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SUMMARY:Allingham Festival - Saturdays Lineup
DESCRIPTION:THE ALLINGHAM FESTIVALS LINEUP FOR SATURDAY 5TH NOVEMBER AT THE ABBEY ARTS CENTRESCREENING:  \n‘THE FIGHTING PRINCE OF DONEGAL’ (1966) \n10.30am – 12.20am \nFree Event \n \nJoin Ken Fox in the Abbey Centre on Saturday morning for a screening of the 1966 Disney film ‘The Fighting Prince of Donegal’. Ken was a young movie buff when this film first came to Ballyshannon\, and he was struck by the movie version of the Donegal landscape. The movie had in fact been shot in England\, and this representation of the inauthentic is the subject of Ken’s lecture following the screening. \nAfter inheriting his father’s title\, the young noble Hugh O’Donnell is taken hostage by the English viceroy but escapes to lead an uprising.\nFirst screened in the cinema in Ballyshannon on its initial release\, the film takes up the story of Red Hugh O’Donnell as he attempts to free Ireland from English rule. Although some of the plot is factual\, many elements in the story are fictionalised\, including the landscape! \nEXHIBITION OF THE STEPHENS COLLECTION & A NOVEL IDEA \n11.55am \nFree Event \n \nA display of the Stephens family archive\, consisting of an exhibition of old photographs of Ballyshannon and surroundings\, and a collection of newspapers including the Ballyshannon Herald\, Donegal Democrat and others. The archive also contains a unique and impressive collection of local historical documents\, compelling local history books and engaging books of the poetry of William Allingham. \nBookfair by Novel Idea \nCheck out the wonderful books for sale at the bookfair hosted by ‘A Novel Idea’ bookshop. Great authors\, hardbacks\, paperbacks\, fiction\, non-fiction\, crime & more. A large selection of children’s books for all ages will be available. There will be a display of local books for sale\, both historical and fiction. Special offers on all weekend. \nTALK: KEN FOX (CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY) – ‘IN PRAISE OF THE INAUTHENTIC’ WITH KEN FOX \n12.45pm – 1.45pm \n \nKen Fox\, Media Lecturer in Canterbury Christ Church University\, returns to his home-town to deliver a lecture on aspects of the film ‘The Fightig Prince of Donegal’ and how this affected him as a young film buff in Ballyshannon \nDOCUMENTARY: ‘TOUGHEST PLACE TO BE…’ \n2.00pm – 2.55pm \nFree Event \n \nIFTA AWARD-NOMINATED ‘TOUGHEST PLACE TO BE…’ (2016\, MOTIVE TV\, DIRECTED BY GARRY KEANE) TAKES A DUBLIN STREET CLEANER AND TRANSPORTS HIM TO A CROWDED\, IMPOVERISHED SUBURB OF MANILA TO TRY HIS HAND AT STREET CLEANING THERE. AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR GARRY KEANE AND PRODUCER JAMIE D’ALTON WILL HOLD A Q&A DIRECTLY AFTER THE SCREENING. \nMark Crosbie is a street cleaner with Dublin City Council. For eight days Mark has agreed to swap the cobbled stone streets of Temple Bar for one of the most polluted and densely populated cities in the world\, Manila. How will Mark cope as he experiences life at the extreme end of his trade as immerses himself into a new family and community while learning how his job is done in some of the most unforgiving and difficult conditions imaginable. \nOver the course of the documentary\, Mark grapples with cultural differences\, new work practices and the extreme work conditions. He quickly starts to understand the extreme challenges facing the poorest people in Manila. From the exceptionally low salaries earned by waster workers to the thousands of people forced to scavenge for a living on the landfill. Mark struggles to come to terms with a world where people survive on the things that we throw away. \nQ&A WITH GARRY KEANE & JAMIE D’ALTON (MOTIVE TV) \n2.55pm – 3.30pm \nFree Event \nAWARD-WINNING FILM-MAKERS GARRY KEANE & JAMIE D’ALTON WILL TAKE PART IN A Q&A SESSION ABOUT THE PRODUCTION OF ‘TOUGHEST PLACE TO BE…’ AMONGST OTHER TOPICS. THIS IS A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY TO PUT YOUR QUESTIONS TO TWO OF THE MOST RESPECTED AND PROLIFIC DOCUMENTARY FILM-MAKERS WORKING IN IRELAND TODAY. \n \nGarry Keane won the Best Director IFTA for his documentary on Sligo-based poet Dermot Healy\, ‘The Writing in the Sky’. More recently he received an IFTA nomination