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Join us in the North Pole Bar, Drumfries or McFeeley’s Bar, Clonmany, second Friday of the month.
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2023/2024
22—25 March
Inishowen Singing
Festival 2024
What we do
Annual Festival
The longest running festival of traditional singing on the island of Ireland.
Singing Sessions
Local singing sessions on the second Friday of the month.
Song Tours
Our most enjoyable and popular events, not only during the Singing Weekend.
Talks & Lectures
In-depth lectures on singers and songs from Inishowen.
Other Events
News of events associated with our friends and supporters.
Songs & Singers
The history of the ITSC goes back to the 1980s and a local Buncrana school teacher originally from Gaoth Dobhair, Jimmy McBride. Jimmy along with Jim MacFarland and Colm Toland increasingly recognised and recorded the rich quality of the English language song tradition still alive among families and older singers in the Peninsula.
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The history of the ITSC goes back to the 1980s and a local Buncrana school teacher originally from Gaoth Dobhair, Jimmy McBride. Jimmy along with Jim MacFarland and Colm Toland increasingly recognised and recorded the rich quality of the English language song tradition still alive among families and older singers in the Peninsula.
