{"id":11257,"date":"2016-04-21T09:38:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T08:38:40","slug":"celebrate-with-arrival-of-spring-at-the-navan-centre-fort-armagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/04\/celebrate-with-arrival-of-spring-at-the-navan-centre-fort-armagh\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate with arrival of Spring at the Navan Centre &#038; Fort, Armagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>One of the major festivals in the Celtic calendar was Bealtaine.<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/press31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-11258\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/press31-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>For the Celts this festival marked the end of Spring and the arrival of the longer, warmer Summer days.\u00a0 This light and heat meant they could grow their crops and fatten animals to store for Winter.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday 1<sup>st<\/sup> May, from 11.00am \u2013 5.00pm, join the Iron Age family at the Navan Centre &amp; Fort, Armagh as they use different traditions to mark the end of winter and all that summer brings! At this festival the family will light purifying Bealtaine fires, help in the preparation for upcoming battles and will be making gifts for the gods by tying woven ribbons to the tree of Spring.\u00a0 You are of course invited to get involved!<\/p>\n<p>The event will continue with a very special Celtic wedding ceremony, known as a hand-fasting.\u00a0 Learn about the traditions of Celtic marriage and the customs of the wedding celebration.\u00a0 You might even be chosen as the bride or groom!<\/p>\n<p>No booking is required, just drop in and enjoy all the fun!\u00a0 Normal admission charges apply.<\/p>\n<p>For information please contact: Navan Centre &amp; Fort, 81 Killylea Road, Armagh.\u00a0 BT60 4LD.\u00a0 Tel 028 3752 9644 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navan.com\/\">www.navan.com<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major festivals in the Celtic calendar was Bealtaine. For the Celts this festival marked the end of Spring and the arrival of the longer, warmer Summer days.\u00a0 This light and heat meant they could grow their crops and fatten animals to store for Winter. On Sunday 1st May, from 11.00am \u2013 5.00pm, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/04\/celebrate-with-arrival-of-spring-at-the-navan-centre-fort-armagh\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11259,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions\/11259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}