Fri 3rd May
Brian Little
BRIAN LITTLE Work that aims to reveal the inherent beauty of driftwood, the shape of which is its own - crafted by time, nature and ocean journeys.
Art in An Díseart: Cruach Mhárthain: Feic ‘s Fiche (21 Views) – Dómhnal Ó Bric
DÓMHNAL Ó BRIC Seasann Cruach Mhárthain go feiceálach i measc sléibhte iarthar Duibhneach. Fiosraíonn na híomhánna an seasamh seo le leagain súl éagsúla ag féachaint ar an gceangal leis an dúthaigh máguaird. These 21 views explore its setting and standing in the region.
Art in An Díseart: Mórtas Cine – Mick Davis – Sketches and Watercolours
MICK DAVIS Sculptor Mick Davis presents a series of sketches and watercolours inspired by the people and places around him.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): Ar Eite / On the Wing – Jenny McCarthy / Lynne Stratton
JENNY MCCARTHY / LYNNE STRATTON Exhibition of paintings that gracefully capture the essence of winged wonders with feature sculptures by Lynne Stratton.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): A Special Place – Ruth Carbery
RUTH CARBERY An exhibition of paintings and drawings/mixed media by Ruth Carbery.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): Check Your Connections and Try Again – Laurence Jones
LAURENCE JONES Laurence uses pictures and words to capture moments of unease and absurdity that knock our civilised and ordered lives off track.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): Lockdown Sanity Project – Jill Fitzgerald
JILL FITZGERALD A story of family life during the Covid Lockdown, told on a patchwork quilt.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): Bring it Back Again – Blanca Quintas
BLANCA QUINTAS This exhibition explores, through different techniques, the endless possibilities of the materials that the ocean brings us back; creating anything from jewellery to ornamental and functional household objects.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): Edel’s Crafty Dingle – Edel Partington
EDEL PARTINGTON Working with colourful fabrics to cheer your day, Edel creates scenes from our wild and beautiful locality, using bright and bold colours in her table runners, purses, postcards, pictures and much more.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): Stained glass work – Máire Siochrú
MÁIRE SIOCHRÚ Taispeántas oibre le meáin difriúla, le híle, gloine dhaite agus dealbhóireacht sreinge san áireamh.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): Creative Journeys – FET Art, Craft & Design Participants
Our end of year Art, Craft & Design exhibition incorporates wire sculpture, painting & mixed media, relief printmaking and jewellery artworks. Through many diverse mediums this exhibition celebrates the creative talents and individual ideas of those who took part in some of our Art and Craft FET programmes. We hope you enjoy the wonderful painted colours, graphic prints and wire used in ways you never thought possible.
Art in Rice House (Dingle FET – Ionad Breisoideachais an Daingin): Hotspots and Notspots – Manus Bán
MANUS BÁN “When you feel comfortable with the landscape you become part of it, just as much as the cliffs, the broken down sheds, the rushes and stones in the fields, the tourist hotspots and the behind the ditch artistic notspots. You are part of it’s soul.”
Art in An Díseart: Sa Mór thimpeallacht – Grúpa Ealaíne an Dísirt
An exhibition of paintings from the Dingle Art Group themed on the environment around us.
Art in An Díseart: “IT’S APART OF US” – Gerry Barry, Syra Larkin and Eithne O’Riordan
SYRA LARKIN, EITHNE O'RIORDAN, GERRY BARRY Three artists have come together for Féile na Bealtaine to exhibit their own work with the intention of supporting each other. In addition to the exhibition, Gerry Barry will present a video documentary of the artist at work at 12 midday on Saturday 4th in the exhibition room. This will be followed by Syra Larkin's 'There is Still Time ' slide presentation.
Slow Time with a Butterfly -An exhibition of fine art tapestries by Contemporary Tapestry Artists Ireland
Contemporary Tapestry Artists Ireland (CTA) is a group of professional tapestry weavers working in studios all over the country who come together to collaborate and exhibit their work to raise the profile of this textile medium. Slow Time with a Butterfly refers to the slow, detailed practice of tapestry weaving. The technique uses “butterflies” or bobbins of coloured yarns woven through a cotton or linen warp to create the image of the artist’s design.
