Treasures in Our Bogs Concert (Seachtain Náisiúnta na hOidhreachta)
Market Hall
Na Gleannta, F94 PDE7 Co. Dún na nGall
Treasures in Our Bogs Concert (Seachtain Náisiúnta na hOidhreachta)
@ Market Hall
Festival Arts and EntertainmentOur Treasures in Our Bogs concert and the exhibition of photographs, bog oak sculptures, tapestries, and artifacts in Glenties Market Hall is a lived experience that is part of a multi-year approach to bogs with a focus on SW Donegal. The multi-faceted aspect of the project means that musicians, singers, poets and authors, environmentalists, historians, archaeologists, linguists, oral history experts, heritage specialists, carvers, weavers, wood- workers, turf-cutters and more can come together and work as a united and cohesive team to deliver the aims of the peatlands project.
Overall, we will be exploring their importance in history, heritage, oral histories, placenames, culture, music, literature, traditional turf cutting, craft/industry, economy, flora, environmental protection, tourism & recreation. The nature of their environment, preservative and curative powers makes boglands a source of human activity and provides us with an insight to life throughout the ages. Bogs have been sites of archaeological significance throughout prehistory and into historic times. Bogs are living history, from the medicinal powers of their plants to a vital source of fuel evoking a sense of home for the diaspora. They represent a unique Irish way of agriculture soon to disappear.
The ongoing development of Fáilte Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way offers new ways to weave our rich cultural, historical and natural heritage together. This project will continue to discover the many facets of our community’s past and present and the first is this concert and exhibition that draws from the local community.
Exhibition starts at 1.00pm, followed by concert at 5.00pm. The Treasures in Our Bogs project will be a lasting legacy, representative of three (West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC, Slieve Tooey/Tor Mor Is./Loughros Beg Bay SAC and Lough Nilan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC) of the 35 Natura 2000 sites in the northwest of Ireland. Working with the Wild Atlantic Nature LIFE Integrated Project (2021-2029), NatPro (TCD), and NPWS we hope to build a solid bridge from primary schools to second level and beyond.
The project will educate and spread awareness, building community participation and integration. It very much dovetails on the group’s flagship project at Doon Fort & its wider landscape. The aim is to ensure sustained community engagement and community goals are met through the creation of a bog inspired community-made tapestry and bog oak sculpture.
The project ensures future generations can experience an irreplaceable source of inspiration, pride and knowledge. A focal point of the project in the next few years will be on bog bodies, especially that of the 16th century Meenybradden (Ardara) woman wrapped in a woven cloak which was unearthed in 1978.
Bogs have been sites of archaeological significance throughout prehistory and into historic times. The nature of their environment and human interaction with them, makes boglands a source of human activity and provides us with an insight to life throughout the ages.
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*** Cliceáil anseo chun na himeachtaí as Gaeilge uilig atá á reáchtáil i rith 'Seachtain Náisiúnta na hOidhreachta' a fheiceáil, nó cuardaigh 'Seachtain Náisiúnta na hOidhreachta' anseo ar PEIG ***
