The Doohamlet District Community Development Association is delighted to announce we have been successful in securing funding from the 'Building Peace Through The Arts - Re-Imaging Communities' programme for the first stage in commissioning a piece of art in Doohamlet Village!
We are now seeking to recruit an artist to facilitate the first stage. For details of this post, please see:
http://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ToR_Artist_Facilitator.pdf
For more information on the 'Building Peace Through The Arts - Re-Imaging Communities' programme, please see
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland's website or
http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/images/uploads/funding-documents/Re-Imaging_Communities_Brochure_2013.pdf
Monday, July 14, 2014
Monday, December 2, 2013
Castleblayney Christmas Market
CASTLEBLAYNEY CHRISTMAS MARKET
A group of traders in Castleblayney have decided to run a unique and exciting venture in the town in the run up to Christmas.
One of the main features of this is a ‘Traditional Christmas Market’ in the town on Sunday 8th of December, from 2pm til late. On the day, there will be a variety of entertainment along the street, as well as an array of delicious food and hot beverages to warm you up as you enjoy the atmosphere and the Christmas music. The idea is that any participating businesses will take a stall to display and sell their wares. This will also apply to any local crafts people. Castleblayney has much to offer shoppers and this initiative taken by the Castleblayney Traders is a fun and unique way of highlighting the great offers available when you shop local!
The committee have asked that anybody who has a business in and around the Castleblayney locality who is interested in taking part to contact committee member Amie Cumiskey with details of your business. All applications will be considered at the next committee meeting and spaces allocated accordingly. For crafts people, only hand crafted and homemade/ home baked produce please. Contact Amie on 042 97 46980 or alternatively e-mail castleblayneytrade@yahoo.com
There will be a small charge for your stand at the ‘Christmas Market’, and there are also a limited number of canopies available to hire at a cost of €20 so make sure to contact Amie to book your place. Interested parties are asked to get in contact as soon as possible.
So visit Castleblayney on the 8th of December for a nostalgic experience which is sure to warm the cockles of your heart and get you in the mood for the festive season.
A group of traders in Castleblayney have decided to run a unique and exciting venture in the town in the run up to Christmas.
One of the main features of this is a ‘Traditional Christmas Market’ in the town on Sunday 8th of December, from 2pm til late. On the day, there will be a variety of entertainment along the street, as well as an array of delicious food and hot beverages to warm you up as you enjoy the atmosphere and the Christmas music. The idea is that any participating businesses will take a stall to display and sell their wares. This will also apply to any local crafts people. Castleblayney has much to offer shoppers and this initiative taken by the Castleblayney Traders is a fun and unique way of highlighting the great offers available when you shop local!
The committee have asked that anybody who has a business in and around the Castleblayney locality who is interested in taking part to contact committee member Amie Cumiskey with details of your business. All applications will be considered at the next committee meeting and spaces allocated accordingly. For crafts people, only hand crafted and homemade/ home baked produce please. Contact Amie on 042 97 46980 or alternatively e-mail castleblayneytrade@yahoo.com
There will be a small charge for your stand at the ‘Christmas Market’, and there are also a limited number of canopies available to hire at a cost of €20 so make sure to contact Amie to book your place. Interested parties are asked to get in contact as soon as possible.
So visit Castleblayney on the 8th of December for a nostalgic experience which is sure to warm the cockles of your heart and get you in the mood for the festive season.
Santa Claus is coming to town....
Santa turns on the lights of the village Christmas tree with his very special helper elf, local All Star Colin Walshe, on Sunday, 8th December at 5pm at Crossroads Shop.
Visit Santa at his new grotto behind Connollys B&B, before joining us for refreshments in Connolly's Lounge. And it's all FREE!
Everyone welcome!
We'd like to thank everyone who makes this event possible - our Committee members and volunteers, Connolly's B&B and Bar, Crossroads Shop, tea, sandwich and refreshments makers, etc etc. You're all guaranteed a visit from Santa this year for being so good. The rest of you better be good for goodness sake :)
Sunday, November 3, 2013
2013 AGM
The DDCDA's AGM Will be held on Tuesday, 5th November 2013 at 8pm in the Community Centre.
Donal Traynor of UCIT (www.ucitltd.com) will be our guest speaker - he will talk about how sporting and community organisations can access loans to undertake new projects.