Art in An Díseart: Sa Mór thimpeallacht – Anne Lundon
ANNE LUNDON Paintings from the environment around us.
díolta amach / sold out
Pas na Féile
Pas na Féile The Festival Pas entitles access to all events (except yoga events)
Mary’s Garden – A Study of Shape and Colour -Yunjee Kim
YUNJEE KIM The artist draws inspiration primarily from the natural world. Her paintings are a doorway; the product of a process of mediation on the inner world, resulting in a refined form of self-expression.
Wind + Water – Elouise Flannery
ELOUISE FLANNERY This work aims to inspire a recognition of the sacred in the ordinary. The work references ancient Irish folklore with the principles of feng shui creating a mesmerizing tapestry that bridges the earthly and the Ethereal.
Earth and Frequencies – Ursula Tramski and Tanja Hoffmann
URSULA TRAMSKI /TANJA HOFFMANN A collaboration between two artists that invites the viewer to tune in and immerse and engage in dialogue made by humans for humans.
Someplace Homeplace – Rhonwen Hayes
RHONWEN HAYES This exhibition explores the themes of shelter and safety within the confines of local landscape and the people that are close to the artist.
Dingle in Colour – Pauline Culbert
PAULINE CULBERT Strolling the streets I was delighted by pattern and colour and chose just a few to attempt to represent in acrylic on canvas.
Exhibitions in Ionad na Bhlascaoid/The Blasket Centre: New Work in Stained Glass – Dingle Stained Glass Collective
DINGLE STAINED GLASS COLLECTIVE The exhibition showcases recent work by members of the Dingle Stained Glass Collective.
Great Blasket Mural – Andrew Jacob
ANDREW JACOB During the festival the artist will paint landscapes from the island as well as portraits of the women and children of the Great Blasket on the wall. Beidh Andrew, a thagann a mhuintir ón Bhlascaoid Mhór ag obair le daoine óga chun iad a spreagadh so mhuriphictúir
Reflections on 2023 – Ciara Dorgan
CIARA DORGAN This collection of work reflects on 2023, personally for the artist, and on the people and events that had a powerful impact on the world politically, culturally and emotionally.
Windswept – Honora O’Neill
HONORA O'NEILL Paintings of the surrounding land and sea with a primary focus on capturing the movement of the ocean.
Interference – Clodagh Edwards
CLODAGH EDWARDS Heads submerged, immersed, floating, all disrupted. Pattern fields, liquids and the unseen imply a surface tension. An eerie, atmospheric collection of portraits painting in oils.
Sonas- Laura Barry
LAURA BARRY Laura’s newest collection of paintings is called Sonas, meaning happiness in the Irish language, and focuses on the places that have brought some of the most contented, memorable moments and milestones to Laura throughout her life so far.
Exhibitions in Ionad na Bhlascaoid/The Blasket Centre: Hetty Lawlor
HETTY LAWLOR Portrait artist Hetty is exhibiting some of her work, her portraiture reflects her interest in wildlife and animals as well as people.
Exhibitions in Ionad na Bhlascaoid/The Blasket Centre: Ben Dearnley – Stories in Stone
BEN DEARNLEY International sculpture Ben Dearnley will be exhibiting his latest work, Carraig an Ghiorria, the Hare's Rock – scéalta bhéaloideais a mhaireann fós faoi ghiorria na hÉireann beo sa tírdhreacht timpeall orainn, gan aon athrú, agus i gcló, Carraig an Ghiorria ag Seán Mac an tSitihgh (Ponc Press).
Myths and Magic – Ann Reilly
ANN REILLY The artist explores archetypes, which are accessed from the collective unconsciousness through meditation and dreams.
Adventures – Bunscoil an Chlochair
Seó ilchineálach - gleacaíocht, iontaisí agus rince le ceardlann idirghníomhach do na leanaí ina dhiaidh.
Adventures – Scoil Iognaid Ris
Seó ilchineálach - gleacaíocht, iontaisí agus rince le ceardlann idirghníomhach do na leanaí ina dhiaidh.
Púca Puipéad le Niamh Lawlor i Scoil Dhún Chaoin
Beidh deis ag páistí a gcuid puipéid féin a thabhairt beo ag úsáid ábhair laethúla
Seascapes – Carol Cronin
CAROL CRONIN Tá radharc na mara lárnach i saothar Carol Cronin. Come and immerse yourself in Carol’s translucent Seascapes where you can feel the Ocean swell and taste the salt of the sea.
