Participating Irish Communities
Many Irish communities around the world with links to County Donegal have their own local contests to pick their community's “Mary” who subsequently is nominated to travel to Dungloe to compete in the Mary From Dungloe contest final. Irish communities who have entered contestants include:
- Antrim
- Armagh
- Bayonne, New Jersey
- Belfast
- Kildare
- Derry
- Dungloe
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Fermanagh
- An Ghaeltacht
- Galway
- Glasgow
- London
- Manchester
- Meath
- Melbourne
- Midlands (UK)
- Monaghan
- North East England
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Spain
- Sydney
- Wicklow
- Wilkes-Barre
Read more about this topic: Mary From Dungloe (festival)
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