Féile Cheoil Larry Reynolds
A three-day East Galway traditional music festival honouring the legacy of musician Larry Reynolds, with sessions, workshops, storytelling, and céilí firmly rooted in the local community.
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"A weekly Sunday gathering of local crafts, home baking, fresh produce, and artisan goods on the Connemara coast, a sociable window into the village community all summer long."
Roundstone Country Market
"A weekend of traditional currach racing and community celebration on the smallest of the Aran Islands, where skilled island rowers compete in boats that have shaped life on this remote Atlantic shore for centuries."
Rásaí Inis Oírr
"Athenry's Marian holy well hosts a vibrant annual pilgrimage on Lady's Day with open-air Mass, traditional rounds, and candles, keeping alive a pattern that has historically drawn emigrants home each August."
Our Lady's Well Pattern, Athenry
"The medieval walled town of Athenry hosts Heritage Week archery demonstrations in the grounds of its 13th-century castle, placing a living traditional skill against one of Connacht's finest fortified monuments."
Archery Demonstrations at Athenry Castle
"Ballinderreen Community Centre hosts Heritage Week programming for this small south Galway coastal village, bringing together local history and community memory during the national celebration."
Ballinderreen Heritage Week Event
"Traditional currach racing in 4-oar, 6-oar and other categories off the shores of Inishbofin island, keeping alive the Atlantic island's seafaring heritage."
Inishbofin Regatta
"The Coleman Traditional Irish Music Centre in tiny Gurteen village hosts a summer-long weekly céilí series celebrating the South Sligo style of music in the heartland that produced the legendary Michael Coleman."
Coleman Irish Music Centre Summer Céilís
"A celebratory gathering in Ballyhaunis blending bus heritage tours by day with a special community night, reviving the Tóstal festival tradition in the Irish midlands west."
Tóstal Bhreac-Cluana
"A deeply local Heritage Week event in the remote Erris Gaeltacht village of Carrowteige, replaying rare community voice recordings from the early 1990s to preserve the living oral heritage of Dún Chaocháin."
Voices of Dún Chaocháin: Recordings from the Early 1990s
"Clare Island's annual folk weekend brings some of the finest musicians, songwriters and performers in the country to this remote Clew Bay island for a weekend of outstanding live music."
Clare Island Folk Festival
"Set on the wild Atlantic edge of Achill Island, this growing folk festival fills village pubs and venues in Dooagh with headline sessions, workshops and intimate recitals from some of the finest names in Irish and Celtic folk."
Dooagh Folk Festival
"A ten-day autumn festival anchored in Sligo town that blends Irish traditional and folk music with international acts, céilís and sessions across the town's pubs and venues each October."
Sligo Live