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FIERSOME WARRIORS, AREN’T they? This is Richard Humphreys and Finnian Mc Veigh in a (mock) jousting battle at the Athenry Walled Town celebration this weekend.
The boys were taking part in one of the 1,700+ events happening around the country all of this week to celebrate our National Heritage Week.
You can find out what’s happening in your area – and indeed register your own event – at heritageweek.ie. There are two free apps, one each for Android and iPhone.
The photographic team from Heritage Week have shared a number of images with us of some of the events that have already taken place. Fun times.
Road bowling at Fenor Cross, Fenor, Co Waterford:
Hot air balloon workshops in Ranelagh, Dublin:
A waltz in an interactive promenade performance of Little Women at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin:
Basketmaking at the Hall of the Red Earl in Galway:
Examining the biosphere at Clara Bog in Offaly:
More from Athenry’s Walled Towns Day in Galway:
Something cool happening in your area this week? Let other TheJournal.ie users know about it in the comments section below…
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Heritage week is wonderful, we should all celebrate the great diversity and multiculural heritage that this great little island has endured for thousands of years, And hopefully it will remain fully Irish for thousands of years to come.
Éirinn go brách.
I say that’s my boy! I say that’s my Fiersome warrior Richard at the start!
Athenry walled town put on a super weekend for all!
Went to a great lunchtime lecture in the Ilac Centre Library, Dublin about the Monto – North Dublin Inner City and its connection with the 1913 Lockout. It makes you think about what we are going through today in Ireland (industrial disputes, homelessness, prostitution and poor inner housing) and did we learn anything at all…
The hall of the red earl is in the middle of the revenue office ! Should never had let in those feudal lords , then again we had no immunity to leperacy did we ?
And where did leperacauns come from? yes folks from the dirty rotten disease brought back from the crusades by the Normans !
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