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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
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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
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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…