The annual Feis Teamhra/A Turn at Tara, which features readings and performances by internationally recognized Irish writers and musicians, will be held between 3.00 and 5.00 o’clock on Sunday 17 August 2025 in the Visitors’ Centre on the Hill of Tara. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Guests over the years have included John Banville, Kevin Barry, Sebastian Barry, Eavan Boland, Paul Brady, Cormac Breatnach, Moya Brennan, Michael Brunnock, Harry Clifton, Ultan Conlon, Steve Cooney, Anne Enright, Wendy Erskine, Peter Fallon, Len Graham, Eamon Grennan, Hugo Hamilton, Kerry Hardie, Seamus Heaney, Laoise Kelly, Louise Kennedy, Lisa Lambe, Michael Longley, The Lost Brothers, Vincent Lynch, Aifric Mac Aodha, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Colum McCann, Stephen McCardle, Danielle McLaughlin, Paula Meehan, Mongoose, Fiach Moriarty, Sinead Morrissey, Paul Murray, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Padraigin Ni Uallachain, Joseph O’Connor, Iarla O’Lionaird, Declan O’Rourke, Glenn Patterson, Sive, Colm Toibin, David Wheatley, and Macdara Woods.
This year featured guests are poet Scott McKendry, prose fiction writer Liz Nugent, and singer and actor Mary Coughlan.
The event is organized by Susan McKeown and Paul Muldoon and supported by Poetry Ireland and the Office of Public Works.
