Celtic festivals in homelands

While we aim to keep the list as up to date as possible, event information can change at short notice, so we always recommend that you confirm information with the event organisers.

Confirm details with event organizers. Please contact emmetttransceltic@gmail.com with updates.

Ireland/Eire

• Pan Celtic Festival

  • When: April 2023
  • Where: County Carlow
  • Website: www.panceltic.ie

• Connacht Fleadh 

  • When: June/July 2023
  • Where: NUI Galway
  • Website: www.connachtfleadh.ie

• County Antrim Fleadh

  • When: April 2023
  • Where: Ballycastle, Antrim
  • Website: www.portglenonecce.org.uk

• Dublin St Patrick's Day Festival

  • When: March 2024
  • Where: Over 500,000 attendees celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland's Capital City of Dublin
  • More info available from multiple web sites.

• Festival of Music in Ireland/Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann

  • When: August  2023
  • Where: Mullingar County Westmeath
  • More info: www.fleadhcheoil.ie

• County Clare Feakle Festival of Traditional Irish Music

  • When: August  2023
  • Where: Feakle, County Clare
  • Website: www.feaklefestival.ie

• Ballydehob Irish Traditional Music Festival

  • When: April 2023
  • Where: Ballydehob, West Cork
  • Website: www.ballydehobtradfestival.com

• Tyneside Irish Festival - UK

  • When: October 2023
  • Where: GallowGate, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
  • Website: tynesideirish.com/

Isle of Man/Mannin

• Celtfest - Isle of Man (Yn Cruinnaght)

  • When: July 2023
  • Where: Peel
  • Website: www.ynchruinnaght.com

• Cooish Inter-Gaelic Festival

  • When: Annually October/November 
  • Where: Multiple Venues, Isle of Man
  • Website: http://www.manxmusic.com/festival_130284.html

Scotland/Alba

• Annual Hebcelt Festival - Hebridean Celtic Festival

  • When: July 2023
  • Where: Lews Castle, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
  • Website: www.hebceltfest.com

• An Comunn Gàidhealach's Royal National Mòd

  • When: October 2023
  • Where: Glasgow
  • Website: www.acgmod.org

• Highland & Islands Music & Dance Festival

  • Where: Oban, Argyll & Bute, Scotland
  • When: April/May 2023
  • Website: www.obanfestival.org

• Halkirk Highland Games

  • Where: Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland
  • When: July 2022
  • Website: www.halkirkgames.co.uk

• Beltane Fire Festival

  • Where: Calton Hill, Edinburgh
  • When: April /May 2023
  • Website: beltane.org

• Mull of Kintyre Music Festival

  • Where: Campbeltown, Argyll
  • When: August 2023
  • Website: www.mokfest.com/

Wales/Cymru

• The National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • Where: Tregaron, Ceredigion
  • When: August 2023
  • Website: www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english

• Wales Interceltic Music and Dance Festival - Cwlwm Celtaidd
  • Where: Hi Tide Inn, Porthcawl
  • When: March  2023
  • Website: http://www.cwlwmceltaidd.org/en/

Cornwall/Kernow

• Lowender Peran

  • Celebrating Cornwall's Traditional Music 
  • When: October/November 2023
  • Where: Newquay
  • Website: www.lowenderperan.co.uk

• Festival Kernewek

  • Penzance Cornish Language Festival
  • When: February/March 2024
  • Where: The Acorn, Penzance
  • Website: http://theacornpenzance.com/festival-kernewek/

• Esedhvos Festival of Cornish Culture

  • When: September 2023
  • Where: Newquay (venue changes annually)
  • Website:https://www.gorsedhkernow.org.uk/esedhvos.html

Brittany/Breizh

• Festival Interceltique de Lorient

  • When: August 2023
  • Websites: www.festival-interceltique.com and www.brittanytourism.com