Mary from Dungloe
Irish music festival in Dungloe, County Donegal
Dunlewy · County Donegal · Ireland
🗓️ When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
📍 Where?
- Town
- Dunlewy
- Region
- County Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- How precise?
- coordinate of the town or municipality
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Website
- maryfromdungloe.com
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Mary From Dungloe International Festival is an Irish music festival held annually, usually at the end of July in the small town of Dungloe, County Donegal. The festival is centred on a pageant to find out which contestant has the spirit of the festival, who is then crowned "Mary From Dungloe". The winner of the contest holds this title for a year and acts as an ambassador for the festival. Irish emigrant communities from around the world, as well as some Irish counties and towns, participate by nominating a young woman, endearingly titled a "Mary", to represent their community at the contest. The festival has grown in popularity over the years and now regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the area. The festival is inspired by the song "Mary from Dungloe" as the Rose of Tralee festival is by "The Rose of Tralee". In 2019, the festival celebrated its 52nd anniversary, with Roisin Maher from New York becoming Mary From Dungloe 2019.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article „Mary from Dungloe (festival)“ (en.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.