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May 03 2013 - May 06 2013
The Hooley in the Hills festival recalls a time when local carnivals, based around a marquee, were popular. The Hooley will take you back to that time and will especially appeal to those who emigrated...
Jul 11 2013
Featuring 3 tenor banjos, fiddle, mandolins, tenor guitars, guitars, banjolin and vocals WeBanjo3 combine Irish music with Old-Time American, Ragtime and Bluegrass to produce an exciting, fun,...
May 10 2013 - May 12 2013
Inishbofin is an ideal intimate setting for live music, creative arts, ceol agus craic. Running for over 35 years this long standing Community Arts Festival is always a memorable and unique...
Jul 27 2013 - Aug 03 2013
Scoil Acla is Ireland's oldest summer school which was originally founded in 1910 and re-launched in 1985. Scoil Acla continually attracts a huge number of visitors, from home and abroad, who are...
Feb 19 2013 - Feb 24 2013
Since its inception in 1995, Féile Chois Cuain has gained a wonderful reputation and is acknowledged to be among the very best traditional arts festivals. The festival has gone from strength to...
Aug 12 2013 - Aug 18 2013
Jul 01 2013 - Aug 31 2013
Jul 09 2013
Ályth McCormack and Triona Marshall are the voice and harp of the Grammy Award Winning Chieftans. Together they perform a timeless program of traditional and contemporary Irish and Scottish music and...
Feb 26 2013 - Feb 27 2013
Watch out Belfast, ballet's very grandes dames are coming to the Grand Opera House! Les Ballets ...
Aug 03 2013 - Aug 10 2013
Jun 25 2013 - Aug 10 2013
During the summer months from June right through until late August enjoy traditional Irish entertainment nights at the Brú Ború Summer Shows. These run every Tuesday to Saturday at 9pm. The performers...
Aug 08 2013
John Carty is one of Ireland's finest traditional musicians having been awarded the Irish Television station, TG4's Traditional Musician of the Year in 2003. He joins previous acclaimed winners Matt...
Dún Uladh is a centre which showcases Irish culture: dance, song, language, crafts and much more.
Sep 09 2013 - Sep 18 2013
Glen River Summer Festival is a small local summer festival with walks, music and more. Dates to be confirmed.
May 04 2013 - May 04 2013
Jul 05 2013 - Jul 14 2013
During July 2013, the Armada Hotel, Spanish Point will host an exciting week of set dancing. Don't miss it! There will be set dancing ceilís held day and night. And if you feel like taking a rest...
Jul 16 2013
Legendary Bothy Band Uilleann piper Paddy Keenan is originally from Athy but now living in The US. This home-coming concert with friends is in celebration of The Gathering 2013 Paddy Keenan was born...
Jul 25 2013
Mick and his daughter Michelle Mulcahy of Abbeyfeale, West Limerick play a dazzling array of instruments between them including harp, concertina, accordion, fiddle and piano but it's the sweetness and...
Jul 02 2013
De Danann's original box player, the popular Jackie Daly joins renowned fiddler Matt Cranitch for some distinctive Sliabh Luacra music. For many years, Jackie Daly (accordion) and Matt Cranitch...
Jul 05 2013 - Jul 06 2013
Blaisín d'ár gceol, ealaíon agus cultúr traidisiúnta. A taste of traditional music, arts and culture. The first Traidphicnic was so successful that the crowd shouted out for more... Keeping with the...
Nov 01 2013 - Nov 30 2013
Aug 13 2013
From North Connemara, Liz and Yvonne Kane, known as The Kane Sisters, are much respected musicians and educators. Born in Letterfrack, they were educated in Kylemore Abbey School. They were taught...
Sep 22 2013 - Sep 23 2013
Jul 06 2013
The Lovely Girls are Caoimhe Hogarty (vocals, percussion, mandolin), Pauline Burke (vocals, bodhran, banjo) and Sonja Krzyzanowski (vocals, guitar, low whistle). The girls met on the Dublin trad scene...
Aug 12 2013 - Aug 16 2013
Oct 04 2013 - Oct 06 2013
The 31st Annual Donegal Fiddlers Weekend with Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí is a weekend of lessons, talks, a concert and informal sessions, with many of Donegal's finest fiddle players and other guests....
Aug 15 2013
Legendary traditional Irish music family The Rowsomes (Mary on Flute, Kevin on Uilleann pipes and Caitriona on Harp) from Dublin make their debut family appearance at the Steeple Sessions. Mary...
Jan 30 2013 - Feb 02 2013
An enchanted dolls' house, an evil governess and a nutcracker who may just be a handsome prince ...
Jul 30 2013
Scotland's premier fiddle ambassador Alasdair Fraser and the sizzlingly-talented young California cellist Natalie Haas drop in from the Isle of Skye for a rare performance in Dublin. The musical...
Jun 20 2013
Lumiere is a Dingle based group comprising the distinctive voices of award winning Pauline Scanlon, Éilís Kennedy and guitar player Donogh Hennessy. Éilís Kennedy's voice has ready access to the soul...
Jun 28 2013 - Jun 30 2013
Éigse Shéamais Ui Mhaolchataigh is a celebration of the Irish language, traditions and culture as written and spoken in the Deise dialect, as found in the Sliabh gCua area of Waterford and Tipperary,...
Aug 01 2013
The Voice Squad's (Phil Callery, Fran McPhail and Gerry Cullen) style of singing in harmony does not form part of the Irish singing tradition but each singer had already served their time in the...
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