page_title: Tullamore
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Tullamore / Culture
caption_attribution_description: Patrick Street, Tullamore
context_page_description: Tullamore is the county town of County Offaly, in Ireland. Located in the centre of the county, it is the fourth most populous town in the midlands region with a population of 14,607 in the 2016 census.
  The town retained Gold Medal status in the National Tidy Town Awards in 2015 and also played host to the World Sheep Dog Trials in 2005 which attracted international interest in the region. The Tullamore Show is held near the town every year.
  The town's most famous export is Tullamore Dew – an Irish whiskey distilled by Tullamore Distillery – that can be traced back to 1829. The original distillery was shut down in 1954, with the brand later being resurrected and produced at the Midleton Distillery, in Cork. However, the brand's new owners, William Grant & Sons, invested in a new distillery near Tullamore, bringing whiskey production back to the town in 2014.
context_section_description: The Tullamore Phoenix Festival was an annual celebration of art, culture and heritage first held in August 2000. Festival events included hot air balloons, sky diving, concerts, street entertainment, a fire parade, and fireworks.
  The Queen of the Land Festival takes place in Tullamore each year on the second weekend in November. Primarily a personality contest, it seeks to find the best examples of a modern Irish woman. It is organised by Offaly Macra Na Feirme. Each year about 25 girls between the age of 17 and 35 compete to be crowned Queen of the Land. The festival provides a host of entertainment throughout the town over the weekend, primarily at night.
  An annual Tullamore Show takes place on second Sunday of August every year. It has grown considerably over the past number of years and is now the largest one day show in the country. It was cancelled in 2007 and 2008 due to heavy rain, though it ran again in 2009. Agriculture was originally the show's main focus, but this has broadened considerably over the years to adapt to Irelands changing culture, with entertainment, food, crafts, lifestyle including 700 trade stands, food and refreshments, fashion and entertainment and an average of 60,000 visitors annually.
  Hugh Lynch's Pub on Kilbride Street has been operating as a public house since the early 1800s. In the early 1900s it was bought by the Williams Group, founders of the D.E. Williams Distillery, and run as a public bar and grocery, along with many other outlets in the Irish Midlands, from which they sold their growing whiskey brand "Tullamore Dew". It has been in the Lynch Family since 1971.
  The national Fleadh Ceoil was held in Tullamore for the very first time in August 2007. It returned in 2008, and returned for a third time from 21–23 Aug 2009.
  The National Ploughing Championships, Europe's largest Outdoor Exhibition and Agriculture Trade Show, was held in Screggan, Tullamore in 2016. The total attendance figures for the 2016 Championship came to a record breaking 283,000. The show was set to return to Screggan in September 2017.
caption: Patrick Street, Tullamore
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