Festival road trips are back!!!
Here’s a comprehensive list of literary, book and reading festivals throughout Ireland in 2022.
I’ve done the research so you don’t have to … all you have to do is decide which festivals to go to!
Thank you to all those organisers who supplied me with information. I wish all festivals great success in 2022! Thank you for helping to keep us book lovers entertained.
Special thanks to Mary McCauley who set up and managed this list up until this year.
If you’d like me to include your festival in the list, or update your information, please email the details to Siobhán Prendergast: info@dinglepublishing.com
January
Classics Now
21–23 January, Dublin
@ClassicsNowFest
February
North Belfast Festival
25–27 February
@northbelfast100
March
Ennis Book Club Festival
4–6 March, Ennis, Co Clare
@ebcf
Belfast Children’s Festival
4–13 March, Belfast
@Young_at_Art
NOIRELAND International Crime Fiction Festival
8–10 March*, Belfast
@NOIRELANDfest
Kanturk Arts Festival
15–19 March*, Kanturk, Co Cork
@KanturkArts
Ballydonoghue Bardic Festival
24–27 March, Ballydonoghue/Lisselton, Co Kerry
Facebook/BallydonoghueBardicFestival
April
Dublin: One City One Book
1–30 April, Dublin
@1dublin1book
Cúirt International Festival of Literature
4–10 April, Galway
@CuirtFestival
Franco-Irish Literary Festival
8–10 April, Dublin
@afdublin
Cork World Book Fest
20–25 April*, Cork
@WorldBookFest
Brewery Lane Writers’ Weekend
22–24 April, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary
@BrewerLaneT
Towers and Tales Lismore Story Festival
29–30 April, Lismore, Co Waterford
@TowersandTales
Féile na Bealtaine
28 April–2 May, Dingle, Co. Kerry
@feilebealtaine
Annual Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend
30 April–2 May*, Achill Island, Co Mayo
@BollAchill
May
Féile na Bealtaine
28 April–2 May, Dingle, Co. Kerry
@feilebealtaine
Annual Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend
30 April–2 May*, Achill Island, Co Mayo
@BollAchill
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
1–3 May*, Strokestown, Co Roscommon
@Strokestownpoem
Marie Edgeworth Literary Festival
6–8 May, Edgeworthstown, Longford
@edgeworthsoc
Padraic Colum International Literary Festival
15 May*, Longford
@CreativeLongfd
Cork International Poetry Festival
18–21 May, Cork
@MunLitCentre
International Literature Festival Dublin
19–29 May, Dublin
@ILFDublin
June
Listowel Writers’ Week
1–5 June, Listowel, Co Kerry
@Writersweek
Goldsmith International Literary Festival
3–5 June, various locations in Co Longford
@Goldsmithfest
Festival of Writing and Ideas
10–12 June, Borris, Co Carlow
@Writingandideas
Belfast Book Festival
10–19 June, Belfast
@BelfastBookFest
Bloomsday Festival
11–16 June*, Dublin
@bloomsdayfest
Dalkey Book Festival
16–19 June, Dalkey, Co Dublin
@dalkeybookfest
Immrama – Lismore Festival of Travel Writing
17–19 June, Lismore, Co Waterford
@lismoreimmrama
Limerick Literary Festival
18–19 June, Limerick
@kobweekend
Hinterland Festival of Literature and Arts
23–26 June, Kells, Co Meath
@HinterlandKells
July
Wexford Literary Festival
1–4 July*, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford
@WexfordLitFest
West Cork Literary Festival
8–15 July, Bantry, Co Cork
@wcorklitfest
John Hewitt Society International Summer School
25–30 July, Armagh
@The_JHS
August
Blueway Poetry Festival
30 July–1 August, Lismore, Co Waterford
@BluewayPoetry
TitanCon, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Festival
5–7 August, Belfast
@TitanConBelfast
Ennistymon Book Town Festival
28–29 August*, Ennistymon, Co Clare
@BooksEnnistymon
September
The Write Time Festival
1–30 September*, Dublin
@fingallibraries
International Dublin Writers Festival
16–18 September, Dublin
facebook.com/internationaldublinwritersfestival
Shaking Bog Nature Writing Festival
10–12 September*, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow
@theshakingbog
Cashel Arts Festival
15–18 September, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
@Cashelartsfest
C.S. Lewis Festival
15–18 September, Belfast
@CSLewsisFest
