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Inishowen at McGrory’s of Culdaff

Inishowen at McGrory’s of Culdaff

We would like to introduce you to our in-house produced show:
‘Inishowen – a cultural celebration of music, song and dance’.
This is a great night out and includes a two course dinner followed by the show featuring the best local musicians, singers and dancers who bring you on a journey, through music, and let yourself be taken back to a time where life moved at a slower pace, and continue through the changes and then bring you right back up to the present day. There should be many foot tapping moments in store for
those who attend.

INISHOWEN CULTURAL NIGHT EVERY WEDNESDAY
Company: McGrorys Hotel
Contact: Anne McGrory
Address: Culdaff
Location: Culdaff
Tel: 074 9379104
Fax: 074 9379235
E-mail: info@mcgrorys.ie
Web: www.mcgrorys.ie

Inishowen Design Company

Inishowen Design Company

We’re a small business operating out of Carndonagh in the beautiful peninsula of Inishowen in Co. Donegal, right up the top of Ireland.

When we were a bit younger we did some travelling, our clothes drawer is an A-Z of where we’ve been. A few years ago we noticed that if a visitor came to Inishowen and wanted to take a momento home, specifically an item of clothing, you’d have to go for a knitted sweater or flat cap with a shamrock. Its not everyone’s cup of “tae”, its not ours for sure, we like to buy a t-shirt when we go away, or a silly pair of shorts, something like that, that’s just the way we are.

One idea led to another and we came up with a few designs, got them printed and people showed an interest. From there things have moved on, we now design everything ourselves, do our own printing and have gone from selling a few t-shirts a week to selling all over the world. It’s a geographically small place Inishowen but the people do get around and we’ve noticed they love to take a bit of home with them. That’s where we fit in.

The orders are coming in from everywhere, locally of course, but mostly abroad – Australia, New Zealand, America and Korea to name a few. It’s the times we live in that our own have to go away from home to experience a better life. When they are away, we like to be part of that feeling of being from Ireland. We’re finding our t-shirts in the box in the post along with the chocolate, Lyons teabags and Tayto crisps. We’re in good company!

More recently we’ve expanded a little, Pure Savage is the side of the business which designs and prints t-shirts and hoodies not specific to Inishowen. Pure Savage is more general, it can be anything from typical Irish humour to football t-shirts. It also designs and print t-shirts for hen/stag partys and birthdays and so on. Also, if there is a design you’d like printed, a one-off, we can do that for you. Basically we do a bit of everything. We think that’s the best way.

www.inishowendesignco.com

Amelia Earhart’s Legacy

Amelia Earhart’s Legacy

It is 80 years since Amelia Earhart touched down in a field at Ballyarnett on the Derry/Donegal border. She took off from Newfoundland in Canada in a bid to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

Hoping to land in Paris, bad weather and technical problems altered her course and she landed in Derry. A week long festival was held in the city to mark the event with a fly past planned for Monday afternoon. A Donegal based flying club will stage a fly past in Guildhall Square at 15:00 BST. Six planes from Finn Valley flying club from Convoy are expected to take part.

Festival Director Oliver Green said,

I’m delighted Derry City Council have designated today as Amelia Earhart Day. This 80th anniversary is a stepping stone for our city to look at the legacy of our connection to this historical achievement. This is an endorsement of the significant and lasting place that Amelia Earhart holds in the history of our community.

After completing her transatlantic challenge, Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly across the Pacific. After her transatlantic achievement, she continued to break records.

But in 1937 her challenge to be the first woman to fly around the world ended in tragedy when her plane disappeared in the middle of the Pacific. For 17 days rescue teams scoured more than 250,000 square miles of ocean, but she was never found.

The aviator is a household name in America and an airport in Kansas was named in her honour. In March 2012, a similar bid to rename City of Derry Airport after the pioneering aviator was rejected after local politicians could not agree. That decision was criticised by the former director of a small museum celebrating Amelia Earhart in Derry. John Thompson said the failure to capitalise on Amelia Earhart’s legacy was a “major mistake”.

Anchor Arts Moville

Anchor Arts Moville

Artists from across Inishowen have gathered together to promote and support each other. This opening event at our working gallery is themed ‘on the edge‘. Works will consist of a wide range of media across many artistic disciplines including spoken word, music and visual arts.

