{"id":41830,"date":"2026-06-27T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/summer-stars-from-pawn-to-king\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:01:11","slug":"summer-stars-from-pawn-to-king","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/summer-stars-from-pawn-to-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Stars: From Pawn to King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Children can enjoy a 90 minute workshop with Ruairi MacManus where they will learn the etiquette of chess and the rules of all the pieces. By the end of this workshop, participants will know how to set up a board, how all the pieces move and how all the pieces capture.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Thursday 30 July 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">10:30 &#8211; 12:00<\/span><span> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Ennistymon Library, The Square, Ennistymon,&nbsp;<\/span><span>V95 V99D<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">1:00- 2:30<\/span><span> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Miltown Malbay Library, Ballard Road, Miltown Malbay, V95 D857&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Friday 31 July 2026<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">10:30 &#8211; 12:00<\/span><span> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Ennis Library, Causeway Link, Ennis, V95CTN0<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">2:30&nbsp; &#8211; 4:00<\/span><span> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Scariff Library, Mountshannon Road, Scariff, V94 NY33<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>For more inforamtion about the Summer Stars programme go to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/clarelibraries.ie\/events\/?event_cs_activity_strand=summer-stars\"><span>https:\/\/clarelibraries.ie\/events\/?event_cs_activity_strand=summer-stars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":41831,"template":"","class_list":["post-41830","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>Summer Stars: From Pawn to King - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Children can enjoy a 90 minute workshop with Ruairi MacManus where they will learn the etiquette of chess and the rules of all the pieces.\" \/>\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\/summer-stars-from-pawn-to-king\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Summer Stars: From Pawn to King - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Children can enjoy a 90 minute workshop with Ruairi MacManus where they will learn the etiquette of chess and the rules of all the pieces. 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