festivals and fairs limerick

Festival features a child-friendly programme of movies and workshops.
It is designed with the student in mind and aims to be both entertaining and educational. A form for booking school groups is available on request....

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....

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....

Family orientated, music disco's, pub talent, happy batchelor, terrier racing, tug of war, fancy dress (adult and children) GAA, athletics, Lord Mayor, talent competition, Beat on the Street....

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....

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....

Three days of free family entertainment with the best of Irish musical entertainment, parades, street theatre, children's events, regatta, and a fantastic fireworks display. Held in mid July.

Highlight of the festival: World Irish Coffee Making Championship. Maureen O'Hara is the patron of the festival....

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....

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....

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...