The Flat Lake Festival is an annual event organised by the novelist Patrick McCabe and the Welsh film director Kevin Allen on the Hilton Park farm estate in Clones, County Monaghan, first held in 2007. The attractions of the festival are readings, comedy, music and theatre that take place among the barns and bales of hay, abandoned tractors and ancient oaks of the estate over the period of a long weekend, just a couple of miles outside the town of Clones on the back road to Cavan town.[1]¨nthWORD calls it a "cheap, off-beat, anarchic weekend that is hard to beat"[2]

Flat Lake Festival
GenreReadings, Comedy, Music, Theatre
Dates5 – 6 June 2010
Location(s)Scotshouse, Ireland
Years active2007–present
WebsiteOfficial website

2010 Festival

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2010 Line-up (partial list)

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Alexei Sayle, Crystal Swing, Jack Lukeman, Mundy, Shane MacGowan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Viv Albertine, The Swarbriggs, Frankie McBride, Kathy Durkin, The Flaws, Anne Enright

Notes

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  1. ^ "[dead link] The Independent Friday, 29 August 2008
  2. ^ "NthWORD Shorts". Archived from the original on 7 April 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2010. nthWORD Magazine Shorts 9 June 2010
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  • [1] Flat Lake Literary & Arts Festival website
  • [2] A review of The 2010 Flat Lake Literary & Arts Festival by Jessica Maybury for nthWORD Magazine