JANUARY

TUESDAY 26TH: Outdoor ceremony at Famine Memorial, Frances Street at 7.30pm followed by reflections at

Manchester Martyrs Monument and 1916 Memorial

at Town Hall.

LAUNCH OF 2016 CENTENARY CALENDAR OF EVENTS PROGRAMME AT

AN TEACH CEOIL AT 8PM FOLLOWED BY LECTURE/DEBATE HOSTED BY

KILRUSH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

LECTURE: ‘PUBS AND PATRIOTISM-FENIANISM FROM 1860 TO 1916’

SPEAKER: MAUREEN CRONIN

FEBRUARY & MARCH

SCHOOLS’ ALL WEST CLARE PRIMARY/SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO

PARTICIPATE IN DEBATING, POETRY, ESSAY AND ART COMPETITIONS. IRISH

LANGUAGE LITERARY EVENTS IN CLARE LIBRARIES DURING SEACHTAIN NA

GAEILGE, MÁRTA, 2016. ARTIST IN SCHOOLS SCHEME ETC.

MARCH

WEDNESDAY 15TH: ‘1916 Proclamation Day’ at local primary schools

THURSDAY 17TH: St. Patrick’s Day Parade, organised by Kilrush Chamber of Commerce commencing at 3pm led by Colour

Party from Reserve Defence Forces. Parade Theme:

‘1916-2016-Celebrating A Hundred Years of

Achievement’.

EASTER SUNDAY 27TH: 1916-2016 COMMEMORATION MASS AT 12 NOON

AT ST SENAN’S PARISH CHURCH.

Killimer Local History Group present re-enactment of ‘Disarmament of

the RIC’ outside Knockerra Church at 1pm sharp

Commemoration Ceremony at 3pm at Market Square to include

Keynote Speaker, Reading of Proclamation, 1916 Poetry, Colour Party

from Reserve Defence Forces, Honours paid to the National Flag.

Wreath-laying. Amhrán na bFhiann.

APRIL

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 16TH/17TH LAUNCH OF KILRUSH RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB’S HISTORY INCLUDING

REFERENCE TO THE RULE 21 ‘BAN’. PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION.

ALL WELCOME

FRIDAY 29TH: Lecture at 8pm at An Teach Ceoil hosted by Kilrush Historical Society. Lecture: ‘The Irish Revolutionary

Period-Experience and Memory’

Speaker: Tomás Mac Conmara

MAY

FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY 6TH/7TH/8TH CON COLBERT- THE CLONREDDAN CONNECTION AT COORACLARE.

LECTURES, MEMORABILIA, COMMEMORATIVE MASS AND UNVEILING OF

PLAQUE.

JUNE

FRIDAY 22ND – TUESDAY26TH FLEADH CEOIL AN CHLÁIR AT KILRUSH FEATURING SET COMPETITIONS,

TRADITIONAL MUSIC, SINGING COMPETITIONS, PUB SESSIONS AND STREET

ENTERTAINMENT

JULY

FRIDAY 15TH-17TH: Peadar Clancy Cultural Festival at Cranny.

Unveiling of Plaque Ceremony.

THURSDAY 18TH-24TH: Inis Cathaigh Comhaltas Traditional Music Festival

WEDNESDAY 20TH: Singers Club at 9pm at Haven Arms

THURSDAY 21ST: Seisiún at An Teach Ceoil at 9pm

FRIDAY 22ND: Set Dancing Workshop. Official Opening of Festival

followed by Céili at the Square from 6.45pm to

9.30pm

JULY

SATURDAY 23RD: Set Dancing Workshop, Street Session at 11am, Céili

in the Square from 2.30pm to 5.30pm. Traditional

Concert at 8pm at An Teach Ceoil

SUNDAY 24TH: Seisiún in the Square at 3pm followed by Céili in the

Square until 5.30pm

Traditional Music Seisiúin in the local Pubs during the festival from 10pm

SUMMER SEISIÚIN 2016 AT AN TEACH CEOIL,

KILRUSH EVERY THURSDAY AT 9PM

FROM JUNE 30TH TO AUGUST 11TH

25TH- 31ST KILRUSH HOMECOMING FESTIVAL

Under the diaspora/reconciliation theme, the

following ‘Homecoming/ Óró, ‘sé do bheatha abhaile’

themed events are being co-ordinated by the WC

Steering Group:

MONDAY 25TH: Unveiling of ‘Óró, ‘sé do bheatha bhaile’ art piece at

7.15pm at Frances Street followed by Cracked Spoon

Theatre Group: Re-enactment of Easter Rising outside

Town Hall at 8pm.

