CULTURE Our musical and oral heritage explored

Our musical and oral heritage explored


Futa Fata publishing, based in Spiddal, Co Galway, will be stopping off in Mayo for three library sessions during a two week whistle-stop tour of the west. The tour is part of this month’s Bealtaine festival, which celebrates creativity and age.  
Bealtaine na nGael, hosted by Futa Fata director, musician and author, Tadhg Mac DhonnagΡin, is a lively and interactive event which will explore our musical and oral heritage, including traditional greetings, charms, blessings, curses, weather lore including the songs and verses participants remember from their own childhoods. Tadhg himself is originally from Aghamore.
A bilingual event, Bealtaine na nGael will be of particular interest to the older generation of local communities. They are free of charge, as they are sponsored by Scéim na dTionscadal Litríochta of ForΡs na Gaeilge.
Anyone with an interest in folklore, whether they have a cúpla focail or not, is welcome to join Tadhg Mac DhonnagΡin in Ballina Library this Thursday, May 28, from 2pm to 3pm; in  Kilkelly Library this Thursday, from 5pm to 6pm; and in Westport Library this Friday, May 29, from 4pm to 5pm.