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Vintage Sunday

VINTAGE CUP 

Birr Golf Club

All Day

15

FESTIVAL MASS

St Brendan’s RC Church / 12pm

A special blessing to celebrate the community’s activities during the Festival, with choirs of the Parish. All welcome.

 

VINTAGE SUNDAY PARADE 3pm

Join us for one of Birr Vintage Week’s most beloved traditions! The spectacular Vintage Parade brings the town to life with a dazzling display of vintage cars, marching bands, colourful floats and plenty of festival flair. This year, look out for an exciting collection of incredible bicycles and community barrows, and better yet, get involved yourself. Whether you're taking part or cheering from the sidelines, it's a celebration of community and vintage spirit not to be missed. Visit birrvintageweek.com to book your place.

STRICTLY NO HAWKERS.

An accessible area and accessible parking will be available again this year. Please see birrvintageweek.com for how to book your place.

 

AFTER PARADE ENTERTAINMENT

 

THE BIG BIRR STREET FEST

Music, walk-about performers. Be entertained by Hoopxie, the Irish Dandy, Cantonela the Acrobatic Clown and fairy performers along with the fabulous Blasta Brass Band

Now and Then Aerial Show at the bottom of Green Street.

There’s plenty of entertainment to enjoy after the Parade, so be sure to stay and soak up the atmosphere! 

Now and Then tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Pookie (Lidija Šola) and Nancy (Noelle Ní Riagáin). Featuring an impressive 8-metre freestanding aerial rig, this spectacular show combines slapstick comedy, aerial acrobatics and a heartwarming story about connection in a digital world.

 

The fun continues throughout the afternoon with a fantastic range of interactive walkabout performers, including performing fairies, Cantonela the Magical Clown, The Irish Dandy and Hoopixie, all ready to entertain audiences of all ages, with music from the fantastic Blasta Brass.

 

VINTAGE COSTUME COMPETITIONS

After the Parade Emmet Square 

Children, Vintage Babies, Ann’s Best Dressed Ladies and Gentlemen.

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Co. Offaly,

Ireland

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