Nature Tails Bunscoil Lios Póil
Scéalaíocht agus ceardaíocht. Nature inspired story and crafts. Tales will be told inspired by Irish wildlife and clay creatures will be crafted inspired by the stories told.
Yoga for everybody – Ióga dhá theangach
Stretch and strengthen, relax and renew.
Adventures -Scoil Cheann Trá
Seó ilchineálach - gleacaíocht, iontaisí agus rince le ceardlann idirghníomhach do na leanaí ina dhiaidh.
Adventures -Scoil Chill Mhic a Domhnaigh
Seó ilchineálach - gleacaíocht, iontaisí agus rince le ceardlann idirghníomhach do na leanaí ina dhiaidh.
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Common Ground, Choctaw Irish Connections 1847-2024
Join us for a fascinating and moving insight into the humanitarian story that commenced when the Choctaw people generously donated a significant sum of money to assist Irish people during the famine.
Nature Tales Bunscoil an Chlochán
Scéalaíocht agus ceardaíocht. Nature inspired story and crafts. Tales will be told inspired by Irish wildlife and clay creatures will be crafted inspired by the stories told.
Púca Puipéad le Niamh Lawlor i Scoil an Fheirtearaigh
Beidh deis ag páistí a gcuid puipéid féin a thabhairt beo ag úsáid ábhair laethúla
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Poetry reading & Interview with Hugh O’Donnell
Hugh O'Donnell in conversation with Paddy O'Neill
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Death in Irish Prehistory
Insightful talk by emeritus professor of Celtic Archaeology, UCC, Gabriel Cooney as he explores the richness of the Irish prehistory mortuary record.
I mBliana (This Year) – Zoe Uí Fhaoláin and Micheal Kelly
ZOE UÍ FHAOLÁIN / MICHAEL KELLY A collaboration between Mickey (camera artist) and Zoë (performer). Leanann an scannán seo duine ag iarraidh caidreamh a dhéanamh le tírdhreacha nádúrtha agus duine-mhúnlaithe. Is fiosrú cruthaitheach é ar áit an duine dhaonna mar chuid den dúlra. Tá ceoltóirí áitiúla ina gcuid den bhfuaimrian.
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‘No room at the Inn: Ireland and asylum seekers’. Dr. Ciara Smyth University of Galway
Dr Ciara Smyth in conversation with Joanne Williams.
díolta amach / sold out
Ríona
Ríona’s voice has the power of stillness that makes you listen with integrity. A presence pure and true, with songwriting that is telling of an old soul. Her music brings people together in humility and fire. Ná chaill amach ar an ócáid speisialta seo le Ríona agus Floyd Elijah i Séipéilín an Dísirt.
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Jack O’ Rourke
Experience the mesmerising melodies of Jack O'Rourke as he returns to Féile na Bealtaine, gracing the historic St. James Church, with his soulful performance, including some old and new compositions. Bígí linn don cheolchoirm speisialta le Jack O'Rourke i Sáipéal Naomh Shéamuis. Seans iontach í seo amhráin draíochtúil nua a chloisteáil chomh maith le na seana hamhráin.
díolta amach / sold out
Rachael Lavelle
Rachael Lavelle is a Dublin born singer and composer who captivates audiences with her arresting voice and humorous observations on existence.Merging classical and contemporary influences, her hypnotic live performances blend electronic soundscapes with spoken word and acrobatic vocals. Her album Big Dreams was shortlisted for Ireland’s Choice Music prize and is currently supporting Lankum on tour.
Comedy Club
Dingle Comedy Club presents...
Club na Féile -The Big Payback
Traidisiún saibhir an fhéile is ea a Big Payback. Cur ort do bhróga rince agus bí réidh do ceol breá croíúil!
Aistear Pheig Mhór
Bígí linn chun Peig Sayers a ceiliuradh le ceol, dathanna, grá, projections and lanterns. Our 10 ft high puppet of ‘Peig Mhór’ will emerge from Curran’s yard, the place she stayed as a Cailin aimsire, onto the streets of Dingle 2024. Friday/Aoine 9.30 pm & Sunday/Domhnach 12:30 pm.