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Columbanus Festival 2025: Place, Words and Music
The annual Columbanus Festival: Place Words and Music will take place from 22nd to 23rd November 2025 in various locations around Bangor. The programme will focus on the work of the monks who lived in Bangor during the time that Columbanus spent twenty years of his life before embarking on a journey to the continent…
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Columbanus Educational Exchange Programme Welcomes Italian Students
Bangor Academy recently welcomed 40 students from the Lombardy region of Italy as part of a student exchange programme to explore the Columbanus heritage in the Bangor area. Two schools, one from Bresica and the other from Bobbio, had previously welcomed students from Bangor Academy who had travelled to Lombardy at the end of September…
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Columbanus Festival 2025: programme
Place, Words, and Music Follow the blue underlined links below for full details and ticket booking: 22 Nov / The making of Ireland’s manuscripts, medieval and modern This lecture by Pádraig Ó Macháin, Professor of Modern Irish at University College Cork, will range from Bangor to Cork and examine the relics of a wonderful tradition…
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Columban Way Peace Walk 2025- Report
To mark International Peace Day on Sunday 21st of September 2025, the Friends of Columbanus Bangor organised a walk for members along the route of the Columban Way from Helen’s Bay to Bangor Abbey. At Strickland’s Glen the group stopped to reflect on the words of Columbanus whose writings are as relevant today as they…
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Columbanus Peace Walk 2025
The Friends of Columbanus Bangor invite you to join a Peace Walk on Saturday, the 20th September at 2:00 PM, beginning at Helen’s Bay and following the Coastal Path to Bangor. The walk will conclude at Bangor Abbey Parish Centre, where light refreshments will be served and information will be shared about the Irish Columban…
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Bangor Academy & Sixth Form College travel to France in the footsteps of Columbanus
Trip 19-23 May This was our 2nd exchange visit to one of the Columban sites, on our Peregrinus project (we went to Bobbio in September last year and the Italians came here the week later) but our first in France.
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Words on the Wave
Friends of Columbanus Bangor were invited to attend the recent launch of a new exhibition at the National Museum, Kildare Street, Dublin, which explores the links between Ireland and Europe during early Medieval times. ‘Words on the Wave: Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe’ has been curated between the National Museum and the…
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Columban Way Newcastle Walk 7th June 2025 – Postponed
The weather forecast for Saturday is not good with a significant chance of walkers being caught under heavy slow moving showers. So we will reschedule for later in the summer. Watch this space.
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Poetry Ireland May Day
FoCB member Tim Dwyer and fellow poet Ross Thompson are having a poetry event. The readings will follow themes of May Day and Bealtaine: renewal, abundance and hope. There will also be traditional songs performed by Down Singing Circle. Ross and Tim will be reading from their new poetry collections including poems alluding to Bangor…
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New European Via Columbani Partnership
The official launch of the new European Via Columbani Partnership took place on Saturday 23 November 2024 during the Columbanus Festival in Bangor, Northern Ireland. The Via Columbani Partnership promotes cultural and educational exchanges, musical events and sporting challenges, between nine European countries that Columbanus, a Bangor monk, and his 12 disciples, including Gall, travelled…