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There’s still plenty to enjoy at St Patrick’s Festival 2021. By St Patricks Festival Tuesday 16 Mar 2021, 3:24 PM Tue 3:24 PM 13,504 Views 2 Comments
Some of the performers for the Barróg Lá Fhéile Phádraig trad session.
Image: Conway Communications
Image: Conway Communications
WE MAY NOT be able to line the streets decked out in green, white and orange to celebrate St Patrick’s Day this year, but St Patrick’s Festival 2021 offers the next best thing.
Today, March 17, is the last day of the six-day festival, but there’s still plenty left to enjoy – including a message from President Michael D Higgins, marching bands, comedy sketches and trad sessions.
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Emerald City), IFTA-nominated Kathy Kiera Clarke (
Derry Girls) and John Connors (
Cardboard Gangsters), the semi-autobiographical story follows struggling writer Matt Donnelly (Duddy), who returns from New York to Northern Ireland for the first time in 25 years. Matt faces the ghosts of his past (Clarke); an abusive teacher, his dead mother, and his childhood best friend, who sacrificed an easier life to stay at home and fight during The Troubles. Newcomers Nicola Boyle, Johnny Mc Connell, and Brendan Broderick also star.
A Bend in the River is my attempt to finally come to terms with a childhood tainted by the residue of war, said Broderick. It is my love poem to Northern Ireland. The writer Matt Donnelly is the physical embodiment of the North of Ireland. He returns to confront the ghosts of his past: the violence, the confusion, the heartache. Like the place itself, he emerges from it all, reborn. Ultimately,