Come and use your cúpla focal. Fáilte roimh gach duine. Everyone welcome.

Pull up a stool at Bonner’s Corner Bar for a relaxed Sunday afternoon of Irish conversation. There is no class, no teacher and no pressure. Just bring whatever Irish you have, from a handful of words half-remembered from school to a lifetime of fluency, and use it.

The Pop Up Gaeltacht has become one of the warmest afternoons in the festival calendar, and it fits the spirit of a festival that celebrates writing in Irish, English and Ulster-Scots alike. Beginners are especially welcome. Nobody is counting your mistakes.

Bilingual speakers and complete beginners sit at the same table, and English is spoken too when it helps. Come for ten minutes or stay the afternoon. You'll be warmly welcome by experience pop-up hosts.

This is a free event and no booking is needed.

Sponsors

Festival sponsors: Donegal County Council and the Finn Valley Voice.

About the Frances Browne Literary Festival

The Frances Browne Literary Festival celebrates the life and legacy of Frances Browne (1816 to 1879), the "Blind Poetess of Ulster". Rooted in her hometown of Ballybofey-Stranorlar, Co. Donegal, the festival brings together poets, writers, musicians and communities from Ireland and beyond to share in her spirit of creativity, inclusion and multilingual expression.

Frances Browne is the most important writer to emerge from Donegal’s Finn Valley. Her masterpiece, the children’s storybook Granny’s Wonderful Chair, was a bestseller all over the world, but she also deserves to be remembered for her unswerving opposition to slavery and all sorts of injustice. The festival works to bring Frances’s writing and astonishing life story to new generations, and to celebrate contemporary writers who continue in her tradition.

Full programme and festival information: www.francesbrowneliteraryfestival.com