What's on in Ireland in October

Sligo Live

Sligo Live is an annual festival of traditional, roots and acoustic music.

Halloween Howls

This is a small festival in a room over Kavanagh's pub in Portlaoise, but if comedy is what you are looking for this …

Wexford Fringe Festival

For almost 60 years the Wexford Fringe Festival, has run concurrently with Wexford Festival Opera, with a huge range of …

Banks of the Foyle Hallowe’en Carnival

Derry claims to host Europe’s biggest and best Hallowe’en festival, and it is certainly an action packed weekend …

Hallow’en Horror at Wicklow Goal

Famously haunted, Wickow Gaol will be a place of untold horror this Hallow'een with a series of spooky events for …

Guinness Kinsale Jazz Fringe Festival

An offshoot of the Cork Jazz Festival this event has a slightly less frenetic pace than the larger festival but there is …

Halfway Dead: Haunted House at Tooban

The tiny peaceful village of Tooban will be home for Halloween to a scary band of vampires, mutants, zombies and walking …

Ghostly Tours of Hook Lighthouse

Venture in darkness into a lighthouse where ghosts and ghouls await and there are frights around every dark corner.

Baboró: International Arts Festival for Children

A fantastic Arts festival specially for kids, with music, dance, theatre, literature, film, puppetry, story telling and …

OFFline: Offaly Film Festival

OFFline is a somewhat unusual film festival with at its heart a competition, requiring teams to shoot & edit short films …

Open House Dublin

For one weekend Dublin buildings of all types and periods will open up their doors to the public, many of them private …

Westport Arts Festival

Westport Arts Festival brings a feast of dance, theatre, music and art shows from around the world to the Co Mayo town …

Dingle Food & Wine Festival

Dingle is a known for its great restaurants and local artisan foods - this festival gives you a taste, literally, of the …

Cork Folk Festival

A feast of folk music and dance events of all kinds to more than 40 venues, including an outdoor ceili with more than 10.

Dromineer Literary Festival

A lovely location on the shores of Lough Derg and a particularly friendly atmosphere has made this festival a special …

The Turf Warrior Challenge

You'll cross obstacles, jump from cliffs, wade through bog, climb through, under and over trees, and plunge into the icy …

Map of Events in Ireland in October