{"id":40597,"date":"2026-03-31T12:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/banagher-bronte-literary-miscellany\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:11:28","slug":"banagher-bronte-literary-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/banagher-bronte-literary-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"BANAGHER BRONT\u00cb LITERARY MISCELLANY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">For ten years or so Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s birthday in mid-April has been celebrated in Banagher. Since its inception in 2023 the Banagher Bront\u00eb Group have organised major events for the day.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">To mark celebrations in 2026, special events will take place on Saturday 18th April in Crank House, Banagher, starting at 3 p.m. The opening performance will be a literary miscellany written and performed by the wider community, including school children and members and friends of the Banagher Bront\u00eb Group. The writings will be inspired by the works of the Bront\u00eb and their strong association with Banagher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">To facilitate these writings three creative writing sessions facilitated by Eileen Casey, accomplished poet and Francis Browner, published novelist have been organised. One session will be dedicated to children from the upper classes in the local primary school which will include a field trip to Charlotte\u2019s Way and St. Paul\u2019s Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">These readings will be followed by the world premiere of <\/span><em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Bront\u00ebs: Love and Honour,&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">in Crank House, Banagher, a magnificent suite of ten songs set to music by Michael and Christine O\u2019Dowd. This is a sublime suite of music with original lyrics and accompaniment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A richly illustrated programme with all the lyrics of the ten songs will be published.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40599,"template":"","class_list":["post-40597","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BANAGHER BRONT\u00cb LITERARY MISCELLANY - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For ten years or so Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s birthday in mid-April has been celebrated in Banagher.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/banagher-bronte-literary-miscellany\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BANAGHER BRONT\u00cb LITERARY MISCELLANY - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For ten years or so Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s birthday in mid-April has been celebrated in Banagher. 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