Festival in a Van is a mobile festival stage offering safe outdoor entertainment in various locations around the town.
- Festival in a Van – Dorn Filíochta: Readings by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin and Celia de Fréine, music by Colin Gunning and Aoife McDermott. Sun 19 Sep 2021, Ardgillan Castle: Upper Car Park, from 2 pm
About our artists
Raven illustrations and brochure design: Matthew Kelly.
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin
Saolaíodh Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin i Ros Eo, Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath, agus maireann sí anois in Iarrthar Ciarraí. File agus drámadóir í Ceaití. Tá ceithre chnuasach filíochta foilsithe aici agus dhá ghearrdhráma dá cuid stáitsithe ag An Lab, sa Daingean. Bhuaigh an cnuasach filíochta is déanaí uaithi, Agallamh sa Cheo, Cnoc Bhréanainn (Coiscéim), Duais an Oireachtais 2018. Chaith Ceaití tréimhse ina scríbhneoir cónaitheach sa Díseart, sa Daingean, fé Scéim Ealaíontóir Cónaitheach Harry Clarke, 2008-2010. Bronnadh sparánacht Ealaíon na Gaeltachta (Údarás na Gaeltachta agus An Chomhairle Ealaíon) uirthi, i 2019 agus arís, le tacaíocht ó Éire Ildánach, i 2020.
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin (Cathi Weldon) was born in Rush, Co. Dublin and now lives in West Kerry. Ceaití is a poet and dramatist. Four volumes of her Irish language poetry have been published and two of her short dramas have been staged at An Lab, in Dingle. Her latest collection of poems, Agallamh sa Cheo, Cnoc Bhréanainn (Coiscéim) won Duais an Oireachtais 2018. She was writer in residence at the Díseart, in Dingle, under the Harry Clarke Artist Residency Scheme, 2008-2010. She has been awarded bursaries by Ealaíon na Gaeltachta, with support from Údarás na Gaeltachta and the Arts Coucil, in 2019, and again, in collaboration with Creative Ireland, in 2020.
Celia de Fréine
Celia de Fréine writes in many genres in both Irish and English. Awards for her poetry include the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnacht. To date she has published nine collections. Her plays and film and television scripts have won numerous awards. Ceannródaí (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2018) her biography of Louise Gavan Duffy won ACIS Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana (2019) and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards (2018) and Gradam Uí Shuilleabháin (2019). Cur i gCéill, her first thriller, published by LeabhairCOMHAR in 2019, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards (2020). http://www.celiadefreine.com
Scríobhann Celia de Fréine in iliomad seánraí i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla. I measc na ngradam atá buaite aici dá cuid filíochta tá Duais Patrick Kavanagh (1994) agus Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnacht (2004). Naoi gcnuasach filíochta atá foilsithe aici go dtí seo. Tá go leor duaiseanna buaite ag a cuid drámaí agus scripteanna scannáin agus teilifíse. Ainmníodh Ceannródaí (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2018), a beathaisnéis de Luíse Ghabhánach Ní Dhufaigh ar an ngearrliosta don Irish Book Awards (2018) agus do Ghradam Uí Shuilleabháin (2019). Bhuaigh sí ACIS Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana (2019). Ainmníodh a scéinséir Cur i gCéill (LeabhairCOMHAR, 2019) ar an ngearrliosta don Irish Book Awards 2020.
Colin Gunning and Aoife McDermott, musicians
Raven illustrations and brochure design: Matthew Kelly.
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