There will also, of course be a guided tour of the
various facilities on offer and an introduction to the valuable Archive of
written works by local authors such as Michael J Murphy. There are too, bar facilities and a hotel-standard
accommodation suite should you choose to postpone your return home for a
while. If you do, I recommend The Poet’s
Trail early-morning walk – the best hangover cure imaginable!
Which brings us neatly to Saturday 18 June, deemed
Walking Day! Do your own thing – or join
in the 4.00 pm Historical Walking Tour, with an expert guide!
There is a ‘Political Tour’ scheduled for 2.00
pm. Is this a ‘politically-correct’ term
for what others deem ‘Terror Tours’? - that is, a whistle-stop visit to sites of
recent conflict : or does it review centuries of political affairs in the area,
for example, going back to the United Irishmen, and before? I don’t know the answer, but, with a good
guide, I’d take one but not the other!
There are Traditional Music Workshops in the afternoon
and also Dancing Performances. From
12-2.00 pm there is an Under-8 7-a-side Interclub Tournament, I presume in the
adjacent school grounds.
Saturday evening is the highlight. There is a Folklore Evening 7.30-9.00 with
singer Len Graham and Storyteller John Campbell. At dusk there is a fire-throwing display
within the Stone Ring featured here in the photograph. The evening concludes with the excellent
Backbone Blues Band. Something for
everyone, literally!!
Well, not the children! So Sunday is Children Day. From 12-2.00 pm Noel Mackin is working in
Artistic Workshops with local children. While this is going on (and after, 2-4.00 pm) the Armagh
Rhymers will host a performance and a play in the Centre. From 4-5.00 there is an Awards Ceremony for
an Art Competition.
Of course throughout, there will be a host of other
features in the Centre and its immediate vicinity: circus performers; fire-throwers; Bouncy
castle; Face-painters; balloon modellers; pony-trekking; a Vintage Farm
Machinery display.
I don’t know about you, but I plan to attend
EVERYTHING!
This will require me to ‘borrow’ my grandchild as shield on
Sunday.
Something tells me her parents
will not object!
Margaret Campbell of Dromintee, your Ti Chulainn Centre Manager
Recreation 
