Festivals & Events

23 May - 30 October 2019, Countywide Welcome to the 13th season of the Donegal Garden Trail. We are delighted Brown’s Farm, a lovely spring cottage garden and well worth a visit, has re-joined the Trail after a short absence. We extend a very warm welcome to Castle Grove House Hotel which joins us both as a hospitality provider and as an interesting and historical garden to visit with specim…

1st June to 28th October 2019 - Oideas Gael has been recognised, on a number of occasions, as one of Ireland’s unique cultural education providers and was the 1997 winner of the National Rural Tourism Award sponsored by Bord Fáilte, The Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Allied Irish Banks. They also achieved the distinction of being the winner of the BARR 50 businesses in Irish, from the daily Ir…

21 - 23 June 2019, Dunfanaghy We are calling this year’s festival, “BAND 2019 The Year of the Guitar” because among the bands and musicians taking part will be some world class guitar players including: Porter McClister, one of Nashville’s best guitar players; Sephen Inglis an amazing and multifarious guitarist from Hawaii; Shawn Jones a superb American roots guitarist from California;…

28 - 30 June 2019, Colgan Hall, Carndonagh A weekend of Talks, Walks, Exhibitions, Music , Photography, Cooking with Seaweed, Shirt making in Carndonagh, Schools and Heritage exhibitions all based on the theme “Living and working in Inishowen” Keynote Speaker is Anna May Mc Hugh (Ploughing Championship), Kathy Donaghy( Journalist), and Caitriona Mc Laughlin (Abbey Theatre). A re-enactment …

29 June 2019, Russel Bros. Farm, Kilcadden, Killygordon Finn Valley Agricultural Show will celebrate its 28th annual event in 2019 and want to encourage those who have attended in the past, to come back and help us enjoy this wonderful community agricultural show. The Show also intends to invite Judges from various associations to travel from overseas to participate at the event. Finn Valley…