festivals and fairs limerick

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....

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 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....

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....

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 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 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....