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Belfast Telegraph
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
Féile An Phobail announces free concert ahead of weekend lineup
Féile an Phobail has announced a free concert this week as part of the annual Irish folk and trad festival's line-up
BBC News
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Féile an Phobail: Thousands expected at west Belfast's 'window to the world'
Féile an Phobail, billed as Ireland's biggest community arts festival, returns this weekend with thousands expected to attend events over the next two in its 37th year, the festival pitches itself as a celebration of Irish culture, with a spectacle of music, art and comedy events as well as political year's festival will have added significance for one of its founders who will be conducting his long-running walking tours of Belfast City Cemetery for the final Hartley, a former Sinn Féin lord mayor of Belfast, said the graveyard is "a reservoir" of the city's history and the perfect place to reflect on the years gone by. "It's about the complexity of those who are buried here," Mr Hartley said."It's about the great and the good. Those who shaped Belfast in the 19th century, who made it the Silicon Valley of its day."It's about women, it's about the poor, it's about the working class, it's about my notions of death and how death plays a part in the humanity of human beings." Mr Hartley told BBC News NI that while he plans to take a step back he hopes to continue his involvement in other ways. He believes the festival has allowed west Belfast to "connect with the world in a time when it appears to be upside down"."I feel it has all the potential to tap into the Irish diaspora worldwide," Mr Hartley told BBC News NI."Féile was founded at a time when the demonisation of west Belfast was at its height and so it was an expression of the internal light in our community, the creative, artistic element aspects."We wanted to show the generosity of this community and its openness, and I think Féile continues to do that in a big way." The festival will also be "keepin' 'er country" with the return of a country music night after its sell-out debut in 2024.Féile Country Fest takes place on 2 Carter returns to the line-up alongside Claudia Buckley and The Whistlin' Donkeys. Speaking to BBC News NI, the country star said he was relishing another fantastic night at Falls Park."We're really excited for this year's Féile, we played their last year and it was one of the biggest gigs of the entire year and festival season," Carter said."In Belfast we've a good old crowd that follows us so it was great to see the tremendous success at last year's country night."The Liverpool native who now lives in County Fermanagh said being able to perform in front of thousands at the west Belfast venue was "a dream come true" and praised efforts to make the concert affordable for families. Controversy The festival has not been without week, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, one of its principal funders, asked organisers to remove its logo from the festival's sports events after a children's sports event was named after a former IRA chief of the past, there have been complaints about pro-IRA chanting at a gig by the band The Wolfe Tones.
Belfast Telegraph
21-07-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Arts Council removes logo amid controversy over Feile's GAA competition for children named after former IRA leader
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has asked Féile an Phobail to remove its logo from sports events hosted by the West Belfast festival, after a children's GAA competition during the event was named after a former IRA chief of staff.
Belfast Telegraph
13-07-2025
- Politics
- Belfast Telegraph
‘It's totally devoid from reality': DUP's Jonathan Buckley slams SDLP MLA who labelled Twelfth a ‘disaster for tourism'
A unionist MLA has criticised comments made by an SDLP representative who claimed the Twelfth of July is a 'disaster for tourism' as 'entirely incorrect' and 'devoid from reality'. It comes after Sinead McLaughlin MLA shared a post by the DUP's Jonathan Buckley who questioned whether Tourism NI had forgotten something in its line-up of key events taking place in NI over the summer including Belfast Pride, Belfast TradFest and Féile an Phobail.
Belfast Telegraph
24-06-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Scottish Shinty players to face Antrim hurlers in 140th anniversary match
Four teams will come together in August for two unique matches at Corrigan Park in West Belfast, when Shinty teams from Scotland will go head-to-head with Select Antrim Hurling and Camogie teams using composite rules, to celebrate 140th anniversary of Antrim GAA. With the men's Shinty team coming from Stirling, and the women's team from the Isle of Skye, both sets of players are being brought to Belfast by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland's (PCI) minister, Rev David Moore. The match, which is free to attend, will take place at Corrigan Park, the home of Antrim GAA, on Saturday, 2 August, as part of Féile an Phobail.