TUESDAY 26TH: Kilrush Art Group themed exhibition at Kilrush

Library at 8pm

WEDNESDAY 27TH: Concert: ‘Battle Hymns of the Republic’ at An Teach

Ceoil at 8pm; Republican anthems, love songs, poetry

readings, dress of the 1916 era.

THURSDAY/FRIDAY/SATURDAY

Singing Pubs themed competition

FRIDAY 29TH: Unveiling of a plaque at Joe Hawes’s residence,

Moore Street at 7.30pm followed by lecture ‘Joe

Hawes-Connaught Ranger and Patriot’ by Oliver

Hawes at 8pm at An Teach Ceoil

SATURDAY 30TH: Guided Tours of Inis Cathaigh.

Sailings with Scattery Island Ferries.

Bookings: Tel 065 9051327

SUNDAY 31ST : Free Open Air Concert at 2pm-5.00pm at Vandeleur

W.G. entitled ‘Celebrating 100 years of West Clare

Music, Song and Dance’ organised by Inis Cathaigh

Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann

SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY 27TH: Lecture hosted by Kilrush Historical Society at An

Teach Ceoil. ‘1916-1956: The Irish and Hungarian

Revolutions’ Speaker: Brian Comerford

OCTOBER

TUESDAY 25TH : Lecture hosted by Kilrush Historical Society at An

Teach Ceoil

‘Remembering Patriarchs and Patriots-When Kilrush

Streets Had Two Names’.

Speaker: Eoin Shanahan

NOVEMBER

SUNDAY 13TH: National Remembrance Day at WW1 memorial at Old

Shanakyle at 1pm sharp. Theme: ‘Reconciliation-A

Shared History’.

DECEMBER

WEDNESDAY 7TH : 2016 Photographic/Art Exhibition at Kilrush Library.

Launch of ‘National Monuments of Clare’

publication. Concluding address by organising

committee as curtain falls on 1916-2016 celebrations.

Contacts:

Tom Prendeville Cathaoirleach 087-7694141 Brian Comerford, Rúnai

West Clare Easter Rising 1916 Commemoration Steering Group

JANUARY

TUESDAY 26TH: Outdoor ceremony at Famine Memorial, Frances Street at 7.30pm followed by reflections at

Manchester Martyrs Monument and 1916 Memorial

at Town Hall.

LAUNCH OF 2016 CENTENARY CALENDAR OF EVENTS PROGRAMME AT

AN TEACH CEOIL AT 8PM FOLLOWED BY LECTURE/DEBATE HOSTED BY

KILRUSH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

LECTURE: ‘PUBS AND PATRIOTISM-FENIANISM FROM 1860 TO 1916’

SPEAKER: MAUREEN CRONIN

FEBRUARY & MARCH

SCHOOLS’ ALL WEST CLARE PRIMARY/SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO

PARTICIPATE IN DEBATING, POETRY, ESSAY AND ART COMPETITIONS. IRISH

LANGUAGE LITERARY EVENTS IN CLARE LIBRARIES DURING SEACHTAIN NA

GAEILGE, MÁRTA, 2016. ARTIST IN SCHOOLS SCHEME ETC.

MARCH

WEDNESDAY 15TH: ‘1916 Proclamation Day’ at local primary schools

THURSDAY 17TH: St. Patrick’s Day Parade, organised by Kilrush Chamber of Commerce commencing at 3pm led by Colour

Party from Reserve Defence Forces. Parade Theme:

‘1916-2016-Celebrating A Hundred Years of

Achievement’.

EASTER SUNDAY 27TH: 1916-2016 COMMEMORATION MASS AT 12 NOON

AT ST SENAN’S PARISH CHURCH.

Killimer Local History Group present re-enactment of ‘Disarmament of

the RIC’ outside Knockerra Church at 1pm sharp

Commemoration Ceremony at 3pm at Market Square to include

Keynote Speaker, Reading of Proclamation, 1916 Poetry, Colour Party

from Reserve Defence Forces, Honours paid to the National Flag.

Wreath-laying. Amhrán na bFhiann.

APRIL

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 16TH/17TH LAUNCH OF KILRUSH RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB’S HISTORY INCLUDING

REFERENCE TO THE RULE 21 ‘BAN’. PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION.

