Clare Event News (Ireland)

Hotel Doolin received this week a top award from the Failte Ireland, national tourism development authority. It is a great and highly respectable achievement for the North Clare hotel.

High profile Irish and international literary figures will participate in the 2011 Ennis Book Club Festival, details of which were announced today.

Challenger World, a division of global sports and media company IMG Worldwide, today announced the 2011 date for Sky Etape Hibernia.

The growing interest in book clubs throughout Ireland is reflected in the line-up for one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the literary calendar, details of which were officially unveiled today.

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Some of the most recognisable names in Irish and international literature will participate in next year’s Ennis Book Club Festival, the largest event of its kind anywhere in Ireland and the UK, from 5-7 March 2010.

A seminar aimed at exploring ways of protecting some of Ireland’s rarest and oldest known species of birds will take place in Ballyvaughan, Co, Clare, this Saturday, 7th November, 2009.

Members of Ennis Town Council today unanimously passed a motion that will see boxing legend Muhammad Ali being named as the first Honorary Freeman of the Clare County Capital.

Muhammad Ali has accepted an invitation from Ennis Town Council to visit his ancestral Irish home next month, it has been confirmed.

Monday, 12 January 2009 - Tickets go on sale today for one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the literary calendar.

Thursday, 27 November 2008 - Some of the most recognisable names in Irish and international literature will participate in the Ennis Book Club Festival 2009, details of which were announced today.

Monday, 24 November 2008 - The first ever conference on traditional boats and currachs in Ireland will take place in Ennis, County Clare, on Saturday, 6 December 2008.

Wednesday, 12 November 2008 - A man who discovered a World War 1 medal on the grounds of Clarecastle Church in County Clare has enlisted the help of his local museum in tracking down the artefact’s rightful owners.

Mr Tony Killeen TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with responsibility for forestry, has welcomed the launch of ‘European Forest Week’, which runs from 20th October to 24th October 2008.

Tuesday, 20 May 2008 - Clare Museum and the Irish Stone Axe Project (ISAP) at University College Dublin have uncovered evidence of a 6000-year-old trade link between Ireland and Great Britain.