Youghal’s inaugural Moby Dick literary festival took on 16th – 18th March, 2012. One of the highlights of the festival was the panel discussion on the famous novel taking place on Friday 16th March 2012 at 5pm in the Walter Raleigh Hotel. Chaired by Tim Magee, the panel consisted of Dr. Laurie Robertson-Lorant (Melville specialist [...]
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Moby Dick Festival 2012 – 16-18th March, Youghal, Co. Cork
Moby Dick Festival 2012 – 16-18th March, Youghal, Co. Cork This St. Patrick’s weekend (16th-18th March) the seaside town of Youghal will host their first ever Moby Dick Festival. A voluntary group from the town on the South Coast of Ireland have rekindled relations with New Bedford with this fun filled festival. Youghal was chosen [...]
Moby Dick Festival 2012
The chairman of the newly renamed ‘Youghal4All’ committee Jimmy Flanagan, speaking at the AGM on Wednesday (8th February 2012) introduced the festival’s arrival with the good news that sponsorship had been acquired for a raffle to take place over its three-day stretch from March 16th-18th. The sponsors are Michael T. Murphy, insurance brokers, who will [...]
Moby Dick on the horizon as Youghal plans new literary festival – By Christy Parker
Youghal is set to pursue Moby Dick once again as the town’s Concerned Citizen’s group is poised to harpoon a literary festival to Herman Melville’s tale of the great white whale. The one-day festival will be launched on March 16th and is intended to target to American market in particular, with the bait of St. [...]
Irish Moby Dick production twins Youghal with New Bedford.
Gare St Lazare Players Ireland’s production of Moby Dick, currently touring the USA as part of Imagine Ireland, has brought Youghal, Co. Cork and New Bedford, Massachusetts into a sister-city programme. At a reception in New Bedford held jointly by the Zeiterion Theatre and The New Bedford Whaling Museum, Mayor Scott Lang of New Bedford [...]