Anchor Arts Moville
Set on the water’s edge at the Pier in Moville, Anchor Arts provides a collaborative creative space for artists and writers in Inishowen to develop, celebrate and display their talent. With exhibition and studio space, Anchor Arts gives members of the public the chance to meet artists at work during weekday mornings. Anchor Arts also provides opportunities for members of the community and invites them to develop their own creativity through a programme of workshops and to experience a variety of events and performances across cultural forms. Opening times are seasonal. If you would like to visit, call in for a cuppa or for more information,

please contact us in advance on 00353 83 146 4696
info@anchorarts.ie
or through our website anchorarts.ie

We look forward to meeting you!

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Donegal Spitfire Tv Programme

Donegal Spitfire Tv Programme

BBC 1 – Monday 14th May at 9pm

In the first episode of Dig WW2, historian Dan Snow investigates the history of the Second World War in Northern Ireland, participating in archaeological digs and dives of military sites across the country. He discovers the gripping story of the Northern Irish pilot who became the most successful U-boat hunter of all time.

He also dives to the wreck of the famed U-155 and reveals the essential role that Belfast’s Harland and Wolff had in developing the famous Churchill Tank, fundamental to the march of the North Irish Horse to capture Rome. Meanwhile, in Donegal, a major excavation reveals the 70-year-old Spitfire flown by US pilot Bud Wolfe, who was forced to bail out just minutes after leaving RAF Eglington, now City of Derry Airport.

From the Donegal bog, Dan follows the journey of Bud Wolfe who after bailing out of his stricken machine ended up interned in a prisoner of war camp in neutral Republic of Ireland at the Curragh. Not that that stopped Bud!

More info

Irish Times article about the Donegal Spitfire
TheJournal.ie

How to make Irish Tea Scones

How to make Irish Tea Scones

Caroline is making Irish Tea Scones in the old kitchen at Fawn Cottage. They are made in minutes and only take 10 minutes in the oven. They are lovely with Irish butter and jam.

View Fawn Thatched Cottage

Feile Grianan Ailigh

Feile Grianan Ailigh

Inishowen Carnival Group is looking for teenage and adult performers to help us put on a performance for Feile Grianan Ailigh which takes place on Sunday 20th May 2012 at Grianan Fort, Burt, Inishowen. The Feile is described as an ancient cultural event and will include a variety of traditional music performances, living history and craft exhibits including stoneage brewery, medieval forge, basket making and many more.

2012 Highlights

The carnival group have been asked to create a short performance inspired by the many ancient rituals and ceremonies which may have taken place at the site during its long and colourful history. Performance workshops are already underway with children from St Aengus National school, Bridgend and Groarty Integrated school Derry who will also be taking part on the day of the event.

Rehearsals for teenage and adult performers will take place at the fort on Saturday 12th and Saturday 19th May from 1pm and everyone is welcome to take part with roles as varied as flag wavers, drummers and druids. No previous experience is necessary.
If anyone wants to get involved they should contact Kevin O’Neill at Inishowen Carnival Group by emailing inishowencarnival@hotmail.com or phone 0749373375.

www.inishowencarnivalgroup.com

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Crana College Couture 2012

Crana College Couture 2012

Crana College Couture 2012 – video of fashion show organised by the staff and pupils of Crana College Buncrana, Inishowen, Donegal.

Childrens Action Songs Workshop

Childrens Action Songs Workshop

Maurice Leyden Workshop
Date: 5 May 2012
Time: 2-4 pm
Venue: Market House, Clonmany

The Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle May workshop will be led by Maurice Leyden from Belfast who has specialised in recording and publishing children’s songs. He promises to have children and adults dancing round the Market House, Clonmany as we go through some of the old favourites – Here we go looby loo, Fair Rosa and lots more. We would love to see you in Clonmany for a lively afternoon – and a cup of tea as well

Maurice Leyden is a traditional singer and song collector. He has a deep interest in Ulster songs quoting the singing of Len Graham, Eddie Butcher, John Maguire, Joe Holmes, John Kennedy and Paddy Tunney as major influences on him.

Maurice has published a number of books of Children’s street songs and games. The publication of the children’s book led to an unexpected development in Leyden’s singing career: he was invited by many Primary schools across the political and social divide in Northern Ireland to come and teach these traditional street games to children. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland commissioned Leyden and his wife Jane Cassidy to visit primary schools throughout the province to inculcate these traditional songs and games into the children.