Sean Doran

Family of Seamus Heaney open centre dedicated to late poet

£4.25m Bellaghy facility a permanent exhibition about life and work of Nobel Laureate

Centre celebrates Heaney’s life, from rural beginnings to world acclaim

Family will open HomePlace dedicated to late poet next week in Bellaghy, Co Derry

€5m centre dedicated to Seamus Heaney to open in September

Initiative in Bellaghy celebrates Nobel laureate in town where he spent formative years

Happy Days on bleak sets and Beckett gets schooled

Enniskillen – home of the Beckett festival – offers settings that match the desolate emotional atmosphere of his work

Brian Friel to be honoured at cross-Border festival

Lughnasa International Friel Festival to take place in Donegal, Derry and Belfast

Winner of first Feis Ceoil conducting competition shows them who’s boss

The real question now is whether Elaine Kelly will get the opportunities to build her experience and repertoire

Passing the time at Enniskillen’s Happy Days festival

Conversations turn Beckettian when this festival of all things tragicomic doesn’t turn out as planned. Could it be any other way?

Samuel Beckett’s old school ties

Sean Doran wants to make Happy Days a ‘destination festival’, turning Enniskillen, where the playwright and novelist went to school, into a Mecca for his fans

Five days in Beckett Town: the best and the boldest of the Happy Days festival

A huge number of productions and premieres were stuffed into the Enniskillen festival, many of them performed in intriguing locations

Beckett is back: ‘It’s entirely unfair that he is seen as alien or grim’

So says Happy Days festival director Seán Doran of Beckett. Doran’s aim is to break new ground, and with the celebration of the playwright in Enniskillen he has pulled that off

Directors of the summer festival flow

Four arts festival directors share their thoughts on what makes a great festival and recount their toughest challenges

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