Boyne Music Festival
Now in its 13th year, this intimate chamber music festival performs in three historic Boyne Valley venues including Townley Hall, Slane Castle and Drogheda's St Peter's Church, themed this year around Forgotten Spaces.
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"Ireland's first Cistercian monastery, where the Nine Years War ended and William of Orange camped before the Boyne, opens free for guided tours across Heritage Week."
Heritage Week Open Days at Old Mellifont Cistercian Abbey
"Expert-guided tours of Carlingford's medieval streetscape and castle run across two weekends during Heritage Week, letting visitors follow in President Biden's footsteps through one of Ireland's best-preserved Anglo-Norman towns."
Carlingford Heritage Week Castle Tours
"A free Heritage Week display of beautifully restored vintage tractors, vehicles and farm machinery at John Hanlon's yard, with donations supporting the Maria Goretti Foundation."
John Hanlon's Vintage Museum Exhibition
"The Village Green transforms into a living history Viking camp each September, with re-enactors, the Ardglass Viking Longboat, street entertainment and interactive family activities set against Carlingford's medieval walls."
Carlingford Viking Experience and Medieval Festival
"Carlingford's medieval streets fill each August for this four-day celebration of the famous lough-reared Carlingford oyster, with a sailing regatta, world crab-fishing contest, oyster pearl hunt and street markets."
Carlingford Oyster Festival
"A beloved literary weekend transforming the medieval riverside village of Graiguenamanagh into a book lover's paradise, with over 25 independent booksellers, author talks, music and crafts along the River Barrow."
Graiguenamanagh Town of Books Festival
"A book-town weekend in the medieval riverside village of Graiguenamanagh that celebrates reading, writing, and the joy of books across three summer days."
Ireland's Town of Books Festival
"A boutique literary weekend in a picturesque fishing village on the Wexford coast that turns the harbour setting into a stage for acclaimed authors, workshops, and lively literary debate."
Write By The Sea Literary Festival
"A unique competitive filmmaking festival in Birr where participants are challenged to conceive, shoot and screen a short film within just a few days."
OFFline Film Festival
"A multi-town children's arts week coordinated by Offaly County Council Arts Office, running across Birr, Clara, Edenderry and Tullamore with theatre, film, music workshops and storytelling over the school half-term."
Hullabaloo, Offaly's Children's Arts Festival
"A new festive format launched in 2025 that transforms the atmospheric Victorian Wicklow Gaol into a Christmas events venue, offering a distinctly local and historic setting for seasonal entertainment."
Wicklow Wrapped at Wicklow Gaol