Events

Previous Events  

Donegal County has held and hosted numerous events on the history and heritage of County Donegal.   

The following are some of the events which were organized in 2024:

During the Bealtaine Festival, the Museum and Archives Services delivered a series of Reminiscence Sessions in venues in Killybegs, Fintown, Killygordon and Clonmany

During Heritage Week, the Museum ran several events including Oral History For Beginners with Dr Arlene Crampsie; Donegal – A History of its People and Culture with Charlie Gallagher; and an event as part of the DACCHE project.

For Culture Night the Museum organised living history events with Nora Gallagher (aka Maura Logue) and a Celtic Warrior (aka Charlie Gallagher) and held an exhibition celebrating our railway heritage in the Bus Station in Letterkenny.

As part of Wainfest the Museum held a series of workshops with Charlie Gallagher, From Hunting to Warriors - History and development of weapons and combat in Ireland.

The Museum also hosted a County Donegal Historical Society field day which was a talk by Hugh Devlin, to commemorate the centenary of the strike that took place at St. Conal’s Hospital in 1924; a Social Inclusion week Irish Language Taster Event; the launch of the Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival; talks on World War I by Col.(retd) Declan O’Carroll and Caroline Carr to commemorate Armistice Day in conjunction with the Letterkenny Community Heritage Group; and delivered a variety of talks to groups throughout the Northwest.