festivals and fairs donegal

This long established, annual two day international sea angling festival is renowned for the quality of fishing and the 'mighty craic'. Pre-booking essential....

Fancy dress competitions, scary storytelling, live music, torchlight procession, amazing firework display and crazy weekend!...

The Dungloe Festival was launched in 1967. The original Mary Gallagher was courting a young man who had just returned from America, but in 1861, when her parents refused to let them marry, he returned to America to make his fortune. The previous year some of her family had been evicted from the Glenbeigh Estate and fled to Australia.
On 5 December 1861, Mary Gallagher emigrated to join her cousins. On the boat, she met and married Donal Egan. She gave birth to a baby but died within four...

Carndonagh, in the centre of the Inishowen Peninsula hosts its annual summer festival during the third week of July. The festival provides fun, frolics and musical entertainment, which includes live music on the street, exhibitions of local traditional arts and crafts, children's activities and games plus a wide range of other activities for all age groups to enjoy.

Carndonagh Summer Festival is a family orientated event with special emphasis on childrens entertainment. All bars have a l...

The Seafood Festival in Portnoo/Rosbeg features an oyster opening competition, two tonnes of free seafood, a Festival Queen and Batchelor competition, and music galore!...

Every weekend traditional Irish music and dancing is celebrated on Tory Island. So why not come over to the island and experience this. The Irish language is also very strong here.

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We provide live music, street entertainment busking competition and workshops and much more....

The festival is held in Kilmacrennan in order to provide a weekend of entertainment and fun for all the family while raising money for local charities. Festivals take place over a three day period and include many events and ceremonies including carnival parades, competitions, music and dance....

This is a family festival that's runs for a weekend in mid July.
The is family fun festival with raft races and milk the cow....

Hosted by local poet Cathal O Searcaigh and made world famous by Seamus Heaney.

Poetry competition, concerts, recitals, workshops, art exhibitions and classes. Bookings , poetry competition applications, www.samhainpoetry.com or info@samhainpoetry.com.The closing date for the ? 6000 poetry competition is Wednesday 31st of October.. The festival runs in mid November around the 15th to the 19th.

The prizes may be divided by the judges between the...