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A Wilde weekend of fairytale, fantasy and frivolity for serious people.
Enniskillen Wilde Island Town: Home of The Happy Prince, October 16-20 2025
A Wilde weekend of fairytale, fantasy and frivolity for serious people is promised at the In Our Dreams festival (16–20 October 2025) based in the island town of Enniskillen, in the heart of the Fermanagh Lakelands.
Early highlights:
Wildelife On Erne
The launch of 10 new river sculptures of the other flora and fauna in the Happy Prince story, alongside the Swallow, on River Erne as a new sculptural walk around Enniskillen Island Town.
Festival Opening Lecture from “a distinguished stranger” (THP)
Theme: “How wonderful is the power of love” (THP). Wednesday, October 16, St. Macartin’s Cathedral (Oscar Wilde’s birthday)
A wider programme of theatre (Wilde’s plays), music (Richard Strauss Four Last Songs), promenade theatre ‘Oscar Wilde at Home’ in one of Fermanagh’s Big Houses, The Ballad of Reading Gaol theatrical presentation, and fairytale storytelling in the evenings in High Street shops.
The full programme will be announced in the spring 2025.
