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| Sunday | 5 | 12 | 1919 May 2013Northern Ireland’s premier gardening event, the Airtricity Garden Festival, takes place in the magnificent gardens surrounding Hillsborough Castle on 17th to 19th May. | 2626 May 2013
Northern Ireland Countryside FestivalMoira Demesne The annual Northern Ireland Countryside Festival, sponsored by Lisburn City Council and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board is widely recognised as THE showcase event in Ireland for countryside events. |
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| Monday | 66 May 2013A day at the Races is like no other and is filled with a rich cocktail of anticipation, excitement, thousands of people cheering and the unforgettable sight and sound of the horses and riders galloping at full speed down the finishing straight. | 13 | 2020 May 2013A new tour for 2013 starring one of the most respected Spiritualist Mediums of a generation. | 27 | |
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| Wednesday | 1 | 8 | 1515 May 2013Balmoral Park, Maze, Lisburn The 2013 Balmoral Show will be everything you know and love about the show, but bigger & better!! Now in its 145th anniversary year, The Balmoral Show is Ireland’s biggest Agricultural and Food show and one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year. | 22 | 29 |
| Thursday | 22 May 2013THE FULL MONTY MUSICAL!!!From the company that brought you the highly acclaimed Broadway Fever, Jet Set Go, Sleep No More and the sell out success Blood Brothers, Showcase Productions NI present The Full Monty Musical for 4 performances only. | 99 May 2013HE’S BACK! CAN YOU BELIEVE HIM?MENTALIST DAVID MEADE RETURNS TO STAGE AND SCREENBBC’s fastest rising star is returning to the stage in the new year, hot on the heels of his smash hit record breaking TV series, “Make Believe” which starts on BBC NI on Wednesday 31st October. | 1616 May 2013Balmoral Park, Maze, Lisburn The 2013 Balmoral Show will be everything you know and love about the show, but bigger & better!! Now in its 145th anniversary year, The Balmoral Show is Ireland’s biggest Agricultural and Food show and one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year. | 2323 May 2013
Award winning chamber choir CONCENTIO are performing in the beautiful Throne Room of Hillsborough Castle. Written and performed by Virginia Ironside. | 30 |
| Friday | 33 May 2013THE FULL MONTY MUSICAL!!!From the company that brought you the highly acclaimed Broadway Fever, Jet Set Go, Sleep No More and the sell out success Blood Brothers, Showcase Productions NI present The Full Monty Musical for 4 performances only. Written by Maggie Cronin and Carol MoorePerformed by Maggie Cronin, Laura Hughes and Carol MooreIn the early hours of 1 August 1914 a group of suffragettes, led by Mrs Lilian Metge attempted to blow up Lisburn Cathedral. | 10 | 1717 May 2013Northern Ireland’s premier gardening event, the Airtricity Garden Festival, takes place in the magnificent gardens surrounding Hillsborough Castle on 17th to 19th May. Balmoral Park, Maze, Lisburn The 2013 Balmoral Show will be everything you know and love about the show, but bigger & better!! Now in its 145th anniversary year, The Balmoral Show is Ireland’s biggest Agricultural and Food show and one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year. One hundred years on from signing the Ulster Covenant in Belfast City Hall, who was the real Edward Carson? A Dubliner chosen by the Unionist Party to lead them in the crucial debate around the Home Rule act – why was he chosen above any local leaders? His was the first signature put to the Covenant that would have profound effects not only on the life of the island of Ireland but on the future of the people of Northern Ireland. | 24 | 3131 May 2013The Alan Niblock Trio plays a 10th anniversary tribute to one of the world’s greatest bassists in the history of Jazz. |
| Saturday | 44 May 2013THE FULL MONTY MUSICAL!!!From the company that brought you the highly acclaimed Broadway Fever, Jet Set Go, Sleep No More and the sell out success Blood Brothers, Showcase Productions NI present The Full Monty Musical for 4 performances only. Blending live music, puppetry and physical performance, ‘The Trench’ is inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during World War One. | 1111 May 2013
Lisburn’s biggest street party is back! The annual Mayor’s Parade takes to the streets once again in a riot of colour, creativity and community spirit. | 1818 May 2013Northern Ireland’s premier gardening event, the Airtricity Garden Festival, takes place in the magnificent gardens surrounding Hillsborough Castle on 17th to 19th May. Peter and Zoltan Katona, acclaimed by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the best known guitar duo of the classical world’, give recitals in major concert venues throughout the world, among them the Royal Festival and Wigmore halls in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Konzerthaus in Vienna. | 2525 May 2013
Northern Ireland Countryside FestivalMoira Demesne The annual Northern Ireland Countryside Festival, sponsored by Lisburn City Council and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board is widely recognised as THE showcase event in Ireland for countryside events.
The Northern Ireland Italian Motor Club will hold their All Ireland Italian Motor Event on Saturday 25th May 2013. |
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