybaun Pottery

Coracle (Currach) Making by Claidhbh O Gibne

Connacht Spinners and Weavers Open Day

 

 

SUNDAY 27 MAY 2007

 

 

SUNDAY 27 MAY 2007

 

Please note: as many activities are weather dependent, some changes may occur

 

Family Activities

12.00 Face Painting

Music Workshop

1.00 Storytelling

Face Painting

Flyfishing

    1. Traditional Games

Music Workshop

2.00 Face Painting

Carricatures with Aidan Cooney

Flyfishing

    1. Storytelling

3.00 Nature Ramble with the Education and Outreach

Department, National Museum of Ireland

Face Painting

Department, National Museum of Ireland

Face Painting

 

Department, National Museum of Ireland

Face Painting

Falconry

3.30 Carricatures with Aidan Cooney

4.00 Traditional Games

Falconry

 Music

12.00 ? 2.00 Le Ch马e

2.00-3.00 Drummers

3.00-5.00 Eamonn Walsh (Uileann Pipes) & John McHugh (Violin)

 

Demonstrations

At regular intervals throughout the day from 12.00 ? 5.00

Bread Making by Eileen Healy

Blacksmithing by Ray Munnelly

Candle Making by ?ne Bell

Wood Turning by Ambrose O?Halloran

Beehives with Matt Moran

Harvest Knots by the Education and Outreach Department staff

Basket Making by Linda Scott

Spinning and weaving by Patricia Kirwan Doyle

Pottery by Henri Hedou, Terrybaun Pottery

Corracle (Currach) Making by Claidhbh O Gibne




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