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Events and Festivals Around Clifden Ireland in 2010
Clifden, in Connemara Ireland, is hosting several outdoor events during 2010 to showcase local arts, crafts, sports and outdoor activities. Additional information is available at the Clifden Tourist Office.
Clifden Irish Nights
This is 2 hour show starting at 9pm every Tuesday and Thursday night from the middle of June to the end of August and showcases the very best Irish music and dancing in County Galway.
The shows music is supplied by local musicians and occasional guest musicians and dancers. The dancing involves local school children and visitors in the audience are welcome to join in the dancing.
More information is available from the Clifden Tourist Office.
- 22nd June 2010 to 26th August 2010
Omey Races – Horse racing on the beach at Omey Strand
Omey is a tidal island 5 miles north-west of Clifden. The start time of the races along the Omey Strand completely depends on the tide but is usually around 11.30 am. For a horse race with a difference, in a truly unique location, the Omey Races can’t be beaten.
- 1st August 2010
Claddaghduff Pony Show
The Showfield in Claddaghduff village, overlooking Omey Island, is the picturesque location for the horse fair. Over the past decade, the number of entries to the show has risen steadily with 2006 showing a record 240 pony entries.
Among the highlights of the show are classes for in-hand and ridden Connemara Ponies and in 2007 the organizers added a foal championship to the list of in-hand classes.
If that isn’t enough to keep the kids entertained then perhaps they will enjoy the bouncy castle, slide and face painting that is also on offer.
- 8th August 2010
Connemara Pony Festival
The Festival of the Connemara Pony is a week-long celebration of the Connemara Pony breed. This breed has an excellent character combining intelligence and a hard working nature, ideal for the rugged Connemara hills. Their amiable character makes them excellent pets too while their sturdy build makes them good jumpers and fine show ponies.
The high point of this year’s festival is the Pony Show on Thursday 20th August which will include over 300 Connemara ponies on show.
- 16th August 2010 to 22nd August 2010
Clifden Community Arts Week
2010 marks the 33rd anniversary of this festival to celebrate all of the local artists. This year’s program includes poetry reading by Seamus Heaney, lectures, recitals, traditional music concerts and comedy.
Bring the entire family along and enjoy the lovely Autumn colors around Clifden, eat in one of the many wonderful local restaurants, and then be inspired by Ireland’s best artists as they intermingle and talk with locals and visitors alike.
- 16th September 2010 to 26th September 2010
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Travel to Ireland
Ireland is an island in the northwest of Europe with an area of 32,595 sq miles. About 370 km (230 miles) long by 225 km (140 miles) wide, Ireland comprises the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The population of the island of Ireland is approximately 5.8 million people, 4.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.7 million in Northern Ireland. Ireland is the third largest island in Europe.
Geography: Ireland has thirty-two counties, and four provinces: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. A ring of coastal mountains surrounds low central plains. About five percent of Irish land is under forest. The island’s green vegetation is a product of its mild climate and frequent but soft rainfall. Ireland’s most scenic areas lie in the south western and western counties. These areas are largely mountainous and rocky, with beautiful green views.
Irish: is the Celtic language of Ireland. It was brought to Ireland by Celtic invaders in 1000 BC, and to the end of the 18th century, was spoken by the majority of the people. The English language gained ground rapidly and Irish is now spoken regularly only in certain areas in the west of Ireland. It is taught in all schools, but despite active support from the government of Ireland, there are probably fewer than 90,000 speakers. It is the first official language of the Irish Republic and recently became an official language of the European Union (EU).
Literature and the arts: For such a small country, Ireland has made a large contribution to world of art and literature in all its branches, mainly in English. In more recent times, Ireland has produced four winners of the Nobel Prize for literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney.
James Joyce is widely considered as one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. His novel: Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
Landscape: The Irish landscape is one of Ireland’s greatest attractions. Ireland’s most scenic areas lie in the south western and western counties. There are several National Parks filled with towering hills, romantic lakes, and will always remain Irelands most unspoiled treasures. Magnificent scenery has attracted many visitors to these parks for years.
Climate: The Atlantic Gulf Stream keeps the Irish climate mild most of the year. Average temperatures in winter are 4 – 7o C, and in summer are 14 – 18o C. Rainfall is heaviest in the west and lightest in the southeast, but at all times very unpredictable.
Sport: Gaelic hurling and football are the most popular sports in Ireland – they make up the national sports of Ireland, known as Gaelic Games. All Gaelic games are governed by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
Other main sports include: Rugby, Football (soccer), Horse racing and Greyhound racing.
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Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney A “different” but excellent biography – Jean Cork – Southwest Ohio
I happened to be writing a paper on Seamus Heaney, the contemporary Irish poet, for my literary club. There is no official “biography” as such but this is better! It’s a series of questions and answers put to Mr. Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll, a very talented writer in his own right. It is anything but dry, as so many biographies are. I really feel that I “know” Mr. Heaney now. Mr. O’Driscoll is a skilled interviewer and asks questions I never would have thought of. The book is fairly long and took several years to write but is so interesting that it’s a fast read. I really really liked this book!