ALL WELCOME

FRIDAY 29TH: Lecture at 8pm at An Teach Ceoil hosted by Kilrush Historical Society. Lecture: ‘The Irish Revolutionary

Period-Experience and Memory’

Speaker: Tomás Mac Conmara

MAY

FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY 6TH/7TH/8TH CON COLBERT- THE CLONREDDAN CONNECTION AT COORACLARE.

LECTURES, MEMORABILIA, COMMEMORATIVE MASS AND UNVEILING OF

PLAQUE.

JUNE

FRIDAY 22ND – TUESDAY26TH FLEADH CEOIL AN CHLÁIR AT KILRUSH FEATURING SET COMPETITIONS,

TRADITIONAL MUSIC, SINGING COMPETITIONS, PUB SESSIONS AND STREET

ENTERTAINMENT

JULY

FRIDAY 15TH-17TH: Peadar Clancy Cultural Festival at Cranny.

Unveiling of Plaque Ceremony.

THURSDAY 18TH-24TH: Inis Cathaigh Comhaltas Traditional Music Festival

WEDNESDAY 20TH: Singers Club at 9pm at Haven Arms

THURSDAY 21ST: Seisiún at An Teach Ceoil at 9pm

FRIDAY 22ND: Set Dancing Workshop. Official Opening of Festival

followed by Céili at the Square from 6.45pm to

9.30pm

JULY

SATURDAY 23RD: Set Dancing Workshop, Street Session at 11am, Céili

in the Square from 2.30pm to 5.30pm. Traditional

Concert at 8pm at An Teach Ceoil

SUNDAY 24TH: Seisiún in the Square at 3pm followed by Céili in the

Square until 5.30pm

Traditional Music Seisiúin in the local Pubs during the festival from 10pm

SUMMER SEISIÚIN 2016 AT AN TEACH CEOIL,

KILRUSH EVERY THURSDAY AT 9PM

FROM JUNE 30TH TO AUGUST 11TH

25TH- 31ST KILRUSH HOMECOMING FESTIVAL

Under the diaspora/reconciliation theme, the

following ‘Homecoming/ Óró, ‘sé do bheatha abhaile’

themed events are being co-ordinated by the WC

Steering Group:

MONDAY 25TH: Unveiling of ‘Óró, ‘sé do bheatha bhaile’ art piece at

7.15pm at Frances Street followed by Cracked Spoon

Theatre Group: Re-enactment of Easter Rising outside

Town Hall at 8pm.

TUESDAY 26TH: Kilrush Art Group themed exhibition at Kilrush

Library at 8pm

WEDNESDAY 27TH: Concert: ‘Battle Hymns of the Republic’ at An Teach

Ceoil at 8pm; Republican anthems, love songs, poetry

readings, dress of the 1916 era.

THURSDAY/FRIDAY/SATURDAY

Singing Pubs themed competition

FRIDAY 29TH: Unveiling of a plaque at Joe Hawes’s residence,

Moore Street at 7.30pm followed by lecture ‘Joe

Hawes-Connaught Ranger and Patriot’ by Oliver

Hawes at 8pm at An Teach Ceoil

SATURDAY 30TH: Guided Tours of Inis Cathaigh.

Sailings with Scattery Island Ferries.

Bookings: Tel 065 9051327

SUNDAY 31ST : Free Open Air Concert at 2pm-5.00pm at Vandeleur

W.G. entitled ‘Celebrating 100 years of West Clare

Music, Song and Dance’ organised by Inis Cathaigh

Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann

SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY 27TH: Lecture hosted by Kilrush Historical Society at An

Teach Ceoil. ‘1916-1956: The Irish and Hungarian

Revolutions’ Speaker: Brian Comerford

OCTOBER

TUESDAY 25TH : Lecture hosted by Kilrush Historical Society at An

Teach Ceoil

‘Remembering Patriarchs and Patriots-When Kilrush

Streets Had Two Names’.

Speaker: Eoin Shanahan

NOVEMBER

SUNDAY 13TH: National Remembrance Day at WW1 memorial at Old

Shanakyle at 1pm sharp. Theme: ‘Reconciliation-A

Shared History’.

DECEMBER

WEDNESDAY 7TH : 2016 Photographic/Art Exhibition at Kilrush Library.

Launch of ‘National Monuments of Clare’

publication. Concluding address by organising

committee as curtain falls on 1916-2016 celebrations.

Contacts:

Tom Prendeville Cathaoirleach 087-7694141 Brian Comerford, Rúnai

West Clare Easter Rising 1916 Commemoration Steering Group

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