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An Feile Eile
An Féile Eile is an exciting new festival challenging those brave enough to embrace an alternative perspective and reconnect with the ancient energies of Samhain. A celebration that unites the past, the present and the other, where folklore, fire and festivities illuminate the dark, marking the transition from harvest into winter.
The week-long celebrations will kick off with an introduction to the lost arts associated with the end of the harvest and the arrival of darker days, with workshops in ciseog basket weaving, phantasmic folklore and turnip lantern carving with Juli the Dingle Druid.
Come visit our ancestral effigy at Grilse Gallery and weave your messages to those that have gone before you into the wicker art piece. Then on the night the veil is thinnest between this world and the next, join us as it is ceremoniously set alight on the River Laune, the flames carrying these messages to the other side.
Rediscover the magic of ghost stories with an evening of fire-side tales of fairies and ‘pucas’ from arguably Ireland’s greatest living seanchaí, Eddie Lenihan, whose candlelit tales of the ‘Other Crowd’, as he likes to refer to the little people, will scare the soul out of you.
Drop into our Death Cafe to learn about the therapeutic art of weaving a loved one’s coffin from wicker or get stuck into fermentation with Savage Craic while enjoying medicinal mocktails and listening to fungi-powered generative synth.
Actor Sean McGillicuddy will present an interactive kids storytelling session where children can come in fancy dress to enjoy Samhain themed stories, music and messing to learn about the connections between this ancient Celtic festival and All Hallows Eve.
Wrap up the week with our darkly decadent costume ball in the gloriously gothic surrounds of 10 Bridge St. Dare to don some sinister style with a prize for best costume while sipping on bespoke cocktails and mingling with the weird and wonderful on the dance floor as the DJs play the Divil’s music.
This and so much more awaits you at An Féile Eile.
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