Arts Festival

The Cootehill Arts Festival has been working tirelessly since it decided to reform in April of this year.

Cootehill Arts Festival was first established in 1988 and had great success and enjoyed great support afrom the people of Cootehill and beyond, but sadly it faded away for various reasons. However, the festival is now back bigger and better than ever Footsbarn Theatre Company, one of the world’s leading touring companies and renowned for their exciting adaptations of classics such as Shakespeare and Moliere, will be bringing their 400- seater circus big top to the festival this year. On the bill, will be 2 performances of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ on the 23rd and 24th of August and 2 performances of a ‘Molliere Farce’ on the 26th and 27th of August.

On Friday 25th August, there will be the Rescue 116 Memorial Concert, held in honour of the 4 crew who lost their lives off the coast of Mayo in March. The concert will be hosted by Ray D’Arcy, and performers will include Triona Marshall of The Chieftains, Martin Tourish, The Clew Bay Pipe Band, Janice Igoe, Declan O’Rourke, The Roscommon Solstice Choir, and other major stars yet to be announced. Money raised from this event is to be donated to the RNLI. Tickets for both Footsbarn and the Rescue 116 Memorial Concert are available now on Eventbrite.ie