festivals and fairs limerick

Ballylanders Pattern Festival is held each year on 15th August. The Committee now for a number of years have stretched that to a week.They run GAA tournaments, soccer matches and other sporting events, as well as music and dance events....

The popular Lough Gur Halloween Storytelling Festival was established in 1995 and takes place over the Halloween weekend and coincides with the old Irish holiday of Samhain.

Lough Gur is steeped in many Irish heritage tales which have been kept alive by local storytellers. What has made this festival what it is today is the worldwide storytellers who have visited to tell their tales....

During St. Patrick’s weekend, Adare will play host to national and international jazz musicians, along with excellent food, drink and the beauty Adare always provides....

Limerick International Band Festival takes place in Limerick City during Saint Patrick's Week festivities each March. This impressive and colourful music festival offers marching bands, concert bands, drill and dance teams and choirs from Ireland, Europe and around the world....

The May Bank holiday Weekend sees this major music festival come to Limerick. The headline concerts, street entertainment, free outdoor concerts and music in many of the city’s pubs features the best of Irish artists and provides a showcase for emerging talent....

The annual poetry event, now firmly established in the cultural calendar of Limerick, adds further weight and character to our city's already impressive cultural scene. Limerick's long association with poetry makes Cuisle and Limerick the perfect opportunity and place for audiences to extend their experience of poetry during the festival days of convivial discussion readings, book launches and workshops with the leading contemporary poets of our time. Opening dates for 2008: October 15th to Octo...

The people of Limerick go all out for the celebration of Ireland’s patron saint, with not one, not two but five days of festivities, enough to rival Dublin. This week long festival has loads of street entertainment in the form of music, street theatre, dance, market stalls and plenty more. The crowning glory is the parade that attracts thousands every year and also the dozens of marching bands that compete in the Limerick International Band Competition....

This festival takes place on the rolling hills that border the counties of Limerick, Cork and Tipperary. The landscape there is full of green pastures and pleasant woodlands; this unspoilt wilderness is a walker’s paradise and there will be various grades of walks from the casual to the strenuous....

August was the traditional month to start celebrating the returns of the harvest, and with food tasting, competitions for restaurants and chefs and a ‘pub food and music trail’ the Limerick Food Festival updates that tradition wonderfully....