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7th Annual Slieve Bloom Storytelling Festival
Monday 12th to Saturday 17th October 2009

A week of Yarns, Tales, Legends Lies and fun......

Emer Dunne Singer Songwriter Slieve Bloom Storytelling Festival Leap Castle Slieve Bloom Storytelling Festival

Featuring

Billy Teare
Kathleen O Sullivan

Sean Ryan Traditional Musician

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

Joe Brennan

Michael Creagh
Paddy Lowrey
Paddy Heaney
Attracta Dooley
Slieve Bloom Musicians and Singers.

Welcome to The Slieve Blooms, a landscape of mountains, valleys, glens, waterfalls, ancient raths and medieval castles, in the heart of Ireland, rich in music and folklore, is an ideal setting for a festival of storytelling, music, and song.

The stories that have been told for generations by the people who live on and around these mountains are bound up with the landscape, place names and the history of the area which stretches back to before the time of the druids, There are stories of invasions, plantations and rebellions, fairy lore and ghost stories, as well as the necessary yarns and tall tales which Irish people love.

Visitors to the Slieve Blooms will discover a new landscape of the imagination in these mountains and local people will rediscover the magic of the stories of their own place through the art of storytelling which will be brought to you by great storytellers, some local, who have all developed a keen interest in the revival of storytelling by featuring at the Storytelling Festivals in Ireland.

Sunday 11th October

Rambling House Rosenallis, 9.30pm Admission Free

A night of story, music and song in an intimate setting featuring Joe Monaghan. and The Kinsella Family.

Tuesday 13th October

Rambling House Camross Admission Free
Michael Creagh Poet and song writer, Jim O Brien,

Wednesday 14th October

Rambling House in Giltraps Kinnitty 10pm Admission Free

Featuring local Storytellers, Musicians and singers

Thursday 15th October

Clonaslee Heritage Centre Clonaslee Co Laois 8.00pm Adm €12

Featuring Storytellers Billy Teare, Kathleen O Sullivan, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Sean Ryan Musician and Storyteller, Attracta Dooley Offaly, Slieve Bloom Session Musicians, Barbara Tynan Clonaslee Co Laois.

Friday 17th October

Leap Castle Leap Co Offaly 8.00pm. Adm. €12

Featuring Storytellers Joe Brennan, Billy Teare, Kathleen O Sullivan, Sean Ryan, Paddy Lowry, Offaly Singers Emer Dunne Mountmellick Co Laois

Saturday 18th October

Afternoon

Kinnitty Castle Kinnitty Co Offaly 2pm Adm €10

Family Storytelling Event with Billy Teare, Kathleen O Sullivan,Garielle Fitzmaurice.Sean Ryan, Sean Browne , Michael Creagh and many more.

Evening

Ballaghmore Castle Co Laois. 8.00pm. Adm €12

Featuring Storytellers Billy Teare, Kathleen O Sullivan, Paddy Heaney Storyteller Offaly, Tadhg Maher Singer and Slieve Bloom Session Musicians.

After Sunset is storytelling time…..

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