Archive for month: August, 2024
The Word at Sligo Central Library, with Cecily Gilligan in coversation with Niamh Mac Cabe. Music with Aoife Hammond.
/in News/by Michelle BrennanCecily Gilligan, author of Cures of Ireland, will join Sligo Central for a The Word on Wednesday 25th of September
The new term for The Word begins with Cecily Gilligan, author of Cures of Ireland, in conversation with Niamh Mac Cabe. Music with Aoife Hammond
Audience Q&A | Open Mic
Sligo Central Library will be hosting The Word on Wednesday 25th of September in Sligo Central Library, Stephen Street from 6:30pm.
Author of Cures of Ireland, Cecily Gilligan
In Conversation with – Niamh Mac Cabe
Music with – Aoife Hammond
Cecily Gilligan grew up and lives in rural County Sligo. She is a Primary school teacher, and has a degree in Social Science and a Masters in Women’s Studies from UCC. She has been interested in folklore since childhood, when much of her knowledge was acquired from within her community, and in particular from her grandmother. Cecily is a hill-walker, a sailor, a world traveller, and a strong supporter of Irish culture and language. She is also a campaigner for the protection of human rights and the environment, locally and globally.
Audience Q&A
Niamh Mac Cabe is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and hybrid prose.
She’s also a visual artist, an editor, a writing mentor, and a lecturer on the Masters in Creative Practice, the Honours Degree in Writing & Literature, and the Honours Degree in Performing Arts, at ATU Sligo.
Dublin-born, she worked overseas for several years in the Animated Film industry, before ‘settling’ in northwestern Ireland.
Niamh is published in many literary journals and anthologies in Ireland, the UK, and the US. She’s represented by Marianne Gunn O’Connor at MGO’C Literary Agency.
Open Mic is a first come, first served bases, and is limited to five names. Names are taken on the evening; participants are asked to keep within a three minute time-frame.
Aoife Hammond is a singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Leitrim.
Current projects include ‘Goltraí, Geantraí, Suantraí, an exploration of women’s voices in traditional music’
with Tara Baoth Mooney, Eimear Ready + Fionnuala maxwell. ‘Songs of Grief + Death’ a project on the lament
+ tradition of keening in Ireland with Ruth Clinton + Tara Baoth Mooney.
Aoife has recently appeared on Nyahh records ‘An album of songs in the traditional and sean-nós style’
singing an unaccompanied sean-nós song.
In 2023 Aoife was awarded ‘Leitrim Artist of the year’ for their work as a musician and curator and their
contribution to arts and culture in County Leitrim.
Open Mic moderated by Catherine Whitehead
- Five spaces
- 3-minute maximum
- Names are taken on the night
The event is free and unticketed with limited seating. The doors will close at 6:30pm.
The event will also be streamed on Facebook on the night: //www.facebook.com/SligoCountyLibrary/
The Word is a collaborative event between Sligo Central Library and the BA in Writing & Literature course at Sligo ATU.
This is a Creative Ireland event.
There is no charge for this event.
sligolib@sligococo.ie
Tel: 0719111675
Heritage Week – Harvest Knot Workshop – FREE Workshops for Adults
/in News/by Michelle Brennan
Lúnasa marked the onset of August, autumn and the harvest season where the whole community helped with reaping the harvest. The cutting of the last sheaf, often known as the cailleach, was accompanied by a special ceremony.
This sheaf was often decorated and hung above the table at a celebratory harvest meal. In some areas men and women decorated pieces of straw to make ‘harvest knots’ to be exchanged as tokens of love and courtship at the harvest festival.
Thomas Doyle (Educator at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life) will provide a detailed workshop using straw and ribbon to show the traditional knot weave.
This is a Creative Ireland funded event.
Tubbercurry Community Library | Ballymote Community Library | Sligo Central Library |
Heritage Week at Sligo County Library Thomas Doyle Harvest Knot Making Workshop for Adults Tubbercurry Community Library Tuesday 20th of August 2.00pm – 3.00pm Contact 0719111705/ tubberlibrary@sligococo.ie to reserve a place |
Heritage Week at Sligo County Library Thomas Doyle Harvest Knot Making Workshop for Adults Ballymote Community Library Tuesday 20th of August 3.30pm – 4.30pm Contact 0719111669/ ballymotelibrary@sligococo.ie to reserve a place |
**FULLY BOOKED** Heritage Week at Sligo County Library |
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