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Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared before now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces Heaney’s steps from his first exploratory testing of the ground as an infant to what he called his moon-walk” to the podium to receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It also fascinatingly charts his post-Nobel life and is supplemented with a number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O’Driscoll, Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced during the dark years of the Ulster Troubles. Combining the spontaneity of animated conversation with the considered qualities of the best autobiographical writing, Stepping Stones provides an original, diverting, and absorbing store of reflections and recollections. Scholars and general readers alike are brought closer to the work, life, and creative development of a charismatic and lavishly gifted poet whose latest collection, District and Circle, was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2006.
“Stepping Stonesa conversation-style response to questions submitted over the years by Dennis O’Driscollis an outspoken oral work of art.” Karl Miller, The Times Literary Supplement
Stepping Stones: Interviews With Seamus Heaney, poet Dennis O’Driscoll’s extraordinary book, takes its title from the place in Heaney’s Nobel lecture where he observes that both his writing and his life can be seen as ‘a journey where each point of arrival . . . turned out to be a stepping-stone rather than a destination,’ and the emphasis on continuing process informs it from beginning to end. The book’s form is that of extended interviews, conducted (largely in writing) over a period of years, in which the interviewer, O’Driscoll, defines his role as that of prompter rather than interrogator. Its purposein the continuing absence of any substantial biographyis to present interviews, freed from space limitations, that might come to comprise ‘a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times’and, of course, of the work itself. (Heaney’s only stipulation was that he would not speak in analytic detail of any of the poems, though he does cite particular aspects of many, and to dazzling effect.) O’Driscoll calls the book ‘a survey of [Heaney’s] life, often using the poems as reference points,’ thus providing ‘a biographical context for the poems and a poetry-based account of the life.’ For this reason he is right to find the result ‘very much a book for readers of [Heaney’s] oeuvre.’ But it is much, much more. Many-leveled, it is a book that rearranges itself according to the angle of the reader’s questioning, and while it will surely send many readers to the poems themselves, whether for the first or the dozenth time, it has, as great autobiography must have, stand-alone value as well. Some of this value is documentary, whether detailing the nuances of Irish cultural politics during the Troubles of the late ’60s, or trenchantly evoking the writers and writings that assumed a place in Heaney’s development. Richly deployed, this is the stuff of cultural history, and it is inevitably central to Heaney’s probing account of his formation as man and poet. What I want to stress here, however, is that the book is more than simply an account of experience; it is itself an agency of experience. You come away from itat least you can: I didmoved, enlarged and deepened. Stepping Stones consists of three sections, the first evoking in magical detail the poet’s childhood on the family farm (Mossbawn) in County Derry’a small, ordinary, nose-to-the-grindstoney place’and his subsequent schooling in Belfast. The long central section organizes the intertwinings of life and work through the successive collections of the poems; and the thirdthe briefestbrings the account up to date, describing the poet’s stroke in 2006, his recovery, and his view of the world on the eve of his 70th birthday . . . This is not only a radically original book; in its own quiet way it is also a great one.” Donald Fanger, Truthdig
“Popular contemporary Irish poet O’Driscoll began work on this book of interviews with Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney in September 2001. Interestingly, aside from some transcriptions in Chapters 13 and 15, these interviews were conducted in writing and through the mail. This format allowed Heaney to pick which questions to answer and to rearrange their order as he chose, and O’Driscoll sees his role as ‘prompter rather than interrogator,’ giving Heaney a good deal of influence on the final book. The result is not a comprehensive biography (nor is it meant to be) but rather ‘a survey of his life, using the poems as reference points.’ Though Heaney has been interviewed by many others, this collection’s unique method of creation makes it a worthy addition to literature collections.” Felicity D. Walsh, Library Journal
“There is no shortage of writing by or about Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Heaney. Yet this big book is a unique and useful addition to the Heaney canon: beginning in 2001, the Dublin-based poet, essayist and anthologist O’Driscoll entered into an extended correspondence with Heaney for the purpose of collaboratively constructing a kind of autobiography-in-interviews. The result is a collection of 16 discreet interviews, the first two of which discuss Heaney’s childhood and poetic growth. Then there is one interview-chapter for each of Heaney’s celebrated books (except the last two, which are grouped together), followed by a summing up. In conversation, Heaney comes across as extremely friendly, expansively intelligent and in possession of the groundedness in the details of his environment that readers of his poems will be familiar with. Here are boyhood recollections (‘Our travelling grocery van . . . was run first by a man called McCarney, but ‘the egg man’ was our name for him’), memories of the famous Belfast Group and accounts of coming-of-age, and then coming to international prominence, against the backdrop of Ireland’s troubled 20th-century politics. And, of course, Heaney traces the eventsboth political and personalthat led to many of his poems. For fans of Heaney, of 20th-century Irish literature or anyone eager to get deep into the mind of a major artist, this is an essential book.” Publishers Weekly
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
- Seamus Heaney
- District and Circle: Poems
- Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
- Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
- Field Work: Poems
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