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.                                                                                                                                        

Literary & Arts Festival

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

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Winner of the Edmund Spenser

Poetry Competition 2012

Author  -  Liz Quirke


Poem  -  For the girl  crying in the coffee shop


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                                    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