Author Archive | Ardmore Pattern Festival

Hope you’re all enjoying Festival week so far. We’ve had drama, we’ve had cooking, we’ve had the arrival of St Declan – despite the best attempts of the tides and the weather, we’ve had a book launch and we’ve had a cracking song contest. Congratulations of course to Declan Carey, the winner of the song […]

What a great afternoon and evening we had in Ardmore yesterday when one of the country’s most respected – and it has to be said, hardest working – chefs visited. We hope everyone who came along had a good time and we’d like to say a huge thank you to Neven and his team for […]

Are you a fan of Live Music? Well, if so, there’s a great line up this year. Traditional, classical, pop, rock and jazz all feature at various times during the week. So we thought it might be a good idea to put a list of all live music events right here, so you can pick […]

Theatre Lovett presents HOW DO ACTORS PLAY? A family workshop for children (aged 7+) and adults. Joint Artistic Directors of Theatre Lovett, Louis Lovett and Muireann Ahern have developed a fun way to take you through the actor’s journey on stage: learning how to take hold of the moment you’re in, how to look forward to […]

Every year, the Pattern Festival’s ‘An Audience with…’ series of talks in St Paul’s Church proves very popular. Last year, writers and journalists such as Anthony Summers and Joe Duffy entertained us. And this year we’re delighted to say we’ve got a cracking line up of speakers from the worlds of fiction, politics, exploration, criminology […]

With substantially more entries than last year, shortlisting the finalists for the 2013 Ardmore Song Contest was no mean feat. But our top-secret judging panel have been busy listening and re-listening to each entry received and now they have chosen their six finalists. Congratulations to those who made the grade – and of course to […]