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Artist T.P. Flanagan

Visitors arrive for another Event

Poet Iggy McGovern

Poet Moyra Donaldson (left) with

Kate Muldoon

Heaney by Shawcross

Laurel Villa Events & Special Offers

Check this page for up-to-date information on our Poetry Readings and news of other Magherafelt events. Some of these events are promoted by Magherafelt Arts Society, a group which has come together to promote participation in the Arts in Magherafelt and the greater Mid-Ulster area.

Regular poetry evenings take place at Laurel Villa and occasionally book launches are held. Why not take a break and stay overnight after one of these special events?

Check our Availability to book hotel quality Magherafelt accommodation.

Special Offers are sometimes available for online bookings - keep checking this page for current Special Offers.

Contact us to reserve tickets and to book accommodation for future events.

Some of the poets who have featured at these events are

• Cathal O'Searcaigh
• Joan Newman
• Ray Liversidge(Australia)
• Iggy McGovern
• Frank Ormsby
• Maura Johnston
• Christopher Somerville
• Declan Forde
• Moira Donaldson
• Seamus Heaney

The most recent event, in June 2009, was a reading by Seamus Heaney. The occasion was the 40th. Anniversary of the publication of the poet’s second collection Door Into The Dark which first appeared in June 1969. He read a number of poems from the featured collection, including Thatcher, Relic of Memory and A Lough Neagh Sequence, as well as the poem which gave the collection its title, The Forge. The packed audience were also treated to some of his more recent poems such as A Clip and Anahorish 1944 both of which were set in the locality around Mossbawn, Seamus Heaney’s birthplace near Castledawson. In characteristic Heaney fashion the poetry was peppered with plenty of amusing and illuminating anecdotes which made for a highly entertaining evening. During the evening he revealed that he was working on a new collection of poems which, like previous Heaney collections, is sure to be a best-seller.

Our most recent event on Sat. 10 October 2009 was Filiocht agus Ceol/ Poetry and Song - a bi-lingual Irish/English event featuring Nollaig Brolly, Philip Cummings and Dr. Diarmaid Ó Doibhlin.

                                               Singer and harpist Nollaig Brolly

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