Cultural
In November 2009, Ennistymon played host to the first Irish Discworld Convention, based around the works of author Terry Pratchett. It hosted the event again between the 4th and 6 November 2011.
The Dylan Thomas Literary Weekend took place for the first time on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th May 2012.
The town of Ennistymon is memorialized in the song "Ennistymon on the Inagh" by Tadhg Ó hEagráin.
Ennistymon can be seen in numerous episodes of Father Ted.
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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