Oireachtas Info
All solo competitions U8 to U14
All traditional set competitions U7 to U11
SATURDAY
All solo competitions U15 & Older
All traditional set competitions U12 & Older
SUNDAY
All teams
HOTEL | MAIN HOTEL PHONE | TOLL FREE NUMBER | LINK |
Homewood Suites Hartford | 860-524-0223 | 800-445-8667 |
http://group.homewood-suites.c |
Radisson Hartford | 860-549-2400 | Irish Dance Teachers Association of New England | |
Hartford Marriott Downtown | 860-249-8000 | 866-238-8235 |
https://aws.passkey.com/go/ner |
Hilton Hartford | 860-728-5151 | 800-445-8667 |
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/gr |
The Regional Oireachtas is the qualifying event for dancers to compete in the World Championships. It is also an event that can qualify dancers to compete at the North American Irish Dancing Championships. In addition to being a qualifying event, the oireachtas is also a platform for many children to compete in team competitions as well as a non-qualifying solo event called Traditional Set.
At Pender-Keady, we follow more stringent qualifying rules in order to dance in a solo championship at the oireachtas. We require that a dancer must have placed in a Preliminary championship at a feis within the year of that oireachtas (ie must place in prelim any time between January 1 of the current year and the impending oireachtas). This rule is being brought into effect at Pender-Keady as of Sept. 1st, 2012. Dancers who have already competed in solo in the past regardless of prelim championship placements are grandfathered in and may continue to dance solo.
Please note that exemptions are made for dancers in the Under 8 and the Under 9 age category. These dancers may be entered in solo dancing at the oireachtas based on teacher’s discretion and the decision of the teacher’s is final. These exemptions are in place because in many cases, many talented young dancers simply haven’t been dancing for long enough to attain the criteria necessary to compete but are still of the caliber to compete at this level. This is not a Pender-Keady rule, this is a regional rule that Pender-Keady chooses to follow.
Oireachtas 2016 - Team Practice Day Schedule
Tuesday August 30
Wednesday August 31
Saturday September 10
Sunday September 18
Saturday September 24
Saturday October 1
Saturday October 8
Saturday October 15th
Sunday October 23
Sunday October 30
Saturday November 5
Saturday November 12- Dress rehearsal or practice day
Sunday November 13 - dress rehearsal or practice day