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This page is sponsored by
South Roscommon Singers Circle. Roscommon Singers Festival 2008. |
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Some of the hundred people who attended the presentation of the Annie McNulty Award to Sean Garvey. (© Roscommon Historical Research).
Two reproductions of ballad sheets from the eighteenth century especially produced and given out by John Moulden for his talk on Friday evening.
Festival organiser Declan Coyne and his wife with Sean Garvey and a friend at the Annie McNulty Awards 2008. (© Roscommon Historical Research)
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The Roscommon Singers Festival 2008 was
held in Knockcroghery over the week-end 24 to 26 October 2008 and
proved to be the most successful to date. Great entertainment was
provided in all the venues in the town and the word is out - if you
want to join in the fun next year, then you better book your bed and
breakfast early! Visitors from Clare, Wicklow, Dublin, Offaly and
many other counties, from Northern Ireland and from overseas,
enjoyed fabulous singing and great crack. The
Annie McNulty
Award, which this year was presented to a delighted and at
times emotional Sean Garvey, was attended by over 100 people. Our
photographs and images are just a small taste of the fun. For
further information etc. contact Declan
Coyne. Some of the publicity for the event.
Reports were also carried in the Athlone Papers.
The Roscommon Champion. 21 October 2008.
Images are not to scale.
The Roscommon Herald. 21 October 2008.
Tickets for the Awards Dinner and report from the Award sponsor The Roscommon People of 17 October 2008.
The photograph above shows Awards recipient Sean Garvey with Mai Byrne, Annie McNulty's first cousin twice removed. (Photographs: © Roscommon Historical Research). If you have any material that you would like to contribute to our collection, please contact us.
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The
2008 Annie McNulty Award is "The Celtic Lady" by local artist
Fran Crowe (far left). It depicts a "willowy, Celtic female
figure playing an accordion. She is wearing a long flowing gown in
the traditional West of Ireland colours of red and purple.
Representing Annie McNulty, the figure stands proudly in the centre
of the composition looking out at the viewer. Blending into the
trunk of an ancient gnarled oak tree, whose roots run into the
landscape. Below the roots, hidden in the undergrowth, is a
representation of the Kilteevan Mass Rock and bog. Using the
traditional art of tapestry, the design is woven in pure new Irish
wool, mounted on board and framed behind glass" (