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SUMMARY:Traditional Hooker Regatta\, (Roundstone) - Cloch na Rón 2026
DESCRIPTION:Traditional Sailing Boat Festival displaying unique Irish boats such as currachs and Galway Hookers including the Bád Mór\, Gleoiteog\, Leathbhád and Púcán classes of boats. Traditionally used along the coast of Connemara \nRaces\nHookers are now used as a leisure craft: the skills of boat builders and crews can be appreciated during the Summer boat races. In the races\, the sailing course is set with bulls and the boats have to go out to them and round them a few rounds. Before the start of the race\, three different whistles are allowed so that the conductors are ready. When different types of boats take part in the same race\, the slowest boats start after the second whistle. The time interval between the second and third whistles indicates the handicap in that particular race. While waiting for the third whistle\, the sailors keep the boats afloat so that they can better measure the course and weather. \nCloch na Rón (Roundstone)
URL:https://connemara.net/event/traditionalk-hooker-regatta-roundstone-cloch-na-ron
LOCATION:Co.Galway
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SUMMARY:Threshold Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:A four-day festival that celebrates the literary legacy of William Butler Yeats.The Threshold Arts Festival at Notre Dame Kylemore is an immersive academic arts celebration exploring William Butler Yeats’ literary legacy. This four-day curated event brings together scholars\, artists\, and Yeats enthusiasts from around the world. The festival aims to create a multidisciplinary exploration of the Nobel Laureate’s legacy\, fostering a deeper understanding of his contributions to literature\, Irish cultural identity\, and his modern relevance. \nThis festival embodies the University of Notre Dame’s commitment to the arts\, as outlined in the Arts Initiative\, through exploring Irish literary work at the intersection of artistic expression\, cultural heritage\, and scholarly inquiry within our University’s focus areas of Arts in Action and Sense and Transcendence. \n \nYeats is often presented as a poet of vision\, myth\, and national destiny. Yet across his poems\, plays\, letters\, and public performances\, a different Yeats repeatedly comes into view: sharp\, comic\, and self-consciously theatrical. Threshold 2026 turns to that distinctive “smile”—wry\, guarded\, and at times acerbic—to ask how satire and irony enabled Yeats to think\, argue\, and perform authority in public. \nFrom his early send-ups of literary fashion to his later\, unsparing deflations of politics\, piety\, and even the self\, Yeats’s humour is not an ornament but a critical practice. It is a way of testing beliefs\, exposing cant\, and staging the complexities of cultural leadership. The festival invites audiences to listen for Yeats’s comic timing and tonal shifts\, and to consider what satire discloses when a writer becomes a public figure. \nYeats lived at the intersection of art and authority\, private conviction and public speech. Wit and satire became his tools for navigating those contradictions and for questioning the crowds that demanded certainty. The 2026 festival will follow that tension: how comedy can carry seriousness\, how irony can sharpen critique\, and how a canonical writer can still surprise us with play. \nThreshold 2026 promises lectures\, musical performances\, readings\, and conversations that make Yeats’s wit audible—so that irony lands\, satire bites\, and the smile matters. \n  \nInformation taken from UND Kylemore’s website : i \nhttps://kylemore.nd.edu/outreach-and-engagement/the-arts-at-kylemore/threshold-arts-festival/
URL:https://connemara.net/event/threshold-arts-festival
LOCATION:Kylemore Abbey\, Kylemore Abbey & Gardens\, Connemara\, Co.Galway\, H91 VR90\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Inishbofin Set Dancing and Trad Weekend
DESCRIPTION: This lively weekend takes place 25th to the 27th September 2026 on the tranquil island that is Inishbofin. \nGo and experience the warmth\, rhythm and community spirit of the Inishbofin Set Dancing & Trad Weekend and join one of the island’s most beloved cultural events. This lively celebration of Irish music\, song and set dancing brings visitors from all over Ireland and beyond. Welcoming workshops for beginners to energetic ceili’s for beginners and advanced dancers. There are sessions in every venue around the island so there’s loads for everyone to enjoy over the weekend. Against the stunning setting of Inishbofin\, it’s a chance to learn the popular Inishbofin Half Set\, listen to world-class musicians and be part of a vibrant tradition that continues to thrive year after year. \nSee ‘bofindancing’ on Facebook for further information.
URL:https://connemara.net/event/inishbofin-set-dancing-and-trad-weekend
LOCATION:Iníshbofín\, Iníshbofín\, Galway\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Festival
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