Is it us or is interest in this year’s Allingham Festival even greater than it has been in the past? Many of you have been asking for the full programme to plan your weekend and now it’s here. You can download a PDF copy or browse individual events, day by day.
You can gasp for The Deepest Breath as Jamie Lee Dalton brings his Netflix phenomenon to the big screen. Be enthralled by the wonderful repertoire of Regina Nathan. Let Olive Travers catch you in her Nets of Wonder. Be gripped by Niall Muldoon’s account of Children’s Rights in Ireland. Lose yourself in the strange world of Sally Diamond during Liz Nugent’s conversation with Sinead Crowley…
We could go on (and on) but then where would be the point in looking at the programme? Please do visit and re-visit and plan to make the most of what promises to be a wonderful festival.
We’ll see you there.
The programme for the Allingham Arts Festival 2023 is now available online!
You can view the events that are on day by day, and download a PDF of the programme for use over the weekend.
Due to some unforeseen cicumstances, it was decided this evening to take the unusual step of extending tomorrow's deadline for competition entries for one more week.
Fiction writers will be competing once again for the Jim Keane Memorial Trophy while poets are vying for the brand new (and beautiful) Francis Harvey Award. We have already received many impressive entries so don't miss your opportunity to join this happy crew.
Full details of how to enter either by post or online are available on our competitions page.
..and while you're on the website, do also check out the Programme page where a full list of this year's events can be found.
There is great anticipation around Ballyshannon for tomorrow night’s Premiere of Obituary on RTE1 at 10:15 PM. The blacker than black comedy-drama was filmed around Ballyshannon and Bundoran some months ago. It stars Siobhan Cullen as the “prim reaper” Elvira Clancy who finds her job on the local newspaper under threat. She suddenly finds that writing obituaries is her only source of income. What’s a girl to do but make sure that there are plenty of obituaries to write?
By the time the Allingham festival comes around the full first season will have been shown but we are so confident of its popularity that we have acquired the rights to show episode one on the big screen in the Abbey Arts Centre at 7 PM on Friday, November 10. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with one of the producers, Paddy Hayes and, who knows, we may also persuade a few cast members to join us.
We hope you will, too.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/0923/1406957-siobhan-cullen-plays-the-prim-reaper-in-obituary/
We're delighted to note that Paul Lynch's novel, Prophet Song,(described by at least one Allingham Committee member as "an excellent read") has reached the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize.
Paul delivered a seminar at the Allingham festival, 2014, and was one of our judges in 2017. We look forward to welcoming him back some time in the future, hopefully as a Booker Laureate!