festivals and fairs limerick

This festival came about to get three communities together. Each had a good festival of their own for a half day each. To join the three together would have something for everyone. The festival has sports, flower show, a doggy show and cross road dancing....

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....

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...

Ballylanders Pattern Festival is held each year on 15th August. The Committee now for a number of years have stretched that to a week.They run GAA tournaments, soccer matches and other sporting events, as well as music and dance events....

This festival takes place on the rolling hills that border the counties of Limerick, Cork and Tipperary. The landscape there is full of green pastures and pleasant woodlands; this unspoilt wilderness is a walker’s paradise and there will be various grades of walks from the casual to the strenuous....

Music workshops, music and busking competitions, entertainment on an open-air stage and in local bars make this festival a must for traditional music enthusiasts....

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....