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Extract from the Mullingar Travel Guides:
MULLINGAR
, the chief town of Westmeath, is a raucous, wheeling-and-dealing provincial capital, constantly choked with traffic - the sort of thing most people come to Ireland to escape. While it's the centre of a rich cattle-rearing area and its preoccupations essentially rural, Mullingar is a far cry from the sleepy towns further west, and you get the impression that this big trading centre is on a short lead from Dublin. In 1951 Mullingar hosted a traditional music festival which evolved into the annual celebration of Irish music, the
Fleadh Cheoil
(Festival of Music), which only took place once again in the town, in 1963...
read the whole Mullingar Travel Guides...
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