So you want to be a Rose? The first thing you should do is contact the Rose centre that is geographically closest to where you live. View contact details of all Rose Centres.
 

Applications have now closed for 2010, but details of how to apply for 2011 will be on this page later in the year.

There are several criteria that each Rose representing a centre in the final must meet, and your centre will be able to give you more details of these.

We wish you every success and perhaps it will be our pleasure to welcome you to Festival 2011 as a Rose! 

Roses are chosen by centres throughout the world including Australia, Dubai, the USA, Luxembourg, New Zealand, the UK and of course Ireland. Entrants are initially nominated by local businesses or organisations and take part in local heats to find one person who will represent the centre in the final.

Judges consider many different attributes of the Rose including, in the words of William Mulchinock's song The Rose of Tralee, an indefinable quality that captures "the truth in her eyes". The Rose of Tralee International Festival celebrates modern young women in terms of their aspirations, ambitions, intellect, social responsibility and Irish heritage.
 

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