Previous Festival Results

Open Section Winners 1958-Present

Year Drama Group Play
1958 Gorey Club “The Monkey’s Paw”
1959 Results Unavailable
1960 No Open Section Play
1961 Results Unavailable
1962-Three Act Play Rower Drama Group “Summit”
1962-One Act Play Boolavogue Macra na Feirme “Pot of Broth”
1963-Three Act Play Rower Drama Group “Sive”
1963-One Act Play Grange, Co. Carlow “Spring”
1964-Three Act Play Monaseed Drama Group “The Rainmaker”
1964-One Act Play Monaseed Drama Group “The Pipe in the Field”
1965-Three Act Play Sarsfield Players Lucan “An Inspector Calls”
1966 Sarsfield Players Lucan “Trap for a Lonely Man”
1967 Monaseed Drama Group “The Playboy of the Western World”
1968 Monaseed Drama Group “The King’s of Friday’s Men”
1969 Results Unavailable
1970 Results Unavailable
1971 Moate Club, Naas “The Tailor and Anasty”
1972 Wexford Drama Group “The Playboy of the Western World”
1973 Tie between Metro Drama Group & The Olivian Players, Dublin “Journey to the Day”

“(Metro Drama Group)

“Cat among the Pigeons”

“(Olivian Players)”
1974 Results Unavailable
1975 Metro Drama, Dublin “Never Too Late”
1976 Sundrive Players “Down By The Liffeyside”
1977 Sundrive Players “Within the Gates”
1978 Results Unavailable
1979 Results Unavailable
1980 Gorey Little Theatre Group “Da”
1981 The Strand Players, Dublin “I Do Not Like Thee Dr. Fell”
1982 Results Unavailable
1983 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “Bedroom Farce”
1984 Wexford Drama Group “Look Back in Anger”
1985 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “The Communication Cord”
1986 Sundrive Player “The Loves of Cass Maguire”
1987 Sundrive Players “The Plough & The Stars”
1988 Sundrive Players “A View from the Bridge”
1989 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “Lovers”
1990 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “Juno and the Paycock”
1991 Sundrive Players “All My Sons”
1992 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “The Gentle Island”
1993 Sundrive Players “Filemena”
1994 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “The Belfry”
1995 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “The Last Apache Reunion”
1996 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “Poor Beast in the Rain”
1997 Gorey Little Theatre Group “Philadelphia Here I Come”
1998 Palace Players “The Crucible”
1999 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “The Cripple of Innismahon”
2000 Enniscorthy Theatre Group “The Steward of Christendon”
2001 Festival Cancelled due to Foot & Mouth Disease
2002 Palace Players, Fermoy “The Lonesome West”
2003 Ballyduff Drama Group “Antigone”
2004 Ballyduff Drama Group “On Raftery’s Hill”
2005 Ballyduff Drama Group “Blackwater Angel”
2006 Silken Thomas Drama Group “Trainspotting”
2007 Silken Thomas Players “The Normal Heart”
2008 Bunclody/Kilmyshall Drama Group “Crystal & Fox”
2009 Kilmeen Drama Group “The Kings of the Kilburn High Road”
2010 Ballyduff Drama Group “Of Mice and Men”
2011 Bridge Drama “Dark Of the Moon”
2012 Ballyduff Drama Group “The Crucible”
2013  Kilmeen Drama Group “The Playboy of the Western World”
2014  Bridge Drama “Big Maggie”
2015  Hosted All-Ireland Confined Drama Finals  N/A
2016  Prosperous Dramatic Society  “One Man Two Guvnors”
2017  Prosperous Dramatic Society  “The Play about the Baby”
2018  Kilmuckridge Drama Group  “The Seafarer”
2019 Prosperous Dramatic Society “An Enemy of the People”
2020

Confined Section Winners 1958-Present

1958 Ballygarrett Club “Spreading the News”
1959 Results Unavailable
1960 Boolavogue Dramatic Class “Love and Land”
1961 Results Unavailable
1962-Three Act Play Tullow Drama Group “Drama at Inish”
1962-One Act Play Gorey Macra na Feirme “The Lad from Largymore”
1963-Three Act Play Graiguecullen Co. Carlow “The Righteous are Bold”
1963-One Act Play Boolavogue Macra na Feirme “Paddy Pedlar”
1964-Three Act Play Taghmon Dramatic Society “Michaelmas Eve”
1964-One Act Play Tullow Macra na Feirme “The Good and the Bad”
1965-Three Act Play Monaseed Dramatic Society “Wood of the Whispering
1966 Monaseed Dramatic Society “Bior”
1967 Allen Little Theatre Group “The Late Christopher Bean”
1968 Allen Little Theatre Group “Johnny Belinda”
1969 Results Unavailable
1970 Results Unavailable
1971 Rathcoole Dramatic Society “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
1972 Kilrush Drama Group “See How They Run”
1973 St. Mary’s Dramatic Society, Sandyford “Wuthering Heights”
1974 Results Unavailable
1975 Old Mill Players, Taghmon “Michaelmas Eve”
1976 Kilanerin Drama Group “My Wife’s Family”
1977 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “Sive”
1978 Results Unavailable
1979 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “The Playboy of the Western World”
1980 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “Juno and the Paycock”
1981 Kilrush Drama Group “Sharon’s Grave”
1982 Results Unavailable
1983 Allen Little Theatre Group “The Temple”
1984 Kilrush Drama Group “The Glass Menagerie”
1985 Kilrush Drama Group “Tarry Flynn”
1986 Allen Little Theatre Group “Rebecca”
1987 Allen Little Theatre Group “Sive”
1988 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “The Country Boy”
1989 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “Johnny Belinda”
1990 Monamolin Drama Group “Wood of the Whispering”
1991 Kilrush Drama Group “The Diary of Ann Frank”
1992 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “The Year of the Hiker”
1993 Mitchelstown Drama Society “Autumn Fire”
1994 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “The Glass Menagerie”
1995 Boolavogue Drama Group “A Letter from the General”
1996 Ballycogley Players “Translations”
1997 Boolavogue Drama Group “The Odd Couple”
1998 Silken Thomas Players “Bent”
1999 Silken Thomas Players “Blinded by the Light”
2000 Boolavogue Drama Group “Dead Guilty”
2001 Festival Cancelled due to Foot & Mouth Disease
2002 Ballycogley Players “Same Old Moon”
2003 Boolavogue Drama Group “The Odd Couple”(Female Version)
2004 Kilrush Drama Group “Our Town”
2005 Bunclody/Kilmyshall Drama Group “The Field”
2006 Bridge Drama Group “The Memory of Water”
2007 Ferns Dramatic Society “The Beauty Queen of Leenane”
2008 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “The Plough and the Stars”
2009 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “Juno and the Paycock”
2010 Ferns Dramatic Society “Translations”
2011 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “The Field”
2012 Kilrush Drama Group “The Lonesome West”
2013  Schull Drama Group  “God Of Carnage”
2014  Kilrush Drama Group “The Cavalcaders”
2015  Hosted All-Ireland Confined Drama Finals
2016  Coolgreany Amateur Dramatic Society “Greta Garbo Came To Donegal”
2017  Schull Drama Group “Last Of The Red Hot Lovers”
2018  Sillan Players  “Una Pooka”
2019 Kilmuckridge Drama Group “The Righteous Are Bold”
2020