Hinterland Festival 2026

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Liam McNiffe

The Real Alexander Hamilton

Event 1

Thursday 25 June 2026, 10.30am

Venue: The Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Cecilia Hartsell

Agents of Their Own Liberation: African American Quests for Freedom during the American Founding Era (America250)

Event 2

Thursday 25 June 2026, 12pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Sandra Scanlon

The Vietnam War and American Patriotism

Event 3

Thursday 25 June 2026, 2pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Damian Shiels

Ireland and the American Civil War

Event 4

Thursday 25 June 2026, 3.30pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Robbyn Swan

Prisoners of Rambo: the Vietnam War and the Rise of MAGA

Event 5

Thursday 25 June 2026, 5pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Forever is Now

Documentary by Neasa Ní Chianáin

Event 6

Thursday 25 June 2026, 8pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Tony Bucher

The American Crime Boss

Event 7

Friday 26 June 2026, 10.30am

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Myles Dungan

'The only good Indian...' - The USA and Native America

Event 8

Friday 26 June 2026, 12pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

A Talk & Tour of Kells Printing Works

Event 9

Friday 26 June 2026, 1pm

Venue: Kells Printing Works

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Rus Bradburd

What's My Name, Fool? Sports, Resistance, and Social Justice in America

Event 10

Friday 26 June 2026, 2pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Catherine Flynn

'Mr. Dooley' and 'Myles'

Event 11

Friday 26 June 2026, 3.30pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

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Glen Gendzel

America's Sexual Revolution of the 1960s

Event 12

Friday 26 June 2026, 5pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

Where Angels Listen: A response to Francis Ledwidge

Film, Poetry & live Music event

Event 13

Friday 26 June 2026, 7pm

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

Fred Cooke

Clown to Earth

Event 14

Friday 26 June 2026, 8.30pm

Venue: O'Rorke's Bar

Matthew Spangler & Patrick Freyne

The Adaptation Session

Event 15

Saturday 27 June 2026, 10.30am

Venue: Courthouse – Meath County Council Stage

Orlaith McBride and Gregory Walls

The 1926 Census

Event 16

Saturday 27 June 2026, 10.30am

Venue: Church of Ireland – The Jane Barrett Stage

Charleen Hurtubise

Saoirse

Event 17

Saturday 27 June 2026, 10.30am

Venue: Eureka House – Tinnitus Clinic Stage

Children’s/Young Adult

Niamh Donnellan & Brian Fitzgerald

Little Irish History Heroes

Event 18

Saturday 27 June 2026, 10.30am

Venue: The Red Chapel – O’Brien’s Supervalu Stage

Ages 4-8

Carlo Gébler

Writers Workshop

Event 19

Saturday 27 June 2026, 10.30am

Venue: Kells Printing Works – Upstairs