Englands Last Irish Plantation - July 14th

Dónal Ó Siodacháin, poet and author returns to Féile Dúthalla for this years series and will deliver a talk titled

Kingwilliamstown - Englands Last Irish Plantation

  at the Trades Union Hall in Strand Street, Kanturk on Wednesday July 14th at 20.30. 

Dónal Ó Siodhacháin was born and reared at Doonasleen in the heart of Sliabh Luachra. 

Amongst other things he is:- a qualified shipbuilder; served for many years on the Árd 

Comhairle of Sinn Féin; a community activist; a paralegal and a poet, writer & historian 

of great ability.   Works of poetry by the author include The Long Finger, Images, 

Cavehill Vision, Lovely it was in Doonasleen & The Torchbearer.  His prose works 

includes Sliabh Luachra, The People, The Place and its Music. He has also edited many 

poetry & prose works including The Road to Song, The Poems of Edward Walsh, The 

Poems of Ned Buckley, The Deserted Village, Gods of the Twilight, Journal of a Lady 

of Fashion  and many more.  He has edited histories titled The Great Retreat and From 

Beara to Breifne. He launched a collection of poetry titled “A Nice Kind of Madness” , - a 

celebratuion of traditional musicians - during Féile Week of Féile Dúthalla 2008 on November 20th at the C.Y.M.S. Hall in Main Street, Newmarket, Co. Cork.