Editing Roscommon (section)

==Events and popular culture==
* Roscommon Lamb Festival takes place on the first weekend of May each year (the May bank holiday weekend). Its aim is to highlight the quality of locally produced food and entails diverse events and activities, including barbecues, craft sales and novelty events.<ref>[http://www.roscommonlambfestival.com/about-the-festival Roscommon Lamb Festival]</ref>
* Roscommon's Easter parade takes place every Easter Sunday.<ref>[http://roscommoneasterparade.com/ Roscommon Easter Parade]</ref>
* Roscommon is the setting for the once-famous song, ''She was Plucking a Duck by the Old River Suck'' by Bert Flynn.<ref>Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series (1956) Library of Congress Copyright Office</ref> Flynn and his band were regular features in the dance halls of Roscommon in the 1940s and 1950s.<ref>[https://www.irish-showbands.com/images/halls/astor%20roscommon-ggx.htm Astor Ballroom, Roscommon]</ref>
* [[Hanna Greally]], author of ''Bird's Nest Soup'' and ''Flown the Nest'', lived in Roscommon after her release from eighteen years of involuntary detention in a psychiatric institution.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.corkuniversitypress.com/Birds-Nest-Soup-Hanna-Greally-p/9781855942103.htm|title=Hanna Greally was incarcerated in an Irish psychiatric hospital}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.corkuniversitypress.com/mobile/Product.aspx?ProductCode=9781855942127|title = Flown the Nest}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.roscommonpeople.ie/archive/55-archives/radio-programme-explores-the-life-and-legacy-of-hanna-greally |title=Radio programme explores the life and legacy of Hanna Greally – Roscommon People – The People's Paper |access-date=18 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2009/0605/646404-greally/|title=Remembering Hanna Greally|website=RTE.ie|date=15 April 2014|language=en|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/g/Greally_H/life.htm|title=Hanna Greally (1925-87)|website=www.ricorso.net|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref>
* ''[[The Secret Scripture]]'', award-winning novel by [[Sebastian Barry]], is set in Roscommon.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |title=Ireland's past is another country |work=Culture |publisher=The Guardian |date=27 April 2008 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/27/fiction.culture |accessdate=18 June 2021 }}</ref>