festivals and fairs cork

This annual event, now well known as "The Bandon Experience", is staged and hosted by Bandon Morris Minors Owners Club to promote friendship and fun for all Morris Minor drivers and friends and to preserve a piece of motor history and heritage. This event will take place from 1st - 9th August 2008....

This festival will feature international, national, and local artists including musicians, writers, poets and dramatists. Kinsale Arts Week is a multi disciplinary arts festival that endeavours to bring works of excellece in various forms to Kinsale and to engage meaningfully with the local community. Events on from the 12th to the 20th July 2008...

The Sam Maguire Festival Weekend is a celebration and tribute to the man whom the All Ireland Football Cup is called after. It involves events for both young and old....

The Ocean to City Race, An Ras Mor is a unique maritime event open to all types of traditional boats. The course covers 15 nautical miles from Crosshaven to Lapps Quay in Cork City centre. This event is held in early June....

This has become a big event for west cork in the past few years. Initially conceived as a millennium project it has blossomed into a life of its own. There are six races held down on the sandy beach and there is a big fuss made over the event every year now....

This is a festival of street entertaintment and music that is held in August.

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An action packed week of fun activities in the month of August for all the family....

Bartlemy Horse Fair and Show, traditionally held on 3rd Saturday of September. It is held in a field of 10 acres, where animals can be well seen, tested and tried. A Gymkhana, dog show, trade stands and side shows also takes place....

The 49-bell Carillon, unique in this country, is played from a console within the belfry. A closed-circuit system shows the carillonneur playing the instrument. To mark this 81st year, an enhanced programme is planned, including guest recitals by leading carillonneurs, grant aided by the Arts Council, the Cork County and Cobh Town Councils.Recitals take place on Sundays from the 4th of May 2008, to 28th of September 2008.

The Carillion is played from a keyboard and pedalboard cons...

The Doneraile Festival is a community event involving the whole village of Doneraile in family and traditional entertainment with a strong literary theme, Edmund Spenser, Elizabeth Bowen, Canon Sheehan, Honor Treacy and John B Keane....