Festivals
in Dingle
Dingle is one of the best towns for Festivals and heres a showcase of the amazing festivals taking place yearly around the Dingle Peninsula.
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Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh (February)
A traditional music school held in Ballyferriter on the Dingle Peninsula Co. Kerry, Ireland including singing and dancing workshops, concerts & sessions and much more.
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Féile na Bealtaine (May)
Féile na Bealtaine is a community music and arts festival that takes place on the May Bank Holiday every year. Féile na Bealtaine nourishes and showcases local creativity, while inspiring outside influences.
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Dingle Races (August)
The races in Dingle are the biggest of all Horse & Pony races in Ireland. The real racing fan cannot miss the twenty races that are spread over the weekend.
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Dingle Food Festival (October)
The Dingle Food Festival takes place on the first weekend in October in the beautiful fishing town of Dingle on the Dingle Peninsula on the Wild Atlantic Way. It is organised each year by a group of local people on a non profit making basis. The Festival showcases the incredible produce the Peninsula has to offer, whilst at the same time allowing you to sample the hospitality here.
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Dingle Literary Festival (November)
Each year Dingle Lit festival takes place in late November in the iconic surroundings of the Dingle Peninsula. The unique bilingual festival was conceived in 2019 with a twofold mission: to bring some of the best of contemporary writers in English to our local audience, and to celebrate the rich literary and cultural heritage of the area through an Irish language programme, as well as supporting new writing in Irish.
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Other Voices (December)
Since 2001, Other Voices has brought some of the world’s leading luminaries to the most westernly tip of Europe to raise their voice and sing.
Glastonbury headliners, Grammy-winners and New York Times cover stars have all joined us in West Kerry to experience the magic of our intimate, ethereal winter festival, creating a genre-defying time capsule of the musical landscape year-on-year.