An overview of the organisations activities over the past year will be given - this includes the very successful "Crossing the Border" project, held in co-operation with REACT Armagh.
Everyone is welcome to attend - refreshments will be served.
Donal Traynor of UCIT (www.ucitltd.com) will be our guest speaker - he will talk about how sporting and community organisations can access loans to undertake new projects.
An overview of the organisations activities over the past year will be given - this includes the very successful "Crossing the Border" project, held in co-operation with REACT Armagh.
Everyone is welcome to attend - refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Castleblayney Historic Fair Day, 28th September 2013
Please find below details received from the Committee of Castleblayney 400 about upcoming events planned for Castleblayney Historic Fair Day which will take place on Saturday, September 28th 2013. We will publish any more information about the upcoming Fair Day here on our blog. It promises to be a very memorable day, with activities for all age groups. We wish everyone on the Committee and all those involved every success for the day, and we hope there'll be a big turnout from Doohamlet to support this unique event!!!
"Historic Events planned for Castleblayney 400 Fair Day
As the 28th September is coming closer, Castleblayney Town Council are busy preparing lots of activities for the public to enjoy on the day.
We are very excited to announce that we have acquired a very historical display, which depicts the
signing of the Ulster Covenant, which on the day of our Fair Day, of September 1912, will celebrate its 101 year anniversary. The display will be available for viewing in the Library in Iontas from next week up until the end of September.
This archive of the Ulster Unionist Council, held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland,
contains just under half a million original signatures and addresses of the men, who on 28th
September 1912, signed the Ulster Covenant, and of the woman who signed the parallel Declaration.
In total, the Covenant was signed by 237,368 men, and the Declaration by 234,046 women.
The Ulster Covenant was part of a response by Ulster Unionists to the efforts of successive Westminster governments to settle the running score of the ‘Irish Question’ by giving Ireland a limited measure of local autonomy known as ‘Home Rule’.
We are also pleased to announce a talk on ‘Local History’ by local politician and historian Gary Carville. This talk will take place on Friday the 27th September - more details next week..
There are also a number of events confirmed for the actual Fair Day on September 28th. John Keenan from Lisdoonan is supplying lots of vintage machinery and other artifacts on the day for visitors to the town to enjoy. He will be also showcasing his collection in the car park of St Mary’s hospital for the patients and visitors to enjoy.
There will also be a group from Trim, Co Meath in the town on the day who will be holding workshops about ‘High Nelly’ bicycles and how to repair them. They will also have a selection of spare parts available to purchase. So go out to the shed and dust the cobwebs off that poor old bicycle and give it a new least of life. You never know, you may also get a new lease of life when you throw your leg over the bar!!!
Angela Hanratty from Castleblayney College has been busy researching games that would have been
enjoyed by young people circa 1900, and along with a selection of her students from the school, will
be on hand on the day to demonstrate a wide selection of games and encourage the crowd to join in,
this will create a excitement, as well as being educational for everyone. At last Monday’s meeting she praised Deirdriu McQuaid from Monaghan County Library and Pauline Tilson, education officer from the County Museum who have been most helpful and are willing to loan us some games for this historic event. A notice has also been sent out to local schools with information about the competition being run by our committee in association with the County Library. The competition consists of composing a poem about the ‘Olden days’ for older students and an art competition for younger students. The closing date is Friday the 20th of September and we are looking forward to seeing all of the entries.
A group of people from Granemore, Co Armagh will be joining in the festivities on the day by organising a ‘Road Bowls’ competition starting a mile and a half outside the town, and making their way into the town, up through Lake View and back to the Castle gates for prize-giving. Anybody interested in joining in, please be at the back of the Market House at 11:30 on Saturday morning, 28th September.
We also wish to remind any budding bakers, jam-makers, knitters, carpenters and anyone else
who makes or bakes to come along on the day and sell your wares. If you feel that you wouldn’t
have enough to justify a stall, then maybe you could join with another small enterprise and share
a table. All we ask is that your produce is hand-made or home-baked and that you dress up in old
fashioned clothing on the day, just to enter into the spirit of things. A limited amount of clothing
can be loaned out on the day, but pre-booking is essential. Contact Cathal on 086 0341654 or email
castleblayney400@gmail.com to book your place or for further details
Also follow us on Facebook @ Castleblayney Four Hundred."
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