Week 3- Chosen Idea

My chosen idea as I spoke about last week is that of Culture Fairs throughout Ireland. I searched the web and there are a few individual websites that try and promote that soul fair. Here are a few examples;

Boley Fair,
Hilltown,
Co. Down

Castlewellan Show,
Castlewellan
Co Down

Balmoral show
Belfast
Co Down





These are just a few of the websites that show of the fairs that happen in down, there are a lot more yet that I could show you just for Down, there are vintage shows, Plough fairs etc...
From seeing that there is no main website showing all of these I’m let to think whether to start off by just doing one county or do I take it a wee bit further and maybe venture into Ulster these are the things I have to look at to see whether ill have the time to concentrate on something as big as Ireland or do I concentrate on showing them just in my own county.

As being a follower of Irish culture and what it entailed the idea of a website containing all of the events that take place in Ireland really appealed to me. A website like this will allow people to book weekend aways in advance so that they wont be charged a lot more when it comes closer to the date of the event. also it will help small villages that host these maybe gain a wee bit of a profit as the more people there the more money they are going to make. I can confirm this as there is an event that takes place each year in my local village called hilltown. the event that takes place is called the boley fair. it starts on a Friday and isn't over until the following Tuesday. in recent years i have to say that it was wilding done but finally due to proper advertisement, radio, papers and internet it has become very popular as for example there is an event called sheep clipping were you have to clip the wool of a ewe in the fastest time, sue to this event and the proper advertisement for it we now have people coming from the likes of Kilkenny and Offaly just to enter it and by them entering it they also attract friends and family to come to it. so from this i believe the website that i am looking to create could be a great success.
Another great event that helped promote this event more was the Irish bands that were on in pubs throughout the village when these bands put on such a good nights craic it meant that it got good reviews the next day and more and more came so by creating a website i maybe could have some kind of chat thing like the likes of facebook which will allow people to post how great of a time they had so that other people would maybe consider coming to it the following year.
There are many more events that happen at this fair for example, tosing the sheaf, stone cutting, tractor revesring, skittles, horse shoe throwing, oil paintings, celie, and many more so promoting these on the internet will allow people from ireland and even people who have left the country to look back on it.