Notre Dame Ceili Band

CEILI BAND: IRELAND 2025 ITINERARY

📍 Part I: Inisheer

Dates: Friday, August 1 – Monday, August 4
Lodging: Bru Radharc Mara Hostel/B&B
Return Ferry: Book for Tuesday, August 5, 10:30 AM at doolinferry.com
Sunset: ~9:25 PM

Food Options (all walkable):
Grocery store, chipper, burger stand, cafés, hotel restaurant, coffee trucks

Recreation:
Beach, kayak & bike rentals, gift shops, jaunty cart rides

Planned Activities:

• Talk on Local Customs with Una McDonagh

• Mass

• Music Workshops on Brendan Mulvihill settings with Clara Pfoffenberger

• Group walks to shipwreck, neolithic mound, holy well, fairy tree, lighthouse
  (subject to change due to weather; ferry & mass times are fixed)
  

🗓 Friday, August 1

• Late Morning: Arrive & drop bags at hostel

• 2:00 PM – Check-in

• 2:30 PM – Group Meeting (hostel)

• 3:00 PM – Full Set Rehearsal – Ladies

• 3:45 PM – Half Set Rehearsal

• 4:00 PM – Walk to Shipwreck (weather permitting)
  🥘 All meals on your own

🗓 Saturday, August 2

• 10:00 AM – Half Set Rehearsal

• 11:00 AM – Full Set Rehearsal

• 1:00 PM – Mass

• 3:00 PM – Walk to Holy Well & North Side

• 5:00 PM – Music Workshop
  🥘 All meals on your own

🗓 Sunday, August 3

• 10:00 AM – Music Workshop

• 12:00 PM – Full Set Rehearsal

• 12:45 PM – Half Set Rehearsal

• 1:30 PM – Walk to Lighthouse

• 5:00 PM – Performance at Una’s Café
  🥘 All meals on your own

🗓 Monday, August 4

• 10:00 AM – Half Set

• 11:00 AM – Full Set – Ladies

• 12:00 PM – Music Workshop

• 3:00 PM – Talk with Una McDonagh: Local Customs
  🥘 All meals on your own

📍 Part II: Wicklow

Dates: Tuesday, August 5 – Friday, August 8
Lodging: Clone House (45-min walk to Aughrim)
🛒 Grocery stop en route (note: no fridge available

🗓 Tuesday, August 5

• 10:15 AM – Meet at ferry dock

• 10:30 AM – Ferry departs

• 11:00 AM – Arrive in Doolin

• 1:30 PM – Lunch & grocery stop

• 3:00 PM – Arrive at Clone House

• 3:30 PM – Full Set Rehearsal

• 4:30 PM – Half Set

• 6:00 PM – Dinner (Guinness stew, bread, salad)

• Evening: Closed session

🗓 Wednesday, August 6

🥣 Breakfast provided

• 10:00 AM – Full Set (Mixed)

• 10:45 AM – Half Set

• 11:30 AM – Full Set – Ladies

• 12:30 PM – Depart for Glendalough

• 7:00 PM – Talk: Former Inisheer Lighthouse Operator Jim Dalton

• 7:45 PM – Italian Dinner at Clone House

• 9:00 PM – House Session with TSEAC singers (Seamus Ennis Arts Centre)

🗓 Thursday, August 7

🥣 Breakfast provided

• 10:00 AM – Music Workshop

• 10:45 AM – Half Set

• 11:30 AM – Full Set – Ladies

• Afternoon – Free time / Optional day trip (Sheepdog Demo)

• 5:00 PM – Dinner in village + session

• 11:00 PM – Return to Clone House

📍 Part III: Wexford

Event: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann
Lodging: Newton Park Hotel, Ballindinas, Wexford Town
🔗 Fleadh Calendar of Events

🗓 Friday, August 8

🥣 Breakfast at Clone House

• 10:00 AM – Set run-through

• 10:30 AM – Depart for Wexford

• 12:00 PM – Arrive

• 12:30 PM – Hotel meeting

• 2:00 PM – Concertina Competition (Support South Bend U15!)

• 5:15 PM – Sean-nós Competition (Support Anneliese!)

• Evening: Céilí at Clonard Community Centre
  Legacy Céilí Band – Caller: Liz & Syl
  🕛 Midnight curfew
  🍽 Lunch & dinner on your own

🗓 Saturday, August 9

🥣 Breakfast provided

• 1:00 PM – Half Set

• 3:30 PM – Full Set – Ladies

• 9:00 PM – Céilí with Rise the Dust Céilí Band
  Caller: Sharleen McCaffrey @ Clonard Community Centre
  🎟 Fleadh & Céilí entrance fees on your own
  

🗓 Sunday, August 10

🥣 Breakfast provided

• Mass Options:

• 8:00 AM – Franciscan Friary

• 9:30 AM – Church of the Annunciation, Clonard (Y35 YV0F)

• 10:45 AM – Franciscan Friary (Y35 W727)

• Group will attend 11:00 AM – Mass in Irish – Church of the Assumption, Bride Street (Y35 HW10)

• 7:00 PM – Farewell Céilí
  Brian Boru Céilí Band – Caller: Liz & Syl

🗓 Monday, August 11

✈️ Transport to airport on your own