Pig Art and Dish for the Deise are two great new competitions launched for the Waterford Festival of Food 2011. So if you are a wannabe chef or an artist bursting to get out this could be for you.
Pig Art wants you to make and decorate your very own one metre high porker to take part in the Festival's Pig Fair and Pig Parade with one little piggy chosen as the 2011 Festival Mascot.
Dish for the Deise will select one recipe devised by an 'at home' cook ,using local ingredients and with a distinctive Waterford flavour, to be prepared and served in the wonderful Nude Food café.
Entry requirements, entry forms and further details are available on the Festival website at http://www.welcomewaterford.com/FestivalofFood2011/Competitions/.
Happy competing: may the best swine and dine(r?!) win!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Minister of State Re-Opens Newly Renovated Library
Minister of State, Michael Finneran is in Lismore this morning reopening the town's newly renovated Carnegie Library which celebrates its centenary this year.
The Minister for Housing & Local Services at the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government also launched "Port Láirge Ag Léamh: A Four Year Reading Development Strategy 2011-2014 ".
Mr Donald Brady, former County Librarian, made a presentation to Deputy Finneran.
The Minister for Housing & Local Services at the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government also launched "Port Láirge Ag Léamh: A Four Year Reading Development Strategy 2011-2014 ".
Mr Donald Brady, former County Librarian, made a presentation to Deputy Finneran.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Helen Dillon: Confessions of a Plantswoman at Lismore Castle Arts
Lismore Castle Arts is delighted to bring Helen Dillon to Lismore for a very special lecture, where she will discuss many aspects of designing, creating and maintaining a personal and highly celebrated garden.
Helen Dillon is a world-renowned plantswoman, writer, lecturer and broadcaster. With her husband Val, she has created a garden in Dublin that is considered to be one of the gems of the horticultural world. This widely acclaimed garden is a mix of startling design and perfectly grown plants - many of them rare and unusual.
"Confessions of A Plantswoman" will take place on Thursday 24th February at 7.00pm. Tickets cost €10 (€8 Friends) - advance booking essential. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Lismore Estates’ For further information or to book a ticket to this event please contact Paul McAree on 058 54061 or email info@lismorecastlearts.ie. Early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment.
Helen Dillon is a world-renowned plantswoman, writer, lecturer and broadcaster. With her husband Val, she has created a garden in Dublin that is considered to be one of the gems of the horticultural world. This widely acclaimed garden is a mix of startling design and perfectly grown plants - many of them rare and unusual.
"Confessions of A Plantswoman" will take place on Thursday 24th February at 7.00pm. Tickets cost €10 (€8 Friends) - advance booking essential. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Lismore Estates’ For further information or to book a ticket to this event please contact Paul McAree on 058 54061 or email info@lismorecastlearts.ie. Early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Immrama Table Quiz
The annual table quiz to raise funds for Immrama, Lismore's Travel Writing Festival, will take place this Friday 21st January. The quiz will be held at Ballyrafter House House. Questions start at 8.30pm.
RTE's The Way We Worked Looking for Participants
RTE is producing a history programme called "The Way We Worked." A similar series last year focused on men working in industries like fishing, mining, creameries, turf and sugar beat. This new series will focus on women’s work in factories, shops, offices and at home.
RTE wish to get in contact with women with rural backgrounds who might have worked in the following areas at some point in their lives:
RTE wish to get in contact with women with rural backgrounds who might have worked in the following areas at some point in their lives:
-domestic: housekeepers and nannies
-factories
-drapery/grocery stores, postmistresses
-office work, civil service, telephone exchange
-laundries, cleaners
-working from home - knitting, lace, dressmaking, poultry, farming
Do you know of any interesting women in the local area who have stories to tell about their working lives? RTE would love to talk to them. If you have any suggestions please email meallafahey@lismoreheritage.ie and we will pass them along to the show's producers.
Friday, January 14, 2011
On Yer Bike: Lismore Cycling Holidays
A new company- Lismore Cycling Holidays -wants to help organise your cycling holiday to the Sunny South East. With dates, duration, routes and pace all dictated by you Lismore Cycling will help arrange the holiday of a lifetime.
If you have your holiday or day trip planned and all you are missing is the bike then Lismore Cycling Holidays is also the place for you; bike hire can be arranged for at daily or weekly rates.
Mealla Fahey of Lismore Heritage Centre describes Lismore Cycling Holidays as a great new initiative. "We welcome every venture that can enhance the experience of tourists visiting the area and any enterprise that brings more visitors to the region. We wish them the best of luck"
To find out more about Lismore Cycling Holidays visit their website http://www.cyclingholidays.ie/ or find them on Facebook.
If you have your holiday or day trip planned and all you are missing is the bike then Lismore Cycling Holidays is also the place for you; bike hire can be arranged for at daily or weekly rates.
Mealla Fahey of Lismore Heritage Centre describes Lismore Cycling Holidays as a great new initiative. "We welcome every venture that can enhance the experience of tourists visiting the area and any enterprise that brings more visitors to the region. We wish them the best of luck"
To find out more about Lismore Cycling Holidays visit their website http://www.cyclingholidays.ie/ or find them on Facebook.
TG4 Documentary: The Waterford and Lismore Railway
"Boithre Iarainn" is a six part series currently airing on TG4 on Sunday evenings. The documentary series chronicles the history of Ireland's railways. On Sunday 16th January the programme will feature the Waterford & Lismore Railway.
Described as "one of the most scenic routes in the country" the railway will be fondly remembered by many. Sunday's programme will feature stories from the War of Independence and Civil War era such as the blowing up of the Ballyvoile Viaduct and the Durrow Ambush. Archive photographs kindly supplied by Waterford County Museum will also be of great sentimental and historical interest to many viewers.
Sunday's episode may have been of special significance to the series producers; Nemeton Television- "the largest independent producer of television hours in Ireland"-is based in An Rinn Gaeltacht just outside Dungarvan.
"Boithre Iarainn" will be shown on TG4 on Sunday 16th January at 8.15p.m.
Described as "one of the most scenic routes in the country" the railway will be fondly remembered by many. Sunday's programme will feature stories from the War of Independence and Civil War era such as the blowing up of the Ballyvoile Viaduct and the Durrow Ambush. Archive photographs kindly supplied by Waterford County Museum will also be of great sentimental and historical interest to many viewers.
Sunday's episode may have been of special significance to the series producers; Nemeton Television- "the largest independent producer of television hours in Ireland"-is based in An Rinn Gaeltacht just outside Dungarvan.
"Boithre Iarainn" will be shown on TG4 on Sunday 16th January at 8.15p.m.
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