Musicians, designers, dancers and writers across Ireland are busy curating arts festivals to energise small towns and villages over the winter season. “What Dingle’s Other Voices has done for music, we’d like to do for design,” O’Sullivan says. “We like to think of it as a cosy, intimate conversation festival,” Bulger, the festival’s director, says. You definitely master the art of the follow-up email.”Deeper into the winter season, Gweedore in northwest Donegal comes alive with cosy traditional Irish music sessions and workshops during Scoil Gheimhridh (December 27th-January 1st), which is now entering its 31st year. The community céilí in Carrick-on-Shannon during Leitrim Dance Festival.

Source: The Irish Times November 14, 2025 07:31 UTC