{"id":9747,"date":"2020-03-07T03:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/tain-march-festival\/"},"modified":"2020-03-07T03:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T03:02:35","slug":"tain-march-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/tain-march-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1in March Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>T\u00e1in March Festival 2020 \u2013 is a multi-faceted cultural project which combined history, literature, poetry, archaeology and community. It is a celebration of the great literary epic tale, the T\u00e1in B\u00f3 C\u00faailnge, which starts in Roscommon town on Thursday 14th of May continues in Rathcroghan on Friday 15th of May and crosses Sliabh Bawn on Saturday 16th \u00a0of May ending with a feast fit for the great Queen Medb before continuing on to Longford on Sunday 17th of May.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The festival includes\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span>workshops for 16 primary schools, an Oenach celebration gathering \/ ceremonial event at Rathcroghan mound, re-enactments, talks and performances. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>As part of the build up to the T\u00e1in festivities, workshops will be available to primary schools in the county to bring the story of the T\u00e1in to life. these will be delivered by expert Chris Thompson.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Overall the aim is to keep our county&#8217;s myths, legends, heritage and history alive and engage children and the youth in the story.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-9747","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>T\u00e1in March Festival - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"T\u00e1in March Festival 2020 \u2013 is a multi-faceted cultural project which combined history, literature, poetry, archaeology and community.\" \/>\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\/tain-march-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"T\u00e1in March Festival - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"T\u00e1in March Festival 2020 \u2013 is a multi-faceted cultural project which combined history, literature, poetry, archaeology and community. 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