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Drumlin Yarnspinners Drumlin Storytelling Festival returns from 18–20 September 2026, with events taking place in venues across County Monaghan. Full programme details coming soon.

Drumlin Yarnspinners storytelling sessions resume on Tuesday, 29th September 2026

16/10/2026

Join us on Saturday morning for a visit from author Kieran Fanning.
His 2025 book, Enchanted Ireland: An Atlas of Magical Stories from Every County, takes readers on a journey through all 32 counties of Ireland, retelling folklore, legends, myths, and magical tales associated with each county. Come along to hear what stories he has to tell about Monaghan!

All welcome. Suitable for older children & adults.

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Join us next Tuesday as we welcome the wonderful Sarah McKenna Dunne to Drumlin Yarnspinners. Sarah is an author, playw...
24/09/2026

Join us next Tuesday as we welcome the wonderful Sarah McKenna Dunne to Drumlin Yarnspinners. Sarah is an author, playwright, storyteller and arts facilitator known for her work in theatre, film, and socially engaged arts projects. We look forward to welcoming you to our first session of the new season!

📅 Tuesday, 29th September 2026
🕢 7:30 PM
📍 Monaghan Town Library, Monaghan Peace Campus
💫 Admission: Free

Drumlin Yarnspinners is funded by CreativeIrl via the Monaghan County Council Creative Monaghan programme

✨ Meet the Artists ✨ Kalle Peura is a versatile and accomplished Finnish pianist whose artistry seamlessly bridges the t...
17/09/2026

✨ Meet the Artists ✨ Kalle Peura is a versatile and accomplished Finnish pianist whose artistry seamlessly bridges the traditional and the innovative. 🎹 After discovering the piano at age 13, his early explorations of Blues and Jazz transitioned into a passion for classical music, inspired by the works of Chopin. 🎶🎵

🎹🎶Guided by his first teacher, a Georgian concert pianist, Peura began his formal training at the Helsinki Conservatory of Music before earning a Bachelor’s degree in Chamber Music from the Academy of Music and Opera at Mälardalen University in Sweden, a Master’s degree in Soloistic Interpretation from the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, and a Recital Artist’s Diploma at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, where he graduated in 2024.✨

Find out more about Kalle Peura on the festival website, drumlinstorytelling.ie

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Monaghan County Council

✨ Meet the Artists✨Comhleá (the Irish word for Fusion) brings together three musicians from three different corners of t...
17/09/2026

✨ Meet the Artists✨Comhleá (the Irish word for Fusion) brings together three musicians from three different corners of the world 🌎 united by their love of Irish traditional music 🎻 🎶

🎶🪈Vincent McKenna from North Monaghan is an accomplished flute and whistle player with deep roots in the traditional music scene, performing with groups such as the Oriel Traditional Orchestra. 🎶🎵Teemu Auersalo, originally from Helsinki and now based in Dublin, is a writer, filmmaker and traditional musician whose passion for Irish culture led him from Finland to Ireland. 🎵🎷Karly Schofield, a multi-instrumentalist from Northern Ontario, Canada, has performed professionally across Canada, the USA and Ireland on flute, fiddle, clarinet and saxophone.🎻🎶

✨The trio met while studying on the Ceoltóir Traditional Music Performance Course in Ballyfermot College and continue to blend their diverse musical backgrounds into a unique and exciting sound. 🎶 Find out more about each member on our website drumlinstorytelling.ie

Monaghan County Libraries
CreativeIrl
Monaghan County Council

✨Meet the Tellers ✨ Meet Festival MC and local storyteller Francis McCarron. Francis has been involved in storytelling e...
17/09/2026

✨Meet the Tellers ✨ Meet Festival MC and local storyteller Francis McCarron. Francis has been involved in storytelling events in his native Co Monaghan for well over thirty years. 📚 He is current chairperson of Aos Scéal Éireann/Storytellers of Ireland and founded (with Monaghan Libraries) and curates the Drumlin Yarnspinners group. Drumlin Yarnspinners meet on the last Tuesday of the month in Monaghan Town Library @ 7.30pm. 🌝

✨ Through his cross-border work with the Storytellers of Ireland and the Armstrong Storytelling Trust, he has been instrumental in ensuring a new generation of oral storytellers have been trained in the border region. 🌞 Francis has told tales the length and breadth of Ireland, appearing as a headline teller at many festivals, including the Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival (Cork). ✨

For more information on Francis, check out his full bio on drumlinstorytelling.ie