Children’s Books Ireland International Conference
22 September, Dublin
@KidsBooksIrel
Write By The Sea Festival
23–25 September, Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford
@write_KQ
Aspects Festival
24 September–3 October*, Bangor, Co Down
@aspectsfestival
Éigse Michael Hartnett Festival
30 September–2 October*, Newcastle West, Co Limerick
@EigseMHartnett
Bray Literary Festival
30 September–2 October, Bray, Co Wicklow
@braylitfest
October
Éigse Michael Hartnett Festival
30 September–2 October*, Newcastle West, Co Limerick
@EigseMHartnett
Bray Literary Festival
30 September–2 October, Bray, Co Wicklow
@braylitfest
Dromineer Literary Festival
1–3 October*, Dromineer, Nenagh, Co Tipperary
@DromineerLit
Echoes: Maeve Binchy and Irish Writers Festival
1–3 October*, Dalkey, Co Dublin
@echoesdalkey
Children’s Book Festival
1–31 October, Libraries countrywide
Kildare Readers Festival
1–17 October*, throughout Co Kildare
@KildareReaders
Words by Water
2–5 October, Kinsale, Co Cork
@WordsByWater
Iron Mountain Literature Festival
5–7 October*, Carrick on Shannon, Co Leitrim
Wild Atlantic Words Literary Festival
5–10 October*, Mayo
@WildWordsMayo
Cork International Short Story Festival
6–10 October, Cork
@MunLitCentre
Bookville Festival Kilkenny
7–12 October, Kilkenny
@bookvillekilkenny
Gerard Manley Hopkins International Literary Festival
8–10 October*, Newbridge, Co Kildare
Dalkey Creates Festival
11–14 October*, Dalkey, Co Dublin
@DalkeyCreates
Red Line Book Festival
11–17 October*, Dublin
@RedLineBookFest
ISLA (Irish, Spanish and Latin American) Literary Festival
14–16 October*, Dublin
@ICDublin
Octocon, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention
15–16 October, Croke Park, Dublin
@Octocon
Waterford Writers’ Weekend (part of the Imagine Arts Festival)
21–23 October, Waterford
@Wwritersweekend
@Imagine_Fest
Omagh Literary Festival: Honouring Benedict Kiely
23 October*, Omagh, Co Tyrone
@kiely_weekend
November
Leaves Festival of Writing & Music
2–7 November*, Portlaoise, Co Laois
@leavesfestival
Allingham Festival
3–7 November*, Ballyshannon, Co Donegal
@AllinghamArts
An Fhéile Beag Filíochta
5–7 November*, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, Co Chiarraí
@Féilebeagfillíochta
Murder One International Crime Writing Festival
6–29 November*, Dublin
@MurderOneFest
Dublin Book Festival
9–13 November, Dublin
@DublinBookFest
Imram Irish Language Literature Festival
11 November–15 December* , Dublin
@Feile_IMRAM
Festival of Reading and Writing for Young Adults
17–20 November*, Waterford
@TheLitYWF
Rolling Sun Book Festival
15–18 November*, Westport, Co Mayo
Facebook/RollingSunBookFestival
The Lit: Festival of Reading and Writing for Young Adults
17–20 November*, Waterford
@TheLitYWF
Dingle Literary Festival
18–20 November, Dingle, Co Kerry
@DingleLit
Did not run in 2021 but due to return in 2022
Bram Stoker Festival
Dublin
@bramstokerdub
Allihies Inspires Festival
Allihies village, Beara, Co Cork
@Allihiesinspire
Cancelled for 2022
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
@mountainstosea
Féile Fidelma Mystery Fiction Weekend
6–8 September, Cashel, Co Tipperary
@Cashelartsfest
No information available as yet for 2022
Doolin Writers’ Weekend
Usually held last weekend in January, Doolin, Co Clare
@HotelDoolin
UL/Frank McCourt Creative Writing Festival
Limerick City
Howth Literary Arts Festival Howth
Co Dublin
@howthlitfest
Graiguenamanagh Town of Books Festival
Graiguenamanagh, Co Kilkenny
Facebook/IrelandsBooktown
Something Wicked Crime Fiction Festival
Malahide, Co Dublin
@somethingwicket
Hillsborough Festival of Literature & Ideas
Hillsborough, Co Down
@The_JHS (Did not take place in 2021)
John O’Connor Writing School Literary Arts Festival
Armagh
@johnoconnorws
*2021 dates. The dates for 2022 have not been announced yet. I’ll update this listing when they become available.
If you’d like me to include your 2022 book, literary or reading festival in this 2019 list, please send me the details at info@dinglepublishing.com. Thanks!
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