Ballymote

HERITAGE WEEKEND

The 29th annual Ballymote Heritage Weekend will take place from Friday, August 3, to Monday, August 6, with the official opening and lecture on Friday, August 3, at 8.30 p.m. in the Teagasc Centre.

MUSIC AND STORYTELLING

You are invited to a music and storytelling evening at Ballymote Community Library tomorrow, Wednesday, July 25, at 8 p.m. Under the Tread Softly Festival. Bird Reign-Amabel Clarke and Sinéad Nic Gearailt. The hawk was WB Yeats’s totemic bird. In the story ‘The Wisdom of the King’ the metamorphosis of man into bird is complete. In ‘The Old Men of the Twilight’ the metamorphosis of man into bird is not irreversible but grace and repentance are needed for salvation. In the stories of Saints and Beasts man, birds and