Tides of Tradition

Feakle Festival

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Feakle Festival is an annual event held in the village of Feakle, County Clare. It features Irish traditional music, song, and dance over a long weekend in August. The festival includes concerts, workshops for instruments such as fiddle and accordion, and talks.

Ennis Book Club Festival

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Ennis Book Club Festival is an annual event held in Ennis, County Clare, that promotes and celebrates reading. It brings together readers, writers, and book lovers from Ireland and further afield for events and conversations. The festival celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2026.

Edwina Guckian

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Dancer Edwina Guckian hails from outside the village of Drumsna in Co. Leitrim. Coming from a family steeped in the tradition of music and dance, her style is greatly influenced by the style of local music she grew up with across Leitrim and Roscommon.

Rua Red

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Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, is a multi-disciplinary contemporary art space in Tallaght. Facilities include two galleries, a seventy-seat performance space, nine artist studios, three music rehearsal spaces, two workshop spaces, a large dance studio, ten incubation spaces for creative organisations, a recording studio, and a café. The centre delivers arts programmes and supports creative organisations.

Kate Kos

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Kate Kos is an artist who operates a gallery and studio in Gorey, County Wexford. The shop sells original watercolour and gouache paintings, prints, floral artworks, landscapes, seascapes, and animal portraits. The business also provides art courses, lessons, gift cards, and custom mini commissions.

Gold Medal Awards

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Gold Medal Awards operates an independent awards programme for the Irish hospitality industry. The organisation hosts annual Hotel and Catering Awards, which are judged by industry experts. Events take place at venues such as the Galmont Hotel in Galway.