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Ireland’s national celebration of the arts and creativity as we age, Bealtaine Festival, will be celebrated from home next month. Age & Opportunity’s 2021 festival’s edition, Bealtaine at Home, will celebrate In(ter)dependence as its theme. In County Donegal the festival, now in its 24th year, will be kicked off with a special launch event recorded at the Regional Cultural Centre (RCC), Letterkenny and premiering online on Saturday, 1st May at 7pm, to mark the beginning of the month-long festivities. Hosted by Fergus Cleary, the launch event will be streamed on the RCC’s Facebook and ...

The Donegal County Library is collecting photographs that capture the people, places and life of the region. The Donegal County Library in Lifford has a substantial archive of documents relating to the development of towns and villages in the county. Now the County Librarian, Edward McIntyre, is in the process of expanding the collection to include photographs. Following an appeal members of the public have been sending in old photographs of Donegal.  Historical records about a town or locale always benefit from a good photograph or illustration of it, and the older the better. The march o...