Banagher Brontë events move on to Maynooth and Kilkee

FOLLOWING the great success of ten events to commemorate Arthur Bell Nicholls and his wife Charlotte Brontë at the recent 10th That Beats Banagher Festival these presentations are now on the move.

Two films made in Banagher by Maebh O'Regan of NCAD along with the tapestries created by Maebh and the Banagher Craft Group will be shown in Maynooth Community Library over three weeks in September. The exhibition will be opened by Pauline Clooney on Tuesday September 5th at 6.30pm. The curator's tour of the exhibition will be on Thursday September 14th, at 6.30pm and the final event, a showing of two of the Banagher films on Tuesday September 26th also at 6.30pm.

In Kilkee on Friday September 15th and Saturday September 16th the talks and readings given recently in Banagher by Joanne Wilcock, Frances Browner, Michael O'Dowd and James Scully, other events will be presented in a festival organised by the Kilkee Civic Trust.

The three portraits of Charlotte Brontë, Arthur Bell Nicholls and Mary Anna Bell, Arthur's second wife, will also travel to these events. The portraits were completed recently by Jennifer Phibbs, née Kenny, of New York and Shannon Harbour, and were specially commissioned by the Martello Tower Bookshop.

If you are interested in travelling to Maynooth or Kilkee or need more details contact James Scully at (085) 710 7569 or jsmeelick@gmail.com .