Creative Donegal
Creative Donegal
Creativity is a part of Donegal life, it's in the air we breathe. We paint with our words and sing with our stories. Our landscape beats a rhythm that will make your soul dance.
Set yourself free and explore the treasure trove that awaits you.
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Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana on the Inishowen Peninsula in 1953. He was educated locally going on to study English at University College Dublin. McGuinness came to prominence as a playwright with an early work, The Factory Girls, using his local knowledge and experience to...
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The Donegal Designer Makers are a network of studio based makers from all over Donegal working in a broad range of disciplines from ceramics, fashion and textiles, furniture and product, jewellery, metalwork, batik, print and painting.
This design network was established in 2010 by...
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In 2014 Donegal Diaspora covered Ian Harkin’s business journey with Lottie Dolls and his return to Donegal to create a base for Lottie in the Co Lab, Letterkenny. The move for CEO, and MD of the award winning an innovative doll brand, Ian Harkin, has been successful thus far - Lottie is now for...
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Na Físealaíona i nGaeltacht
Bhí traidisiún láidir ceoil i nGaeltacht Dhún na nGall riamh agus tá an ceol traidisiún beo, beithíoch go fóill. Is mór an mhéid féilte, scoileanna, ranganna, seisiúin agus imeachtaí ceoil a bhíonn ar siúl ar fud na Gaeltachta, agus gan dabht, tá clú agus cáil ar cheol agus ar cheoltóirí an...
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The idea for Tigerish Waters was born in Donegal whilst Director Lucy Campbell spent most summers with her family surfing the West Coast of Ireland. She was taken by how extreme the surfing was; so cold, wild and wintery as well as the beauty of the unspoilt landscape, the beaches so huge and...
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