festivals and fairs around limerick city

Limerick International Band Festival takes place in Limerick City during Saint Patrick's Week festivities each March. This impressive and colourful music festival offers marching bands, concert bands, drill and dance teams and choirs from Ireland, Europe and around the world....

The May Bank holiday Weekend sees this major music festival come to Limerick. The headline concerts, street entertainment, free outdoor concerts and music in many of the city’s pubs features the best of Irish artists and provides a showcase for emerging talent....

Fresh Film Festival is an annual event with a national remit. It is a film festival for young people where they have the opportunity to see classic and foreign films in 35mm format, take part in film based workshops and have their own films/videos screened as part of the Irish schools video competition. Groups, schools, youth theatres and individual film makers are all welcome....

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.

Highlight of the festival: World Irish Coffee Making Championship. Maureen O'Hara is the patron of the festival....

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....

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 2007: October 17th to...