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This festival celebrating the world renowned Connemara pony is built around the long running Connemara Pony Show which takes place on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th August.
It’s a wonderful opportunity to see these wonderfully versatile, tough and beautiful native Irish ponies in action.
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A long established and highly regarded festival encompassing theatre and dance, classical, jazz, folk and other music, street theatre, literature, visual art and craft.
The city is entirely taken up with the festival for 10 days each year, with official and fringe events taking place in every available space, inside and outdoors.
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On of Ireland’s biggest poker tournaments – an interntional event- will take place for fourth consecutive year at the Irish National Events Centre in Killarney.
Last year the Festival attracted 633 players from all over the globe generating a €316,500 prize-pool.
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The Mountains to Sea Festival honours the surprisingly large number of highly regarded and successful authors who hail from or live in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area of Dublin.
Now in it’s second year, the varied programme of readings, tours, performances and lectures has something of interest for anyone who loves good books, good writing and good company.
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The origins of the run at its heart of this festival go back to a pub bet in 1979, when a group of drinkers began to speculate on the fastest way to the top of the nearby mountain.
Now hundreds of people complete the gruelling course annually, while the less active enjoy a range of events around the beach at Strandhill.
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Dublin Theatre Festival is one of Europe’s premier theatre events and enjoys a wonderful reputation worldwide.
The invariably huge attendances at the festival events are drawn not only from the city’s citizens but the many international visitors who attend annually.
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The term ‘fringe’ may suggest this is a relatively small event. It isn’t, running in the weeks prior to the Dublin Theatre Festival it has become one of the largest cultural events in Ireland.
The progamme encompasses theatre, dance, music, visual art streams and street and outdoor events and spectacles.
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This oddly named traditional music festival is held in Ardara, a truly lovely part of Donegal, and it’s small scale makes it a friendly event to attend.
It’s all fairly low key, with trad sessions in the local pubs and music workshops making up the bulk of the events.
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Encompassing theatre, dance, music, visual arts, food, street performers and even circus, this 16 day festival in Ireland’s ‘real capital’ is nothing if not varied.
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Having ‘something for everyone’ is a common claim that isn’t always delivered on, but this eclectic festival in Co Donegal delivers in spades.
Events cover theatre, comedy, music, poetry and the visual arts and take place at venues throughout the county, with a particularly strong programme of family and children’s events.
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Electronic and Dance music forms the core of the Life Festival, which takes place in the grounds of Belvedere House in Co Westmeath.
Headline act for 2009 is Future Sound of London, along with more than 60 other acts and a host of non-music events.
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A lively and varied festival which includes theatre, dance, music, comedy and spectacle. A lot of events take place on the street and are loud and colourful – this is a week that younger visitors will hugely enjoy.
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