Monaghan County Libraries
CreativeIrl
Monaghan County Council

✨ Meet the Tellers ✨ Laura Sherry is a storyteller from Tydavnet in Monaghan, who specialises in tales from County Monag...
16/09/2026

✨ Meet the Tellers ✨ Laura Sherry is a storyteller from Tydavnet in Monaghan, who specialises in tales from County Monaghan and its surroundings, particularly stories of women. 🌺🧚 She has been a storyteller for two years, with almost a decade of experience as a tour guide providing a solid foundation for her storytelling skills 🧙

For more information on Laura, check out her bio on drumlinstorytelling.ie

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Monaghan County Council
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✨ Meet the Tellers ✨ Meet local storyteller and MC Paddy Sherry 🌞🌿Paddy grew up in North County Monaghan where he has re...
16/09/2026

✨ Meet the Tellers ✨ Meet local storyteller and MC Paddy Sherry 🌞
🌿Paddy grew up in North County Monaghan where he has resided for the past 60 years. He is a local tour guide and storyteller, who spent many years listening to the older generation of mountain folk in the border region ⛰️Paddy has a deep love for the Sliabh Beagh mountain, its wildlife, flora, fauna and local history. 🌿🌺These are reflected in Paddy’s stories, some of which might not be true! Paddy’s tales cross all borders, those on the map and those between this world and the next!🧚🧙

For more information on Paddy, check out his full bio on drumlinstorytelling.ie

Monaghan County Libraries
CreativeIrl
Monaghan County Council

✨ Meet the Tellers✨Kate Corkery is a wonderful Irish storyteller who has performed in countless schools, libraries, thea...
16/09/2026

✨ Meet the Tellers✨Kate Corkery is a wonderful Irish storyteller who has performed in countless schools, libraries, theatres and festivals across the world, delighting audiences of all ages. 🌎 Based in London, Kate was honoured with A Fringe First Award for her role as storyteller- in- residence at The Irish Cultural Centre, where she ran festivals, workshops, training courses and a much-loved monthly Storytelling Club ‘Around the Fire’. 🔥🕯️ A qualified language teacher, Kate has always been passionate about the power of storytelling in education. 🌺

🌿🌺She loves to collect and share stories from Ireland and is author of ‘Cork Folk Tales’ published by The History Press. 🌊🍭Her highly acclaimed autobiographical show ‘Sweet Shop on the Shore’, set in her native town of Passage West, won outstanding storytelling performance at the BASE awards and has gone on to tour far and wide. 🌿🌺

For more information on Kate, check out her full bio on drumlinstorytelling.ie

Monaghan County Libraries
CreativeIrl
Monaghan County Council

✨Meet the Tellers✨ Seosamh Ó Maolalaí is a Dubliner. He tells stories, sings a song or two. 🎵🎶 His stories are from the...
15/09/2026

✨Meet the Tellers✨ Seosamh Ó Maolalaí is a Dubliner. He tells stories, sings a song or two. 🎵🎶 His stories are from the parish and from the world. He has many Monaghan friends – one from Ballybay who drinks the tay, one from Monaghan who prefers the brandy but the best of all is the Blayney man that ates the sugar candy.

✨ Seosamh tells stories to children of all ages from nought to a hundred and five. He’ll tell in English and in Irish but don’t worry, you’ll understand him fine. Stories from far and near. Scéalta ó chéin is ó chóngar.

For more information on Seosamh, check out his bio on drumlinstorytelling.ie
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✨Meet the Tellers✨🌺 🌿Riikka Palonen is a barefoot forest girl from Finland 🌺 🌿 For more than 20 years, she worked as a m...
15/09/2026

✨Meet the Tellers✨

🌺 🌿Riikka Palonen is a barefoot forest girl from Finland 🌺 🌿 For more than 20 years, she worked as a modern highland drover, an importer and breeder of Highland Cattle. 🐮 Those long years tending and herding cattle in the Finnish woods gave her a very special connection to nature; to animals both wild and domestic, and to the ancient spirits of the land. 🧚🍄

🌞 Riikka tells, and sings, traditional Finnish and northern folk tales and stories of her own, which very often have a deep connection to the land and the cycles of life. 🌙 She enjoys historical stories, ancient northern myths and ballads, and of course stories from the great Finnish epic Kalevala, and often she weaves scientific or philosophical ponderings into her sets. 🌳🌊

Riikka has lived in Scotland since 2023 and is in the TRACS Directory of Professional Storytellers.

For more information on Riikka, check out her full bio on drumlinstorytelling.ie .
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