Wexford Hotels & Information

Wexford is the county town of County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. It is situated near the south-eastern tip of Ireland, close to Rosslare Europort. The town is connected to the capital Dublin via the N11 National Primary Route (European route E1), and the national rail network. Recently Wexford enjoyed a building boom resulting in new developments across the county and town.

Wexford town hosts the internationally recognised Opera Festival every autumn. Eoin Colfer, the author of the Artemis Fowl series of children's books, is from Wexford, and is sometimes seen in the Wexford Book Centre on Main Street, signing books or promoting children's literature. Singer and playwright Larry Kirwan of the Celtic-Rock band Black 47 is a native of Wexford. Similarly, award-winning novelists Colm Toibin and John Banville were born and educated there. The playwright Billy Roche hails from the town and has set all of his stage plays there. Actor Padraic Delaney also hails from the area.One of Wexfords most influential sons was Johnny Reck (1919 - 2004). A musician of note who gave a lot of young musicians a chance to cut their teeth in the Showband Era of the 1960's, amongst those who started out under Johnny were; Larry Kirwan (Black 47), Pierce Turner, Robbie Furlong and Billy Roche amongst others. An early example of the Mummers play is known from Wexford from about 1817. Arts Centre) which hosts exhibitions, theatre music and dance events since 1976 is situated in 1760's building where John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church spoke and praised the speaking facilities as the best he had visited and Percy French also performed here. Today various concerts are held in St Iberius's Church (Church of Ireland). The church, on Main Street, is over three hundred years old.

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