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BEALTAINE CEREMONIAL FIRE PARADE AND BONFIRE, LOCAL ARTISAN FOOD AND CRAFTS, HOLISTIC HEALING, ALL DAY
TRAD SESSIONS, THE UISNEACH WARRIORS, SPOKEN WORD TENT WITH HERITAGE TALKS, BRASS BAND CONCERT,
YOGA & MEDITATION WORKSHOPS, GUIDED TOURS, ARCHERY DISPLAYS, DRAMA WORKSHOPS, VISUAL AND
PERFORMANCE ART, FAMILY FRIENDLY WITH CHILDREN'S PLAY & TRADITIONAL GAMES ARENA.
BEALTAINE CEREMONIAL FIRE PARADE AND BONFIRE, LOCAL ARTISAN FOOD AND CRAFTS, HOLISTIC HEALING, ALL DAY
TRAD SESSIONS, THE UISNEACH WARRIORS, SPOKEN WORD TENT WITH HERITAGE TALKS, BRASS BAND CONCERT,
YOGA & MEDITATION WORKSHOPS, GUIDED TOURS, ARCHERY DISPLAYS, DRAMA WORKSHOPS, VISUAL AND
PERFORMANCE ART, FAMILY FRIENDLY WITH CHILDREN'S PLAY & TRADITIONAL GAMES ARENA.
MAY 2ND 2015
(2pm to 11.30pm)
MAY 2ND 2015
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Uisneach traditional games AreNa
All Workshops are Free to Festival Goers.
This will be an interactive arena in Tír na nóg where children will be able to participate in an array of traditional games such
as egg and spoon races, 3 legged races, sack races and hobby horse races. Banner games will have a selection of giant games
that children can partake in, these include giant ker-plunk, connect four, Jenga, draughts and snakes and ladders. These games
will run from 14:30-18:30. Lir archery will be there to give people a taste of archery on the day (small charge going directly to
the Mullingar club who have kindly organised this demonstration today). We also have a traditional Tír na nóg stage specially
dedicated to children’s entertainment.
TÍr na nóg stage times
Time
Show or demo
Facilitator
For children 6-12 yrs
with Christine O’Brien
and Pauric hand from
Cavan youth arts
14:3015:15
Drama Workshop
15:3016:00
Interactive Story
telling on mythology of
Uisneach
with Anne Smith
16:1517:00
Drama Workshop
For children 6-12 yrs
Christine O’Brien
and Pauric hand from
Cavan youth arts
17:1517:45
Interactive Story
telling on mythology of
Uisneach
With Anne Smith
18:0018:30
Wildlife animal puppet
show
Performance by
Caroline Gower and
Morgan Roberts
18:4519:15
Performance from
singer songwriter and
Ashley Tubridy
guitarist Ashley Tubridy
Demonstrations and workshops
All Welcome to participate and experience
Workshop/
demonstration
Facilitator
15:00-15:40
and 18:0018:40
Maypole dancing
Movement therapist
Gwendoline Mc Hale
Throughout
the day
With
Rope making and
‘Heritage crafts
rope games
alive’
Time
Throughout
the day
Pole lathe
Chris Bowring
Yoga and Qi Gong by the shore’s of Lough Lugh
Time
Class
15:00- Hatha yoga to open the
16:30 fire inside
Facilitator
By William Kiernan
and Isabelle
Stoop from www.
Yogiawair.com
Qi Gong to align body,
breath, and mind for
17:00by Eimhin David
health and meditation. To
18:00
Shortt
cultivate and balance qi
(chi) or “life energy”
Guided Meditation to centre the soul at the
shores of Lough lugh
Time
14:3015:30
15:3016:30
16:4517:45
18:0019:00
19:1520:15
Facilitator
Introducing meditation to children in a
creative and fun way including storytelling,
creative visualisation and arts and crafts by
Lou Lou Rose
Guided Meditation from Uisneach by Treasa
from Sacred Sites.
Journey to the Heart of Stone- Chakra
Balancing Meditation with Anna Coote
Guided Spiritual meditation by Christine
O’Brien
We invite you to gather as a Tuatha, a tribe in
sacred circle with us, to hear the ancient story
and experience the energy of The Ancient Irish
medicine Wheel, Noirin Rooney and Jo Anne
Mac Millan are shamanic practioners working
within the Celtic tradition.
Sacred sound Healing by Carmel Diviney
Guided Tour will depart from the Lakeside at 3:00-4:30pm.
The tour will take in such features as The Ancient Palace,
Lough Lugh, St. Patrick's Bed and The Catstone. Our guest
guide for the day will be Mullingar historian Ruth Illingsworth.
Special Announcement: Recycling Workshop in the the www.bye.ie tent, information on the day.
Approach any one of our 70 on-site volunteers in their hi viz vests for any festival information or queries.
The Heritage Talks Tent
Time
Facilitator
3.00 - 3.15
Welcome - David Clarke & Justin Moffatt
3.15 - 3.45
Ruth Illingworth,local historian. “Uisneach & the tentative steps towards UNESCO”
4.00 - 4.30 Dr.Michael Roberts,Anthropologist, NUIM- “Bealtine: The Power of Community at Uisneach”
4.45 -5.15
Séamus McGinley,Archaeologist,NUIG - “Lough Lugh: Natural site or Archaeological
Monument?”
5.30-6.00
Dr.David Mc Guinness,Archaeologist - “The Barrows & Burials of Uisneach”
6.00 - 6.30
Ruairí McKiernan ‘Community spirit rising? One year after he and his wife lit the Bealtaine
fire at Uisneach, social campaigner and member of the Council of State, Ruairí McKiernan
returns to the hill to lead a discussion on community spirit and what can be done to rebuild
our country from the ground up.
6.45 - 7.15
Short Talks by The Brehon Law Society & The Corlea Trackway
7.15 -7 .45
“Scene of the Rhyme“ ( Poetry and Spoken Word from The Midlands)
7.45-8.45
“Woodland Bard” - Harp and Poetry by John Willimot and Claire Roach.
Ériu Stage
Time
SHOW
15:30
Touch The Earth
16:00
Mullingar Town Band in Concert.
17:00
The Ceoltas Ceili ( featuring The Frank Gavigan and Ballynacargy branches )
18:15
Mary Coughlan
19:00
The Afters
20:00
The MáirtÍn O Connor Band
21.00
Bealtaine Fire Parade ( departs from main arena ) LUXe leading the Fire Parade with their
spectacular show
21.30
The Uisneach Fire Ceremony ( at Hill top )
22.00
Tribal Rhythms
22.15
Moxie
23.30
Finish
Clarkes Bar present “ Ól agus Ceol “ all day trad sessions featuring the cream of the local trad scene.
News Update - Special Festival Coaches will depart from the Annebrook House Hotel, Mullingar every half hour from
1-3pm & 5-7pm returning from the Hill from 10:30pm-12:30am. Tickets payable on the bus are 15 per adult and 12.50
(U-12yrs) per journey. (see FAQ's at www.uisneach.ie)
The festival is delighted to welcome back the Uisneach Warriors, these twenty warriors on horseback and in full
costume will provide a dramatic re-enactment of times long passed throughout the afternoon and early evening.
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