a farmers mart every Friday afternoon. Sport Belturbet has a local GAA club, Belturbet Rory O'Moores. Arts The Erne Palais Ballroom is one of the buildings in the town listed by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. From 1893 to 1931, Shan Fadh Bullock wrote 14 novels set in the Cavan-Fermanagh borderland, renaming Belturbet "Bunn" for his books. Belturbet is also mentioned in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, in the fifteenth episode, Circe. The reference comes from Cissy Caffrey, who says: 'More luck to me. Cavan, Cootehill and Belturbet'. Notable people Brendan Perry (b.1959), composer and singer with Dead Can Dance, lives in the vicinity of the town. James Somers (1894–1918), soldier who won the Victoria Cross during the First World War was from Belturbet. Andrew Grene (1965–2010), a civil affairs officer with the United Nations, grew up largely on a small farm outside Belturbet. He was killed in the Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010, and was laid to rest in Belturbet churchyard. Séamus Fitzpatrick, financier and founder of CapVest Limited hails from the town See also List of towns and villages in Ireland References External links A map Of Belturbet Town Belturbet Town 1613-1840 Towns and villages in County Cavan