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CLARE will hold its first ever Pride festival over the course of a weekend later this month. It will kick off on Culture Night, Friday, September 23, with ‘‘Queering the Green’, a queer poetry book launch and reading at Mna ag Gaire (Ennis Women’s Shed) in Ennis. The reading will feature three of Ireland’s leading queer poets, Liz Quirke, Simon Costello and Clare’s own Sarah Clancy. The following day the show will go on with an LGBTQI+ youth event in Shannon including dance workshops and drag bingo. This will be followed by the grand weekend finale – a no-holds-barred over 18s party featuring drag queen and kings and DJs at the Oakwood Hotel in Shannon. As well as being a celebrated poet, Sarah is one of the organisers of Clare Pride, and speaking about it this week, she said, “We have a few events on, it’s small and contained, we’re not having a week long festival. “We have three different …
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