Tara Summer School
A small Summer festival has been arranged for the Skryne & the Tara area.
As this is the inaugural year for this festival it has been decided to keep it reasonably small and to grow it year after year. Events will include a guided tour of Dalgan Park Interpretive Centre which deals with the development of Columban Fathers foreign missions. Professor Conor Newman, NUI Galway will give a lecture in the RST centre on Tara/Skryne. There will be a hill to hill walk from Mrs Os, Hill of Skryne to Maguires, Hill of Tara, which works out at just over 5 km. A workshop on set dancing has been arranged for Saturday 4 July in Swans Oberstown and there will be a number of Trad. sessions in the various pubs over the weekend. The event will round off in Foxes on Sunday night with a harp music performance.
A full schedule of events is as follows.
Tuesday 30th June
11:00 am – Opening of inaugural Tara Summer School at Dalgan Park.
11:15 am – Guided tour of Dalgan Park Interpretive Centre (€2.50. to include refreshments).
7:30 pm Lecture by Professor Conor Newman NUI Galway on Tara/Skryne
Friday 3rd July
9:30 – Trad session in Swans – Davy Harrison and Friends
Saturday 4th July
9:00 am to 5:00pm – Workshop on set dancing. (€5 for day)
10:00 am – Hill to hill walk from Mrs Os, Hill of Skryne to Maguires, Hill of Tara. (€5 cover charge includes refreshments in Maguires. Traditional music will be provided in Maguires)
9:30 pm – Trad session in Swans – Tom Duff and Friends.
9:30 pm – Trad session in O’Connolls – Martin, Paddy and Friends
Sunday 5th July
6:00pm to 8:00pm – Foxes Bar – Music by Agnes Fox
8:00pm to 9:00pm – Foxes Bar – Harp recital by the Gryson sisters
Close of Tara Summer School 2015
With the exception of the small charges mentioned above all events will be free. Some small raffles for spot prizes will take place and all funds raised will go towards the purchase of a defibrillator for the community.
Joseph O’Brien
Chairman Tara Summer School
