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Literary and book festivals in Ireland 2022

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

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

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

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

Cancelled for 2022

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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