Date: 3rd – 5th of May 2025

Location: Kinnitty Castle, County Offaly, Clonaslee Heritage Centre, County Laois & Ballaghmore Castle, Dublin Road, Borris in Ossory, County Laois

About: The Slieve Blooms, a landscape of mountains, valleys, glens, waterfalls, ancient raths and medieval castles, in the heart of Ireland, rich in music and folklore, is an ideal setting for a new festival of oral storytelling, music, dance and song. The stories that have been told for generations by the people who live on and around these mountains are bound up with the landscape, place names and the history of the area which stretches back to before the time of the druids. Storytelling up to recent times happened in a very natural way by the fireside in rambling houses all over Laois & Offaly. The rambling houses are no more, but the interest in the stories is still alive. Visitors to the Slieve Blooms will discover a new landscape of the imagination in these mountains of local people will rediscover the magic of the stories of their own place through the art of storytelling which will be brought to you by great storytellers, some local, who have all developed a keen interest in the revival of storytelling by featuring.

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