Drogheda Urban Art Trail Tours – Embracing our mythological past. Every Saturday from the 3 June at 12pm. Limited Availability, advance booking essential. €10 per person. Produced by Droichead Arts Centre in partnership with LOVE Drogheda BIDS.
A series of six outdoor murals throughout the town focusing on key figures and moments from Ireland’s mythological past, complemented with an audio tour available via your smartphone.
On the Day: Meet at Droichead Arts Centre, Stockwell St at 11.50am, pick up your mural map, and meet our tour guides: Actress/writer – Grainne Rafferty, and Mythologist, Anthony Murphy. Then, take a stroll throughout Drogheda and listen to the mythological stories behind the murals!
- Étaín, the heroine of Tochmarc Étaíne, one of the oldest and richest stories of our Mythological Cycle on Meat Market Lane is by Nina Valkhoff, a painter/muralist from Rotterdam.
- Fionn MacCumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge by artist Ciarán Dunlevy, from Drogheda on the Fitzwilliam Court building in Dyer St.
- Boann, Godess of the Boyne by Lula Goce (Spain), at Abbey Lane.
- Dagda, the leader of the Tuatha Dé Danann has taken pride of place on Laurence St and is by Muralist/Painter Russ, from France.
- Amergin by AERO, also from France the story of Ireland’s famous bard, poet and judge of the Milesians. This mural can be seen at Drogheda Port beside Goodwood Fuels.
- The Morrígan on Patrick St by This Is Friz, an artist currently based in Bangor, Co. Down.
Beside each mural, you can download the Audio Trail: Credits: Stories by Anthony Murphy. Adapted by Gráinne Rafferty. Performed by Niall O’Brien and Gráinne Rafferty. Original soundscape by Niall Gregory. Sound Editor Sean McCluskey at Basement Sounds.
Plans for 2023: DRAWDA exhibition in our gallery, featuring work from some of the artists in the trail, launching the 24 June, accompanied by the Mythological Midsummer’s Festival in Abbey Lane.
DRAWDA is a legacy programme, making use of shared public outdoor streets & walls, and engaging with a new and wider audience. Working with local collaborators, the local authority and key cultural providers, it has created a visual vibrancy and a cascade of colour in the town, reinvigorating derelict public places and streets. The project is inclusive, and has supported over 16 artists in its delivery to date.