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Feile Oriel 2010.

Feile Oriel, a festival of traditional Irish music and culture, has been revived and was held in Monaghan town over the May Bank Holiday weekend. The weather was quite agreeable to allow outside concerts, busking and sessions in various parts of the town and this attracted a good response from the public to attend. Sessions in Pubs and Hotels were plenty and the quality of the music was top class with many top artists in various disciplines taking part. Multi-cultural events were also part of the programme and these were well attended with good participation and added greatly to the atmosphere. Credit to those responsible for organising this event and it does involve a lot of work, time and energy to make it happen and the town has benefited in many ways from the festival. We have a few photos to give you a flavour of some of the activity so far.

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           At a session in the West                              Part of the Lithuanian and African presentation at the cultural event in the West.

                           The Lithuanian Choral Group                                                                   Alfie enjoys the music, dance and singing.

Left and Right: Lithuanian dancing, with help from a few locals !!

Youngsters from neighbouring music groups, including Threemilehouse, Scotstown, Gael Scoil Ultain, Monaghan and Corcaghan,  entertain on the Gig-Rig.

One of the star performers                                another group                                    Some of those enjoying the music.

Blathnaid Ní Chofaigh was MC for the Gig-Rig and endeared herself to all as an excellent presenter.

Monaghan ensemble with Blathnaid and Emily                                        Part of the Scotstown presentation

  Amelia Murphy McCormack     and        Blathnaid Ní Chofaigh with Murphy children                 Monica McCormack and Allison Greer

at their stalls at the Farmers’ Market.

Thanks ladies for the food. Very tasty and enjoyable..

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Blaithnaid chats with three of the organisers: Finian McCluskey, Martin O’Donaghue and Tiarnan Dinkin, while the handiwork of Barry McCormack was on display at the Broad Road advertising the Feile. Barry constructed the huge Violin.