New Delhi [India] November 18 (ANI): Ireland is the official Country Partner for Hornbill Festival 2025, the flagship worldwide tradition competition of Nagaland, introduced Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and Irish Ambassador Kevin Kelly on the Naga House within the nationwide capital on Tuesday.
As the official nation accomplice of Hornbill Festival, the Embassy of Ireland is delighted to usher in a variety of very enriching public engagements, Ambassador Kelly stated.
‘Our presence will comprise funding roundtables, music showcases, public artwork installations, literary & theatre-arts work, and a particular curation of a dialogue sequence on Ireland, India, and Empire. Members of the acclaimed Irish folks band The Mary Wallopers come along with different Irish musicians to type the music ensemble Boinn, and can carry out on the opening of the Hornbill Festival along with their much-awaited music set. Hailing from Dublin and Dundalk, Ireland, Boinn are able to convey conventional Irish ballads and uncommon folks songs into vibrant and up to date spirit on the Hornbill competition,’ he stated, based on an official launch.
The Embassy will host a particular dialogue by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), certainly one of Ireland’s most distinguished historians and Chair of the Irish Research Council, who, will discover Ireland’s historical past of colonisation and the shared classes realized with Nagaland, it stated.
Speaking on the occasion, Ambassador of Ireland, Kevin Kelly, stated, ‘Ireland’s partnership with the Hornbill Festival displays the rising depth of Ireland-India relations and the shared dedication to cultural collaboration and peacebuilding dialogue. We hope that individuals of Nagaland get pleasure from the most effective of Irish artwork, tradition and theatre and that the connections we make at Hornbill 2025 result in even better collaboration sooner or later.’
Highlighting Nagaland’s assist for the collaboration, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, acknowledged, ‘Nagaland is honoured to welcome Ireland as our Country Partner for this 12 months’s Hornbill Festival. Ireland’s wealthy tradition, heritage, and inventive traditions resonate deeply with our personal, making this partnership each significant and particular. We see immense potential for expanded collaboration throughout tradition, tourism, training, artistic industries, youth change, sustainable growth, and people-to-people engagement. Ireland’s participation will drastically enrich the competition and strengthen the bonds between our peoples. We look ahead to celebrating this friendship and forging new pathways of cooperation within the Land of Festivals.’
Adding a multidisciplinary dimension a Delhi-based arts firm Kaivalya Plays will current an ensemble of engagements in Nagaland. They will start with dramatised readings from James Joyce’s Dubliners, a undertaking developed in cooperation with Embassy of Ireland as a part of the Year of Joyce celebrations. Kaivalya Plays goes to supply theatre workshops and allied studying engagements for younger performing arts fans of Nagaland.
Embassy of Ireland in cooperation with their Honorary Consulate General in Kolkata and Keventers Agro, are bringing to Kohima an Irish public arts set up. ‘We will see the Irish pagan goddess Danu, created by Irish artists from Macnas and Indian artists, make a particular entry as a public arts undertaking within the competition this 12 months,’ he stated.
Organised yearly by the Government of Nagaland from December 1 to 10, the Hornbill Festival is the state’s largest public celebration of tradition and heritage. Since its inception in 2000, the competition has turn out to be an emblem of unity among the many state’s 17 main tribes, fostering tourism, reconciliation, and satisfaction in a shared cultural identification.
About the Musicians: The travelling entourage to the Hornbill Festival consists of members of the notorious Mary Wallopers, Andrew Hendy and Finnian O’Connor, together with musicians Meabh Mulligan and Caoimhe Ni Mhaolagain. For the primary time, these 4 musicians have come collectively beneath the title Boinn – a reference to the Irish goddess of the River Boyne, which flows by way of Co. Louth, the place Andrew and Finnian grew up. This new collaboration marks the start of an thrilling journey because the group prepares to journey to India, mixing their particular person traditions and types into a strong celebration of Irish music and cultural connection. (ANI)
