Speech and Drama

Special awards in this section:
The James Duffy Cup, for the highest mark in Group Drama
The Tommy McElhinney Cup, for the best in Choral Verse
The Tommy Carr Cup, for the school attaining the highest number of points as per the Samuel Burke Award
The Veritas Trophy, to be presented to the competitor who in the adjudicator’s opinion gave the best Bible Reading interpretation. (Comp: 241-242 only)
The Detta Toland Trophy, for the best performance in Group Mime or Dance Drama.
The Maureen Downey Cup and City of Culture 2013 Bursary - A Bursary of £500 will be awarded at this year’s Feis to the winner of the Maureen Downey Cup. Bursary money must be used for application to a drama course or for tuition, evidence of which may be requested by the Feis committee. Also see changes to this competition.

Competitions time limits will be adhered to and penalties made if time exceeded. Prompting or coaching is not permitted by anyone other than the adjudicator or Feis Assistants and may lead to disqualification.
Please note: New Competition 246 - Storytelling on the theme of DERRY.
Competitions: 216-219 - age groups have changed
Copy of all poems/prose/original material must be given to adjudicators at least 2 weeks before the Feis.
Teachers are kindly requested to see that pupils keep to CORRECT AGE GROUPS
Queries on drama section to drama secretary Betty Gallagher 028-71346810

All Teachers requiring a Pass will need to submit a
Passport Size Photograph with Entries.

There will be no Free Entry at this year's Feis without
Official Photographic I.D.

Speech and Drama Competitions ~ click a section to expand.