for ‘The Bypassed’. Other works include ‘These Walls Can Talk’\,  a complex and poignant story about a school that stood at the heart of the Irish Deaf community for over 150 years\, and ‘Class Swap’\, which looked different education systems across Europe through the eyes of students. Garry hails from Ballyshannon and still lives in Donegal\, but his work takes him around the world regularly\, working as cinematographer\, producer and director. \nGarry Keane on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user6198108 \n \nJamie D’Alton is the joint managing director of the IFTA award winning Motive Television production company\, and is one of Ireland’s most experienced documentary producers. Motive’s productions include the Conor McGregor documentary series ‘The Notorious’\, as well ‘The Fighting Irish’ which offers an insight into the world of MMA fighting. ‘Toughest Place To Be…’\, produced by Motive TV\, has recently been commissioned for two further episodes in the same format. Jamie currently lives in Dublin but his grandmother and extended family still reside in Ballyshannon. www.motive.ie \nYOUNG WRITERS FICTION & POETRY AWARDS – PRIMARY SCHOOL \n3.00pm – 4.00pm \n� \n \nThe winners of this year’s Allingham Young Writers Awards in association with AIB will receive their trophies and be invited to read their work in front of other finalists. This is always a fantastic event celebrating new young talent and is open to all. \nYOUNG WRITERS FICTION & POETRY AWARDS – SECONDARY SCHOOL \n4.00pm – 5.00pm \n \nThe winners of this year’s Allingham Young Writers Awards in association with AIB will receive their trophies and be invited to read their work in front of other finalists. This is always a fantastic event celebrating new young talent and is open to all. \nHISTORY IRELAND HEDGE SCHOOL \n5.30pm – 6.30pm \n€5 entry \n\n\n‘KEEPING THE HEAD DOWN – PROTESTANTS IN INDEPENDENT IRELAND’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTommy Graham returns to his native Ballyshannon once again with the History Ireland Hedge School. This year’s topic has a particular resonance in a border town like Ballyshannon. \nThe panel will include Marc Geagan (author of Bordertown Town Blues\, Jonathan Bardon (author of A History of Ulster and The Plantation of Ulster)\, Niall Meehan (Head of Journalism\, Griffith College) & Brian Hanley (one of the Hedge School regular panelists). \nALLINGHAM FICTION & POETRY AWARDS CEREMONY \n6.00pm – 7.00pm \nFree Event \n\n\n \nJoin the finalists in the Allingham Flash Fiction and Poetry Competitions as they receive their awards from judges Anne Enright\, Afric Mc Glinchey and Monica Corish. \nBOOK LAUNCH: MONICA CORISH – ‘A DYING LANGUAGE’ \n7.00pm – 8.00pm \nFree Event \n \nMONICA CORISH WILL LAUNCH HER LATEST COLLECTION\, ‘A DYING LANGUAGE’\, AT THIS YEAR’S ALLINGHAM FESTIVAL \n\n\nThe Allingham Festival will host the regional launch of A Dying Language by Monica Corish\, a poetry collection published by the Irish Hospice Foundation. Allingham headliner Anne Enright\, Laureate for Irish Fiction\, will launch the collection. 50% of the profits from sales of the collection at the Allingham Festival will be donated to the North West Hospice. \n\n\n\n\nJane Clarke\, guest poet at the 2015 Allingham Festival\, has written about A Dying Language:“It is times of grief that bring many people to poetry or back to poetry. There is something about the intensity of the language\, the pictures it creates\, the hand it reaches out\, the way it shows that sorrow can be borne. [This] is the kind of collection that one person will give to another and say – I think you might like this\, I found it very helpful myself.” \nMonica Corish worked internationally as a nurse\, an aid worker\, and a health advisor before turning to writing full-time. Her poems and stories have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review\, The Stinging Fly\, The 2016 Hippocrates Prize Anthology\, and The Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction 2005-2015. \n� \n\n\n\n\n\n� \n\n\n� \n
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CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Exhibition Gallery,Film,Poetry,Story Reading
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