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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Moya Brennan, born Máire Ní Bhraonáin was born in Donegal on the 4th August 1952. The eldest child of a very musical family in the remote parish of Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist.She began performing professionally in 1970 when her...
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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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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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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 story of Inch Lough, begins in the late 19th Century, when it was created from the estuarine mud of Lough Swilly and two embankments were built to link Inch Island to the mainland on behalf of the Derry & Lough Swilly Railway. A railway embankment was then built dividing the area - the...
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