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Floral display with festival logo, 2014. The Rose of Tralee International Festival is an event which is celebrated among Irish communities all over the world.The festival, held annually in the town of Tralee in County Kerry, takes its inspiration from a 19th-century ballad of the same name about a woman called Mary, who because of her beauty was called "The Rose of Tralee".
The New Zealand Rose, 21-year-old Rose Keely O'Grady, a Speech and Language Therapy student was named as the 2024 International Rose of Tralee. This gave New Zealand its first victory in the event since 1988 and the first Oceania victory since 2011. [3] [4] [5]
The New York Rose, 27-year-old Rose Róisín Wiley was named as the 2023 International Rose of Tralee. [3] [4] This gave New York its first victory in the event since 2007 and the first US victory since 2016. The television audience drew a peak of 576,000. Those figures combined with views on RTÉ Player gave the contest more than a million ...
The 2022 Rose of Tralee was the 61st edition of the annual Irish international festival held on 22–23 August 2022. The competition was televised live on RTÉ television. This was the first Rose of Tralee festival since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland .
Ryle Dwyer's The Rose of Tralee, Fifty Years A-Blooming stated that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs emerged from O'Sullivan's victory in the pageant. [4] Despite this, media hype was virtually non-existent when compared to modern festivals and O'Sullivan managed to get away with claiming that her cousin had won ...
2023 Rose of Tralee; 2024 Rose of Tralee; K. Mary Kennedy; R. The Rose of Tralee (song) This page was last edited on 3 January 2024, at 16:13 (UTC). Text is available ...
Tralee Town Park: Tralee has a town park located in the town centre (opposite the Kerry County Museum) with a rose garden comprising over 5,000 roses of different varieties. The park is the location for the annual Féile na mBláth / Tralee Garden Festival – a free midsummer weekend festival of gardening demonstrations, flower arranging ...
The 2011 Rose of Tralee was the 52nd edition of the annual Irish international festival, held on 22–23 August 2011 at the Festival Dome, in Tralee, County Kerry. Hosted by Dáithí Ó Sé for a second time, 32 contestants participated in the 2011 pageant. The festival was won by Tara Talbot, who represented Queensland.