Celebrate the flax harvest with a festive weekend of community, conversations, education and craic!
🗓️ August 22 – 23 2026
📍 An Creagán (Creggan, Omagh, Co. Tyrone) & Mallon Linen farm (105 Pomeroy Rd, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone)
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Fibreshed Ireland is once again partnering with Mallon Linen, Linen Workers CIC, and Brink! to bring you a packed weekend of presentations, panel discussions, craft demonstrations, a farm visit, music and poetry. Join us to learn about the past of linen production on this island, the present solutions & challenges, and help shape a regenerative, equitable and joyful flaxen future!
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The format of the event is a combination of a conference, workshop, and flax harvesting party – it’s a meitheal after all! The first day in An Creagán will be more conference stye, with presentations and workshops throughout the day. We will finish with an evening of music, poetry, crafting, and craic. The second day in Mallon Linen will be a working day of harvesting flax, so please bring weather resistant clothes. Accompanied children are very welcome to join us. Bear in mind that the first day is very talk-heavy, so children might need to bring some alternative form of entertainment. The An Creagán centre has some beautiful nature and heritage trails, as well as a play garden that visitors are welcome to enjoy.
What you can expect on Saturday at An Creagán:
- Presentation on hemp and flax growing by researcher Laura Sullivan
- Flax spinning workshop with Tiernan Stuart and Gillian Steele
- Interactive sessions
- Snapshots of flax projects from around the island and beyond
- Raffle
- Lunch and celebratory dinner
- Flax songs by Maurice Leyden & Jane Cassidy leading us into an open mic seisiún till late
What you can expect on Sunday at Mallon Linen farm:
- Flax harvest in the field
- Show and tell of artefacts that are possible with the current state of the flax industry in Ireland
- Grazing lunch
Accessibility: The first day will be held in An Creagán, which is fully wheelchair accessible, including the on-site cottages. Unfortunately, Mallon Linen, where the second day is taking place, is a working farm and not wheelchair accessible. Please get in touch with any other accessibility queries, and we’ll do our utmost best to accommodate you!
Project partners:
This project has been supported by the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the Government of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
