Festivals

Founded in 1970, the dream of Listowel Writers’ Week was a simple but daring one: transform a beautiful Kerry heritage town into a centre of the literary universe. Make it somewhere writers and book-lovers from all corners can gravitate to for a cele …

Women in Media 2020 will take place on the 24th – 26th April 2020. ​ We were delighted to include contributions this year from Miriam O’Callaghan, Katie Hannon, Ciara Riordan, Mary Dundon, Justine McCarthy, Fr. Peter McVerry and more. ​ We would like …

Listowel Food Fair has come of age.  Twenty Five years of continued success will be celebrated this year in association with Taste the Island. Since its inception in 1995, the Listowel Food Fair has continued to develop successfully and is now an est …

The second Festival of Light – Féile an tSolais, the first of its kind in Ireland – takes place Thursday 31st October, Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd November 2019 in the heritage town of Listowel, Co. Kerry. WHY: In an increasingly isolated rural socie …

Ladies Days, throughout Ireland and the UK, provide the pinnacle of the social calendar and a chance to really dress to impress! A staple for summer in Listowel, they are fast becoming the event for locals, celebrities and visitors to our town to mix …

The Harvest Festival is held annually in September during the Listowel Races. Superb horse racing at Listowel. One of the oldest race meetings in Ireland and regarded as the last of the season. Good quality Flat and National Hunt racing featuring The …

Listowel’s September Race Meeting is one of the most important in Ireland. It is the last major festival of the Summer and the last one before Christmas so the crowds make the most of the festivities. Traditionally it was the meeting where the farmer …

The Heritage Council seeks to protect and enhance the richness, quality and diversity of our national heritage for everyone.  We work with our partners, particularly at a local level to increase awareness of Ireland’s national heritage and to highlig …

Revival Music Festival came about in 2016 when over 5 publican got together make a festival of music in there town. With the help of, Heineken, Kerry Co Co  Local pubs and businesses sponsored the even the festival was a great success. This year will …

The Dan Paddy Andy Festival celebrates the last of the great Irish matchmakers, Dan Paddy Andy O’Sullivan (1899 – 1966). The festival is staged in a totally rural setting at Lyreacrompane in the Stacks Mountains of Co. Kerry. The entertainment goes o …

The Sean McCarthy Festival was initiated back in 1993 in honour of one of the greatest song-writers Kerry ever produced. Songs like ‘Shanagolden’, ‘Red Head Mary’, ‘In Shame love in Shame’ are just a few of the many songs that are part of the Ballad …

Of course, it’s family day here on this Sunday and we also run the wonderful Ladies Day fashion awards. Last June, Mary Woulfe from Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick, won the Best Dressed Lady on the opening day of the Listowel Races June Bank Holiday Meet …

Listowel still has Horse Fairs, which are held 4 times per year in Market Street. At one time much of the trading in horses and other livestock all took place on the streets of towns up and down the country.

Annual event remembering all Irish men and women that have fought in domestic or foreign forces from WWI to present day. 3-day festival around the May Bank Holiday Weekend. Re-enactors will preform in a battle scene depicting a French town being inva …