Three festivals are coming to Ireland to make a trip to two incomparable destinations, Dublin and Belfast, even more attractive. All the information on these events can be consulted on the Tourism Ireland website.
From 14 to 16 October, the Irish capital celebrates the birthday of its son Oscar Wilde with Oscariana, a festival that remembers the immense legacy of this playwright, with events all over Dublin ranging from guided tours of his home at 1 Merrion Square North, where a tour of his turbulent life leading up to his imprisonment and exile in France will take place, to performances of Micheál Mac Liammóir’s play The Importance of Being Oscar and screenings of Wilde’s films in Dublin cinemas such as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).
Dublin also dresses up to welcome the Bram Stoker Festival, from 27 to 30 October, in honour of the father of one of the darkest characters in world literature: Dracula.
The city that saw the birth of this 19th century novelist welcomes a multitude of horror lovers with a programme that includes everything from creepy tours to films, cabarets and the long-awaited Parade of Macnas which, after four years of absence, returns this year with the title Cnámha The She-Wolf (30th – 19h).
Belfast, meanwhile, surrenders to the world of Narnia from the 24th to the 26th of November on the 125th anniversary of the birth of the great CS Lewis. 125 years ago on the 29th of November the birth in Belfast of the writer CS Lewis, famous all over the world for his saga The Chronicles of Narnia, an event that aims to lead the traveller through a magical and creative world that takes in the most significant places of the writer’s life in Belfast, such as C.S. Lewis Square, St. Mark’s Church, Campbell College or Little Lea, where he wrote his first stories. All of them in the east of the city, where the house where Clive Staples Lewis grew up is located.
The CS Lewis Festival consists of guided tours, storytelling, debates and workshops for children. A captivating agenda that recalls the writer’s close connection with the city and shows Belfast’s great appreciation of this literary great whose legacy has put Northern Ireland on the map forever.
