Welcome to the Doneraile Literary and Arts Festival 2012. Following our highly successful
inaugural festival last year we have decided to expand the festival to include a
week of workshops. Our ethos continues to be to make the festival as free to the
public as possible (last year was 97% free) with the intention of opening up the
arts to everyone. We have attracted the cream of Irish literary and artistic talent
to our festival once more with a variety of existing and new authors covering such
topics as general fiction, autobiographies, literary fiction, history and much more.
Our workshops are divided into artistic and literary fields to include pottery making,
song writing, oil painting, creative writing and poetry set in the beautiful surrounding
of Creagh Castle and Doneraile town. We also have a Children's Day featuring guest
readings by children's authors and a puppet theatre in the magnificent Pleasure Gardens
of Doneraile Park. In addition to all this, the town will come alive in the evenings
with numerous plays, impromptu poetry and song in the pubs of Doneraile as well as
music concerts for your entertainment. We look forward to seeing you here in Doneraile
for a week of fun, banter and good natured wildness.
Doneraile, Co Cork
30th July - 5th August 2012
2012 Literary Competition Winners
Winner of The Canon Sheehan
Short Story Competition 2012
Author - Chris Connolly
Story - Rabbit
Click here for story
Winner of the Edmund Spenser
Poetry Competition 2012
Author - Liz Quirke
Poem - For the girl crying in the coffee shop
Click here for Poem
Click here for Poem
Canon Sheehan
Centenary Year 2013
2013 is the Centenary year of Canon Sheehan’s passing. There will be various tributes,
workshops and literary festivals in the Mallow and Doneraile area in honour of the
Doneraile Parish Priest, who was born in Mallow. As a result there will not be a
Literary and Arts Festival held in Doneraile this year in respect of the Canon’s
honour and to those organisations which are arranging various events in his honour
throughout 2013.
There are a number of websites that are promoting these events including these below:
http://visitballyhoura.com/index.php/2013/03/19/life-and-achievements-of-canon-sheehan-of-doneraile/
www.thegatheringireland.com
www.corkcoco.ie